Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1912-03-07
Uncle Toms Letter

In NY lhsL dTIlClc 4 Alhu VI hOlblOu
some of the dyed-in-the-wool despots
of the day. l don't think / shall make
any apologies, public or private, for !
believe in the entire adjustment OF
slavery regardless of sex, for | find
that women, according to Sacred His
tory, were sharp and shrewd enough
to outwit the designs and intentions of
men and good came to the people from
their insight and shrewdness. Moses
mother saw in him what his father
failed to see, and so did the daughter
of Pharaoh. Rebeccah outwitted Is
aac and caused Jacob to receive the
blessing. Esther did more to save her
people than any other person in her
day.
So l have nothing to take back and
am glad to know the women have
hopes of having their political letters
broken in spite of their lords. 1t has
not been so very long since it was
said, Educate the boy and let the
girl CO." but happily for humanity
that idea has persisted, and so will
their letters politically. The liquor
influence will never consent to the
women voting, and they will fight the
proposition.
The democratic party is as much a
slave party as it was in the days of
the SOS and CO.'S There are a great
many good men in the democratic par
ty, but they are overawed by that
| crowd who will do anything to carry
their point, and no man who breaches
the emanipation of the wageslave, and
the suffI age of women is any safer
from their vicious, sneaking, under
minded attacks than John Brown was
who was hung by the courts OF Virgin
ia at the instigation of the Democratic
party, and tben plunged u country
in a great civil war in order to perpet-
uate slavery. 1t is the same party to-
day it was then, and woe unto him
who breaches delivernace for the wage
slave, and from the rum demon.
WHY did it hate and desplse Ed Car
mackY First, because he stood true to
| his convictions and aided labor and
fought the rum devil. Who killed himS
Democrats. Who cleared himH A
democratic court and a democratic
GOVERNOR. Who are the assassins of
the land, and to what party do they
belong2 In almost every case to the
democratic. The federal grand jury
Investigations reveal the fact that only
one socialist was concerned in the dy-
Mantle conspiracy and l doubt wheth-
or the one reporting himself a social
ist knew what socialism teaches. |
think if be did that he was a traitor
to socialism Who two years ago
threatened to cut off the old soldiers
pensions, if they dared to vote for Ben
Hooper, Who quite recently started
the report that Hooper would uniform
the convicts in gray The democrats
and no one else. Who are lying and
trumping up lies on Socialism, Moth
ing but the lowest element of the dem
ocratic party. What is the god of de-
mocracy? Rum and bondage. When
and where did it ever asa party put
forth an effort to Tighten the burdens
! of the wage slaves and better their CON
| ditions' Honor bright, hasn't it
fought every single party that ever
preached deliverance to the masses
| Yes, it has, and hasn't it's lowest and
most vicious characters undertaken to
destroy the character and reputation of
the most active workers for freedom
They've no argument but lies and
calumny. Meeting the champions of
| Socialism ON the stump is beyond their
courage. They prefer sneaking meth
DDS to a manly, honorable opposition.
They prefer the assassin's dagger and
bullet to anything else.
Now, in conclusion, let me say l am
for the emancipation of the wage
slave, and the Acknowledgement of the
queens of our homes, and the general
uplift of humanity, and all the assas-
sins on Cumberland mountain have no
! terrors for me, for | know If l fall I'll
not be the first mar to fall for the
principles of humanity as even recent
events in our state show social democ-
racy have a clean, clear-cut code of
principles, while that Of the democrat
ic party so-called is covered over with
blood and infamy. Look at the fruit
democracy has produced in Tennessee.
and it's ~treachery to the purest n
best men and women of the state, and
the interest of the IONS of toll. Did it
ever try when the SOM of toll endeav-
ored to better conditions to help them
No, but it allowed the governor to
crush these poor men until misery and
poverty is a common thing. 1t can
raise a cry over the clothes of ~convicts
and gnash it's teeth on men who preach
better conditions for the masses, and
offer nothing to better conditions save
slavery and bondage, and the increase
of misery. I am not surprised at the
split in the party. 1t is a wonder good
men have suffered themsel YES duped as
long as they have. 1t has lived by
prejudice and fiourished by it, but l
think the pure and good have discov-
cred its cloven foot, and it never will
be able to drench the land in blood
as it did in the sixties. Some of us
are yet alive who know the lies and
receptions practiced on the proud, he
roic IONS of the south, a drawer and
truer set of boys never lived than the
southern soldiers, but alas they we're
imposed on and shed their blood in
vain to uphold a lot of slave despots.
Shake your convict clothes as much
as you like, the old soldiers are not
80 easily deceived now as they were.
in the sixties, and their m will hear
the truth from the lips of their faith
ers, and will sweep from place and
power every foe of freedom and King
Alcohol will be held in check.
I've not said a thing about republi-
canism, for l am convinced the better
element will never ally themselves
with such a conglomeration of false
fiers as compose the ~so-called regular
democrat party. Never Social democ-
racy has no war to make on anything
pure and clean, but the assassins, muir