Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1880 — A Strong Indictment. [ARTICLE]

A Strong Indictment.

John M. Shirley was the President of the Democratic Convention of New Hampshire, and made a short sj>eech, in which he arrai ned the Republican party for its misdeeds, so they will not want to hear more from him if th s be his indictment. He said, speaking of that party: It has overruled the precepts of the great Nazarene and taught the religion of hate. It has created armies of officeholders larger than those with which Napoleon silenced the continent, and has gorged these Hessians with the plunder wrung from an overtaxed people. It has trampled the covenant of the fathers under f<x)t whenever it would serve a party end, and packed that great tribunal, the Supreme Court of the United States, to set aside a decision promulgated bv the ablest and purest of its own leaders, Chief Justice Chase. It has driven beyond its pale or sent into exile Seward, Chase, Greeley, Bates, Browning, Blair, and a host more who stood by its cradle. Even Sumner died under its ban, and death spared others a worse fate. Whoever hesitated in the work of demolition was lost. The evil genius of the party slew him ; the creature devoured the creator. Four years ago it doomed the edifice of its hate, corruption, and fraud, installing in the White House, over the ashes of the father of his country, the “ fraud ” who had been beaten by more than a quarter of a million of votes, and now it proposes to consummate its work with the third term, which is but another name for the empire, with the “man <M horseback” at its head.