Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1884 — The Monster Lincoln. [ARTICLE]

The Monster Lincoln.

‘•Three human souls were hurried into eternity by each of Mr. Lincoln's jokes. Another section of land daview of Mr. Lincoln’s room had been dug up for a grave-yard, and while he jested and joked with his servile crew he could look out on this seeno of dying and death. Yet you propose to me to retai|i that monster another term of office —that monster, that with utter disregard of human, life and misery has proposed to prolong his term of office. Gentlemen, it seems to me that I can hear the spirits of the hundreds of thousands of lives, that have been uselessly sacrificed in this war, pleading against the re-election of this man. It seems to me the very inanimate objects and dumb brutes would cry out, enough, he has had his day—bloody, gory, reeking, let him go out into hateful obscurity, there to spend the residue of his days with the ghosts of the murdered dead. gibbering around the unhappy felon.”