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 ALSO— WHAT I KNOW ABOUT FARMING-OUT POLITICAL PARTIES. 
 
 BY D, L. STINOHFIELD, 
 
 New Richmond, Ohio. 
 
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 CINCINNATI: 
 1872. 
 

PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE! 
 
 OB 
 
 DEMOCEACY vs. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIOMLM! 
 
 Or Truth as Opposed to Sacriflciitfj Established National 
 Principles to Sectional Departing Expediency ! 
 
 I SHALL, take the liberty (as liberty is the order of the 
 day) to offer a few facts (and facts are stubborn things) for 
 the candid consideration of the honest, reading, thinking 
 minds of this land of promise, thus stationed with a model 
 ot stately or patent right self-government, or this world we 
 live in, yielding in season and out of season only disobedi- 
 ence, sin and death. Which facts you will please read 
 carelully, prayerfully, and judge according to the honest 
 convictions or dictates of conscience. I shall attempt to 
 pave the way to our straight and narrow path of science, 
 civilization and Christianity, with a trinitorial, eventful, 
 chain of proverbial Axioms. 
 
 First. In establishing the fact that the pen ot pence ia 
 more mighty than the sword ot war ! Peace is our Divine, 
 national. Creator, moral union Savior, and sj>iritual or 
 constltuti(mal, liberty Redeemer ! Whilst the sword of war 
 divides the national house against itself; nation against 
 nation, and Cain-striking man against his Abel-virtuous 
 
4 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 brother man ! The Ahiiighty, moral-pointed pen of spirit- 
 ual peace, is the mighty living, reformer, law-giver, and 
 peacemaker of the world! AVhilst the sword of Wi\r or- 
 ders a retreating, marching, or a departing back again into 
 the beggarly elements ot war-stained marching, barbarous 
 military despotism, or the savage tribe-you-nail gauntlet of 
 destruction ! 
 
 Second Axiom. Truth is mighty; yea, more, it is al- 
 mighty ; yes, verily, the most or the highest, supreme, 
 Divine Almiglity power, and will prevail with him, them or 
 the party only which holds out (or on to truth) faithfully 
 to the end, for such only can claim the Divine promise of 
 reward, under the general law! 
 
 Third Ax-him, Divine, orderly principle ; moral, attrac- 
 tive, sun, soul and material saving, insurance policy, and 
 spiritual, liberty, redeeming practice, giving motion to mat- 
 ter, emotion of mind, and promotion of virtue, should be 
 our rule of action; of peaceful, loving, virtuous action; of 
 sublime, God-like action, creating, governing and regulat- 
 ing all motion, mind and matter. Hence, I shall typically, 
 figuratively or prophetically head, be-head or em-body, as 
 the reader may elect, judge wisely, or condemn, this brief, 
 hasty essay on man, or the laws and governments of man, 
 as the times demand a saving union of the sacred princi- 
 ples, policies and practices of Democracy, vs. sectionalism^ 
 departing passiveism, or all black Republican shades and 
 dark shadows of death-dealing opposition ! Or in other 
 words, white Republicanism against red Republicanism, and 
 black Repub-lie-can-ism ; or in another free, home-spun 
 dress, the national union and constitutional form of white 
 Republican, self-government, as created by our spiritual 
 and political, stately fathers, formed on the trinitorial rock 
 of ages, the family, the church, and the State, whose im- 
 mortal frame-work is the temple of domestic, political and 
 religious liberty; where all uations, tribes or kindred 
 
DEMOCUACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SKCTIONALISM. 
 
 tongues, can worship. As against a foroign, supported, 
 consolidated, church and stately monarchy, or the baser, 
 supported, sectional, military despotism, feeding on M'ar, 
 civil war, or civil, uncivil chronic war of capital over labor, 
 changing the elementary basis of a pure, native American 
 form of white Republican, self-government, founded on the 
 political, moral and statesman-like justice, jiulgment and in- 
 telligence of the people, to the extreme basest, elementary, 
 black Republican form of self-go vermcnt, founded on the 
 foreign, ignorant, servile African race, holding the balance 
 of power built on, supported with, and fed by the violent 
 prejudices and passions of slavish ignorance; and this anti- 
 Republican system of government, perpetuated throngh 
 the vile means of force, fraud and military power over civil 
 law, building up in twelve years' time the greatest dead or 
 departing, masterly, capital, bonded land, labor and 
 monopolizing aristocracy of the age ; thereby establishing 
 the worst form of domestic, moral and political slavery the 
 world ever knew, and this, too, on their own effective, sec- 
 tional, destroying ruins of the best of an equalizing, dis- 
 tributive, life, liberty and property, protective system of 
 Republican self-government this world ever saw; done, 
 too, in the sectional name of higher law-liberty, anti- 
 slavery, philanthropy and may-jest-stick (like Cain over 
 Abel), double cloven-footed, civil war power, as the base 
 means or sectional agent, in this national union and constitu- 
 tional or civil law destruction, and all this by a party claim- 
 ing all the intelligence, morality and decency in the land! 
 Then the greatest problem (of this extreme age) in 
 which domestic, moral and political extremes are meeting 
 as they never met before, and are destroying each other as 
 extremes never destroyed each other before, and are as yet 
 without the hope, plan or worldly means of a peace-creat- 
 ing, union-saving and liberty-redeeming mediator — is to 
 solve, re-solve or re-instate this only one true national form 
 
6 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 of white Republican self-government. Who shall become 
 our political Savior in this second advent in the third resur- 
 rection day of this spiritual government ol our Democratic 
 fathers? Who shall be the first to proclaim this millennium 
 day of peace on earth and good-will to men ? For we must 
 have a domestic, moral and political millennium before we 
 have the Divine, moral and spiritual second advent, millen- 
 nial day or seventh day savior. But where are our moral 
 philosophers, patriotic sages, or this wise statesman of the 
 day? Gone, methinks I hear Horatio say, into land, labor 
 and capital monopolies ! departed into destroying official, sec- 
 tionalism ; or buried in bonded, cuss-Tom-Murphy house, 
 unbounded, general con-tammy-nating political corruption ! 
 
 Is it not time that all honest men (meaning more es- 
 pecially Democrats) should stop and retrospectively look back 
 at the former state ot pure Democratic peace, union and pros- 
 perity, compared with the present state of black Republi- 
 can desperation, creating only sectional discord, effectively 
 establishing military despotism, and finally resulting in polit- 
 ical slavery, and inquire why has the Democratic scepter 
 departed out of Judah, Israel or the promised land of 
 Canaan ? This I shall answer in due time, place and quan- 
 tity sufficient for the day of political judgment, which is 
 near at hand, when we must or should answer for all the 
 sins done in this body, politically and constitutionally corpor- 
 ate ; or under the Granted anti-habeas-corpus, ku-klux execu- 
 tioner, by the one-man power establishing general military 
 despotism ! 
 
 The truly wise man will devotedly but respectfully in- 
 quire into this life or death, government or anarchy, liberty or 
 slavery, first creating cause, and reasonably trace it to its 
 mediatorial, union saving or destroying effect, and be satis- 
 fied with nothing more, or surely with nothing less than a 
 full understanding of its final saving or destroying results ! 
 
 My third edition of the Bible (as I must have my trinity 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 7 
 
 in all things material, hiinian or divine), then the book of 
 books, now the Divine revelation of these domestic, moral 
 and civil laws, and also the })hysieal, moral and national con- 
 stitutional laws, through our spiritual moral and political 
 law-givers, and the general plan of domestic, and political 
 salvation says, typically, figuratively and prophetically : 
 Come, let us reason together; now that time prophetically 
 specified in the typical course of figurative, trinitorial 
 events, has evidently arrived. And with the advent of my 
 book, entitled "A Revelation of the Trinitorial Equations 
 of Nature, creating, governing and regulating alj motion, 
 mind and matter," commences this age of reason, judgment 
 and better understanding of these domestic, spiritual and 
 political laws ; also an advancement of all the arts, sciences 
 and inventions of mankind, and likewise, what is of infin- 
 itely more importance to all, a reformation of the family, 
 the church and the State, the trinitorial co-ordinance, pri- 
 mary branches of all governments founded on this terres- 
 trial rock of ages, commencing the Reformation in our own 
 first successful, national experiment of self-government, and 
 then transforming, conforming and reforming crowned 
 kingdoms and empires into stately, and national, united 
 republics like our own, under Democratic reconstruction, first 
 over an united stately Europe, or united states of Asia, 
 and even a you-knight-tied states of down-trodden Africa 
 and her cloven-footed isles of the ocean ! 
 
 And but for the damnable heresy, in our land of jeal- 
 ousy, envy and hypocrisy, the besetting sins of man, the 
 devil personified or embodied in human flesh, as the des- 
 troying angel of death eating up our substance, destroying 
 our liberties, and enslaving honest poverty, favoring, pro- 
 tecting, and exalting the rich, but financially enslaving, 
 humiliating, and bowing down the poor. Hence, my humil- 
 iating, financial poor apology for the non-appearance of my 
 book, which I promised to have before the people last 
 
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 8 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 month (May), and might, would and should have had it 
 ready over one year ago but for the want of a little financial 
 backing to put it on its feet, so that it can run its course, 
 and travel to all nations of the earth, establishing in each 
 its henceforth crown of glory, which is Divine peace on 
 earth and good-will to men. But this book still lies in the 
 beggar's press instead of in the printer's press; but the 
 press of typical, spiritual and political events demand that 
 this greit reformation must commence with this sectional 
 grant-tied, un-stable government, as the eventful, pressing 
 one thing needful. For without good municipal, stately 
 and national, political governments, there is no peaceful, 
 pure engagement of domestic, political and religious liberty; 
 no equalizing protection of life, liberty and property, and 
 no assurance of the general blessings resulting from the 
 guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and 
 freedom of conscience. Then I shall lay down my broad 
 universal, trinitorial platform, founded on the everlasting 
 rock of ages, and whose unlimited frame exists throughout 
 all the trinitorial equations of nature. Firstly in tlie 
 higher positive, first cause, legitimate or illegitimate father, 
 or creating extreme, a lower negative legitimate, illegiti- 
 mate or passive may-jest-stick, persecuting, enslaving or 
 destroying extreme, with a mediatorial (sun) son— soul and 
 material saving mediator between these positive, creating 
 and negative destroying extremes; and on this platform is 
 founded the divine, moral and spiritual plan of domestic, 
 spiritual and political, or material salvation, creating, 
 governing and regulating all motion, mind and matter ! 
 
 Then in this first successful, national experiment, our 
 democratic fathers were the positive first cause, legitimate 
 fathers, or national, union and constitutional creators of 
 this self-government. And all negative, bully, tory, sec- 
 tional, hooking opposition are, were, and always will be, (if 
 endorsed), the ill-lee-get-i-mate destroyer of this self-same 
 
DEMOCRACY V9. PASSIVEISM AND Si;* TIOXALISM. 9 
 
 domestic, moral and political self-governments, eve-een under 
 the first man Adam, in the devilish, disturbing, alien and 
 sedition laws, in partaking of the forbidden fruit, or this apple 
 of sectional discord, from off the proscribed tree oi life, 
 liberty or knowledge, thus causing the fall of man, the 
 fall of parties, and the downfall of nations. And also 
 by the second man Adam, who sowed the first official, sec- 
 tional executive seeds of this sectional anti-slavery apple of 
 discord, and thus produced the first cause or first fruits of dis- 
 obedience to the national laws, thereby bringing effectively 
 the first sin ot disunion into this hitherto peaceful, political 
 Garden of Eden, resulting in the most damnable, double 
 cloven-footed, civil war, and spiritual, political, constitutional 
 death, or a departure into the worst form of domestic, moral 
 and political slavery the world ever knew ; whilst the sec- 
 tional-departing, third man Adam, is knocking at the sec- 
 tional door of this political, corrupted Garden of Eden, want- 
 ing to become the executive judge of politically departed, 
 quick and dead ; but when he came to his own, his own re- 
 ceived him not; whilst in its place, even passive and departing 
 Democrats are bowing the cringing suppliant knee to the 
 white-croM'ned, white-coated, white-end sepulchre or tribune- 
 al, of passive or sectional, deep-parted, political judgment, 
 as promising, in the sectional benefits of land, labor and 
 capital monopoly, perpetuating the same state of domestic, 
 moral and political slavery as his Granted, military, reign- 
 ing-time brother, floundering around, baptised and buried 
 in the same fountain of general con-tammy-nated, sectional, 
 p(jlitieal corruption. Whilst the departed, not dend, but 
 peacefully sleeping principles, policies and practices of the 
 only one true national union and constitutional Democratic 
 party are the mediatorial, divine, peace creating head, 
 moral union saving body, and spiritual liberty redeeming 
 understanding as the only true mediator, or the only true 
 saving means of political salvation between the positive 
 
10 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 legitimate fatherly creator, and the negative, illegitimate 
 destroyer of self-government, changing a government of 
 free, sovereign choice into one of slavish, military force, 
 forcibly exchanging general, national and stately, domestic, 
 political and religious liberty for sectional, protected and 
 capital, mastered, domestic, moral and political slavery, en- 
 forced, winked at and sanctioned by the black Republican, 
 sectional, family, church and State. 
 
 Here then is the whole Gospel, the law and the {pro-fiid) 
 prophets. Here, likewise, is the Democratic, wise plan of 
 divine, worldly, and national. Democratic, peace creating, 
 moral, fatherly, brotherly and spiritual union-saving, and 
 spiritual constitution-obeying, and liberty redeeming, politi- 
 cal salvation, against the black Republican, sectional, passive 
 or departing plan of devilish, worldly, national and domes- 
 tic, war-creating, im-moral, fatherly, brotherly and spiritual 
 enslaving, condemnation, through the means ot protected, 
 capital, corruption and land, labor and capital monopoly, 
 spiritually reigning a pan-de-monium of military despot- 
 ism, with the blasting, bated breath of Democratic, stately 
 church, canon-Lzed, held-fire and brimstone dam-nation, 
 and political destruction of all the principles of self-govern- 
 ment, leading to a capital-mastered, labor-enslaved mon- 
 archy, or foreign military despotism, determined to destroy 
 this first worldly, successful experiment (in Democratic 
 hands) or national form of self-government, unless nipped 
 in the sectional, passive or departed pre-mature buds of 
 promise before they burst into the hypocritical, cloven-footed, 
 e-goat-is- tickle flowers of eloquence, and before the yield 
 of another four years', sectional, passive or downward, de- 
 parting crop of the apples of discord or the forbidden fruit 
 from the proscribed, hcclional garden tree of life, liberty or 
 knowledge, which not only caused the fall of man individu- 
 ally, collectively or generally, but also of all the domestic, 
 moral and civil governments of men. 
 
PEMOORACY VS. VASSIYICISM AND SECTIONALISM. 11 
 
 Then we have but two plans of political salvation laid 
 down in our strait hickory, ruling log book of political 
 events. One is Democratic and national ; the other is 
 black Republican [rightly named) and sectional. The for- 
 mer is the positive, national-creating or constitutional, 
 union-saving plan or legitimate means of political salvation, 
 leading to the greatest divine blessings of peace, union and 
 prosperity which this world can give ! whilst the latter is a 
 sectional or passive departure, having no positive plan of 
 union-saving virtue or legitimate means of political salva- 
 tion, and all its negative principles, policies and practices, 
 lead only and in-evitably, no matter which crooked light- 
 ning fork of the down- ward road you take into the same 
 swamping fountain of political corruption, ending in the 
 political slavery, unconstitutional, foreign monarchy, or im- 
 ported, may-jest-stick livery-covered bully, tory or sectional 
 hooking, military despotism ! 
 
 Choose then this day, O ye honest, conscientious, patriotic 
 men of this nation, whom you will serve. If this sectional 
 God of mammon, God of slavery, God of war, be your God, 
 then serve Him. But it the national union and constitu- 
 tional saving God ot divine worldly, national and domestic 
 peace, moral fatherly, brotherly and spiritual love, and 
 sjiiritual, domestic, moral and political, redeeming virtue, 
 be your God, serve Him faithfully ; for herein you shall 
 speedily have your sure reward ! Or if you choose either 
 of the three sectional, passive or departing heads of legal- 
 ized labor reform, of try-bunal, tare-iff reform (with tare- 
 iff reform left out of the sovereign crown of the rising sun- 
 flower, double-cabbaged head or fresh opening morning 
 glory), or the General Grant-tied military, enforcing civil 
 service reform by one General Granted man who has done 
 more relatively, proximate and re-mote to de-form the civil 
 service than the other heroic, executive, military, civil and 
 uncivil executioners since the fall of the first man Adam. 
 
12 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 And great has been the Granted Niagara, executive, politi- 
 cal fiill, my countrymen ! 
 
 Tliese are three of the chief sectional, passive or depart- 
 ing heads of the hydra-headed or seven headed and ten 
 horned, bloody and fiery red war drag-on monster sectional- 
 ism ; all departing towards or silently stealing a march on 
 the Democracy, by feloniously appropriating the prolific 
 principles, policies and practices of the great national. Dem- 
 ocratic egg, to their foul, sectional, hatching nest of treason, 
 stratagem and spoils, more especially the latter spoiling, 
 Granted nest egg. 
 
 But the illegitimate, polly-game-us, may-home-maid of 
 sectionalism, must come to the national union and constitu- 
 tional saving mountain of Democracy, or the elevating hill 
 of science, civilization and Christianity, and mark on our 
 national field notes, their errors of latitude and departure 
 from this straight and narrow path, into heathenism, bar- 
 barism, and even into savage life. There is no other plan 
 whereby the laboring man, his self-creating rights to his 
 own servant capital, and all general right to an equalizing, 
 distributive, protective form of self-government can be 
 saved. In other words the Democracy is the only true 
 national labor reform party, saving revenue tar-iflf reform 
 party, or effective, civil service reform party, in this land 
 of the free, home of the brave and soup-peer-i-eer freedom 
 ot the slave ! 
 
 We should learn to judge men by their works or deeds, 
 not by their empty, soph-is-tickle, soft-sap-soap-it-all and 
 e-goat-tis-tickle, deceptive buds of promise pre-may -tour-lie 
 and ex-p>lo-sive-lye bursting into hard, ironical, protected 
 flowers of language, pro-duce-ing in season and out of sea- 
 son, and all the time this pro-lific, sectional apple of discord, 
 conij)ulslvely compelling each and all to i)artake of this 
 forbidden fruit, which first brought disobedience, sin and 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SF.CTIONALISM. 13 
 
 death into the world, as also into this national, political 
 Eden or first self-governing paradise ot man ! 
 
 I say right here (on my own responsibility, and shall so 
 proclaim it, and defend that proclamation before the world) 
 that this positive, divine, national, creating or peace mak- 
 ing, moral nnion saving and spiritual liberty i-cdeeming 
 Democratic party is the best, the steadfast and the only 
 poor man's friend ! 
 
 To prove this assertion, let facts be submitted to a suffer- 
 ing, enslaved people, and also to a candid world. Before 
 the general devastation by civil war in our land, caused by 
 the sectional demon of jealousy, envy and hypocrisy, the 
 consolidated, besetting sins of man, representing the devil 
 personified or embodied in the swinish, grassy flesh. I say 
 before this civil, uncivil war, we had but one great united 
 nation, one domestic, moral and political house (as it were), 
 with one united, prosperous and happy national family, 
 with none very rich, none very poor, but all were in me- 
 dium, happy circumstances ; consequently all were con- 
 tented, happy and independent ; and when contentment 
 was a fortune to all honest, temperate, m-dus-try-us men ; 
 ■when happiness created a domestic heaven on earth, and 
 that, too, under the best national union and constitutional 
 government of the world. Then independence was a na- 
 tional or general necessary accomplishment of all conditions 
 in life ! 
 
 Now, we have two reversing, extreme, sectional classes, 
 separated far apart, and acting as coolly toward each other 
 as the poles of the earth. The rich being the positive, 
 capital-creating, aristocratic or longest pole, which knocks 
 all our bonded, high interest bearing, rich, golden purse- 
 sim-ons ; whilst the poor are compelled to take the shorter, 
 antagonistic pole of adversity, of pauper labor, the short 
 negative pole of positive life, with which they stir up this 
 den of devouring, roaring lions ; these aristocratic show- 
 
14 PRINCIPI-E, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 cages of unclean beasts also stirring up and feeding this 
 carry-van of human hyenas, who are spiritually digging up 
 the graves of our political fathers, virtually eating up the 
 substance of, and howling for the skeleton Bony-part-remains 
 of their children, thereby cutting out and destroying the 
 happy, contented laboring heart of this nation. 
 
 Now independence is a sectional luxury, enjoyed only by 
 the aristocratic slave-holding bond-holder; the political 
 power accumulating, national banker; and the political, 
 corrupted, protected, monopolizing capitalist. 
 
 This former state of peace, union and prosperity, was 
 under our Democratic constitutional, life creating, union 
 saving, national equalizing, life, liberty and propei'ty sys- 
 tem, the place, and the only place where impartial equality, 
 liberty and protection can come in, and do justice to all 
 parties, instead of as now doing injustice to all parties. 
 Then black Republican " equality before the law," is a may- 
 jest-stick, hypocritical mis-nomer (not she of fee-male suf- 
 frage no-to-riety) which should more appropriately read 
 '* sectional extremes." The law, or rather sectional extremes, 
 are their general rule, and equality before the law, the 
 pro-scribed exception ; excepting always that we can all 
 equally read our masterly capital, title clear to law-enforced 
 domestic, moral and political slavery, enforced equally be- 
 fore the law, over all white, red and black Republicans 
 alike (except the official, protected, land, labor and capital 
 monopolizing masters) over a Maine head of Massa-choosits 
 own sectional yankee ringmasters. I say they have typi- 
 cally, figuratively and prophetically enforced political sla- 
 very equally over the balance of us poor interest paying, 
 tar-iff rented, taxed to death, political sinners, alike with- 
 out regard to figurative race, typical color or prophetic, 
 previous condition of servitude, of God, man or the devil! 
 
 And now we can prophetically call the national role of our 
 wliiLe as well as red and dough-mess-stick black slaves, un- 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AKD SECTIONALISM. 15 
 
 der the sainted shadow of Bunker Hill Monument. Also, 
 this viis-no-more ot mortified, deep-parted, black Republieau 
 sectional equality before the national law, means a two-faced 
 government, with a black-faced master, slave ruler over their 
 reversed white-fiiced slave master in the South, and a white, 
 brassy-faced, greenback ruler in the North, equalli/ protect- 
 ing land, labor and capital monopoly as the General Grant- 
 tied capital master, through unequalled military power, before 
 civil law, or equally consolidating all the Granted powers, 
 of official protective tare-iff, leg-is-la-tied, General Bond and 
 slaveholding, and Granted national banking powers of polit- 
 ical corruption, forcibly, officially, imp-peer-i-ally, crowning, 
 capital the supreme master, and foolscapping labor its 
 sovereign supporting slave. Thus by these reversing ex- 
 tremes of sectionalism (miss-named equality before the law), 
 or a long way behind Democratic law, which means not 
 only equality before the law, but also behind the law, above 
 and below, to the right hand and the left, and all around 
 the law ! I say these reversing extremes (before law) have 
 reversed, revolutionized and overturned all civil law, and 
 under this magic, sectional trans-formation, trans-sub-stan- 
 ti-ation, and trans-fig-your-ration, capital, the former legiti- 
 mate child and obedient servant of labor, has now become 
 the illegitimate, but official government protected master 
 over its own creator ! Under the same sectional reversing 
 extremes before C([ual national law, our former law givers, 
 or chosen sei'vants, who freely executed their sovereign mas- 
 ter's will, have now become the granted imp-peer-i-all soup- 
 preme masters of the capital and military, climax crowning 
 situation, and we the sovereign people have become the 
 humble, domestic, moral and political slaves. But as we 
 have thus humbled ourselves, even so, according to Divine 
 promise, shall we soon be exalted. This double extreme 
 cloven-footed, sectional, reversing rule and equal law excep- 
 tion, by changing the entire order of things in the Southern 
 
16 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 conquered military district under our military before civil 
 law, Stately reconstructed, now foreign carpet-bag and 
 African colonial governments, where tiie ignorant soup-her- 
 dish-us slave of yesterday has ])ecome the wise statesman, 
 learned law-giver and sovereign supreme financial ruler 
 of to-day, forcing, swapping and sovereignly reversing, 
 with his former master, or freely and supremely ex- 
 changing hue-milly-ating relations, situations or reversed 
 conditions with his own acknowledged former chattel 
 property, under the Divine moral and spiritual consti- 
 tutional law, but where this same former master be- 
 comes the first military-conquered white servant, in this 
 seven years jubilee of pro-found peace, under Granted sec- 
 tional equality before law, in this land of the free, home of 
 the brave, and supreme freedom of the imp-ported slave! 
 whilst his former slave has become his present sovereign 
 master, supreme law-giver, and corrupt and stately financial 
 agent, thus changing the form of this first pure white Re- 
 publican self-government as established by our patriotic, 
 political fathers, first to an unconstitutional, sectional, mili- 
 tary, know-nothing rule, native Indian, bloody and fiery 
 red war dragon, red Republican form, then to a black Re- 
 publican, unconstitutional, unlimited and unlicensed mon- 
 archy, or Granted one Mnssa-choos-its stately, or now a 
 one man General Granted, military despotism, or black 
 Republican, imp-ported form of self-government. Thus 
 basely changing the entire sovereign base of this pure and 
 only successful white Republican form of national, stately 
 and domestic self-government from the native white creating 
 head or throne of political judgment, to the black Republi- 
 can, foreign African element holding the sectional balance 
 of power, determined to hold in that downward scale the 
 Grant-tied balance of power, whether for good or bad, for 
 the nght or wrong, for the salvation of a part or the damna- 
 tion of all, it matters not to them. The sovereign die is 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. I^y 
 
 cast, the bloody Rubicon has been crossed, and this govern- 
 ment of our fathers is no more, neither indeed can it be 
 resurrected under the destroying effects of sectionalism. 
 
 This black sed-e-meut-ary balance of power has lately 
 been weighed in the De-moek-rye-toe- passive Greeley scales, 
 and found wanting, Grant dictating also to the true Demo- 
 cratic, National Union servants, the positive, legitimate 
 creators of this self-same government, whose principles, 
 pcilicies and practices are the only practical peace making 
 and Union saving means of this great political salvation. I 
 say this base balance of power is dictating to our positive, 
 Divine government creators, moral Union saviors, and spir- 
 itual liberty redeemer, under what sectional Grant- tied mas- 
 ter they must, should and shall serve ! My trinitorial 
 theories are entirely original — new and true, even to me — 
 and by way of apology, as a typical, allegorical, figurative, 
 historical, or pen-pointed, prophetic, prosey or rhyming 
 scribbler, I am just entering on my third year. As a reve- 
 lator, ex-ponnder, or delineator of the natural, scientific 
 and systematic trinitorial laws, just entering on my second 
 year; and as a political writer, scribing, trans-cribing 
 and de-scribing the application of these trinitorial laws to 
 domestic, moral and civil*, or political governments, I have 
 not as yet completed my first year. Hence these theories 
 being newly true (not allegory, novelty or fiction), they need 
 a great amount of explanation in their general application, 
 with the end in view of a better understanding of domestic, 
 moral and civil governments, and only through their appli- 
 cation can we give any good, sensible or correct reason wliy 
 we have three races of men, distinguished by their three 
 national colors, and three degrees of civilization, Evc-'cen 
 when coming from the same domestic tree of life — liberty, 
 or knowledge — of which Adam was the root, Noah the body, 
 and Shem, Ham and Japheth the trinitorial branches of this 
 prolific tree of life. Now, ray trinitorial platform is as 
 
18 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 broad, as high and as deep as the whole un-cir-cum-scribed, 
 uii-bounded, un-limited universe; and in taking a general 
 survey of this universe by the compass of the human mind, 
 by using the three odd links in the endless chain of time, 
 measuring and marking trinitorial events, connecting nature 
 through the Mediatorial Son-soul and material life-saving 
 link, up with nature's God; taking our solar meridian bear- 
 ings, with the celestial north polar pointed needle of eternity, 
 measuring and marking on the terrestrial field notes of the 
 world, the human errors of latitude and departure of these 
 three races of men, from this straight and narrow path of 
 science, civilization and Christianity, under the general law 
 of the w^estward march of kingdoms, empires and republics, 
 re-marking that Ham, in violation of this general law, de- 
 parted South, first from civilization into heathenism, barbar- 
 ism, and eventually into savage life, and for the violation of 
 this general law he was punished with slavery under the 
 trinitorial curse of Canaan, and was spiritually weather- 
 beaten with many raw-hide tannings, bearing the black 
 raw-hide, earth-marks of slavery even to this day ! The 
 tribe of Japheth departed eastward, also into heathenism, 
 barbarism and wild Indian savageism, and for the violation 
 of this general law was likewise tanned or punished by the 
 red-tanned, raw-hide sun marks, or the elderly Cain drawn, 
 Abel brotherly envious blood-marks, or the wild, brassy, 
 Indian face marks, all showing war to this day, of this 
 second trinitorial Ishmaelitish curse of Canaan, or pie-us 
 father Abraham's typical, il-li-get-i-mate, Ishmaelitish wild 
 woods colt of the wilderness, the barbarous Arab and wild 
 Indian, whose bloody-red right hand should be against 
 every man, and every man's hand against him. 
 
 Here, then, in this divine plan of domestic salvation Shem 
 is the mediatorial, positive, government and peace creating; 
 moral. Union saving, and spiritual, liberty redeeming ; do- 
 mestic, moral and political mediator ; between the extreme 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 19 
 
 erring and departing curse of Islunael or Japhcth on his 
 right hand, with the wild and domestic sheep, and also the 
 extreme erring and departing curse of Canaan on his left 
 hand, with the departed goats and the accompanying field 
 of black, stray sheep ! Thus I have given a brief pen 
 sketch, skeleton or outline view of the divine plan of domes- 
 tic salvation, as -svell as of spiritual and political salvation, 
 under my new theoretical application of the trinitorial laws, 
 but further and better illustrated, perhaps, by showing that 
 we have a domestic trinity, where the father, the mother 
 and the children, all acting in different spheres, revolving 
 around the same fatherly, celestial head of government, yet 
 all three composing but one family. Here is found the tirst 
 common school where we should first learn self-government; 
 and here, too, is where this great worldly reformation must 
 commence, and self-government is the first lesson ; and un- 
 less we learn to govern our own evil passions, intemperate 
 habits, or unlicensed lessons of extravagance, wo are not 
 qualified to become as sound timber in the supporting 
 columns, stately pillars, or platform frame-work either in 
 the churchly or stately building. Second: The spiritual 
 trinity is the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, all acting in 
 different spheres, yet one in spirit, or governed by one head, 
 called the Godhead, and the divine plan of spirit:ial salva- 
 tion is through the mediatorial (Sun) son soul and material 
 saving mediator between God the divine creator, and man 
 the spiritual creature. Third: The political trinity — the 
 three departments of government — the legislative, executive 
 and judiciary, where the judiciary is the head of justice, 
 judgment and mercy. The legislative is the mediatorial 
 saving body, of life unto life or death unto death, according 
 to its relative executive understanding, or where all primary 
 government is derived from the consent of the governed, 
 where the people are the sovereign, positive or legitimate 
 fatherly creators of government, and the Union, national 
 
20 PRINCIPLK, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 constitution is the legitimate child, the general servant, or 
 the younger obedient creature of its own sovereign creator; 
 whilst the reserved stately elder brothers are the mediato- 
 rial (Sun) son- (soul) sole government — saving mediators be- 
 tween the sovereign creators and their national, law-serving 
 creature. 
 
 This, then, is the positive plan of political salvation, 
 and if it is all-important that we should do our Heavenly 
 Father's will, and understand his divine plan of domestic 
 and spiritual salvation, is it not also important that we 
 spiritually do our political earthly father's will, and under- 
 stand and carry into practical execution their positive plan 
 of political salvation — especially when that plan has been 
 practically tested, tasted and tried for seventy years, and 
 was found to yield the largest amount of national peace, 
 union and prosperity that this world of departing extremes 
 ever knew? Then, if the consent of the governed is the 
 basis of self-government, the majority should rule. The 
 Democratic party are to day, always were, and always will 
 be, as far as correct principle, policy and practice is con- 
 cerned, in the majority, but not in the ruling ascendency, 
 because directly, of some of their national sins of owe-mis- 
 sion, com-mission and dis-mission, by the sacrifice of prin- 
 ciple inconsistently for the sake of the uncertain promises 
 of hypocritical expediency, and indirectly by sectionalism, 
 selling out national Union principles for sectional, anti- 
 slavery, disunion and civil war expediency, forcing the 
 whole people into effective, double cloven-footed, sectional- 
 ism, disunion and civil war, resulting in hatching out the 
 full fledged sectional nest of treason, strat-a-gem and spoils, 
 by these sectional political war scribes, great Phar-I-sees 
 and little Sad-u-sees arresting, arraigning and crucifying or 
 condemning to the death on the cross, before Pilot's nullifi- 
 cation bar of northern sectional, anti-slavery opinion, crying 
 in their wrath, Away with him, crucify him — no compromise 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 21 
 
 with slavery, even for saving the life of our Union savior; 
 dec'Kiring that thisUni^)n should not live one half slave and 
 one half free, and finally resulting in the last .sanguinary 
 plea of a long standing civil war declaration that without a 
 little blood-letting this Union savior was not worth a cur.se! 
 Thus typically, figuratively and prophetically sacrificing our 
 Democratic, national, constitutional, Union savior on the 
 cross of the Northern compromising and Western uncom- 
 promising, stately Missouri line! Thus this was a Northern 
 (Liiik'd-on) Lincoln .sectional, aggressive, anti-slavery, and 
 a Southern (Broken-ridge) Breckenridge defensive, pro- 
 slavery, civil war of their own seeking, from whose primary, 
 sectional first cau.se, secondary disunion effect, and final civil 
 war results, the great Douglas Democratic national, consti- 
 tutional Union party are as innocent as the babe unborn, 
 and on whose skirts cannot be found one drop of their 
 General Cain slaughtered Abel brother's blood. They faith- 
 fully to the end preached peace, union and compromise, and 
 protested again.st the treasonable rebellion of both war-ring 
 factions, and are therefore not responsible for the devilish, 
 treasonable, sectional, first cause, the rebellious, double 
 cloven-footed, disunion effect, and most damnable, disastrous 
 civil war results. The Democratic party came not to con- 
 demn, but to fulfill, obey and magnify and make honorable 
 the law of our political fathers, s])iritual grand fiither.s, or 
 divine great-grandfather, the great Creator, governor and 
 regulator of all motion, mind and matter, wiiilst spiritual 
 mother country representative, bully, tory, hooking section- 
 alism came only to condemn the law, to destroy our govern- 
 ment, or divide this great national Democratic Union hou.se 
 against itself, .so that sectionalism might establish on the ruins 
 thereof the greatest, fiistest and most progressive bonded or 
 unbonded aristocratic monarchy, official protected system of 
 political slavery, or relative, capital corrupt, granted mili- 
 tary despotism of the world! Then Ave shall arrest and 
 
22 PRINCIPLE, POLICV AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 arraign, and impartial history will hold this sectional reign- 
 ing die-nasty as responsible for he'mg the first cause of 
 slavery, the first cause of sectionalism, the first cause of dis- 
 union and holding human chattel property; thus becoming 
 the secondary legitimate effect of slavery, of sectionalism, 
 and oi disunion, and this antagonistic meeting of this 
 aggressive, offensive first cause, and its resisting, defensive 
 effect, the positive, illegitimate creator and its negative 
 legitimate creature, the thieving original transgressor and 
 his guilty but less sinful partaker, resulting finally in the 
 most disastrous, ungodly, savage civil war that ever dis- 
 graced any section, tribe or nation. Then if this groat 
 national Union and constitutional Democratic party were 
 not partakers in this first sectional cause of this national 
 Union government, betraying, treason, rebellion and revo- 
 lution, why should they attempt to betray their party and 
 rebel against this peace-making. Union-saving and liberty- 
 redeeming government of their fathers and embrace this 
 sectional, official treason for the sake of revelling in the 
 bloody right-handed war results of stratagem and spoils, 
 thus betraying into the hands of our self-conquered enemies, 
 rebelling against and dividing our Union forces, and thereby 
 sj)oiling the government of our fathers, and virtually de- 
 stroying, undermining, or at least departing from our only 
 earthly means of national, political salvation? 
 
 Are the Democratic party the cause of Ku-Klux-ism in 
 the South ? If so, why so, wherein, or through \vhat 
 agency, directly or indirectly, is this effect brought about? 
 The Democrats are, always were, and always will be op- 
 posed to all secret, political societies, both North and South, 
 as well as treasonable, sectionalism both North and South, 
 and also to all rebellious war parties both North and South. 
 But rather than bear this blame any longer, we will trans- 
 fer it to where the first aggravating cause belongs — to the 
 General Granted head quarters at Washington City, U. S., 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISAI AND SECTIONALISM. 23 
 
 D. C. and Ku-Klnx-ism is but the secondary effect of tins 
 ausrraviitino; first cause. Here we need the aid of our union 
 savior, the national physician, who wisely traces the dis- 
 turbing effect back to its aggravating, first cause, and uj)- 
 plies the remedy to the seat of the disease, removes the 
 cause, and the effect will depart. So with all the primary, 
 first cause and secondary effects of sectionalism ; two wrongs 
 can not make one right, however good either wrong may 
 profess to be. It is not the whole that need the physician, 
 but the sick, constitutional, consumptive patient, the erup- 
 tive, disruptive or the corrupted of blood from excessive, 
 intemperate and head-sick bathing in the fountain of po- 
 litical corruption. Sectionalism is not only the effective 
 States' rights, nullification of the national, figurative slave 
 law, and the general government repudiation through the 
 devilish, destroying agency of disunion and civil war, but 
 it is also the effective cause of the national, constitutional, 
 consumptive and black tongue, and military plague diseases, 
 affecting the whole national, constitutional body politic. 
 The Democracy is our great national union and constitu- 
 tional physician, and the only one that can make this nation 
 whole, and the only physician that can, must and will re- 
 move the aggravating cause of sectionalism, by a heavy 
 purgative double scraped dose of emetic and cty;hartic but- 
 ternut physic, removing the debilitating, demoralizing Gen- 
 eral Granted effect, and the constitutional disease will be 
 removed from the whole body politic ! 
 
 God is our great physician ; Christ our good union sav- 
 ing Samaritan who found us by the way-side stri])pecl, dis- 
 abled and plundered by professional thieves; but who 
 poured into our wounds the oil of joy for mourning, and the 
 spirit of love, peace and the patience ot virtue for ollicious 
 heaviness, and this same spirit is the powi'r behind the 
 throne greater than the thrones of all kingdoms, empires 
 and black Republics, which maketh the wrath of man 
 
2-4 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 to serve him; but these reversing extremes of sectionalism 
 must serve the demoniac spirit of war, not being satisfied 
 with either of the three peaceful ways of abolishing slavery, 
 which I have in my reforming, law-giving and peace-mak- 
 ing book of the world pointed out. 
 
 As without the shedding of blood there is no remission 
 of sin (but blood should have flowed only from the original 
 transgressor and his sinful partaker), thus washing in the 
 sacrifice of human blood, slavery, our domestic curse, sec- 
 tional vice, or last national disturbing element, which is the 
 beginning of the end of slavery throughout the world, pre- 
 paring the way, or putting our domestic churchly and 
 stately house in order for the near coming millennium day 
 of peace, seventh day of rest or second advent day of our 
 Lord and loving Master, for the second time practically 
 preaching and teaching peace on earth and good-will to 
 men. Then is it not time that we stop and inquire : Is 
 there no sectional mortal plague in Israel ? Is there no 
 political balm in Gilead ? and is there no union physician 
 there? 
 
 All this treason, rebellion and revolution originated with 
 this one-third minoiity, outlawed, sectional, accidental 
 party, which had effectually and forcibly, according to 
 their own , programme, caused these triuitorial sectional 
 division of parties, they representing but a faction of the 
 northern half of this nation, standing in aggressive, offen- 
 sive, declared battle array against the legal constitutional, 
 domestic institutions in the Southern half of this union, 
 where this national destroying sectional party had no repre- 
 sentation whatever. A plain case (of their own seeking too) 
 of a military, professed higher law, bivt practical lower law 
 power, usurping the prerogative of a free government, by 
 forcing one-half of the nation to submit to the rule of an 
 aggressive, offensive foreign power, without the consent 
 of the governed ! 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 25 
 
 lIcMice, I say it was merely one sectional, aggressive, 
 oilcnsive, ontlawed party, compelling; or like-begetting, 
 like, or dislike, and forcing into existence effectively a sec- 
 ondary defensive sectional outlawed party, but both cloven- 
 tooted children of the same bloody and fiery red war-drag- 
 on hydra-headed monster sectionalism. And these two 
 illegitimate outlawed sectional children have become the 
 first destroying angels of death in our second Eden Garden 
 spot ol the new world or in this Democratic political para- 
 dise of peace, union and prosperity, and this, too, against 
 the positive solemn warnings, predictions and protests of 
 the national union Democratic party, the creator, successful 
 gardener and chief ruler in this garden, protesting against 
 this national suicide or equally against both the primary 
 first sectional cause and the secondary result of this double 
 cloven-footed sectionalism, disunion and civil war! 
 
 The Democrats preached peace, union and compromise to 
 both war-ring-factions, and were tauntingly called peace 
 dough face, butternut union savers, and mealy mouthed 
 slavery compromisers, typical of the three measures of 
 meal, figurative of the union Democratic leaven which 
 shall leaven the whole national lump, and prophetic of this 
 Democratic peace dough-faced political bread of life which 
 feed all peaceful, liberty and freedom hungry nations of the 
 world. Cast your bread ol life, liberty and knowledge on 
 the troubled waters of the little Indian, greater Atlantic and 
 greatest Pay-cific peaceful Ocean, and it shall be gathered 
 and nationally garnered up after many days! 
 
 We, the Democracy, have meekly been humbled as the 
 peace-makers, and have been persecuted for righteousness' 
 sake. We will go up higher and claim the Divine promises. 
 We shall inherit the earth ; be exalted as the children of 
 this God-ess ot Liberty, and become heirs and law-givers 
 in this "political kingdom ot heaven on earth !" 
 
 Then let him, them or the sectional party beware (in the 
 
26 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 hands of their potter) from whence this great sectional 
 offense first conieth. I here declare that bkick Republican- 
 ism is, was and will continue to be the first cause of sec- 
 tionalism, disunion and civil war, and if the only one true 
 great national union and constitutional Democratic party 
 sell out to sectionalism (or start a passive Greeley opposi- 
 tion sectional gift lottery to the established General Granted 
 relative gifted scheme), they must become res])onsible for 
 its inheritable effects, and be satisfied with its political en- 
 slaving. General con-tammy -nating, national destroying 
 civil war results. Then let him, them or the parties be- 
 ware also from whence this great national offense first 
 Cometh ! 
 
 These political Judases have sold out and betrayed into 
 the hands of his enemies our Democratic national constitu- 
 tional savior, into sectionalism or deep-parted passiveism for 
 thirty pieces of greasy paper rags, in the place of their re- 
 tired (with rags) gold or silver. They have rebelled, and 
 through voluntary treason betrayed for the first time, since 
 the government was formed, the whole Union and only 
 national Democratic army over three millions strong into 
 the divided, demoralized and de-parted sectional camp. Is 
 it, then, a mark, a Biz-mark, or rather not a miss-mark of 
 war, peace, or even of ring-policy generalship, when we see 
 our own national, coiihtitutional peace array united on the 
 peace-creating. Union-saving and liberty-redeeming princi- 
 ples of our Democratic revolutionary fathers who created 
 this government, and whose principles are the only means 
 or saving plan of political salvation, and the enemy are 
 divided in their principles, demoralized by their policies, 
 and departing into sectional divisions. I say, or rather ask 
 and repeat the question. Is it good generalship, under these 
 circumstances, to out-flank this divided army, surrounding, 
 by the legions of truth, under the bannered army of the 
 Prince of Feace, taking into detail each grand division, 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. _( 
 
 striking deep with the sharp principle sword of the right, 
 into the principle corruj^t shielding of wrong? Meeting 
 with the divine union policy of peace, the demoralized 
 legions, upholding the policy of war, thus capturing in de- 
 tail the Union detached ; practical sectional deserters, of 
 tariff, labor and civil service reform, back as new recruits 
 into the Democratic camp, where they naturally belong ; or, 
 seeing generally, the national sharp-pen-ned point, that the 
 Democratic party is thus united, but sectionalism is divided 
 against itself, departing and generally demoralized ; or 
 would it not be or show better generalship according to the 
 late bargain and sale programme for the only national, con- 
 stitutional union army of Democracy to desert (with a boun- 
 tiful Union victory in view), into the antagonistic, divided, 
 d'jarted and demoralized ranks of sectionalism? "Why 
 should we sacrifice national principle for the doubtful sake 
 of stratagem, spoiling, sectional, departed expediency, whilst 
 sacred principle, successful expediency and national honor 
 are all found only in the exact opposite direction ? Or even 
 admitting this doubtful expediency may be crowned with 
 more doubtful success, should we sell out our national union 
 and constitutional birthright for a doubtful, sickening, un- 
 healthy mess of jealous, green, Greeley tare-iff raised, sec- 
 tional, passive, deep-parted pottage, and also be cheated out 
 of our father Isaac's national blessing, merely for the sake 
 ot hypocritically beating the envious Jacob-eyes'd Grant? 
 beaten, too, by the elder Cain-drawn blood of our Abel 
 younger brother ! Let others do as they will or think best, 
 but as for me and my house, I will have no sectionalism, 
 passiveism, or dei)arting, military despotism, enforcing polit- 
 ical slavery in mine. If I cannot vote for my chosen Dem- 
 ocratic national union savior, I will not be compelhHl to 
 choose between two evils, and to vote for either the gciu*ral 
 Granted devil nor yet for old Belzebub, the Granted prince 
 of devils! If the Bawled-tim-more Convention confirms 
 
28 PniNCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 the sectional, bargain and sale, the her-maphrodite bas-tird 
 whole-lie ghost, they will have to contend against the united 
 world, the anti Greeley flesh and the Grant- tied devil! 
 
 We were all forced into sectionalism during the war, but 
 if we sell out, and depart from grace by forcibly putting a 
 sectional dead-head on the national living Democratic body, 
 and passively submit as a party to be baptized in the departed 
 Dead Sea fountain of political corruption, we become equal 
 partakers with this first cause of sectionalism, disunion and 
 war, in partaking freely (through this Granted promising, 
 snake in the grass Greeley) of the forbidden fruit plucked 
 forcibly from the Democratic tree of life, liberty and know- 
 ledge, called the sectional apple of discord, also of eating 
 treasonable, rebellious, repudiated dirt with this accursed, 
 fallen, black serpent, becoming effectively responsible for 
 this anti-republican, imp ported form of foreign monarchy, 
 political slavery, and military despotism, the greatest crime 
 of the age, resulting in a disobedience of the general law of 
 our national, union and constitutional salvation, the unpar- 
 donable sin before the grave spirit of our departed fathers 
 who created this national government, bringing only sec- 
 tional, departed political death ! 
 
 Sectionalism, whether in the active Granted or passive 
 Greeley form, is very promising in its nature — promising all 
 things to all men, but performing nothing for the general 
 good ; promising peace before the war, for the sake of get- 
 ting the national government in their own hands, but deter- 
 mined on this anti-slay ery and pro-slavery war from the 
 very birth of sectionalism, and after creating civil war 
 according to the first illegitimate cause and original design 
 of these secession, reserved stately, national slave law nulli- 
 fying, disunion and sectionalism creators; promising, hypo- 
 critically, not to interfere with slavery for the sake of 
 obtaining soldiers to fight these disunion battles of their 
 own seeking, but pre-determined in their own hearts to wash 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 29 
 
 out slavery through their higher hiw. Jealous, pie-us, 
 elderly Cain-drawing Abel-innocent brotherly blood ; and 
 after ereating this civil war, through envy of the more 
 acceptable Abel offering of this shepherd sacrifice of the 
 lamb of .slavery, effectively washing out slavery according 
 to the original programme, but for the sake of still revel- 
 ing in the official element of their own hatched and now 
 fool-fledged treason, stratagem and spoils ; promising not to 
 establish negro equality, but still having this original de- 
 sign, or sectional jirogramme, or this united churchly and 
 stately effort, first, to create civil war; second, abolish 
 slavery; and third, to establish in this Southern conquered 
 military district, claiming to be held under the province of 
 the Northern sectional government, held as so many stately 
 African, colonial, or carpet-bag governments, forcibly held 
 under military power (or military equality before civil law), 
 forcibly reconstructing through the vile means of Stately, 
 negro equality, or sovereign slave supremacy over his former 
 master, thereby forcibly changing the white base of self- 
 government from the native element, holding as essential 
 and sacred the intelligence, qualification, property, represen- 
 tation and the free consent of the governed to the baser, 
 black African, foreign elementary form of self government, 
 where the basest mother wit tincture or essential oil of igno- 
 rance, spiritual essence of poverty, or flavoring extract of 
 slavery is the sovereign rule (in this forced equality ring 
 before law), or where the ignorant, servile slave of yesterday 
 has been forcibly exalted without the consent of the gov- 
 erned, as the wise statesman, sovereign dictator, and supreme 
 law-giver of to-day, holding the Grant-tied downward scale 
 in the military balancing power of government in the North- 
 ern .sovereign as well as in the Southern law-making, sover- 
 eign, supreme scale of corrupt, military supporting and 
 strategetic, treason, spoiling government. Thus all the 
 promises of sectionalism, black Kepublicanism or opposition 
 
30 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 to the Democratic party, in their whole catalogue of promises 
 from the first man Adam clown to their last Graut-ed Moses, 
 who is now taking his last sea-side view, or last (Mt. Oreb) 
 mounted Arab and lighted cigar spiritual view of the prom- 
 ised land — have reversed every promise made before the 
 people, whether considered at the time either as sacred, jest, 
 or profanity. This same promising opposition fellow, sec- 
 tionalism, has also reversed every principle of self-govern- 
 ment which our Democratic fathers, the legitimate positive 
 creators of self-government held sacred, which I have shown 
 fully in my great book comparing the positive principles, 
 policies and practices of the Democratic national creators of 
 government, with the negative principles, policies and prac- 
 tices of all bully, tory and sectional, hooking, cloven-footed 
 opposition, or sectional destroyers of self-government. Then 
 if our Democratic fathers, and we, their legitimate political 
 and spiritual sons of liberty inheritors, were right in our 
 national, constitutional and union-saving plan of political 
 salvation, and have an abundance of practical, blood-bought 
 and liberty-recorded evidence to prove that undoubted, in- 
 disputable, in-estimable right, then is sectionalism wrong, 
 and through these revolutionary, over-turning or reversing 
 extremes of sectionalism, this government to-day is virtually 
 standing on its head, and it is my mission, and should be the 
 mission of the whole Democratic party, to assist, as they 
 only can, in putting it on its feet again ; whilst passiveism 
 is but a back-set into the jaok-ass seat, or like tlie balky 
 mule taking the dead-head, body and four legs back-set 
 when he should pull evenly ahead in the old running-gear 
 traces; or standing passively like the butcher's block on its 
 cross-cut, but, waiting for the slaughter to commence of the 
 innocent, passive Democratic sheep, which are ready to lick 
 the sectional butcher's hand, ready now to shed and sacrifice 
 their devoted national blood. And shall it be said of our 
 union-saviors that they were willingly led like the innocent 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 31 
 
 lambs to their shiughter, or like the ohl umvashed sheep 
 before their bh\('k-wool shearers, they were dumb ami opened 
 not their mouth, and breathed not one baited breath against 
 their shorn liberties? 
 
 I suppose that the black Republican party innocently 
 think that even through the destroying means of war they 
 have accomplished a vast amount ot good by forcibly abol- 
 ishing slavery, and establishing negro suffrage, (which is not 
 a natural, but a granted political right of the free man), and 
 forcibly reconstructing stately African colonial governments 
 over the conquered ruins of the South. But the end (foreign 
 monarchy, political slavery and military despotism) cannot 
 justify the means of force, fraud, and the military power 
 over civil law, to accomplisii that end, to say nothing of 
 their mountainous national debt of responsibility, as well as 
 of greenbacks, for the rivers of innocent blood shed, and 
 political wounds on the great national body politic which no 
 sectional medicine can practically heal. In other words, sec- 
 tionalism, passiveism, or any departure from the saving 
 spirit of our political fathers cannot legislate to suit a free 
 people, much less in this land of freedom, or first political 
 paradise of domestic, political and religious liberty, where 
 we have had a foretaste of the obedient Shemite fruits of 
 peace, union and national prosperity, under our former union 
 plan of political salvation which the world ever knew, and 
 which it can never know under black Republican rule, for 
 they have changed the key note from the government scale 
 of harmonious choice into a devilish discord of military 
 force, or of may -jest-stick, livery-covered, lower law power, 
 over the equalizing, protective, justice, judgment and mercy 
 of civil law ! Then this sectionalism, passiveism, or wholc- 
 lie-ghost of departure should be honorably named the prom- 
 ising, reversing, forcing party, or the promising hypocritical 
 deceiver, with the double cloven-footed understanding of 
 these reversiug extremes of sectionalism ; enforcing all their 
 
32 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 despotic decrees through tlic military power over civil law, 
 with a reckless, devil-may-care for the consent of the gov- 
 erned ! 
 
 It was no departure of the Democratic party acknowl- 
 edging the sovereign law, no matter how bad it may be, or 
 how unjust the means used for accomplishing that end; they 
 are not responsible for what they cannot prevent, especially 
 after entering their protest against that wrong, any more 
 than it is a wrong and a departure for the Christian to 
 acknowledge the power and demoralizing laws of the spiritual 
 devil, (the demon of jealousy, envy and hypocrisy, the be- 
 setting sins of men, the devil typically personified in the 
 flesh, and governing, more or less, every fallen son of Adam), 
 after protesting against his infernal lower-region, sectional, 
 destroying laws. But it is a great departure when we sell 
 out, betray, or turn our back on our only national and con- 
 stitutional union savior, and be-head (or as the saying is), 
 put a sectional head on our national body, force a sectional, 
 departed heart into that warm, palpitating union body, 
 adding a departed, cloven-footed understanding, burying in 
 granted political corruption this whole constitutional body 
 politic, then we become responsible for illegitimate first head 
 cause of sectionalism, the damnable effects of disunion and 
 the destroying results of civil war. I will here venture the 
 bold assertion, on my own individual responsibility, without 
 the fear of a successful contradiction, that this devilish, 
 spiritual trinity (mentioned above), is the first cause of the 
 downfall of man, the downfall of parties, and the downfall 
 of nations, not only of republics, but also of kingdoms and 
 empires, throughout the whole world. Then why should we 
 sell out our union principles to this death-dealing, nation- 
 destroying evil spirit of sectionalism, and bow doAvn and 
 worship their domestic, churchly and stately heathen god of 
 slavery, god of mammon, and god of war? AVe have 
 already sold ourselves out unwittingly to this heathen trin- 
 
DKMOCUACY VS. PASSIVKISM AND SKCTIONAI.ISM. i>3 
 
 ity, and have been serving him patiently and faithfully, hut 
 not understandingly, for the last twelve years. First, then, 
 in the year A. D. 1860 — most memorable, historical and event- 
 ful year of American history, in the trinitorial, political 
 warfare of that year, leaving out in the cold the stray bell- 
 weather, or wild native American Indian or red Republican, 
 from the camp of the black Rej)ublican sheep. Then we 
 had only the one true national, Douglas Democratic party, 
 with a positive, legitimate, national head; a moral, mediato- 
 rial, union- saving body, and a spiritual, constitutional un- 
 derstanding, whilst the black Republican co-horts were 
 represented by a sectional, illegitimate, war-creating head, 
 and immoral, union-destroying body, and a sj)iritual^ antag- 
 onistic, cloven-footed, Link-on, anti-slavery and Broken- 
 ridge, pro-slavery understanding, of civil war. Then we 
 had this personified, devilish, green-eyed monster, jealousy, 
 of the head, red-hearted envy of the body, and with a bhudc, 
 cloven-footed understanding of hypocrisy, or the one-third 
 bodily man, with the two-thirds beastly extremities, putting 
 an aggressive, anti-slavery head and offensive, cloven-footed 
 understanding on this black Republican body; and as like 
 begets like or dislike, even so this black Republican body 
 begat its sectional, but antagonistic counterpart, and put a 
 defensive (not political) but pro-slavery head, and a dis- 
 union, cloven-footed understanding, of this black Brack- 
 enridge pro-slavery body ; but both cloven-footed sections 
 united hand, heart and body, and the devil took the lead of 
 these two foremost j)arties in sectionalism, dis-union and 
 civil war, leaving the great national union, Douglas Demo- 
 cratic party behind, preaching peiee. But here on this 
 broad, black, flat-footed platform we were spiritually sold 
 out for the first time by our chief Butlers, Bro ken-ridges, 
 and Linked-ons to the god of slavery; and after being 
 forced into the v'wW (uncivil) war to fight this double trea- 
 son, rebellion and revolution against all our peace, union, 
 
34 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OK, 
 
 compromise protests, we hasten on to the next four years' 
 Presidential term, when by the means of a mistaken fore- 
 sight in the Democratic party, by their inconsistent, double- 
 dealing, equivocal platform, declaring the war a failure, but 
 at the same time putting on that war-played-out platform 
 (although a very good man), our strongest general, McClel- 
 lan, and war candid-ate for President, and through this 
 means (innocently, of course), selling out by their own act 
 the whole Democratic party the second time, virtually or 
 spiritually, to the heathen god of war! Then after four 
 years more of forced service, under a chronic sectional war 
 of capital over labor, and through the corrupt mire of 
 political pestilence and financial famine, and again the Dem- 
 ocratic hosts assemble in national convention to nominate 
 another candidate for President, and then and there, even in 
 this New York head center of general con-tammy-nated 
 financial corruption they constructed one of the most just, 
 wise and good, able, bodily platforms, spiritually, politically 
 and practically, leading us back into our former national 
 Democratic paradise of peace, union and prosperity ; but 
 beheading that living body with a dead-head of bonded and 
 general con-tammy-nated financial corruption, facing, work- 
 ing, and marching in the opposite direction from this plat- 
 form, and thereby unwittingly, but freely, through green- 
 eyed jealousy of the head and black hypocrisy of the western 
 understanding, for the third time defeating, disappointing 
 and selling out our national Democratic union savior to the 
 god of mammon ; second, to the god of war ; and first, to 
 the god of slavery. The first shall be last, and the last 
 first! 
 
 Here, then, we can see in this hasty general review 
 some of our own free, sovereign, conventional sins of owe- 
 niission, as well as forcible general granted sins of com-rais- 
 sion ; as well as the sectional, passive and de-parting sins 
 of self-governing, African dis-mission. Now we hasten to 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND 8ECTIOXALI8M. o5 
 
 the foreshadowed crisis of political events at the sectional, 
 Ilain-might, whole- iiog, Cincinnati conventional slanghter- 
 house, where there was as nnich bi-pcdal bargain and sale 
 in that jwlitieal packing season, as there is quad-ruc-pedal 
 bargain and sale in the pork packing season. Here, then, 
 in the hog slaughter-ring, political and pork-packing hub 
 of the universe, the centrifugal center of these United States, 
 or at the warm palpitating heart of the body of this natioL, 
 or where the pure heart ought to be on the 5th day of Jnnc, 
 1872, by the afore-said Cincinnati convention, and the same 
 passive or sectional Grant-tied, departed party, is the time 
 when, the place wdiere, and the manner how, this great 
 national, constitutional and union-saving Democratic party 
 was for the first time freely offered up as a national sacrifice 
 on the civil war, burning and bloody altar of sectionalism 
 to appease the granted wmth. or sectional vengeance by 
 bowing down freely to this Democratic Co. and sectional- 
 show, of this double cabbage-headed pliilosopher, Greeley, 
 and (soul-ly) (sole-ly) and sold-ly worshipping this heathen 
 god of mammon, of slavery, and of war; or rather serving 
 the devilish spirit of jealousy, envy and hypocrisy, the be- 
 setting sins which caused the downfall of men, of parties, 
 and of nations, by putting a sectional head (forcibly, with- 
 out the free consent of the governed, or by the slavish con- 
 sent of the party ring leaders), I say by putting a sectional 
 head on this national union Democratic body, which was the 
 first cause of domestic churchly and stately secession, and 
 sectional and stately nullification of the general law, thereby 
 making this national union body responsible for the dis- 
 union effect of this first cause, and at the same time virtual, 
 guilty advocates of the destroying civil war results of this 
 first illegitimate cause and sectional effects of disunion, 
 yielding the first fnri)i<lden fruits of disobedience by par- 
 taking of this sectional a])ple of discord, resulting in a 
 sinful departing political death! Like legitimate, or ill- 
 
36 PRINCIPI.E, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 legitimate causes produce like saving or destroying effects 
 and yielding in the end corresponding peaceful or civil war 
 results. Come, then, saith the spirit for the second time, 
 and let us reason together, and reason, too, from cause to 
 eifect, tracing that effect to its legitimate results as only 
 honest men, inquiring for the truth, the whole truth, and 
 nothing but the truth, can reason. Then if sectional- 
 ism is the illegitimate, unnatural father or first cause of 
 slavery, disunion and civil war (which position we take for 
 grant-tied is true), shall we look to this unnatural cause 
 effectively, reasonably and resultively for peace, union and 
 national freedom ; or for like cause, like effect and like cor- 
 responding result to bring political slavery in reversing 
 unpromising and forcible exchange for domestic slavery, a 
 union held together by the sectional, reversing, un-promis- 
 ing, forcing extremes of military power over civil law; in 
 exchange for a national, constitutional union of sovereign 
 choice, by the un-slavish, uu-ringed, un-collared, free con- 
 sent of the people governed, bringing also as a final result 
 a like chronic civil war of cajjital, the servant over its 
 legitimate master and creator, and by and through these 
 sectional, reversing, un-promising, forcing extremes of this 
 promising, reversing, forcing party, forcibly exalting and 
 crowning capital the corrupt master, but humbling labor, its 
 bread of life, giving virtuous, but tributary slave, and all 
 these reversing extremes of reigning sectionalism in ex- 
 change for our former national political paradise of a model 
 state of peace, union and prosperity, which this world be- 
 fore had never seen, and which sectionalism can never give, 
 nor yet much longer take away! 
 
 But why sell out the only national union and consti- 
 tutional party in the land into sectionalism, especially 
 when sure victory was just ahead, had our ring-leaders, — 
 supposed innocent and shccpLsh bell-weathers, — and our 
 political gamblers, national gift scheme; or sectional policy 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 37 
 
 lottery politicians, only acted considerately in the start, see- 
 ing that sectionalistn was divided atrainst itself and must 
 fall, had commenced condemning itself, departing and eating 
 itself up as it must, should, and will naturally do, if left 
 alone, and when the great black serpent is preparing to skin 
 itself. Then instead of the great national union Democratic 
 party departing into sectionalism, and bowing down to these 
 foreign sectional heathen gods of mammon, slavery and war, 
 then was the time for this great national party to become 
 united, because iu union only is our strength, standing on 
 the justness of the principles, policies and practices of our 
 political fathers, exercising the judgment of reason, wisdom 
 and charity for all, with a free understanding of justice, 
 peace and truth, the mighty trinity of almighty power; yea, 
 of Divine Almighty power, and will prevail equally with 
 individuals, parties and nations that hold out faithful to the 
 end, and none others can claim the Divine promise; whilst 
 sectionalism is weakness, and cannot stand without calling 
 to its support the despotic military power. I predicted and 
 so proclaimed and recorded that prediction six months be- 
 fore the Cincinnati national sale and sectional slaughter and 
 pissive thrust at our liberties, that Horace Greeley would be 
 the candidate for the sectional, departing, old (sore and bald 
 head) fogy tories; that Grant would again be the military 
 presidential choice for Young America, and that the monop- 
 olizing, enslaving, high protective tare-ift would be the first 
 entering wedge in the sectional, political log-book, driven, 
 too, by the departing black Republican raised nigger-head 
 maul, splitting that party into trinitorial pieces, pro])heti- 
 cally represented by the Labor Reform party, tare-iff reform 
 (with the swimming, tar-iff reform stage plank left out of 
 the her-mor-phro-dite party), and likewise the civil service 
 reformers' party, with an executive and self-executed head 
 of the greatest General Granted civil service deformer 
 
38 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 (relatively speaking), of this age, and of the whole world 
 we live in. 
 
 But I made no calculations for this great national union 
 Democratic party to sell out to, join in with, and embrace 
 nigger, national debt, political slavery, and all of this most 
 worldly no-tory-us, national con-tammy-nating and finan- 
 cially and politically corrupt sectional party; but the sec- 
 tional die or die-nasty is cast; the human bloody war 
 Rubicon is passed, and the national union government of 
 our fathers is no more as it was, but might, should and shall 
 be again ! 
 
 The Cincinnati Enquirer Company, which has hitherto 
 carried faithfully, devotedly and pat-riot-ically the Demo- 
 cratic banner of the prince-i-pal of peace, has long since 
 thrown down the union gauntlet and sir-rendered to passive 
 sectionalism, or has met the enemy more than half way on 
 his own freesoil ground, and on pleading terms of mercy, 
 and jumping, like the enter-prise-ring monkey, at the higher- 
 law swinging limb at the distant Jco-key-nut, regardless of 
 the fall oi man, not caring if he can but succeed in grabbing 
 the forbidden fruit, whether the milk inside be sweet or 
 sour, or sickening to the Democratic stomach. Then this 
 Greeley suckling, milk-sickness, sour-krauting Democrat 
 must deny himself, his party, and national government, 
 and take up his sectional cross and follow, passively, 
 sectionalism and virtual dis-uiiion and civil war, denying 
 as they have done on inquiring paper issue that a tar-ift 
 for revenue only and alone (without Granted sectional pro- 
 slavery protection) is now, or ever has been, a Demo- 
 cratic measure, or can be in the future with this boasted 
 tariff reform party a living issue. Is this true? or is it 
 consistent for a departing Democrat (a candid-ate for bap- 
 tism in this fountain of political corruption, in renouncing 
 their articles of faith in the national Democratic creed), to 
 acknowledge that fact when joining a professed tariff reform 
 
DEMOCRACY V3. PA881VEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 39 
 
 party, but imadvisedly, unwittingly, and unprovidcntially 
 leaving the tarift-reforni jilank out ot their hypocritical, 
 double cloven-tooted tare-ii reform understanding? This 
 professed tariff reform is one oi the three chief heads of the 
 seven-headed and ten-horned land, labor and capital monop- 
 oly, are the three chief horns of the bloody and fiory-red 
 war dragon monster, sectionalism, whose manufactured 
 home, financial, hub center, and reigning military locality 
 is the seven free Northern, Maine, Massa-choos-its, down to 
 the Jersey blue salt-water drinking, stately heads, over a 
 ten-horned, military and political slavery-ruling Delaware, 
 and Merry-land down to Miss-sis-sip-pi, or her lower 
 Louisa-anna ten salt-water drinking, stately horns; or, in 
 other words, the seven financial-bonded, tariff-protected, 
 and military reigning heads, and ten land, labor and capital 
 hooking horns, over the great national Western body and 
 Southern sectional understanding of our former national, 
 now sectional ruling, black-slavery and bloody and fiery-red 
 hydra-headed war drag-on monster, sectionalism! Then if 
 tariff reform is of so much national importance (and it is 
 one of the national saving institutions), why be-head this 
 professed tariff reform party with the strongest representa- 
 tive, old fogy, protective tariff man in the nation? Here 
 we may see the point (though a fine sharp sewing-needle 
 point it may be), or point out a so-lu-shun of the Doao- 
 passo-sedional-crat riddle! It cannot be accounted for on 
 any other active, passive or neuter platform than that in 
 this extreme age, when domestic, moral and political ex- 
 tremes are meeting as they never met before; when this 
 Northern, cloven-footed, first cause of sectionalism, disunion 
 and civil war is reaching after, courting favor with and 
 offering to embrace its Southern il-le-git-i-mate, cloven- 
 footed, but antagonistic offspring, or the secondary effective 
 results of sectionalism, disunion and civil war meeting, ad- 
 vocating the cause, and offering to embrace its il-legitimato 
 
40 
 
 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 father or first destroying cause, (like causes produce like 
 results), aud that, too, without any mediatorial union savior 
 between these destroying extremes, without sacrificing the 
 only national. Democratic, union-saving, peace-making and 
 liberty-redeeming mediator, or only legitimate means and 
 national plan of political salvation. Also according to these 
 reversing extremes of sectionalism (so-called equality before 
 the law), when the strongest national union and strict con- 
 structive constitutional Democrats can meet more than half 
 way, embrace and bow down to the strongest, consolidated, 
 war-forcing opposition representative of the first old bully, 
 tory, hooking, Whig party ; second, the stinking-est, medi- 
 atorial, government-destroying, old bully, tory, and slavery- 
 hooking Abolitionists, and now the strongest, bully, tory, 
 slavery and protective tariff, hooking representative of the 
 sectional, passive. Democratic, departed trinity, baptized and 
 buried bodily in the sectional fountain of political corrup- 
 tion, or just departed out from what he and his political 
 free farniing-out satellites call a band of brotherly, sectional 
 thieves and general government robbers, granted that they 
 have thus been banded and bonded and thus departed; but 
 honest Democrats have an old-fashioned way of judging 
 men by the company they keep, or have kept, and at the 
 final hour of departure betrayed. Birds of a feather gener- 
 ally and naturally flock together (national union Democrats 
 have no bayonet pin-feathers), or more proverbially speak- 
 ing, the partaker of guilt. Sin, or passive iniquity is con- 
 sidered as guilty as the thief, or the first cause or original 
 transgressor ! They have since their departure out of this 
 band of sectional thieves and government robbers been guilty 
 of their same old tricks, in plying their old vocation, by 
 attem])ting to hook, steal or approjiriate to their own use the 
 national union and constitutional principles of Democratic free 
 trade, tariff — labor and civil service reform — amnesty, etc., 
 or a full national Democratic suit of Uncle Sam's brief 
 
DEMOCRACY V8. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 41 
 
 clothes, or of hooked higher hiw livery, to serve tlie devil 
 of sectionalism with, in this former earthly paradise, for 
 another term of four years of political, passive condemnation. 
 But it the may-jority of the people want this mixed state 
 of extreme uncerti\inties, or of sectional reversing extremes, 
 and these tri-bnnal policies of chronic war, political pesti- 
 lence and financial famine; if from the free consent of the 
 governed, let the majority rule. That is Democratic doctrine, 
 Eve-een Avhen smuggled in (by disobedience of the general 
 saving law), and choked to suffocation with the tares, wares 
 and cares of sectionalism. But why depart into sectionalism 
 now? We were all forced into that despotic trap, during the 
 war, under bay-o-net rule; but now we freely have, have 
 had, or should have now, our eyes open to see this sugar- 
 coated passive bait in the foxy, military trap; and if we go 
 in and get squeezed, sour lemon fashion, they only who go 
 in and get doubly squeezed will be responsible for the doubly 
 sour lemon-aid ! 
 
 Then how stands the dark account as painted on three 
 sides of the national canvas in our national pictures of the 
 political leper? for we have, or have had, and will have 
 again, a light, bright shining sun-light, heat, and life saving 
 side representing the Sun-day of human life; likewise the 
 black, or dark-moving, night shading side, representing the 
 dark valley shadow, and type of Adamic fallen death. Then 
 w'e should look at, view and re-view all our pictures, more 
 especially human phyo-ture-graphs representing life or 
 death, and hold them up as nature's mirror, labelled right 
 side up with care, "Glass, handle lightly, and keep drv!'' 
 But to-day we have a very dark side, and worse than that; 
 our fool-length picture on the national canvas is wi-ong side 
 up, or upside down ; or in other words, standing on its head, 
 and every promise made by sectionalism and passiveism is 
 equally promising. I say every such promise thus made has 
 been, is and will continue to be, reversed. Likewise every 
 
42 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 single principle, policy and practice of our positive, legiti- 
 mate, self-government creating political fathers, which they 
 held sacred as the only means of political salvation, has been 
 reversed, revolutionized and overturned. Then this govern- 
 ment to-day is typically, photographically and figuratively 
 (and a beautiful, bright, black, shining, figured, pictured and 
 reversed photograph it is, too), is virtually standing on its 
 head ; and it is my mission, and it should be tlie mission of 
 the whole national united Democratic party to put this for- 
 merly best government of earth on its feet again. But pas- 
 siveism is but a general back-sett into the halfway sitting 
 passive scut, or standing, as the butcher's block, on which to 
 sacrifice innocent, passive Democratic sheep, which are ready 
 to lick the hand just raised to shed their blood. Still this 
 bloody, self-sacrificing, butcher's block-head stands on its 
 passive but! Democracy means not passiveism, but action, 
 united action; yea, sublime, God-like action ! But this wise 
 Sir Demi-semi-quaver oracle of Cin-cin-natty, declares that 
 the Democratic party has no living priiici])les, policies or 
 legitimate issue. All its former rich inheritance of peace, 
 union and prosperity; all its political effects of domestic, 
 political and religious liberty, and all its grand national 
 union and constitutional results of their economical, scien- 
 tific, systematic, revenue tariff, called free trade, or a balance 
 of foreign trade insurance policy, an equalizing, life, liberty 
 and property protective system, and their proposed equali- 
 zing, distributing, greenback, gold and silver financial sys- 
 tem, all this crowning glory of personal, party and national 
 effects must be buried with departed war issues, or resur- 
 rected to reversing, living issues of Granted or Gree-lied 
 sectii)nal military jjower, of departing political corruption, 
 and national political death ! 
 
 " Great God, and shall we ever live at this poor, dying 
 rate?' Is this as-sertion of dead issues, or damned living 
 issues true? If so, then is principle, our former rule of 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVKISM AND SECTIONALISM. 43 
 
 action, dead! — dead, dead, or three times dead. Then also 
 is tlie Democratic part/ dead, for principle is its soul, for it 
 has an immortal soul to save, as well as a head of judijment 
 and an understanding of wisdom, and nothing is alive to- 
 day but active, granted and pa.ssive sectionalism ! 
 
 " But come, let us reason together," saith the spirit for the 
 third time ! Do principles, positives, and their negatives of 
 right or wrong, good or bad, love and hatred, ever die? 
 Can principles as old as creation, and as pure as the Divine 
 Creator, be cast aside with sectional or passive party rubbish 
 and be called departed, dead and buried issues? As well 
 might we say the general Divine law is a dead issue, and the 
 Divine plan of spiritual salvation is a dead issue, and was 
 buried with our Saviour, and that his third-day resurrection 
 to the truth and the light of a higher life, which may provi- 
 dentially be the mission of the Democratic party if not a 
 dead issue! Granted that rebellion, revolution and civil 
 war legislates, but can they change principle? I answer, 
 No! — no, indeed — a thousand times, no! If the Democratic 
 principles, policies and practices were right before the war 
 (slavery, for which they were not the cause, always excepted), 
 then are they right to-day. I did not know before this 
 granted age of extremes that even Democrats in good stand- 
 ing (not Adamic fallen understanding), had become con- 
 verted to the virtuous military necessity of a General Granted 
 sectional war power, believing that a government of force 
 can reach back to the dawn of creation and freely nullify 
 by magic military force a general law of God, man or devil ! 
 Not-with-stand-ing all this departure of my brethren of the 
 Democratic faith, I shall still have the opinion of what is 
 supposed to be a fossilized old fogy, alone in the world, jicr- 
 haps, in my present opinion, but destined to future company 
 in believing that principles never die, never cliange, and 
 never depart, to become passively buried in jK)litieal corruj)- 
 tion, as dead issues. Men may, and do die, and depart and 
 
44 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 become buried, with their moral, spiritual or politically dead 
 issues; but the national union and constitutional Democratic 
 party can never die, because it is founded on principle ; 
 whilst other parties may and do die and depart from their 
 principles of right (if they ever had any), or change their 
 name, and like men may be buried with their dead issues, 
 in sectional or passive political corruption. But the na- 
 tional union Democratic party has an immortal soul as 
 well as a body, and a name that can never die. Then why 
 this out-generaled, out-landish and out-spoken talk about 
 dead issues all at once, if not as a pre-fix to a dead-head, 
 passive, still-born party ? Is free trade or a tariff for reve- 
 nue a positive Democratic dead issue? (for this is a legiti- 
 mate, positive government-creating party), or is the present 
 pro-slavery, pro-tective tariif the only Granted and Greeley 
 living issue? Is it a positive fact that the validity of con- 
 tracts is a dead issue? or will these wise passive, sectional 
 philosophers answer the question I have pro-pounded and 
 answered in book form, viz. : Who are the practical repu- 
 diators of individual, corporate and national contracts in 
 this political slavery-bonded State and Nation ? 
 
 Is a national debt, as a national blessing, a live issue with 
 liberal Republicans, and passive, departed Democratic Re- 
 publicans ? If so, or not, who is the Grant-or of that bless- 
 ing? Surely not the Democratic party, for they protested 
 against the Grant-or of that blessing — the illegitimate crea- 
 tor of that debt — as well as against the sectional repudiators 
 of their own national contracts in their sectional extremes 
 before the people ! or granted relative equality before law. 
 Is the proscriptive right of holding the purse, the sioord, 
 and the liberties of the nation in the same military, sectional 
 or passive hand a living Democratic watch-Avord, or a dead 
 issue in the Democratic camp? or are they hypocritically 
 reaching for the living issue through passive sectionalism ? 
 Is the national consolidatiou and exaltation into sovereign 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVKISM AND SKCIIONAI.IsM, 45 
 
 supremacy, the military power above the civil law, a dead 
 issue? If not, who is responsible for the living issue? 
 Surely, certainly not the national union Democratic party. 
 Why, then, should our union savior yield up the holy ghost. 
 of a chance of resurrection (at the third eventful day of 
 near coming political judgment), into the immortality of 
 truth, justice, judgment and eternal life, and depart into the 
 accursed held tire and brimstone of these war-forcing ex- 
 tremes of sectionalism and passiveism, which is the cause 
 of all these antagonistic living issues? Why attempt to 
 act the Grant-tied, bur-lesque sectional play of Ham-i.et- 
 LOOSE in our great national black Comedy of Errors, with 
 the Ham-let-^o/,y- Ghost of the true white prince of Den- 
 mark left out of the play? 
 
 Is land, labor and capital monopoly a dead issue, buried 
 with the protesting, but departed Democratic body, in their 
 en-graved winding sheet of principle-dead issues? If so, 
 why attempt to be-head, force or exalt the living sectional 
 head, or the first passive cause, on a dead body? So I might 
 enumerate in-definitely the positive Democratic principles, 
 policies and living issues, now condemned to death and pas- 
 sive judgment by these sectional, departed, grave-yard 
 brethren, into the Granted, negative, sectional extreme re- 
 versing live issues, with too much life, supported by the 
 military power, which promises all things to all men, but 
 performs nothing for the general good; but turning this 
 Aaron-Granted, chastening rod of ruling, but plagneing, 
 protected iron into the blasted fiery serpent, virtually eating 
 up, and spiritually drinking up the subsistence of the peo- 
 ple. Even so do they, these departing sorcerers and passive 
 May-jicians succeed with their enchantments! Sectionalism 
 has forced its unconstitutional measures on their own en- 
 slaved people, through the professed higher law, military 
 power, without the sovereign, free consent of the governed. 
 Even so will these departing sorcerers and passive, monthly 
 
46 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 May-jicians succeed with their enchantments, plague-ing the 
 people, destroying the government, and spoiling the people 
 for another four years Presidential season. 
 
 I believe the day or true hour has come when we should 
 call men, things and parties by their domestic, churchly, or 
 stately right names, and handle without gloves, as public 
 property, responsible law-givers, preachers, or professional 
 teachers of the people, especially those who violate their 
 sacred trust, pledged for the general good, of a free, sover- 
 eign people; and more especially is this the mission of the 
 great national union and constitutional Democratic party, to 
 establish truth, stand by principle, and in-augurate this 
 forth-coming (fourth of March coming, it should be), great 
 general millenium peace reformation, which must commence 
 with the family, the first primary or common school of self- 
 government, where every aian becomes a primary school 
 law-maker, preacher and teacher. 2d. The church is the 
 mediatorial son, soul-saving centrifugal center of our human 
 law solar system, if not self-luminous, yet having the light 
 of the Divine celestial countenance, with the terrestrial 
 family and stately primary planets and their satellites, and 
 cometary system revolving around this common center, 
 whilst the State is the third in the trinity in all primary 
 government founded on the rock of ages, where the second- 
 ary domestic, moral and civil branches are the political 
 frame-work of the temple of liberty, and where domestic, 
 political and religious liberty is the presiding goddess in 
 that national union temple of freedom ! 
 
 I have no entangling alliances with church, State or secret 
 societies, and I anticipate many inquiring friends Avill hon- 
 estly ask what uncommon interest have I in the general 
 government, or in the bargain and sale of parties, churches 
 and secret societies, when I have no particular orthodox 
 creed to worship, no social or political secret society to de- 
 fend, and no political ax to grind, except the sharp, pen- 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 4< 
 
 handled, wood -man':? ax, wliicli shall be laid at the root, 
 and every tree of life, liUtTty or knowleilge which bringeth 
 forth not good fruit, or iiou<;ht but the .sectional apple of 
 discord, the A-daniic for-bidden fruit, shall be hewn down 
 and cast into the revolutionary spiritual camp fires of the 
 millennial peace dispensation, thus preparing the way, 
 making the crooked paths straight, and at the same time 
 putting our domestic, churchly and stately house in order 
 for the more than general granted coming millennial day of 
 peace on earth and good will to men, the Sabbath day, or 
 the seventh day of rest from our six days of labor, or the 
 tired eventful resurrection day, or second advent day, and a 
 complete trinitorial baptism in the name of the Father, Son 
 and the Holy Ghost, or with fire sent down from heaven, 
 the spiritual refiner's fire, which separates the dross from 
 the pure gold. 
 
 But I am moralizing too much for a political work, led 
 away to write as the spirit moves me ; but if I write with 
 the .spirit and the understanding also, it will all be right 
 and well with me and this book in the end ! Then I shall 
 answer honestly in the same spirit in which the question will 
 be asked, "that I have not only an individual interest, but 
 also a national and worldly interest in all the domestic, 
 moral and civil governments of mankind. I consider good 
 political government as the one thing needful, without which 
 there can be no enjoyment of domestic, religious or political 
 liberty; no equalizing protection of life, liberty and prop- 
 erty, and no a.ssurance of freedom of speech, of the press, or 
 of conscience. Yet if my great book, (which has been 
 shelved for a year or more for the want of financial back- 
 ing, vertebra or stamina to put it on its feet), and which is 
 entitled "A Revelation of the Trinitorial Equations of Na- 
 ture, Creating, Xjroverning and Rogidating all Motion, Mind 
 and Matter," I repeat again, if this book is to become the 
 first 2>i'iiuary campaign reformer, law-giver and peace-maker 
 
48 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE; OR, 
 
 of the nations, and this reformed, re-united and re-estab- 
 lished national government is to become the model State's 
 right, national right and free patent right republic for an 
 exemplary, national republican. United States of Europe, 
 next an United States of Asia, and finally a you-knight- 
 tied States of Africa, and her cloven-footed isles of the 
 ocean; and ii my book, which advocates the cause of our 
 national, constitutional, union savior, as the only moral plan 
 of political salvation is to be condemned like our moral 
 Savior, who was the human embodiment of the Divine plan 
 of spiritual salvation, who came to his own and his own re- 
 ceived him not, yet the time is coming, and even now draws 
 nigh, when this book and its greater successor will be re- 
 ceived not only by its own party, but by this nation, and by 
 the whole world! And whether this sectional bargain and 
 passive sale of the only national, constitutional and union 
 party into the forcible, departed, treason, stratagem and 
 spoils of sectionalism or not ; yet they cannot destroy our 
 good name, organization, or legislative body, the (soul) (sole) 
 now sold, plan of political salvation ; and although every 
 other man depart into this political treason, or depart spirit- 
 ually from this straight and narrow path of our Democratic 
 fathers, or depart virtually from this domestic and moral 
 plan of political salvation, yet will not I ; for it is not only 
 my mission and privilege, but also a duty I owe to the world 
 to stand up for the rights of all men from the wrongful op- 
 pressions of their fellow-men ; to aid and advocate truth, 
 the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, in dispelling 
 error, to stand by the principles, policies and practices of our 
 fathers as the only safe and sure road leading to our former 
 haven of national peace, union and prosiierity, instead of 
 sacrificing principle for sectional, war-departed expediency ; 
 but I must do this through the pen of peace, which is more 
 mighty than the sword of war. 
 
 I am not an orator, a public speaker, or even a good ora- 
 
DKMOfUACV VS. PAS;>IVKISM AND slU TION AI.I> M. 
 
 40 
 
 tor, because of the remaining core of tlie A-daniic apple of 
 discord, which when excited rises up and chokes me down, 
 reminding me of the general fall of man ; also, lacking the 
 firm, brassy cheek, and being troubled with absent-minded- 
 ness in forgetting little, but important names, words and 
 sentences in reaching for great ideas, and trinitorial theories 
 in tlie scientific joint work in building my universal temple 
 of liberty, but Samson-like pulling down that magnificent 
 temple and burying alike names, words, theories and myself 
 also in the general ruins. 
 
 I have written six letters to a Cincinnati editor, and also 
 two more to a New York editor, protesting against this gene- 
 ral sacrifice of national union princii)les for sectional, ex- 
 treme departing expediency, and departing into land, labor 
 and capital, or railroad my-nopoly, resulting effectively (as 
 like cause produces like effect) in political slavery. But 
 all these earnest communications and solemn protests have 
 been treated with silent contempt. I have also written four 
 letters to a Cineinnatus-like legal gentlenu\n, notifying him 
 as the chosen hero of my crowning work, as the next gene- 
 ral peace candidate for Presidential honors, or the next suc- 
 cessive heir apparent to the relative granted throne ; and 
 also one letter to another Cincinnatus branch limb of law,, 
 two weeks before the May-just-stick, Pork-op-pole-is mass 
 meat-ing of the Sin-sin-naty Con-vent-shun-all slaughter- 
 house, protesting against this sectional bargain and passive 
 sale of the Cincinnati and Baltimore political packing, pre- 
 paratory for the fall pork-packing, fall delivery season ; but 
 the answers to these communications have been neither yea, 
 yea, or nay, neigh, but like all the others treated with silent 
 contempt. Then, under these deep-pressing circumstances, 
 what should a poor mortal do, who is disinterestedly trying 
 to write up the world, but condemned without a hearing be- 
 fore his own political judges in this near coming day of 
 political judgment, when a whole nation will be weighed iu 
 
50 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICR ; Oil, 
 
 the worldly, sectional scales, and may be found wanting in 
 justice, judgment, and a charitable understanding of these 
 general laws, which are the only legitimate means, or only 
 wise, domestic, moral and political plan of national salva- 
 tion? 
 
 Hence the hasty necessity for this pro-scribed or pre pro- 
 tested but protesting book, commenced June 3d, 1872, and 
 notwithstanding the loss of time writing letters, tending my 
 one cent notion trade, and three days of distracted sick head 
 ache, yet it will be ready for the press gang under these 
 pressing circumstances, if not condemned by a free or paid 
 press, by the 20th of this same month, same year, and same 
 age of political extremes. But I anticipate I will be taunt- 
 ingly called a spiritual writing medium, as I profess to write 
 as the spirit moves me, or with the spirit and understanding 
 also; or like the second modern political Daniel, tri-umph- 
 ant-ly called the Ind-i-aua Tall Syc-him-more of the Wa- 
 bash. I may providentially be likewise jestingly called the 
 third Daniel come to domestic, moral and political judgment, 
 or a second Daniel typically cast into this worldly den of 
 human lions, political, grave-digging hyenas, or ravenous 
 ■wolves dressed in black sheep's clothing, howling and growl- 
 ing, and not satisfied with their heavy pound of sectional 
 flesh, but determined to have the whole corrupt national 
 carcass ; or like roaring lions going about seeking Avhat 
 innocent, passive Democratic lamb they may devour, howl- 
 ing. Peace, peace, let us have peace, when there is no peace, 
 neither indeed can there be whilst sectionalism rules ; yet I 
 care for none of these. Let the dogs of war bark their 
 domestic, stately and church-canonized held-fire and brim- 
 stone con-dem-nation. Let the political lions growl and the 
 black-sheepish wolves howl and destroy, yet are the present 
 signs pro-pitious of a near-coming extreme (in this age of 
 extremes) domestic and political millennium, when the wild, 
 unwashed, southern African lie-on and northern do-mess- 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEI8M ANP SECTIONALISM. 51 
 
 stick passive lamb can lie down together, and a little child 
 ot niias-lbrtune and mist-err-cxtreme adversity shall lead 
 them. After the death and burial of dead issues, saith 
 departing Democracy, (without fear of embracing Granted 
 living issues,) then comes the political judgment. There is 
 no hell on earth like the guilty man's conscience, burned 
 and seared by the held-fires of his own wrath kindled 
 against the just bar ot judgment ; and there is no devil on 
 earth to stir up that held kindled, searing fire like the 
 demoniac spirit of jealousy, envy and hypocrisy, the beset- 
 ting sins of man, the forbidden fruit of this sectional apple 
 of discord, forcibly plucked in disobedience to the general 
 divine law, from the first A-damic deep-parture, causing the 
 downfall of men, of parties and of nations to the present 
 day. Thus, like legitimate or illegitimate causes produce 
 like corresponding saving or departing effects, and also like 
 redeeming or destroying final results. Then let this nation, 
 these parties, and this jieople beware; the day of political 
 judgment is at hand, when every man should be judged, not 
 by their empty, gassy, sap-si)ringing words, or beautiful but 
 deceptive buds of promise, bursting into egotistical flowers 
 of eloquence and ri[)ening into the forbidden fruits of this 
 sectional apple of discord, but judged by their works, their 
 actions, or the deeds done in the body, the body physical, 
 corporate and politic; for by their fruits only can we know 
 them. What we sow we shall also reap. If we sow to the 
 gassy windpipe, we must surely reap the whirlwind; if we 
 sow to corruptible flesh, we must reap relative Granted cor- 
 ru])tion ; if we sow to the spirit of our political fathers, avc 
 shall reap of that spirit a national garner of peace, union 
 and pros])erity which sectionalism can never give, and the 
 crowned world can never take away, but add to, copy from 
 and glory in throughout all future ages. Then the estab- 
 lishment of truth, priuci})lc and justice is my mission and 
 present calling and election sure. I had much rather be 
 
52 rniNcipi.E, PuLicv and practice; or, 
 
 right on this broad, uuivcrsal platform of divine, worldly, 
 national and domestic peace : moral, fatherly, brotherly and 
 spiritual love, and spiritual, domestic, moral and political 
 virtue, than be the titled, military, crowned, Granted Pres- 
 ident of to-day ! I am humbly and diligently, but care- 
 fully, searching for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing 
 but the truth, and finding it all along tliis prophetic, straight 
 and narrow path of science, civilization and Christianity. 
 Let God be true, although every man might become a liar. 
 " Let the truth be told though the heavens may fall, and 
 earth be shrouded with death''s funeral pall." Per-haps 
 mourning over dead issues as the departing or passive poli- 
 tician would decide. But they are determined to use this 
 passive Democratic monkey as the sectional cat's-paw to 
 pull out the Greeley roasted Chappe-qua chest-nut out of 
 the Granted held-fire of living, sectional, political issues — 
 of civil war; all else are prejudged dead issues; principles 
 are dead ; peace has departed, and even the sectional club 
 to beat Grant (and " anything to beat Grant," is the cry,) is 
 a dead-head issue over a living national body of Democracy 
 with an equivocal, cloven-footed understanding of a tare-iff 
 reform, or tare-iflf' not reform, double -planked platform. 
 But how stand the problematic figures on the national polit- 
 ical black-bored2 The black figures have Granted not to 
 go for Greeley to a man ! One million of white Democrats 
 in the country — men who stand on principle, and stand also 
 on their own ground as bread raisers, laborers, or men who 
 work out their own salvation with fear, labor and tremb- 
 ling, and are the most interested in a good government, and 
 know the importance of it and how to keep it when they 
 can once get it back pure as it once was, and they want it 
 no other way. These men will vote to stay at home, like 
 myself, and let the election go by default, or to de-darkey 
 rather than be partakers in this greatest national crime of 
 bargain and sale of principles, or in other words, where 
 
DEMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SECTIONALISM. 5" 
 
 Greeley Avill draw off one Republican, "walking in tlie bro;i<I 
 Granted downward road to death, he will repel three honest 
 Democrats, who are walking in this straight and narrow 
 path laid out as a lamp to our path and a guide to our 
 understanding by our fathers; whilst in the villages, towns 
 and cities where the Democrats like the Republicans arc 
 governed by corrupt rings, or a wheel within a wheel, with 
 a centrifugal, general con- tammy -nating hub, and with 
 numerous radiating tangent spoulcs, and a ceu-trip-i-tell 
 corrupt, muddy, out-tire-ing fellow, who are always ready 
 for a bargain and sale to the highest bidder, even to the 
 sacrifice of principle for the sake of embracing the strata- 
 gem, treason and spoils of Auntie Granted expediency. 
 These are the men who are running this passive, sectional 
 mash-in, who are reporting everything hanging high tor 
 Greeley, and who will pack our Bald-tim-more Convention; 
 for Brown the Blue, and Greeley too, whether false or true, 
 will be the watchword. But for all this, I say notwith- 
 standing these choking tares and ehoking-er tare-iff's, let our 
 customary national two-thirds majority rule, not the ac- 
 curse-tora-ary one-third sectional minority, as now. Any 
 other sectional man is just as distasteful as Greeley. I say 
 let the decision at Baltimore be final, lot that decision be 
 what it may. We want no bolting, no Lincoln or Brecken- 
 ridge secession, disunion and civil war. AVar spirit is dead 
 and buried with departed principle, and destroyed by it. 
 Hero worship is also dead, and the heathen trinity, the god 
 of mammon, slavery and war is departing from this land as 
 the chief ruler forever I 
 
 My first choice, if the Democracy think it right for the 
 Democracy to nominate a straight-out ticket, (left with the 
 multitude for council,) would be G. H. Pendleton, our most 
 honest, true and pure young rising statesman of the age ; 
 taken from the pure heart of the nation too, and placed on 
 the same platform where he should have been placed four 
 
54 PRINCIPLE, POLICY AND PRACTICE ; OR, 
 
 years ago, and if he had been so placed, he would liavo 
 been elected, and through the wisdom expressed in that 
 financial platform we might have succeeded in paying off at 
 least one-third of the national debt, and consequently twelve 
 years nearer to the resumption of specie payments on the 
 only sound basis (by cleaning out the corrupt financial debt) 
 than we are to-day. But we read of a class in the Book of 
 books who have eyes but they see not, ears have they but 
 they hear not, and hearts but they understand not. There 
 are none so blind as those who will not see the wise plan of 
 our national salvation ; none so deaf as those who will not 
 hear to patient truth, principle and justice as our only 
 means of political salvation ; and there are none, or should 
 be none, so selfish as not to work for their own good and 
 for the good of others when they have the means, instead 
 oi trying to prevent others working for the general good 
 of all mankind. I say G. H. P. should have been nomi- 
 nated at N. Y., for the platform was made for the man, and 
 the man was made for the times which are trying men's 
 souls as well as their political bodies ; but instead of that 
 we put on a bonded head from the eastern corrupt financial 
 hub of the nation over a national union living body, with 
 an equivocal, hypocritical, cloven -footed understanding. 
 He was betrayed by this eastern head and by the western 
 Hendricks understanding, but with the express understand- 
 ing that his would be the turn next time, and the party 
 have stultified themselves by ignoring that promise. 
 
 My second compromise choice would be Mr. Groesbeck, 
 of Cincinnati, or third, Thurman, also of Ohio; all three 
 from the pure heart of the body of this nation. We want 
 no candidate from the corrupt financial hub, or protective 
 manufactured hub, or military war hub. They are all given 
 over to their heathen idols, worshiping the god of mammon, 
 of slavery, and of war. As to Hendricks, he has departed 
 for Governor of Indiana; he is joined to his Greeley idol; 
 
DKMOCRACY VS. PASSIVEISM AND SKCTIONALISM. 55 
 
 let him alone. I anticipate and will answer once for all he 
 who says that by the above I am advocating the election of 
 Grant, Greeley, or any other sectional man — he is a liar, 
 and the truth is not in liini. When sectionalism went in at 
 one end, truth went out at the other ; that when })assiveism 
 went into his mouth to steal away his brains, truth, justice 
 and principle departed out of his cloven-footed understand- 
 ing. He has himself forced an offensive dead-head on a 
 living Democratic body, standing on a cloven-footed tare-iff 
 and tare-iff no you don't understanding. But as to plat- 
 forms, I will make mine brief, for I have overrun my space. 
 It is G. H. P. on a one million greenback plank — of a rev- 
 enue tariff, free trade, or balance of foreign trade insurance 
 policy, and an equalizing life, liberty and property protect- 
 ive system, and an equalizing distributive greenback, gold 
 and silver financial system. This the brief outline. Espt^c- 
 ially all important is this financial plank, which is the key 
 that winds up, equalizes as a saving financial mediator, or 
 winds down this government. Neither party platform has 
 made any provision for this most important life, health and 
 wealth blood regulator of national life. Who ever heard 
 before of two great national contracting parties making no 
 financial provision to meet that contract? AVe want to 
 withdraw paper issue from national banks, make them 
 banks of discount and deposit, and also the great depositing 
 demand and supply regulators of the greenback currency 
 of the nation. Pay off the national debt, then come down 
 to a specie basis, which a forcing government has failed to 
 force into life. 
 
 If we sow tares in the flowery month ol May, may we 
 not expect to reap a double crop of tares in July, and a 
 trinitorial crop of high tare-iffs in November? 
 
 If we sow May-apple seed in the spring, may we not 
 expect to reap a premature harvest of may-be-apples of (he 
 Bald-(win)-tim-more sorehead apples in July, and an abun- 
 
56 
 
 rniNrrr(,E, ror.icv and ruACTrcR. 
 
 dant crop of the Ml apple of sectional, passive aud depart- 
 ive^ discord in November, yielding the A-daiuic forbidden 
 fruits of the downfall of incn, of parties, of national honor? 
 
 But if we sow the pure grains of principle, truth aud 
 justice, and cultivate the July Baltimore soil with the old- 
 fashioned flirming implements of reason, judgment and 
 understanding, tlien may not Uncle Sam's flirm as of yore 
 yield an abundant crop of peace, union and prosperity, as 
 in times of yore before sectionalism, disunion and civil war 
 destroyed the farmers' and planters' government, and cut 
 out the equalizing, contented and prosperous or hapjjy heart 
 of this nation ? 
 
 Answer the above questions according to the dictates of 
 reason and wisdom, and a ticket-of-leave reading a title 
 clear to the glory or dishonor of rising generations. 
 
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