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Show BOSH! We hTe heard so much, unadulterated unadultera-ted bosh within the past few days incoming "liberty" and "freemen," and other sacred words that can be easily bandied about by flippant talkers, talk-ers, that the thing has become nause-atia. nause-atia. Who are these individuals who prate of freedom to free incu and women, and of liberty to those who know iis value a thousand times better than they to whom it is merely a phrase for lip-sertice? A few disappointed disap-pointed aspirants with more ambition than ability; a few political hacks having an inordinate and self-inflated opinion of themselves; and a very few tools who cannot distinguish the sound of brassy counterfeits from the ring of genuine gold. The liberty they clamor or is lieeu-e; the freedom they seek after is the privilege of trampling on the rights of their fellow citizens; the t-iviliatioQ they boas; of has lewdness, debauchery, depravity and vice in every form for its concomitants, and' they would thrust it upon those who will not have it, showing, when their efforts :re rejected, how little they know of I ting freemen by the slavery to their wa passions which they manifest That a few political hacks, aided by a uumber of loafers and broken-down speculator.! should propose to rale a free people or ruin if they cannot rule, is the viry apex of preposterous impudence, impu-dence, particularly when it is remembered remem-bered ihat the desire to "rule or mi" is so paramount that it shows its disin-teRnting disin-teRnting influence at every movement 'Che writer of this article is neither directed nor dictated by any man nor ret of won. and he only states an honest hon-est opinion frankly and fearlessly when he snys that this boshy twaddle about "('('.men'' and ''liberty'' is viewed by the people n whom it is ostensibly directed, di-rected, with the sovereign contempt which, icen and women who comprehend compre-hend freedom and love liberty ever tft.nv upon all such political trash. |