| Show THE LOVE FOR LINCOLN I There was a Democratic convention In Sacramento the other day There were almost tears shed over the gicat Lincoln and the degeneracy of the Republican Re-publican party since Lincoln passed away The Record Union calls the attention at-tention of Cthe Democrats to that other famous Stale convention held In Sacramento Sac-ramento In 1861 in which eloquent and Impassioned Edmund Randolph with all the fiery energy of his moglc tongue after hurling his bitterest anathemas closed amid tremendous applause with the words Far to tho cant in the homes from which wo e < im < tyramy mid usurpation with arms III its hundb Is tbli night per 1 imps slaughtering our fathers our brothers broth-ers and our sisters and outraging out homes In every convclvibh way shock ing to tho hcnrt and humanity miami lrco dom To me It seems a waste of Urn lo talk For Gods sake tell mo of battles fought utMl won Tell me of the ninrporti overthrown that Missouri iu again a frno State no longer crushed under the I armed heel of a reckless and odious despot Tell mo that the State of Maryland lives again and oh1 let us rend let us hear at time iirst moment that not ono hostile toot now treida the aoll of Virginia applause and cheers If I this be rebnlllmi then t I am a rebel Do you want a traitor then am I a traitor For Gods sake aiucd Iho ball may the lead go quick to hits heart and may our country bo free from this despot usurper that now claims the name of President of tho United Stales Cheers Old Tod Robinson presided und one of the icsolutlons passed at that convention con-vention was Resolved That the Prcoidont of tho United States Lincoln ban bean guilty ot tho violation of tho Constitution t nd usurpation of Dower In borrowing and appropriating money raining armies and Increasing thin navy without authority of Congreaa and that such ucle are dangerous danger-ous to liberty and tend to 1 oonvTt the Government Into a military ieapotlsm I In that same concntlon was a fiery Democrat named KItlrcll who was af terward known as Old Kit He wanted to add to the resolution And that his Lincolns action In the premises prem-ises deserves that he should be impeached Im-peached before the next Congress And Mr Johnson of San Francisco who killed Ipsldoodle Ferguson In a duel exclaimed Kltlrell Is right for Lincoln Lin-coln deserves to be impeached In hell 1 and heaven as well as on earth And I the convention went wild with applause 1 over that heaven and hell denouncement I denounce-ment When old Tod Robinson opened j f c the convention he delivered a flamIng I speech against this name Lincoln while the convention howled Itself hoarse I wllh applause Give the old fellows justice however They were sincere In their hate of Mr Lincoln Tho Democrats Demo-crats In these modern days who most I affect to like him arc not |
