Judge — December 21, 1889 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY. SAALHERGER (who Aas just entered the box) mistakened. der glothier?” I don'd think I vos Isn‘d this Mees Markstein, der daughder ohf mein old frent self-pronounced deities, turn with loyalty and fervor to the later and better national salvation. It is a waste of narration to rehearse the life and acts of Jefferson Davis. Every one knows them, from his appointment by Monroe toa cadetship at West Point, his valiant participation in the war with Mexico, his leadership in a caucus of southern senators in the capitol in January, 1861, his organization of a revolution to overturn by conspir- acy the government whose very dome was sheltering him, the bitterness and relentlessness of Andersonville, down to the last act of the “lame and impotent conclusion.” It is difficult thus early to be historically impartial, or to overlook the cica- trices, even when wounds are healed. Death, even, is not always an end, but will for a while sometimes push the malice of its de- cay into the surrounding air, It was the doctrine of John C. Calhoun that blossomed in the rebel- lion, and Davis was its prophet—a doctrine not of state sovereignty, but state supremacy. The fallacy of inde- pendent political divi ions has proven a se- ries of historic failures. France, in early years, with several and contend- ing rulers, was not a na- tion until united. The English wars of the roses made the island a by- word of weakness. The inevitable political forces of this age are against separation. German recently a group of princi palities, is now strong and respected as an empire. The success of the doc- trine of state supremacy would have been with us an explosion of the union into weak, contemptible, antagonizing and unce- so ‘THe nostess es, of those young men will make a rush for me every Mr. Newt objects to round dances, and I’m afrai THE LADY ADDRESSED "it’s not! It's Miss G J th’ daughther av th’ conthractor, an’ yez can lave th’ box ‘r Oi'll t'row yez out mentable parts, It was a providence that the patient Lincoln wa long enough to see and show that the “war was not a failur the union could be and was preserved spared and that ary OUR THIEVES IN CANADA, PERHAPS THE Le by members of congress of a large sum of money through the dishonesty of Cashier Silcott will bring about re- newed propositions for the annexation of Canada, ‘Thousands of persons have lost large sums because of that border- line, and little has been thought about it; but the robbery of the house of representatives and the shelter of the thief in Canada are very different matters: It is an abomi- nation that responsibility for crime doesn't go into Canada along with the criminal. Which is the surest and quickest way to remedy that great and growing fraud on justice and common-sense? T IS ONE of the privi- leges of the president of the United States to serve as a target for the oaths of every grumbling editor who has had a bad breakfast and is afraid to swear at his wife, sie { EDITOR who said Mrs. Mackay had been a washerwoman said it maliciously and im- pudently, and therefore was guilty of libel; but of itself the statement was not libel and Mrs. Mackay was very foolish to call it by that name. one minute.’ comicbooks.com