run either end forward, and thus make it unnecessary to use a turn-table. After hearing him every preacher and temperance zealot believed in him and voted for him. So did every saloon keeper. The Protectionists did not want anything in theirs but Right, nor the Free Traders either, and when Weazelskin explained his understanding of it, he made it so clear that all voted for him. The farmers could not resist his touching appeal to them to stand by one who was for Right, nor the Monopolist either, hence both voted for Weazelskin. But in this, our Salutatory, we cannot enlarge as we would like to do on this subject, nor illustrate by further examples. We have said enough to outline clearly the scope of our political belief. We have told enough of Weazelskin's successful practice under it to prove its wonderful capabilities. We are proud to be known as the organ of such a chief. The platform on which this journal stands is certain sooner or later to be the foundation of all legislation, and we believe that Weazelskin, lifted as he no doubt will be to political immortality by our pen, will not forget in the hour of his prosperity the ladder upon which he mounted to fame. AN OLD FALSEHOOD REVIVED.* L EONARD WOOLSEY BACON, D. D., a son, as it is proclaimed, of Leonard Bacon, D. D., in a recent number of the Century, with more filial zeal than sensible regard for the truth of history, goes out of his way to sneer at the early leaders in the anti-slavery movement, and more particularly at William Lloyd Garrison. He thus speaks: "It is really a matter of interest to public morals that the ingenuous youth of America should know the truth of this matter-that Mr. Garrison and his society never succeeded in anything; that his one distinctive dogma, that slaveholding is always and everywhere a sin, was never accepted to any considerable extent outside of this little ring of his personal adherents; that the sophistry with which he spent a lifetime in trying to confuse plain distinctions had little effect except to give acrimony and plausibility to the defense of slavery, and that the final extinction of slavery was accomplished in pursuance of principles which he abhorred, by measures which he denounced, and, under the leadership of men like Leonard Bacon in literature and the Church, and Abraham Lincoln in politics, who had been the objects of his incessant and calumnious vituperation." This and much more of a similar sort, "The Truth About the Abolitionists." Bacon, D. D., in Century Magazine. Article by Leonard Woolsey this son of Leonard Bacon, D. D., sees fit to hurl at the reputation of the famous Abolitionist, through the columns of the Century; and that magazine picks up the choice libel from so eminent a source and redistributes it to its circle of readers. It would, indeed, be well if the "ingenuous youth of America," who have come upon the stage of action long since the great anti-slavery war was finished, should know the truth of this matter, and certainly they could not and will not obtain such truth by reading this panegyric by one of the Bacon family, written for the Century by one of its own distinguished members. It would seem quite becoming, with most of the actors in that terrible drama in their graves, that the distinguished son of even so distinguished a participant therein as Leonard Bacon, D. D., could have found sufficient to have written in praise of his distinguished father's part in said drama, without attempting to blacken the fame or belittle the efforts of other great leaders in the anti-slavery crusade, of whom and among whom, William Lloyd Garrison was so conspicuous a figure. It is a long tale and a strange one, at this day hardly to be comprehended, and it is bad for Leonard Woolsey Bacon, author of the panegyric aforesaid, that the true history of those troublous times proves him a calumniator and villifier, and his flippant assertion copied above from his article is unquestionably a misrepresentation and a lie. Let the ingenuous youth of America" turn to the pages of true history, and, reading Garrison's long struggle not only with |