Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 01, April 24, 1858
General
Stephen H. Branch's Alligator, Vol. 1 no. 01, April 24, 1858
New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government
Although I have traveled all over the globe, and have no desire to rove
again, yet I am constrained to forever leave my beloved country. You
may not mourn over my departure, but I leave you with painful emotions
and apprehensions. I would linger, and toil, and die among you, but
your fanaticism drives me to foreign skies. The noble deeds of my
father and his sires are inscribed on the civil and military archives
of Rhode Island, whose virtues I would imitate and consecrate to the
glory of my whole country; but your reckless tendency towards disunion,
with all its horrors, forces me to abjure my native land, and the
hallowed tomb erected by my lamented father for the eternal repose of
his immediate posterity. Go on, then, ye fanatics and devils of all
sections, to your hearts’ content, in your apostacy to the living and
departed patriots of your distracted and divided country. Stop not
until your wives and children run wild through streets and fields of
blood, and this whole land is a pile of bleeding and burning ruins. Go
on ye incarnate fiends in your bloody enterprise, until the mounds of
your fathers are divested of their fragrant verdure, and are trampled
by foreign marauders, who wildly gloat over your impending suicide.
An irresistible horde of demagogues and vampires, and fanatics and
lunatics, are at the throats of the American patriots, and threaten
them with strangulation and utter annihilation. Go on, then, ye
demons of hell, and tear to fragments the glorious Constitution that
was created by Washington, Greene, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton,
Warren, Franklin, Adams, Lafayette and Kosciusko, and nobly defended
by Jackson, Perry, Taylor, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Harrison, Grogan,
Decatur, (and the living Scott), whose sighs and tears, and expiring
energies, were consecrated to its eternal duration. Go on, then,
ye slimy vultures, in your ruthless desecration of their graves,
until despotic soldiers line our streets and frontiers, and stab the
patriots who breathe the enchanting word of liberty. Go on, I say, in
your inhuman sacrilege, but I will fly to Switzerland, in whose deep
mountain glades I will strive to efface that I was born and reared
among the gang of consummate fools and knaves who now level their
rifles at the race of noble birds that have graced the American skies
for nearly a hundred years. Go on, then, ye dastard traitors, in your
bloody demolition, but I will go and live and die in the land of
WILLIAM TELL, whose fair posterity evince a purer fidelity to their
remotest ancestors, than those pernicious monsters whose infernal
madness will soon surrender the bones of WASHINGTON and JACKSON to the
despots of Europe, whose shafts they foiled, until they went down,
with tottering footsteps, into their immortal graves. Farewell, then,
ye crazy parricides—farewell, ye BURRS and ARNOLDS—and when you have
consigned your deluded countrymen to all the horrors of anarchy and
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