LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Van Buren and Andy Jack son. You can pass the time readin’ that history.
It will make the boys better citizens. Make any young man more
American if he sticks to seein’ American history FIRST before
swallowin’ exotic perversions.
How did we get where we are? WHY was Signor Zobi in 1850 holdin’
up the U S for the admiration of Europe? Tellin his readers about George
Washington. Why was Lartdor, known to most of you for Greek culture,
why was he turning from Pericles and Aspasia to write a poem to
General Jackson? That was America. It was promises. I’ll say it was
promises, and a DAMN SIGHT MORE. You look at that, Archie,
America wasn’t only promises. America was colonial architecture, good
food, even in my young times, the black cook could make a brown stew.
No second-rate cookin’ ever entered my face till I got to eatin’ in
restaurants when goin’ to college. And then, God Damn it, an oyster
stew was an oyster stew. I mean as cookin’ we were second to no man,
even to no woman of any nation.
French chefs were mere fancy. But the ice cream made of CREAM, all
cream and peaches, solid peaches, was NOT surpassed by Sindar, it was
not distinctive of Europe.
American silversmiths, American colonial furniture, even the carvin’ on
American tombstones, if there were no sculpture to speak of. Jefferson’s
house, for the house of a rich man, or a man who lived like a rich man
and went bankrupt. Monroe’s house, I should say a man lived inside his
means. Adams’s house, the two houses, house of poor man and son of
poor man. All those houses could teach you something, something of
POLITICS, in the high sense that ole Harry Stotle held up, held up for
man’s admiration. Something in a way higher than ethics, the further
extension of ethics got to grow out of sound ethics. Then something
bust, 1867 it BUST or was BUSTED. And the documents are available.
Hazard circular, correspondence of Sherman, Ikleheimer, and
Rothschild. When will you folks start thinking? Then ten years later a