Attention cannibals: Do not eat Democrats

Alferd Packer was an American cannibal who was sentenced to prison in 1874. The judge was especially upset that he’d eaten Democrats. and, according to a local newspaper, said -

“Stand up yah voracious man-eatin’ sonofabitch and receive yir sintince. When yah came to Hinsdale County, there was siven Dimmycrats. But you, yah et five of ‘em, goddam yah. I sintince yah t’ be hanged by th’ neck ontil yer dead, dead, dead, as a warnin’ ag’in reducin’ th’ Dimmycratic populayshun of this county. Packer, you Republican cannibal, I would sintince ya ta hell but the statutes forbid it.”

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