The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-11-05

cheering.) And if those who hold the
relns of government, so far violate the
great trusts reposed in them as to sunnor,
press out Of the means voted by the
people, Tor carrying on the necessary bn.
slness OF the government, they strike the
most fatal blow at the root of the tree Of
liberty which they could stke; for thew
take TO themselves, and usurp by their
own selt-constituted power, all the chan
nels OF communication between them and
tree people, whose servants thew are. to
; whom they are bound to render stric,
account of all their doings, and whom
they are bound to obey. And except in
france, where the ministry will set apar,
1900 of francs for the annual sup.
port OF the papers in the pay and under
me surveillance of the government. know
OF no place where the powers of Govern
ment press exist to such an extent am,
exercise such baneful influence "a in
this country. Immense CHEERING. and
}, cries of "Ritchie and Blair.'Y
Have you not, Virginians, been deenlx
mortified, time and again, to see the anxi.
ETY. and the pains taken in the election Of
the government printer, concerning which
many of our most valuable men, your own
friends, have taken the utmost pains to
keep this source Of patronage out of the
hands of executive power. You have been.
and you were right in your approval of
their proceedings. Why, my friends,
so highly important do I consider this
subject, that l know that the first thing to
be done in order to effect thorough re-
formation of existing abuses, is to sepa-
rate implicitly the government printing
from political countenance. (Cheeys.l If
the governments pays a man to preach
politics--we all know what politics
he'll preach before he begins. cloud
laughter and cheers.) If he be paid
by the government, it will be $50
triunphe" from the first paragraph on
the first page to the last paragraph on
the last page. loud and continued
cheering l am for cutting this off en-
tirely. (Cheers.) want to give the
people fair chance. (Cheers.) l dom.
want to compel the people to pay-pay-
pay--to support government, whilst at
the same time that government uses all
the peoples means to persuade them that
the government ought not to be changed.
(Cheers and laughter.)
f; But there is another dangerous thing
connected with executive patronage to
which wish to call your attention, and
10 ask you 10 condemn it. The first thing
they do is to establish the lines IF party.
Cheers. And this is the very means
that has always been used to overthrow
free governments. (Cheers.) If there be
strong party in a country, and the head
OF it Is the head of the government, and
ne is SO bold and hardened, that he avows
1T; and when he is desired to give thanks
for the favors and benefits conferred r,pon
him by generous people, he gives thanks
not to his country, but to his party, it
leads the people, unperceived, to give
undue trust and confidence to party favor
ties. (Cheers.)
Why, gentlemen, the Kings and Queens
OF olden times, and, for aught know,
the Kings and Queens of modern times,
had favorites; and they gave them un-
bounded trust and unlimited power; and,
consequently, among the people men
have favorites, and they give them unlim.
tied authority and trust. For they argue
IN this way: they say, "the more power
ne gets the better it will be for us, because
he'll use it for our benefit" daughter
and cheers.)
Gentlemen, there are two sorts of re-
publicans in this world. Iaughter.) One,
very good sort, and the other, a yery
indifferent sort. CHEERS and laughter.l
And this last sort it is, that cares not how
much power the government gets, if they
reap the benefit of it. (Cheers.)
They are quite willing to give unlimit-
ed power into the hands of any one man,
if they may have the privilege of choos-
ing the despot! cloud cheers. This is one
sort Disqualification. Laughter This by
the by, though, is what call the indif1er.
ent sort. Loud laughter.) This is not
that class of republican lovers of liberty
tor which Virginia has been so long dis
tinguished. Loud cheering.)
That class are quite different sort of
men. (Cheers.) That class are so Jealous
of authority and Of the encroachments of
power, that they hedge in authority all
round as firmly as they wonld an enemy.
That's the true and only class of repubIi-
can Americans. loud cheers.)
Why, my friends, what did Mr.. Jeffer-
son say on this subject, on question
which he put with so much emphasis!
care we arguing for limitation of power,
Have we found angels in the form Of
men to govern us!'' [Cheers. don't
know how it may have been in his time,
but know that Ve haze not found anu
such characters in our oaOn time. TLoud
laughter and cheering. No! no! no!
they're 'sa little lower than the angels"
loud and continued cheering.) And
entertain the same spirit which Mr.. JET.
ferson did, when he said that san cleo.
tive despotism is not the government we
fought for" (Cheers.) No! but our IA
Tiers fought to create and maintain goy-
eminent which should be hedged in all
round so tight and SO closely that it
could mt make any encroachments in anv