Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-03-12

lers to forbear. Are we not, fellow citizens, un-
der solemn obligation to transmit to posterity
this republic with all its political rights, privil-
eyes and glories,-or are we free to shuttle as we
can through life and leave posterty to do as they
may without them Are we at liberty to consent
that the told thirteen" shall be swindled out of
their rights | think not. And | hope that the
spirit of the old revolutionary PATRIOTS rising from
their graves in bold and fearless opposition to this
iniquitous scheme, will yet be able to defeat it,
although we shall see it sustained by the dough-
faces of the North. | would not blame without
cause, but say when we have cause, it is our
duty to resist the of the administration,
and in this proposition there is cause. Our por-
ton of the Western lands would educate every
child in the State-would clear our rivers and
make our roads, and to transfer this domain for
the purpose of buying votes for the government
would be sanctioning reasonable and wicked
bargain.
There are other parts of the policy of the ad-
mnstration equally obnoxious to censure. The
denial of the right of petition is one. Has it
come to this, that the representative is the mas
ter instead of the servant of the people, and that
be shall deliberately tell them there certain
subjects upon which they shall not petition Con-
gress, if they do that their petitions shall not
be received leading champion of the party
in power, Mr.. Calhoun, has recently declared it
political heresy 10 maintain that the right of Pc
titon belongs to the people of republic If it
be SO, it is heresy recognised and established
by the magma cha,tu of England and acknowl-
edged there to this day 1t is right for which
the pilgrims fought, and for which their descen-
dents / trust will ever be ready to contend.
Break it down. deny it in one instance and
where will you stop The doctrine is new and
dangerous one, and if the American people
not aroused to of its odiousness,-I had
almost said they would prove themselves mad
equate TO self government. But they are peo-
pie who know their rights and will maintain
them. And this other project of the administra-
ton-the endeavor to make this government
hard money government as they cali it. They
have done their best to break down commerce
and manufactures-they have waged a war a
gainst every general interest of the country
and all for the purpose of making this hard
money government, of assmlating it to China,
Cuba, and other hard money States, and of great
ly reducing the value of property and labor
Such is the avowed object of the Sub-treasury
bill And ask the educated, intelligent and in
tellectual people of this country if they are will
ing to be reduced to the hard money government
of Italy where the laborer obtains but three pence
per day for his work - or to be put upon the same
footing with the Serfs of Russia who are bought
and sold with the landTthey till Sir, this attack
upon credit is hostile to the best institutions of
the country as despotism itself. Consider too
the immense control exercised by the executive
at Washington over the States. 1t is as true as
any other truth that voice from Washington
will now direct and control the action of every
Legislature where the friends of the admnstra-
ton are in majority. In this state of things,
what becomes of State rights Where is the
State which has been treated with such cold neg
lect as Maine? One would suppose that she had
no constitutional rights whatever, from the
course of the government toward her. And vet
let her people instruct the Legislature to take
what action they willard word from Wash
lngton will control it all Maine has been sacri-
iced--her rights have been offered up on the
party altar at Washington. If this system is to
go on how can our freedom be experimentation
can the people retain control over the govern
ment! 1t will be almost impossible to do it. Even
now we meet the administration at fearful odds
With its Sub-treasury, its pension agents, its
Post Office contractors, its Florida war and its
office holders in general it brings into the field
mighty force But the star of hope has arisen in
the western skies to animate the hearts of free
men, and they rallying round one who has
given ample proof Of his capacity to govern of his
sincere love of country, and who is beyond ques-
ton the strongest in the hearts of his country
men.
Fellow citizens, is there any ground for hope !?
Look at the prospect in New England. 1t cannot
be supposed that the descendants of the victors
at Bennington and Plattsburg--the hardy inhab-
tants of the Green Mountains will be persuaded
to go against the farmer of the North Bend No
they have gone triumphantly for him once, and
for him will they go again. So also will it be in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
And New York-imperial New York-where
Van Buren, born, and where he has been
vigorously electoneering for himself. Three
times has he been defeated in his own State
gloriously, decisively defeated, and he cannot
rally again ''The favorite SON. who denounced
his own people as being corrupted and controlled
by the banks,will find that people going in a body
against him and in favor of Harrison We may