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


touch your rights or your liberties. Loud
chcering.l
If you mean to have liberty.you must nave
laws properly enforced, to give the govern
ment no more power than the public interest
requires, and then you are free. Cloud and con-
tinued cheering.l -
Another species of power possessed by the
government, is the names given to party,
Which Mirabeau speaks of as prevailing so ex-
Names stand for things, and sometimes for
very. fraudulent things, which do much to de-
stroy the benefits of a popular government,
like, ours And, may here mention, as
striking fact, that to bestow upon themselves
the most popular names they can find, and to
bestow upon others the most unpopular, is one
Of the great features of power in the present
government. (Cheers.
They put all you who are opposed to any of
their measures under whole artillery ofabuse.
They shower names and epithets upon you as
thickly as hail. But when have you heard any
OF them raise the cry of s'Sub. Treasury
tT.aughter.) They know better than to burn
their fingers with that. Laughter and cheers
This seems to be the last desperate resort
which they have left. They retreat, as it
were, behind a magazine of abuse, and pour
out hot shot in the shape of hard words, and
cry out ssAristocrat," "Aristocrat, ""Aristo.
! crat," to their opponents, and then take to
themselves the ,celi-merited and the ,peN-ie-
served names of True Democrats Laughter
and cheering.
s. How charming it is for men. like our oppo-
nents, to defend themselves and their charac-
ter end conduct with the most popular names
that can be found beneath the sun! Laughter
and cheers. My friends, it is with false patriots
like these as it is with false money. [cheers. ]
They are like clipped shillings. [cheers.l They
are all DESTROYS of going under the stamp and
receiving the impression Of the Kings head
(cheers)-but they hate the scales. daughter
und cheers.) 1t is perfect torture TO them to
submit to the searching operation Of the cru
: chile daughter and cbeers.) ahE
Bat they are very willing to hold their head
patiently until they get the Kings stamp on it
--tchecrs.) that they consider quite sufficient
proof of their democracy and republcansm-
the external stamp and not the internal worth
-lchcers)--and then they walk along the
streets, and cry aloud to all they meet, Look
at mc-don't You sec my forehead-don't you
see by the name stamped upon it that belong
TO the true democratic family cheers place
me in office-[cheers]- make me President
tLonl and continued laughter and cheering
But, my friends, we must go farther than
this operation if we wish to test the true merits
of men claiming to be republican democrats
The stamp of the kings head alone is not suf
hcient. [cheers They must be tried by the
fire and the scales. Loud cheering. Ours is a
Constitutional Democratic Republican Govern
ment. (cheers) And when men depart from
tais, and set up some particular merits of theil
own, and lay claim to worth and distinction
by means of self-constituted party classified
ton, it would require not one but twenty times
twenty tongues to say to whom or to what sci
of principles or doctrines this class of politi
clans belong. [cheers.]
Again, there is another species of contri
vance adopted extensively by our opponents
which is abhorIent to all the better feelings o.
our nature, and at variance with the pure prin
ciples OF democracy and republicanism. 1t is
that against which, in particular, Washington
left us solemn warning in his farewell ad
Dress 1t is the perpetual recurrence to sup
posed local difference, and supposed local ieal
!, oasies and prejudices. This, my friends, has
been extensively practised by our opponents
whenever and wherever opportunity occurred
and they have not always been very nice
about the time and occasion. tcheers 1t ha:
been the great bane of our land-it has beer
the great curse of this lovely country of ours
Cheers
We cover u vast extent of country it is true
and the early habits and associations of many
of us. remotely situated from each other, may
b
we have, or should nave, but one common feel
ing for the common welfare of our whole beau
tiful country. cloud cheering.) Virginia, my
friends. has no opposite interest from Massa
chusetts, and Massachusetts has no opposite
interest from Virginia. Immense cheering
and cries of 'Good!'
But, unfortunately, our remote relative sit
uetians, the difference in climate, in our habits
and pursuits, enable the common enemy to ar
ray enc portion against the other, and SOW
tarcs in this goodly field of ours. They false.
ly dehounce the local feelings of one portion
of the land as opposed to the interests Of ano.
ther portion; and ascribe to one set Of men
feelings in regard to their remote brethren and
fcllow-citizens-fcelings which they never en-
tertained. CHEERS, and cries Of 'True!'
And in this way it is that miserable patron.
lied party press has endeavored, by the most
contemplate means, to destroy the generous
brotherhood which would otherwise exist more
extensively among us. But don't fall into the
fowler's snare Cries of I'VE won't.'l believe
you, Virginians; and all patriotic men, north
and south, should carefully guard themselves,
and their families and their neighbors, against
this miserable movement. [cheers.
fought, my friends, here, to advert to what
has appeared in all the papers of the admins
tration party in relation to my visits to Virgin.
ia. 1t is the cry that the state governments
viii not be safe if you admit northern men to
have any considerable share in the councils of
the general government. l have often, and
have always, where had an opportunity talk
ed about this matter, and those domestic insti-
tntions OF the south to which it is intended to
refer Years ago, uttered my senti ments in
regardto slavery, and l hold to the same opin
ions up to this hour. then said that it was
against all pretence that Congress had the
right to interfere in the question of slavery in
the South [cheers
These are also the sentiments which I have
since uttered; the same sentiments which
uttered in Worcester, in my own State, in July
last. cheers.
And now ask my friends here to read a pub
lished speech of mine upon this subject, which
delivered in my place in the Senate, in Janu
airy, 1880. have nothing to add to what
then said on the subject, nor have any thing
to take back from all that has been said by mi
on the subject. cheers. But | have one wore
to say to you, my friends, upon this important
topic; and it is to repeat my desire that vol
will remember what now say, that Ihold, BY
the constitution Of the United States, that con
eEess is absolutely precluded from interfering
in any manner directly, or indirectly, witt
the institution of slavery, or with any Other
state institution. Loud cheers, and cries o.
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