The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-06-27

and certain sections OF the country certain federal meas
lres were advocated while they were hypocrticaly re-
pudiated in others / will make an assertion, and
hope il be not true that some member from Kentucky
will contradict it, My assertion is this: Gen. Harrison
ran in Kentucky on the bank question, and it was ex
pressly understood by all, far and wide in that State
that if the federalists should succeed, national bank
was 10 have been established Any Kentucky whig 10
deny this asserionl IA pause.] None. Gen. Harri-
son was run in Virginia because it was said that he
was opposed to national bank; and such was the pub
Tic declaration. Any member from Virginia who dare
deny this asserti0nl A pause,l None General Har-
rison was sustained in the northeastern States by many
of the abeitionss becahse he would favor the aboli
onists because he Would favor the abolition of slavery
in the District of Columbia, and the slave trade be-
tween the States. But he was sustained in the slave
States because he would oppose aboionism IN all its
modern shapes and torfhs. Any man here from either
the free or slave States to contradict this asseTon2 la
pausel None Such were the base means used to de-
teive the people and overthrow the democracy Surely
such base reahs viii rcoil upon the heads Of those by
whose guilt they were devised and prartised if truth,
virtue, and Justice have mol lost their rewards.
Bit sir before progress to discuss the merits OF this
bill, must lay down briefly some first principles OF
which we should never lose sight, whether in public or
private life; and without strict observance Of which
our flee institutions are every moment exposed to ruin
and to overthrow our States to colonial tassalage
and our personal liberty to subversion. people wise
and watchul OF their interests, and possessed OF that
jealousy by which liberty is to be maintained-as well
from domestic ambition and selfish designs as ffom for
iegn power and from foreign nfuence-wl never lose
sight Of those principles which mark the lines which Sc
parae the power of the government from the liberty OF
people It is the nature Of power 10 augment Itself and
to increase its prerogatives All the revolutions we hear
and read of are but human efforts to PROSTATE and abo
ish assumed prerogatvgs and aogatsd powers in gov
emmens when expressions have become so great as to
be intolerable,. Such will be the case as long as
the love of liberty will hold place in the human
heart
The object of political association is human safety
In state Of nature, all persons are equal and all per-
sons are free to natural rights and natural freedom
All governments are made DIP d surrenders of those ma
tural rights which all enjoyed utestraihed In the for
nation OF government there is atact Or implied
press surrender Of portion Of natural rights To the end
that the balance may be secured r5m the violence Of
the strong and unprnciped. However simple and ig.
norant people may be Of the qualities and purposes Of
government, surrehdGts ior that purpose are tade with
caution and jealously Government is therefore, con
tract, or compact growing out Of an agreement with
and between the people themselves who associate for
that purpose We are left in the dark as 10 the
by which the boundaries and limits Of the various gov
ernments were secured pr6r to the nvenan Of written
constitutions One thing certain Of ard that is
that all originally democratic or republican, and that no
more natural rights surrendered than what were
merely sufficient TO answer the purposes for which the
government was created Another thing we are certain
Of that s that the choice ofthose whom the powers
ofgoverning were conferred reserved to the people
and the right exercise that choice periodically defined
In the contract Another thing we are certain OIL thai
is that no distinctions orders Of society were created
in the beginning. Whatever governments have been
formed since the invention of paper and the art of wri
ting and printing have been discovered the limitations
6i governments have beeh defined in con stiuons All
governments, whether defined by oral agreements OF
written constitutions are governments of limitation and
whether the limitations are expressed in written con.
stitution or oral agreement preserved and perpetua
tedbytradtion any deviation from the original contract
or exrcse Of power not expressed in the compact is
tsurpation of power, and an infracon upon the prn-
cples, purposes and objects of the governyent ITSELF
and that ifraction exercise of unsurrendeed pow
ers be TO anygeat extent or to endanger the reserved
liberties Of the people ii is good Of dissolution
the governments and duty that every citizen owe:
to himself to his country, and to the liberties of those
who are To come after b,m IN correc tho o, =; sor,1
way either by repeal of the usurpcd powers or ifnol
ing else will d. dissolution fthe government "Ih
ery or no government" should be the motto Of every
patriot
Such, sir, would be the action OF every political as
socation for violent and notorious inactions Of gov
crnen tai powers but such is rarely the fact The gen
era mode or plan selected by corrupt politicians is
make gradual and creeping Innovations such as tn.
mass of unsuspecting people are not awake to- and such
have been the means by which free governments have
been oyerhrown. ~
In addition tothe plan ofgradually innovaing upon
the reserved rights Of the people by s'eahy augment
Ing powers ofthe government the plan Of indirect
bribery has generally been superaded So it was thai
Philip was enabled to subdue some Of the States o
Greece, which neither his skill his arms nor his SOL
diers though flushed with victory, could do So it was
that Hanuo was able to corrupt the Senate Of Carthage
and blunt the ardor and patriotism ofthe people in hi:
opposition to Hannibal, at time when he was shaking
the Roman empire; and at time, too, when the glory
nf(arh.na m av he sai IN have aat nm the brouv NJ