The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1844-04-25
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institutions that The people are capable OF segovern
ment. s.
Mr.. Speaker, patriotism is the spirit by which our
political fabric is held together The elective franchise
is the soul of our republic, and the freemans boast
Let it be supported and it will supper all the rest all
will be safe The solemnity of the legal and ludlcious
oath is the anchor of all moral religious, and
political Institutions Let coruptionpollue The palio''
box, and perjury corrupt the sacred sanctuary oil uu'
and all is lost Our institutions, POLITICAL moral, q re-
gous win all sink together s. the offspring viii be as
Fit was in the Freach revolution Your legislative halls
will present but scenes of bllchery. Plumber murder
and arson will be but legahted crimes And, too, as
in the French revolution your Sabbath will be changed
70 adecade, and the house Of God to a stable. The
word of God and your revealed religion will be paraded
through your streets on ass, in contemptuous rdcu
and consumed on bonfres. Your Redeemer will be
postponed 10 murderer, and your maker to prosi-
tute, styled the goodies Of Reason. Your Judiciary will
be converted into riumVffate your seats of justice
into guillotine and your fields will be drencAed IN
blood These sir will fill the measures OF such iniaul-
ty such frauds, such perjury, and treason, as were
practised in ls4O if persisted in, unchecked and unre
strained.
The passage Of this bill will destroy the temptation 6
the means to perpetrate such violence Let the whir
winds and tempests Of party spirit and party passion
run mountain high the safety of the republic the pur
yof the balloboI and the security Of ourtree nsitu
tions will not be drawn into the vortex and wreck ofru
in. Can we not lay aside all party feelings for hi:
time, and on this OCCASION and come up one man 10
| supper; Of this measure? Now is the time-now il
the day. We are on the eve Of another presidential E.
lection which will elicit every feeling and every cor
npt passion which party sttife can engender, and j.
there not danger that the same scenes Of 1910 will bt
acted Overt Is there not danger that our moral our
litical our free, and religious institutions may re-
ceive another shock which may palsy them beyond re-
covery2
Sir my heart is fixed and set on the passage of this
BILL and feel as thought havea right to appeal to the
patriotism of this House for its support; ahd if Ihad
the voice Of thunder would extend that appeal to
the remoes parts OF this Union. awaken the attention
of every patriot of every lover Of human liberty and Of
free institutions and their duration, to the support Of
fhis measure. would invoke him. in the name Of hui
man liberty, and on behalfof his free institutions, by
which he expects to perpetuate that liberty in the name
Of that majesty which is his, by the rights Of freeman
10 send forth his voice this hail. demand, and COM
mand his representative to support this bill-to make
this bill a law fthis land II,
would extend that appeal, too, to every press the
potent engine ofhuman liberty and OF crowned
heads. would ask them to raise the strong arm and
the loud voice to this bill. iwoud say to them, now is
the time and this the OCCASION which demands the nfu-
ence which is theirs would ask that same influence
in behafand in support Of this measure which has de.
mOshed thrones, torn crowns from the heads of despots
broken crosiers, and redeemed nations.