The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-09-04

chaste elegance and brevity which characterize
the style-the kindly patriotic feeling which per-
vades the whole ;--eompare this short letter with
all that the champion of federalism, Daniel
Webster, has said and done, and we see the con
trast, which, while it must endear Democracy to
every human heart that is honest, must exalt its
pride in the man who isnow called forth in Mas
sachusetts to sustain its cause
BosToN, August Is, 1914.
GENTLEMEN i regret that the choice of the
convention has fallen upon me. 1t was my ear
est personal desire not to be candidate for any
office whatever; and the departure from that
wish, must beg leave to say IS wholly the act of
the convention. Yet just sensblity compels
me to add, that when | call to mind the illustri-
GUS men for whom the Democracy of Massachu-
sets have given their suffrages, am deeply con-
science of the honor done me.
Still more ought to prize the distinction, as
publicly connecting me, by your confding and
unanimous consent, with the great principles of
civil freedom--a government of men and not of
property--the rights of man as possessed of rea-
son and affections-the right of the people to
institute government, and, when it becomes de
sructive of its ends, to alter and reform it--e-
quality against prvilege-hosty to special leg
isaton for the benefit or for the injury of class
es-the assertion of the rights of labor, which in
clude most nearly the rights of allan extension
of the triumphs of humanity even to criminal
law--free and good schools for the generation
that is to take our places-the advance of moral
reform by the increase and diffusion of intelli-
gence.
Side by side with the principle oil EQUALITY,
Democracy places that other great principle of
THE FREEDOM OF THE STATES IN THE FEDEPA-
TIVE UNION. The rights of persons and the
rights of States--the freedom of the individual
in the social union, the freedom of the State in
the federatve Union these are the two cardi-
nal principles of our glorious Constitution, of
which no words of mine can, in the faintest
manner, shadow forth the Importance. If be
true that either of these is losing ground in re-
gions hitherto firm in their support, there is the
more need that they should be welcomed here
Nor has Massachusetts a motive for keeping
aloof from supporting the rights of the States
and a corresponding policy. Her convention
that accepted the federal constitution, opposed
lcentrazatlon. Her institutions and her intelli-
Igence may disdain TO brook extraneous interfe-
renee. The experience of the last years has
proved conclusively that Bank of the United
States is costly and corrupting ncumbrance ;
that the currency can, without it, rise from the
most deplorable condition, to one, not indeed
perfectly good, but far better than existed be-
fore. The thought of charerng another should
be abandoned; and the search may safely be
Igven over for the vagrant power which has no
resting place in the constitution. Every interest
of Massachusetts is opposed to the distribution
OF any part of the public revenue; it may be de-
lmonstrated that, in every case Of such distrbu-
ton, her people must contribute by taxation
more than the quota she receives. Still less
should assumption of State debts find favor here.
1t is the pride of our ancient Commonwealth
that her credit is and deserves to be, untarnish-
ed, and that not one, | trust, of its citizens
certainly not one of its democracy--would ever
falter in fulfilling public obligations once fairly
assumed. And as TO internal Improvements by
the general government, while our politicians
have been wasting their strength in unavailing
efforts to prove the power of Congress to make
them, our people, not aided and not soliciting
aid, are constructing network ofiron pathways,
to the fields and halfoccuped mill-sreams, OF
of our North and West, and even on the Allan
tic to the very heart of the Old Colony. Still
more do the interests of our manufacturers bind
us to support the constitution in its integrity
The policy of deriving revenue from imposts
seems fixed for our generations; and the discrim-
nation with which the customs will be levied
gives the manufacturer all desirable protection
if he can but be assured of steady flow ol
capital and credit, by the influence of an unva
rying currency. With discriminating revenue
tariff, and currency never deprecatng in the
least from the actual specie basis, our manufac-
turefs, like our farmers, would no longer bound
the horizon of their enterprise by the limits o
home, but would rapidly take from the question
OF the tariff its undue importance, by competing
with every nation, and finding markets in every
zone.
The ulterior interests of our manufactures and
our agriculture, as we'll as other causes, forbid
the surrender Of our jurisdiction over any por-
ton of our territory. 1t is fit that the people
which represents the democratic principle in
the great assembly of the nations, should .equa
the most powerful resources and prospects
We claim that Oregon shall ever be American
Iso!l. We claim il by cession from Spain, by
continued discovery, by early occupation, by
|contiguity, by the independence Of America, as
mo longer open to foreign colonization, land by
the manifest purpose Of Providence, that the
Hight of freedom should be borne from our fires
to the domain beyond the Rocky Mountains
that its hofbors should shelter our commerce, it:
valleys become homes for our kindred and oui
adopted citizens Statesmen who desire cen
tralizaton Of power might consent TO dismembe
our heritage. But democracy, which reserves
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