The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-10-29

In compliance with our PROMISE and Tor the gTatifca
hon OF the National Integencer repubsh to-day the
entire speech OF Gen Cass, delivered the Odd Fellows
Hall, In this city, the 2sh of March, Isas, from
which that paper has published garbled extracts to
exhibit as the "orern face" OF candidate for the
presidency Neither the author of such Speech nor his
friends, could have the wish TO withhold it from the
South or North, East West On the contrary, they
would be gratifed if every republican in the country
would favor il with perusal This "bugbearo of the
lnellgencer and its allies will serve as set-o TO
the double face presented of General Taylor or attract
the attention of the North and South from thai fraudu
lent attempt to deceive the people
Remarks Gen. Glass;
At the meeting at Odd Fslocs Hail. Tuesday sueaing
March %, 1S4S
came here fellow citizens to hear and TO feel rather
than to tak-not much to Address YOU as 10 minge
my congratulations with yours, upon the stirring and
striking events which are passing in Europe and
the sound of which il borne upon the wings of the wind
to every civilized country OF the earth Weld To- ADLER
and to younger speakers the k OF expressing syr, xs
tments as become the subject and the occas6x Ttt
yield in no jot title 10 any in the interest they
excite and the hopes they inspire The shouts Of liberty
reach from the Old World; LET us send back their
echoes from the New Let us be grateful to Him who
holds in his hand the fate of nations, and who guides
their purposes by wiser purposes OF his let be
grateful 10 Him. who is breaking the bond of the op
pressed, and setting the captive free
Throughout considerable part OF Europe man is
awakening to a conviction OF his rights, and to know
edge OF his strengths and with the feelings which these
inspire the determination to assert the one, and,
if necessary TO employ the other The abuses of centu
res giving way before the progress OF the age, and
the foundations OF government are investigated with
zeal not to be rebuked and with stern purpose which
nothing will satisfy but the truth. The great tide of
freedom rolling EDWARDS from the shores Of Calabria
to the English channel and institutions originating in
barbarous ages, and sanctioned by time and habit but
which have sacrificed the happiness OF the many the
power of the few, giving way before it. with little
I hnv1n fCr ttc Al. -L-
e Of 3 Da es G
sauary reform, but that it will reach her palaces and
her novels, correcting the great moral and physical evils
which now press upon her people,
Fellow citizens, do not deny that there is much TO be
commended in the institutions Of England, social and po
ltca. do not deny that she has contributed her full
deny that there is great deal OF moral worth in that
country, and many high traits OF character well worthy
OF imitation. But the practical administration of her
government is entitled to such commendaton 1t is
arbitrary and administered by chosen class
for their own benefit and not for the masses, 1t sits like
incubus upon the great body OF the people in thirds
of the home empire; and in the other thrdreland-it
has pressed down the people into state OF humiliation
elsewhere unknown in Chrisendom. Its right of pri-
mogeniluIc its eudal privileges, and its rslocrac ten
denotes, have created such inequality of property that
OF dstressaye of distress the largest scaleare
very well totak of the bessngso the English lawoftral
jury and the hdbeas corpus These good things for
those who enjoy them But bread is better thing for
starving family than trial by jury and house is bet
Ter protection tfran habeas corpus Probably the
face of the globe there such squad misery as in
the novels OF Ireland nor was the spirit Of man ever
surround him. Ireland is scarcely the country of Irish
men, 1t is the country Of England which the son, of
Ireland nhabit, and where they exist rather than live
And this oppression sends them to every region of the
globe and wherever they CO. they carry with them
instructive hatred Of tyranny and the love of liberty They
peace and have fulfilled all the duties OF American
citizens zealousy those born in our country From
the heights of Abraham, watered with the blood Of Mont
Tho Iacfb haiti in haro
lis the field crowned by the valor and exerons of the
American troops in which the blood OF Ireland has not
mingled with own and in which her native, but our
adopted have noby rallied around the standard
of their chosen home!
England is in that condition which requires but one
firm effort the part of her people to extend those prn
cples OF free government, which nominay belong to the
country, but which practically confined to the few
TO extend them TO the great body of the people, and thus
to create government for the benefit of ALL directed by
all, and accountable to ALL
The fiscal oppression of England is of itself phenom-
The sum of two hundred and fifty millions Of dol
lars is every year ground out of the people, for general
purposes, besides perhaps equal for the mainte
of the clergy for the support of the poor and for
variety of other local objects More than one half
of these two hundred and fifty millions of dollars is ap-
piled to the payment of the interest of the national debt
large portion Of which was contracted by Pitt in his
nent of Europe This system to be approaching its
crisis for, this year, in time of profound peace, the
revenues insufficient 10 meet the expenditures Where
is the tre-hearted American who does not long for the
termination of such state Of things'
One of the stranges events, this day of great events
the origin OF these movements In favor of liberty upon
the continent of Europe Whence they, From the
Eternal Cty-from the head of the Catholic elgon-the
successor OF ST. Peter Immediately on his elevation to the
Pontcae, the Pope avowed his attachment to free prin
cpes and from the Vatican went out the decree which is
spreading through the earth The Ponh, who holds
the keys of ST. Peter has found key unlock the
cesses of the human heart His moral courage was but
the more tried by the difficulties of his position The
abuses OF the government the work of ages and
had entered into all the habits OF life and the ramca-
tons OF society and he was surrounded by despotc gov
ernments jealous OF the first aspirations of liberty and
maintaining their sway by powerful armies The Aus
TRAN, too, with his Pandours and his croas from the
banks of the Danube had descended the ridges of the
Alps, and had spread himself the sunny plains OF
Italy. Almost in sight of the dome of ST Peters, he
watched with interest, and with many threatening word,
the progress of the Pope But the work went on Ma
pies n state OF revolution Tuscany and Sardinia in
state OF reform; and France of apparently peaceful
progress in the new career opened to her.
| will not detan you by any recapitulation however
themselves into those old governments An American
ear might hear them, but American heart could not
comprehend them The sovereign the sole legisla-
tor with power TO make and unmake laws at his plea
sure and to levy all the taxes he desired ne could I'M
prison any one OF his Subjects when and where and as
long he pleased; and this horrible power was often
exercised at the request of abandoned mistress or
worthless courer. The nobility were envroned with
great privileges and among these were exemption from
TAXATION an exclusive right to the State and
unlimited power even of life and DEATH over their vas
SAILS as the people called. In France, the great
revolution of 1859 had swept away many OF these relics
OF an age of barbarism That great event did for
human liberty for freedom OF thought and action, than
everything which had occurred in the world during the