New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-11-18

nation. The indicators Of your rights among my
own countrymen have been the objects of my
idolaty. ] have justified your revolutionary
struggle ! have exalted in the conquest and
maintenance Of your independence. | haze
prayed for the perpetuity of your institutions and
can and do tonight thank God that for more
than three score years and ten you have turhlsn-
ed TO the nations OF the earth the lesson and the
example that it is alike the duty, the prerogatIVe
and the glory Of men to govern themselves.
Though born IN another country, under d M
narchical Government, have neYertheIess l8'''
cd to promugatc those truths upon "tS,I ooI
own liberty and independence are pasea' HaEe
ever maintained that the people were the oiiiy ieI
e,itimate source of all governing power. "'l!ic
held that Governments are Of divine Origin, sHtee'
without law the Universe would relapse INTO cha,
90 ! have maintained equally the DIVINE right OF
fthn 1eonle TO choose for themselves the form OF
fIovrrnrnent under which they would live and to
elect the persons by whom the laws should be adj
Hninistered.
Echoing the doctrine held by those who, though
dead vet speak to you from the canvas on these
walls, have through evil and good report asserted
that taxation without representation is tyranny,
and have interpreted representation to mean the
right Of every man. unstained by crime, to have a
vete in the election Of the makers OF the laws.
Ny idea of popular representative assembly
has always been, that it should be the express
image Of the mind and will Of the people; that 1t
should not only, in the first instance be called IN
to being by the votes of the people, and OF the
entire people, but that its representative charac-
ter should be preserved, by quickly recurring dis,
solutions that it's several parts should be resolved
into the elements from which they sprung, ana
that it should be constructed by the people ana 80
be an everything and vital emahatioh rom te
neonle. emb0dying not only their past but their
present sentiments and wishes on all matters
touching their interests and their rights.
When pointed to the errors and eXcesses com
mitted by the people, have ever declared my
preference for house elected under the phren..
zied excitement of the hour, to one destitute OF
contact and sympathy with the great body OF the
community.
With these views, and having at the same time
unfaltering faith in the ultimate triumph OF the
intelligent and ell-directed moral power OF the
people, my mission has been labor among the
masses.
AT the beginning Of my brief career as public
man, | identified myself voluntarily, wholly, IN
scparably and for ever with the cause OF the peo
ple. / have never sought the interests OF the
classes but always, as understand it, tne wei
fare of the many and the rights OF the millions.
Whatever of influence and position nave gained
in my own country owe to the confidence ana
fest nv appreciation of their good will, and my
sense ofresponsibility and duty by employing any
additional ability SO obtained to the advancement
of the peoples cause.
Sent by the people into the Senate, have voted
for every measure calculated to diminish their
burthens, emanicipate their industry, remove the
distractions in their way to the attainment OF
cheap knowledge ncite them to virtue, and en-
ergy and to perseverance, enlarge their constitu-
tional liberty, and give them the power Of exercls.
ing controlling influence on the Government Of
the vast Empire to which they belong, and in the
resources of which they have right to partlcl-
pate. r.
in a country, where the principles have labored
to make known and apply, are established, ana
with one unhappy exception carried out Judge
what nv low must be to find that in proportion as
those principles have been faithfully and impair
tally acted upon, the people of this country have
advanced in happiness, in prosperity and III power
Judge what my delight must be to find myself IN
this hall, from which those principles of old went
forth to quicken into political life, and Tan INTO pa
triotic fervour the spirits of an oppressed and
abused people.
Oh, We canonized sages of the Revolutionary
era, permit Briton to thank you for the work
that you did for your native land, Tor humanity,
and for the world.
Oh, we sons and daughters of Revolutionary
sires, suffer one who comes from that country
whose proudest boast in coming years will be
that she was the mother of this mighty nation, to
implore you to act worthy your high descent and
suffer one also free from suspicious from scandal
y
sympathise in your achievements, TO exult with
you i'll the glorious prospect that lies before you
in this wide spread land of your Inheritance, to
call you my BROTHER and to wish you from my
soul, brothers God speed.
Fifteen years have passed since my former Wis
it to these shores They have been years OF pro-
gress, both in the Old World aud in the New In
England, am happy to say, our course has been
onward. Upon no great question has there been
any retrograde step. The great work OF the abo
Htion of slavery has been contaminated. Eighty
years ago, it was judiciously decreed that slave
touching the soil of England should be FREE
Since that period the Islands Of Great Britain
have been allhallowed ground. Notugltives from
bondage have been dragged from our affairs aud
our henrths We have endeavorcd 10 fulfill the
Levtical law by suffering the slave to dwell IN
security in our midst and there never have been
wanting those, who in obedience to the christian
precept, and in view OF coming Judgment, We're
ready to shelter the wanderer, to feed hun when
an hungered and to cothe him when naked, and
to recognise and entertain the Saviour IN the per-
son of the mcanest and lowest OF his brethren.
Still thank God the language Of Cowper is true:
Slaves cannot breathe in England iftheir lungs
Receive air, thai moment they are free
They touch our country and thelr slackes fall.
Soon may it be so in every country calling Itself
christian and free. Cotemporaneously with the
United States of America the African slave trade
was abolished; and subsequently, after struggle
of twenty-five years, the act for abolishing
Colonial Slavery was obtained. Nine years later
an act was passed by the Government of India
declaring slave holding Illegal and tconious
throughout the whole of our vast Eastern pos
sessions.
Truth demands the confession that oppression
and injustice IN thousand forms are still to be
found in all parts of the British dominions, while
the lovers of freedom and the friends of philan
thropy have been aboring to extrpate the tou
systems Of slavery and the slave trade, and in
other ways have been seeking to meliorate the
condition of their fellow subjects and of the human
race others of my countrymen have been wagons
unhoy wars-have been trampling on the right:
of the weak and detenseless in various parts o
the world-have been sustaining institutions an,
monopolies injurious to the interests and in viola
ton Of the rights Of the people.
These are admissions which however humili
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