Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-07-24

gious fanaticism and bigotry and eat out the
substance of the people for the support of
proud and arrogant priesthood. We have no
armed police quartered in our homes as spies
and informers, who are ever ready to carry
out, at the point of the bayonet, the behests
Of despots and tyrants. In word congrat-
ulate you, and am proud in being able so to
do, upon your full, free, and entire exemption
from that long and fearful catalogue of the
badges of oppression, which are concocted in
the cabinets of Kings and Princes, in the clois-
tiers of priests, and in all the dark dens of the
devotees of Legitimacy.
Our country presents the anomalous exam
pie of sustaining her authority at home with
out standing army, and her authority abroad
with navy less than the smallest CONNER
cial European States. 1t is not the business
of this government to build and fit out mighty
Armadas to plunder defenceless nations and
swell her treasury with surreptitious gains,
to follow in the path of conquest and adorn
her capital and chief cities with the fruits of
system of legalized robbery,-to organize
armies to stand between her and her citizens.
Hers is far higher and a nobler destiny, in
the cultivation of the arts of peace, and of
elevating her citizens to that point ofpolitical,
intellectual, and social well-being, designed
by their Creator. One distinctive feature in
Al ,o1;+;o,I condition, &c +bo raon1o of fha II
nited States, is that their rights are secured
within the limits of written Constitution,
clearly and accurately defined, the provisions
which are carried out by three legitimate
coordinate branches, the Legislative, Execu-
tive, and Judiciary departments, system
somewhat abstruse in It's design, but perfect
ly harmonious in all its operations / believe
this country has the honor of inuenting and
promulgating written constitutions, for every
genuine constitution now existing in Europe
or anywhere else, has been formed since the
American Revolution and no doubt suggested
by American example, which presents very
clear proof of the infinite application of Yam
kee ingenuity, that it not only excels in the
manufacture of wooden nutmegs, but in the
framing and devising of one of the best and
most stupendous systems of governmental pol
ity that ever existed or ever will exist:
Soldiers, since the days of knight errantry
and chivalry, the profession ofarms has ever
been esteemed noble and honorable one, but
like everything else, as Ihave before intimated,
is susceptible of being prostitutes to the basest
purposes. The military organization Of this
country is different from that of most, if not
all the European States. Their armies are
composed of men early impressed into the
service, with no love of country to stimulate
them, with no definite rights to challenge
their vigilence, with no high and enobling
forward to the performance of their duties,
but they are emphatically servile class,
pledged at all hazards to do the bidding of
those in power. In this country every man
/ is a soldier, but just SO far as the defence of
his home and his country is concerned
Many have been led TO doubt the efficiency
of citizen soldiers Throwing aside the deeds
of noble daring in the Revolution and the war
of 1912, exhibited by those that were termed
:" raw militia" the lofty bearing and splendid
achievements of our citizen soldiers on the
plains and at the mountain passes of Mexico,
must remove every aspersion, and challenge
the admiration and respect ofevery man. 1t
was there proven that our citizen soldiers,
when led by skilful and accomplished Off
/ GERS, were invincible. Every strong hold
melted like snow wreath before their tremen-
dous shocks. Nothing could Withstand their
sudden and overwhelming attacks from Mata-
morus to Buena Vista, and from Vera Cruz
to the proud city of the Aztecs herself Not
heart was unnamed, and not an arm un-
derived, until the stars and stripes were planted
on every battlement, and faunted in triumph
over every PROSTATE foe.
Gentlemen, from your soldier like bearing.
the exactness of your eVolutions, and your
known patriotism, we have abundant evidence
that if you should ever be called upon to face
'grim vissaged war;" each you would meet
it with the fortitude that becomes the soldier,
and though the contest might rage with fear
ful strife, and the
. Scathing fires should leap from line to line
And the cannon's loud roar mock heavens
High rolling thunder"
you would never strike to an insolent foe
nor suffer the beautiful banner that stands al
the heal of your corps, to trail in dishonor t.
/ the dust.
Soldiers, this is your first visit to our Dor
i ough, and trust that it, like similar exchanges
of courtesies, may be productive OF a splrl
of friendship and good feeling between citi
zens of remote sections. La behalf OF tht
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