The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-12-08

you already know my opnlonS-dnu now
come before you with these opinions strength
ened by everything which, since that period,
has passed in Europe. We have seen by the
clearest of all proofs that universal suffrage,
even united with secret voting, is no security
against the establishment of arbitrary power.
[Cheers But, gentlemen, ! do look forward,
and at very remote period, to the extension
of the franchise further than, | admit, once
thou rht would be safe or practicable. | believe
that such an extension will, by the course of
events, be brought about in the very best and
happicst way. Perhaps l may be sanguine,
but think that good times are coming for the
laboriny classes of this country. | do not en-.
tertan that hope because expect that Fourier
ism, or ST Simonianism, or socialism, or COM
munism, or any OF those other isms' Tor which
the plain English word is robbery, will prevail.
know such sentiments only aggravate the mis-
cry which they pretend to relieve. l know it is
possible by such Legislation to make the rich
p,or. but know it is utterly impossible to make
the poor rich. Hear, hear.] But do believe
and hope that the progress of experimental sci
ence-the further intercourse nf nation with
n,tion--the unrestricted influx of commodities
from countri where they are cheap, and the
unrestricted influx of labor towards countries
where it is dear will soon produce, and is be-
ginning to profuce, great and most bic ssed
socia! revolution. Cheers
You know, gentlemen-l need not tell you
that in those colonies which have been planted
BY our race--and when say colonies, | speak
as we'll of those which have separated from US,
as those which still remain united to us-you
know that in our colonies the condition of the
labpring man has long been far more prosperous
than in snv part Of the Old World. And why
is this Some persons tell you that the people
of Pennsylvania or New England are better off
A. - tlan Wnrll hoa ho
United States has republican form OF govern
ment But we know that the laborers of Penn.
syvana and New England were more prosper
Gus than the people of the Old World, when
Pennsylvania and New England were as loyal
as any part of the dominions of George l,
George ii, or George Ill: and we know that
in Van Dieman's Land, in New Zealand, in
Australasia, in New Brunswick, in Canada, the
subjects Of her Majesty are as prosperous as they
could be under the government OF President
The cause, gentlemen, is different Hear, hear. ]
The cause is, thatin these new countries, where
there il boundless extent of fertile land, moth
ing is easier than for the laborer to pass from
the place which is overstocked to the place
which is understocked; and that thus he who
moves ana he who stays always have enough
This it is which keeps up the prosperity OF the
Atlantic States of the Union. They force their
population back to Ohio, across the Ohio to the
riississippi and beyond the Mississippi. Ev-
erywhere the desert is receding before the ad-
vancement of the flood of human life and civil
za,ion, and, in the meantime, those who are
left behind find abundance, and never endure
those privations which in old countries too often
belal the laborng classes And why has not
the condition of our luborers been equally for
tunate2 Simply, as l believe, on account of
the great distance which separates our country
from the new, unoccupied and ancultivated,
fertile part o. the world, and on account of the
expense of traversing that distance. Science,
however, has abridged, and is abridging that
distance science has diminished and is dimin.
ishng that expense. Already New Zealand is
nearer, for all practical purposes, to England
than New England was to the Puritans when
they fed thither from the tyranny pf Laud.-
Already the coasts of North America, Halifax,
Boston and New York are nearer to England
than, within the memory Of persons now living
the island Of Skye and the county of Donegal
were to London. Already emigration is be-
ginning, if | rightly understand, to produce the
sal:.e eff cts here which it has produced on the
Atlantic States Of the Union. And do not i'm
agine that our countryman who goes abroad II
altogether lost to Us. Even if he go from unde
the dominion and protection of the English flag
and settle himself among kindred people, still
is not altogether lost to us; for, under the be
nignant system Of free trade, he will still Ienlair
bound to us by close ties. [Cheers.
If he ceases to be neighbor, he is still
benefactor aad customer Go where he may
if you will but uphold that system inviolate, j
is for us that he is turning the forests into corn
fields on the banks of the Mississippi it IS 70
us he Is tending his sheep and preparing hi
feeces in the heart of Australia, and, in th'
mean tme it is from US he receives the com
modities which are produced with vast advan
tage in al old society, where great masses 0
capital arg accumulated. Cheers.] His can
dlasticks and his pots and pans come from Rir
! mingham, his knives from Sheffield, and tn
light cotton JACKET which he wears in summe
comes from Manchester, and the good cla.l
which he wears in winter comes from Leeds
and in return he sends us back what he produce
4, in what was once a wilderness-the good hou
: out of which is made the large loaf which tn
Englishman divides among his children. Lou
, cheers-]
Irhe right honorable gentleman here bega
to show considerable symptoms of exhaustion
, and, after pausng moment, he said
believe that it in these changes we sha
see the best solution Of the question Of tn
franchise--not much by lowering the fran
chise to the level of the great mass of the com
n Innniiy as by rising, in time very short in tn
. existence of nation, the great mass up to tfl
level of reasonable and moderate franchise
!. T'iIear. hear" and cheers | feel hat mus
g stop. ] had meditated on some other thing
s upon which intended to address you. ha
J., meant to say something about the ballot,
!. which, you know, have always been fayo
IS able-snmething about iriennal Rarliaments, t
g which, as you know, have been honestly ~
e posed | had meant to say snmething about yor
|. University tes;s-[shear hear l-samethin
> about the religious equality movement IN Ire
9 land but feel ! cannot well proceed Cheers
g ] have only strength to thank you again, fror
= the yerv bottom Of my heart, for the grca
honor which you have done me In appointin
!, M, without solicitation, TO the distinguish
a post Of ole Of your representa- 4tives ] am prou
Of our connexiqn, and | shall try TO act IN sue
manner th 1T you may not be ashamed of it.
!. The right h,noroble gentleman resumed hi
n sea, amid loud, general, and reiterated az
Q pause.
1 SH,MLTrL CoNFEssInN.--Th Albany Jou
: nal the leading Sc-tt paper in New York, cor
fesses that it did not expect to elect Scot, an
s that il deliberately deceived its readers. ltsa,
h "To have expressed apprehensions durin
# the heat Of battle would have wounded the fee
:, ings of the ardent aud wholly disheartened Ii
# wavering and therefore we iou .ht on blindl,
" deluding others and half deiudug ourselves
d This upblushng avowal of its own shamefi
is conduct exceels anything Of The kind that y
e ever witnessed, always excepting the simil'
j. confessions of the N. H. State snan. - CopcoJ
Pqtriot.