Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-09-08
address from the Democrats of England

address from the Democrats of England
Brethren in Origin, in Freedom, and in Prin-
ciple of the United States:
Your liberties have grown out of an old English
.oot On your side of the Atlantic the interests OF
the multitude were not crippled by old hereditary
nowers Among you, all our principles have grown
stroug, which here paratively feeble. We
are proud of you as fulfilling many Of our aspira-
lions. We look up to YOU as chief influences OF a
mighty administration, to perform services for US
md for Europe, which no other power on earth
can perform.
..te liberties of Europe. You are indignant that
in Hungary and Italy foreign despotism has inter-
e.d to control the sacred right Of those countries
IN enact their own independent form OF govern
mont. In assisting, by whatever means of dplom-
acv or of arms, the legitimate independence of in
;,,red nations, you will promote also our interests,
nv rendering our aristocracy anxious to make their
nover less and less invidious more and more con-
ciiatng.
has ever spread over vast continent, and has ex-
.andpd its liberty to the millions. You are not a
s;nule CITY, and that dominant one, as Rome of
oId or As Venice; but your liberty penetrates the
wbole mass-s understood, loved, and supported
hy real working men. Among you the industrious
nsver need to be poor the poor ignorant. self
made man may rise to the highest Offices of State
nor is the wife or daughter of your President
ashamed to earn livelihood by her own talents.
Acain we say, we are proud of you, and look to
your moral influences to assist our children to be
less unlike YOU than we ourselves are.
Desiring thus your greatness, your honor, and
vour effective diplomatic intervention in the cause
NJ rigbtful liberties we cannot without grief and
yexaton see any great forces operating which cast
vour influence into scale of despotism, make many
Of YOU sympathze with European tyrants, and spoil
the great work which our imagination fondly
hopes is gloriously reserved for you.
We cannot be ignorant Of the grievous fact that
in all parts of your Union there is new and dan
perous dread of those broad principles of Freedom
which your glorious grandathers spoke to out the
world whene they declared their independence OF
England. fher words, we believe we're" ALL
men are created FREE and EorAL" Only by
broad truths of this nature sinking deep into mems
consciences and hearts popular liberty ever be
won. It grieves US to hear the taunts of the en-
emies of Freedom, who say that you do not love
human liberty but only your own selfish liberty
and that you broke loose from England under false
pretences, which you do not yourselves believe.
It mortifes US still worse to be told that those
among you who no longer wish all men to be free,
but only men Of pure white descent, dread to sup
port orr political interest," which identified with
the liberties of Hungary and of Italy, lest they
should enact principle inconvenient to them
selves.
We will not exhort you to philanthropy; for we
are ashamed to seem to think that We have more
kindness than you, or that We better understand
how to administer the internal affairs OF your coun
try. But we implore you, our favored brethren
to whom vast power is committed, and from whom
every oppressed Democracy learns to hope and as.
pire-we impore you not to abandon the cause OF
Human Freedom, or allow any principles to be
dominant among yourselves which re-enact slavery,
oGgarchy, and despotism. True Democrats Of
America, let not the Russian and Austrian paralyze
your power to help liberty, by arousing the fears OF
rich lest liberty perchance go so far as to make
black men also free. Despise as traitors all who
would betray sacred Liberty for sacred wealth.
Remember your own first principles, the corner
stone of your Union and independence; and to
secure that that Union may be goriously indissol-
uble, take care that your Congress reverence its
foundation, and that no institution be recognized
by Congress which is adverse to UNIVERSAL human
freedom. If the black man cannot be free to-day,
(about which we offer no opinion,) let it be made
manifest to the world that YOU are taking measures
for the freedom of his children, and that the pre-
sent strange legality Of selling your feow-country
men for silver, is transitory and ready to vanish.
Let no subtle influences of despotsm steal in and
corrupt your freedom, by teaching you to act the
despot yourselves. Believe in your high mission to
prompt the worlds progress, and purify yourselves
for that glorious service by DISCRIMINATING to verify
in every part of your Union the words of your own
manifesto" All men created free and equal -
One duty will not supercede not delay another.
Brace up your hearts to extingush Slavery as soon
as it be done Nth SAFETY and you will at once
have double resolution double moral power, to re-
animate the swoonng liberties of Europe. Fail US
not We pray you but urge your government to all
active aid which can be prudently and wisely given
and that without delay. Strengthen your own
liberties. fulfil your providential destiny, and earn
the glory of rescuing fallen Europe glory which
our Government does not know how to appreciate
or achieve
a Here follow the signatures, 1858 in number.l
Proficiency AT WEST poINT.-We recently
heard, from the lips of one of the Board of vi
O stors at West Point, fact which illustrates the
remarkably proficiency of the pupils Of the in-
stitution not only in their studies but in the pra
teal part of military duty. The annual exami-
nation this year lasted for seventeen days and it
is customary at the close of each day to give a
praticai illustration of the science upon which
they have been examined. Thus, when the ex-
animation of the day was upon gunnery, there
would be practice with the guns at the close !;
military movements will be illustrated by the Ca
diets acting as corps, and the art of horsemanship
would be practically exemplfed by exercises in
the riding school, &C. On one day there had
been an examination in engineering and road
building, and the Board of Visitors were invited
to proceed to the river at half-past five in the
afternoon to witness pratical illustration of the
examination. At the word Of command the ca
diets proceeded to construct bridge from tim
Der prepared for the purpose, and in twenty -four
minutes one hundred and fifty feet long, extend
ing into the Hudson, and residing on pontoons
where the water wasdeep, had been put together
andmade passable for artillery and troops. Tho
cadets were then required to take up the bridge.
The bridge was taken down and the various tim
Der Of which is was composed piled up in an or
binary manner, 80 as to be ready to be put up
again in an equally short space of time. This
was accomplished in exactly 9 minutes. Upon
inquiry It was ascertained that the bridge used
on this occasion was one which was in the train
General Scott ia hisceiebrated march to the city
Of Mexico.-Boston Journal gs.
Be GENTLEMEN AT HoME.-There are few fami-
lies, We imagine, anywhere. in which love is not
abused as in furnishing license for impolteness.
A husband father brother viii sneak h.r.h