The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-10-31
GOV. wIsE's LETTER TO THE DEMOCRATIC MASS
MEETING AT LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.
"oSLy," near onancock, tYA.l

SO earnest aud unexpected and NY desire to it, with
bound to you il strong, that can hardly obey The
mandate of duty remain with sick family and nurse
the afflicted would, if FRUSTRATED take up my bed
and walk Kentucky, IL could do aught 70 save such
people hers from the deusion Of the day Beautiful aud
blessed daughter of the Old dominion, why IS II that she
stands aloof from the Mother Slater Nicholas Of old
once responded 10 Extraordinarily to Virgina-a al
peak peak of the Alps they reverberated tae thuade
l798 99 against alien and sedton laws She Is the dark
and bloody ground" of the Jrontvrsaan and antgrat
The blood OF her has attened The held OF the sla
and Of the shores of Pontchartrain Tor ee trade aud
sailors rights the American right Of Naturalization against
the odious dogma Of despotsn that freedom shall depend
upon brthrigh Her whole history attesis The gaanty
OF her devotion The rights of the States TO the Union
the States and to The nalienahle rights OF man Why
ii that she side with evil spirit OF fnat
eism which is than the spirit of ederasm OF old
Tell that she has been alternating from the DEM
oeratic fold since the Of 1912 Tell me not that she
has been led away from the aish of Virginia by of
Hanover, that hobed of human eloquenee which had
Demoshenes for each Of the counrya Henry Tor The
revolution and Henry Clay for the second struggle Of 10
dependence invoke the shades OF both against despOt
and every other ism which in an evil hour leads o
The sked all upon the issue, Liberty or death The
other bearded the British lion TO his teeth with the dea
alton against the tyrants MAXIM "ORce ctueu
atloays citizeu, and IN favor OF the resolve that
sThe star-spsnged Banner forever shall w~e
Der the tand Of the free and the home Of the brave"
Is it possitecan it be that those who fought in tha,
war; any descendants of those will now be for returning
the o! the maxims OF the Old World for resolving
that man happen be born the serf despot he shall
abide hs lot for lile-hat he shall have no privilege
seek free countrythat he may not abnre allegiance
crown and may not allegiance to liberty-that
he may take the wings of the morning and fly away
from his birthplace and put seas and continents
| between him and the crown which claims him
bora save-yet be but drags engthening chain
the despot may search for him the seas aud may safe
him where search finds him2 Tell The kenuckian to 60
the grave of Henry Clay, and there inquire what sailors
rights meant in the last That text will teach him
and there he may learn that Of the first and richest
fruits of true Amercanism that Congress shall have
power establish uniform rule Of naturalization And
all the graves Of all the past of all American history will
teach him the main end of the mission of America upon
earth has been the only inaenabe right Of man
which pertains mmortaliiythe liberty of religious
worship the freedom of conscience to pursue any path
way to Heaven Tell me not then, that the brilliant &C.
MUS of Henry Clay has shed any gis dtans light which
is still burning in the daughter land of his mother State
and of bis adoption Lattudinaran or federal or whatever
he in his last days. he true to Amerca-he died
in the day that he her champion for the war Of "e
trade and sailors rights and he lived and died breathing
peace-the great compromiser and pacicatorl Shall bis
grave then, be stained by blood flowing from beside the
baot-box the banks OF the Ohio Never Those who
really venerate his tamethose who would cherish afec
ton for his aidoW and his SON. rather than for the biOh
and stones Of ashland house, for his namesakewll de-
end his monument and his memory from such Dissertation
No no there other than any which may b
attributed to the mighty dead for this sudden and for
time unseen, alteration from all that is American in our
history The baiot-bon upon the Ohio riuer. That
river is border, and in spite Of all patriots like Clay
/ living or Dead that border has become bloody.
|
ism Antisavery is rife the borders Of both Kentucky
and Virginia In the face of double tier of laws both
State and federal guaranyng property in slaves the value
of one of them floating upon chip the Ohio river Isl
just safe the property in Of them is upon the
gin of the Virginia Kentucky side The laws do not
guard us because there is not sound morality enough
guard the operation of the laws And the enemy of our
property is to be found not only among nonsaveho
ing neighbours but in very midst In places thty
manifest themselves openly but there many more
secret who the dangerous because Of their CON
look at home to watch portion of own citizens who
ready TO become agents of the underground means Of
escape for fugtves and who waiting and watching
for the time of emancipation. Their preparatory part w
divide and distract people first upon other issues mol
issues cunnngly devised than those OF
tolerance and prescription controlled by secret soc,e
An oiigarchy from cuhout strike into both
Church and State by the cord and the dagger OF the
order of the dark lantern Invisible intangible respon
sbe it strike at property mt personal liberty at con-
science, at everything sacred with iinpunity 1t conps
against the operation OF the laws and overawes the free
dom of elections II is strong upon the border of the nom
slaveholdng States and what Ohio and Pennsylvania have
been to the tier of counties bordering the Ohio river
those counties will become to the heart of Virginia and
Kentucky unless the border be better guarded You have
reason and we have reason 70 inquire solemny concern
ing the means OF our safety and protection
The second is priestcraf power, which is at!
tempting to lay its hands upon political power to wedE
the temporal and carna kingdom. Many of clergyS
men, instead Of rendering unto Caesar the things whlchE
are Caesars and unto God the things which Gods af
attempting to seize the influence of State under the pre
of legislatng morality. They are not spirit
ual shepherds, and instead OF feeding the lambs ami
btously aspiring to papa powers by Jesucl MEANS as
the time excaiming against Pope they themselves would
grant indugences and unite Church and State TheyN
would make the land red with the blood of millions oil
martyrs by rousng sectarian bigotry and intolerance,
the clergy thereby be made the first of the realm
They would outPope the Pope, out-Jesuit the Jesuit BY
leaving the spiritual for the carnal Kingdom by looking
after things OF the EARTH earthly instead of saving sou
for immortality by adopting test oaths to the most detc
able doctrine OF passive obedience and resistance
order and the Machavelian morality Of the expe
cncy which would 9" fight the devil with frep ThE
Stale will corrupt the churches, and the churches vii
destroy the State, if the clergy allowed tempord
control The vitality pious pastors of Protestan /
chhrches are utterly opposed to this crusade against
all religion. Nothing could SO fearfny engendert
to restrain outrage and violence and persecution
and rebellion and bloodshed, until all these shall deE
stroy liberty and mike necessity for despotsm and
nothng could let loose many demons in the Christian
churches to poute their affairs pervert the minds and
hearts OF their pastors and people, and to make anCha
ana inhdelity 10 reign in country. Nothing short
pure and indebted Christian morality can guard our
laws and fusion and confusion of the church with pohca
IS anarchy in the siate republic We must be our
guard them lest those who would alarm about Cabo
nc Pope in Italy not for establishing Protestant
Popery in America. Whatever be the doctrine of the
ropes supremacy we will have rue the dsy
wheR our politicians and parties shall concd
M priests q any order to determine upon Of con
science and to distribute the spos of Office Now, heH
naturalization laws require Catholics and al. natGyaleH
citizens 10 renoace all allegiance 10 erery prince pou p
eto or sorere,Jn, TO whom allegiance was due But how
sha we counersct the secret test OATH which binds again
law and against conscience which says a sAaa1
be bur6ened for reason OF his religious opinion wher
the constitution says he shall net be burdened iofE
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