Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-18
AMERICAN ORGAN.
Extracts from Me Inaugural address Of Governor
caussy Of DelaWare, delipered on Tie 1eM IN
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Extracts from The Inaugural address Of 6overnor
caussy, Of Dslaeare, dslipered on Tie let1 IN
aant.
As the servant Of gallant and patriotic peo-
rt and genius and not her metes and bounds have
determined her position in the national estimate
it would not become me to comment upon the con-
fiicts Of faction Not such was the recent election
in this State. But the history of the popular mind
of Commonwealth in the history Of its life its
honor and its fortunes, and great organic move
| ment of that mind, such as we now witness, one
that uplfts, sweeps and bears onward with II, the
community and its interests, may not, upon such
| an OCCASION be ignored. We have seen re-as-
sertion Of the declaration, and re-enactment Of
the struggle Of independence. 1t would be inus-
tice to the people Of Delaware to bc silent on the
progress and triumph of that sentiment which,
kindled at the altar-frcs Of the Revolution, has
spread with miraculous speed from heart to heart: !:
has united our American people in the holy broth
erhood of patriotism, and has secured the triumph
not mine--not any man's--not the victory of art
or eloquence, Of parties, or politicians--but Of
too long smothered under the ashes Of exhausted
factions has burst FORTH and asserted its own purity
and power. This affords just ground for an exul-
tation, in which every American is privileged and
may be proud to share for in it, no old party has
been exalted it brings to no true American citi
zen occasion for regret or modification, no memo
ry of wrong, and no fear of injustice. As broad
and bright assertion of the principles Of American
Liberty-the only true liberty which the world
knows, or has known--springng freshly from the
people, and faithful to all the noble and time-abi-
ding sentiments that render the voice Of our na-
tive masses, when spontaneous and unperverted
the voice Of Eternal Right; it must be recognised
as triumph in which every real American has an
equal interest, and an equal claim.
| When, under the influence of sentiment so
lofty, the people Of State confde their highest Of
fee to the hands Of one of themselves in trust that
it shall be administered in the same pure and ex-
alted spirit his solicitude must bear some relation
TO the exuitation OF his patriotic prde and the fer
| v0r of his gratitude Such is the anxiety with
which approach the duties that must, for time
be mine. He whose task it is to guard the untar-
nished honor of Delaware has high and holy
trust. The stranger who consthts the chart Of our
amid her leviathan sisters but he who studies the
history of American valor, American devotion, and
American craftsmanship, sees her pictured giant
on every page. Those who won the laurels Of lib
erty in our revolutionary struggle, who saw the
Declaration carried by her VOTE and knew no field
from Long Island to Camden and Eutaw, where
Delaware did not leave her martyrs, and always
nearest the foe--no crisis In her councils where
Delaware did not maintain the cause of the coun-
try rYiU xhara noIa
the foremost of the oonfcderacy in defence Of the
Union-have done her ample justice and their
children, of whatever section Of our common coun-
try, will rejoice that in the present crisis, when
the cause of American independence against for
cign domination has again invoked the patriot
spirits Of the land Delaware has been the foremost
State to record her vote openly and boldly on the
side OF her country. Sister Commonwealths have
followed and win follow with a noble ardor; and
in after times, when the children of our little State
shall exult over the many triumphs of her patriot
ism, 1t will not be forgotten that in the gathering
Of the nations millions for the public and fearless
rcassertion Of an unshacklcd independence, Della
ware--as a State-led the van Delaware struck
the first blow-Delaware won the first victoryI
The issue which has been so harshly forced, from
abroad, upon our people, has no feature In COM
mon with our past political controversies, the mere
domestic contests which have recognised a gener-
our and faternal difference Of opinion among those
who agree in united devotion TO our native land
The present is resistance to invaders who unite
foreign minds and hearts In allegiance TO foreign
| Prince and Pontiff; and, standing between the
American parties, have dictated their own terms
and asserted their own superiority. Under these
| influences, the ballot box has been corrupted by
their frauds, subjected TO their violence; Amer
| can politics have been stained with vices foreign
TO the American character; and large portion OF
our most virtuous citizens have revolted In disgust
from the exercise Of privileges so shared and so
degraded; and the highest places Of the Republic
have been abandoned 20 foreigners or their fatter-
ers some Of whom have dared TO assert the alleged
prerogative of a foreign Pontif 10 free American
citizens from their allegiance TO the government of
their country. In our foreign policy the settled
principles of American statesmanship are well nigh
lost sight Of foreigners have been selected TO rep
resent the country at the principal courts Of Eu-
rope and in the qualification Of feelings unshared
by our people, they have made the American name
reproach throughout large part Of the civilized
world
American principles and policy, feelings and in
tcrests have been merged in their alien opposites;
and in tho press and on the platform, foreign in
huences have oyerswayed the control and directed
the action Of parties and the selection of candi-
dates. The result Of this conspiracy against the
original and Native American liberty, has been TO
establish, in this country, foreign political party
substantially, though not nominally, devoted to
foreign interests and preferring persons Of foreign
birth. If It's recognised advocates have as yet
failed to proclaim allegiance to foreign monarch
they have made, in most OF the States, efforts to
overthrow the American system Of public instruc-
ton; have sought TO exclude the Bible from the
American schools; and have freely denounced the
most cherished principles Of American religious
liberty and all this, II should be remembered has
sprung from those, to whom all that our fathers
have won and that Is dear to us, was freely offered
all this was foreign in its origin, authors and acts
all this was unprovoked, wanton, long and patiently
endured-endured till foreign demagogues claimed
our country as their own, and made our rights and
our safety the counters with which they played the
game Of foreign politics.
At length the reaction and the rescue came Its
history is an exalted evidence Of the fitness Of the
American people, for the most trying exigences of
selfgoyernment No son OF the soil can regard It,
and its proof Of American intelligence, patriotism
and virtue, without pride and exultation. II bor-
rowed no aid, II knew no leader, Il sought no coun-
sell The movement burst like a bolt from the