Daily American organ., 1856-03-18


late domestic institutions and shape the destinies
Of those great territories, filed by the God Of
ture with all the elements necessary for the increase
OF American power, as either w Washington or JEFF
ferson could have, were they to arise from their
graves at Mount Vernon and Monticello, and ap-
pear at the ballot box This Is no fiction. II is
stern reality, and the thought makes ones Amer
ican blood course quickly through his yeins-
Cheers.
Whilst you make ouch laws and submit to such
wrongs, what do we provide in reference to our
natipe-born fsloas? Let us draw picture in illus
tration One of these old bulletrddled soldiers of
the American Revolution or one of the veterans
of the war of 1912, is in the lobbies of Congress
endeavoring TO get bill passed to pay him for
supplies he furnished army in the days that tried
mems souls. He is poverty-stricken, because the
government has withheld from him that which Il
owes. de has, perchance, starving family, and
is too proud to beg. He passes your market space
at twilight, vending his way to his desolate home,
and tempted, or rather driven, by necessity-that
law of human nature which overrides the provi-
sons ofall other laws--he steals horse in order
that he may buy bread. He steals one of those old
Virginia nags which we see there on market days
blind in both eyes, string halt and spavn-a horse
that would not bring two dollars and quarter
| under the hammerl What does your law do with
that old soldier ? II sends him to your penitenti-
airy, and DISTINGUISHES him forever Should he
ever afterward appear at the ballot-box, your inn
| ported sovereign felon from Botany Bay. with
hands stained in the blood of his wife or child, hav-
ing voted, would challenge successfully his vote,
on the ground Of infamy
Now, sir, appeal to men of all parties-I APP
| peal to the man OF foreign birth who has adopted
this the land of his future destiny and the home
of his children appeal to all men whose politi-
cal action is in any wise governed by the princi-
Piles of moral rights not the American party
\ in IN tha ina, ~of Co.
paupers and felonss If Americans, native and
adopted, now here, cannot rule America, who
should rule it? Shall we degrade ourselves by
submitting tamely our heritage of freedom to in
nuences such as these' Never. l say never.
Applause. 1t may suit the purposes of a venal
party to cut off the heads of Americans in office
and thus deprive them of bread, to make room
for the adopted fellow-citizens This system of
importations from foreign prison-cels and lager
houses may give the party power But mark it'll
| Power thus secured will be short lived. APP
plause. If we must have the aid of such for
eign influence to carry on our government let us
at once have the provision of law to send the
American ballot box into all foreign lands. Let it
be taken from penitentiary to pententary, from
prison to prison. from cell to cell, from lager house
to lager house, from pest house to pest house!
Let the inmates decide who shall rule America!
Let them deposite their tickets to neutralize and
overcome ours in deciding who shall govern the
land of our birth, If il must be 80. But let us,
ask, with a view to the safety and well-being of
our own people, and for the protection of our fire.
sides, our families and our homes resist this influx
of paupers and felons who bring to us disease,
poverty, and death. Applause.
God knows we have our own internal troubles
but these are our business--not the business of
other nations; and we settle them ourselves
without their interference. We certainly do not
seek the counsel of those who do not come to our
Oh r
TO maintain our institutions and abide by laws.
We wage no war against the adopted citizen Of
foreign birth, If he be truly American in heart.
But II he comes to inculcate foreignisms and sub
vert our SYSTEM or engraft upon it principles which
he imports from other lands adverse to American
policy, then we say to him are against you, and
we can get along without you, whether your name
enspokenbergert Laughter and applause
Mr.. President. some people threaten to dissolve
our Union. Now sir | regard that as simply ri
diculous. The truth is, "Mat thing can't be didr'
Laughter. AT least, sir, i know that my native
State regards all talk about dissolution as the fruit
Of imagnations bewildered by fanaticism Why,
sir, how would you make the divisions 1t has been
said that the Ohio river s to be the dividing line
The honorable Senator (Mr. Crittenden) and will
both object to that, for many reasons. The gal
liant Buckeye lads have crossed over that river
they have wooed, won, welded, and carried back
Kentucky's fairest daughters. [Applause.] They
have reared hosts of young Americans, Applause,
and do you suppose they are ready to split and
make diyisionY Laughter and applause No!
It's not worth while to talk about that. Kentucky
and Ohio, whatever may be their troubles as neigh
bors will never consent to belong to separate con
federacies, and thus render their people, linked
together by the strong ties of consanguinity aliens
and foreigners to each other No, never. [Cheers
| and applause. e
Il .,~b =. L.. - @
live to witness the border stries which must ensue
never want to see the pure waters of the beauti-
fu Ohio reddened with American blood shed by
American hands Applause / have strong
feeling on this point. When an infant on the Ohio
river, without protec ion from the scalping-knife
of thoso savages hired by British gold to massacre
indiscriminately the pioneer mother and her chill
dren, in the war Of 1912, joy and gladness were
| brought to the heart of the mother who watched
| over my cradle, by the express who returned from
| the scene of hostility with the news, '1He Ken
| tncky regiment has drriyedP' Yes sir when
| Ohio in her infancy about to be overcome
Kentucky's noblest spirits rallied to the rescue OF
the young sister, and, under the lead of the gallant
Harrison, drove back and conquered the foe
| lAppiause. Now that we have grown strong un-
der our institutions cannot forget the history Of
the past and contemplate without emotion the
idea that those two States shall ever be brought
into conflict upon fields of battle. [Applause
Mr.. President, our path Of duty is plain In
regard to our domestic troubles, we must maintain
the supremacy of the constitution and laws Fl
deity to these in all things by all sections and at
all times, and obedience to the constituted author
tiles Of the land, will make this Union perpetual
| Applause. With our Union as it is, and thorough
fraternal feeling between its various parts we may
present ourselves to the world as a grand nation-
atty, fostering its own labor and developing it's
own resources-as people Independent, whether
in peace or in odr, capable Of doing our own voting
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