The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-11-07
SPEECH OF HON. ISRAEL. 7. HATCH AT A MASS
MEETING IN BOSTON, n Y. OCT ed

won glorious position in the last presidential election
II constituted influential part OF the democracy of
the Union In future its influence would be felt through
the length and breadth of the republic that now
occupied position which it had gained by untiring indus
try through long course of years. and that he hoped he
would be paroned for speaking Of the victory of the de-
mocracy of Erie county In connexion with the inaugu
ton of President Buchanan with which this victory had
been crowned He had had the pleasure Of being present
at that Inauguration Such event calculated 10
make deep impression upon American citizen. No
such change of government could take place in any other
country OF the globe without civil and boodshed
On that day he had the noble Buchanan standing
upon the porco of the Capitol in the presence of thou
sands OF American citizens Who from Maine to the Gulf
OF Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific had
sembcd to witness the contamination Of victory in the
Inauguration.
There stood the choice OF the American people, in sim
pie citizen dress amid that grand statuary which aos
whilst il commentaries important events in American
history; near him, one SIDE stood the Ex-President
with his ministers and officers OF State; the other,
the diplomatic representatives of all the monaches and
despotisms of the civilized world decorated with the in
sgnia and regala of their exavagant courts there he
pronounced his inaugural address address rcplete
with democratic principles entitled him TO place
beside jefferson and jackson In the history country
He Mr HATCH felt proud 20 belong to party that had
chosen noble leader proud that he citizen of
this republic and believed that the prayer of the thou
sands who assembled upon that occasion WAS that
this Union might be perpetual.
Mr. H. here said that were in the midst of another
election, and made few remarks respecting the different
and alludng the services talents Mr. wadsworth
In continuation Mr. II. said that he had not come to
speak of men, but of principles; that the democracy
founded upon principles, not that the party
had leaders, representatives champions who stood
high above the other members of the party that they
could not be spared. An examination of democratic
principles needed at this time when opponents
had resolved themselves into different organizations and
adopted various appelatons and had raised the cry
that the democratic party existed only in and pos
sessel no principles whatever. Our opponents had
principles that would stand the test, and they de-
sirous of showing the democracy in the light in
which they themselves placed without any party
they like the fox in hsops fable who had his tail
caught in trap and obliged to part with it in order
to his life Not being particularly anxious to be dis
tinguished in marked manner he convened his
brethren in solemn concave, and used every argument
In his power to convince them tail useless APP
pcndage. An old fox silly remarked in reply: s.You
would not have favored with this advice had you not
lost your tail in the trap Democracy, Mr. III.
tinued founded upon principles that deeply i'm
planted In the heart of man. his love Of freedom and equal
ity 1t the natural right of every contribute
his influence IN matters pertaining to government and to
| maintain and vndicate the prerogatve of labor
capital These were, essentially, principles and
assembled here to-day, followers Of Jefferson to
defend and promote those principles which he cerson)
had promulgated In order to understand the origin and
development of democratic principles it would be
sary to go back to period Of history far distant from the
founding of government. In the sixteenth and sew
entcenth centuries religious wars had deuged Europe
with blood that waged for the attainment of
religious freedom but wherever party Protestant
Catholic had gained the ascendency oppression and per-
secution had been the final result Upon the continent
the Catholics shot down the Huguenos and in England
the fate awaited the Catholics. The establishment
of of the rights OF man could not take place without
leading to examination into all doctrines of human
rights II at that time that Sir Thomas More wrote
his '.Iappy Republic which was full of democratic
principles that Milton wrote his renowned work son
the Tenure Of Kings and Magistrates in which he con-
tended that people would be justified in shooting down
tymnt wicked King that Montesqueu composed
his great work. the Esprit Of Laws which contains
examination into the principles upon which good and
just government should be founded that Say issued his
treatise political economy; and Adam Smith his
Wealth of Nations, in which he established the prin-
ciple that labor is the source of all wealth.
When he spoke of laborng classes said Mr. Hatch he
used this phrase in its broadcast sgncaton including all
kinds OF industry mechanical and agricultural In the
early history Of mankind the rights Of the abong class
were struck down by the spear and the bateaxe and
the earnings of the tOer seized belonging of
right to the reignng astoccy for the support of their
idleness and luxury In the landed republics Of Greece
and Rome liberty consider it, existed only in
In Greece manual labor considered degrading and
rendered man unfit TO participate in affairs Of State In
Rome the working class consisted principally of slaves
who without any rights whatever, and often
compelled to contend with wild beasts in the amphea-
e to butcher each other in the in gladatoral
combats to make ssRoman holiday" During the mid
die ages the knights clothed themselves and even their
horses in Steel while they compelled their interiors to
ter the battle in almost naked condition. and hew
each other down often without their knowing the
of the contest, caring for the result In peace
they robbed the aborcr of the products of his industry
In the localled republican free cities the Mcditer.
ranean there likewise freedom among
the working classes In the free cities of Germany
and the north Of Italy first find partial recogni
ton of the rights of that part of the aboring community
who carried trade and commerce. Mr.. Hatch said
that he had made these illusions to show that a full
acknowledgment Of the rights of man was first made
and understood at the period just prior to the American
revolution The principles which Jefferson laid down in
the Declaration of Independence that all created
equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights &c.
the offspring of that period but for the first
time in the history of the world acknowledged by the
American people, and made the foundation of their gov
eminent Time did not permit him to follow history
from the period Of the issuing of the Declaration of hide
penence and he would therefore merely observe that in
1888 these principles had found full acknowledgement In
the constitution Of the United States and that he would
also pass the next period of eight years until the
year 1885, when, under the administration Of John
/ Adams invasion Of these principles made in the
form of the alien and sedition laws Jefferson who had
expressed his dapprobation at this encroachment upon
the rights of the people, elected President in 1900
In his inaugural address he had laid down the principles
which from that time had been looked upon by the DEM
ocratic party as their articles of fnth
In that document Jefferson made use of the following
language
"a wise and frugal government which shall restrain
men from injming another which shall leave them
otherwise free to regulate their pursuits of industry
and Improvement and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned Economy In the pub
lie expense, that labor may be lightly burlencd' Shall
oppressed humanity find asylum ON this globe The
constitution indeed has wisely provided that for adms