Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-27

THAT class are quite different sort Of men.
Cheers. That class are 80 jealous Of auth0r
itv and Of the eneroAchments OF power. that they
hedge in authority all round as firmly as they
would an enemy. That's the true and only class
of Republican Americans Loud cheers
why, my friends, what did Mr. jefferson say
on this subject, on q question which he put with
50 much emphasisI Are you arguing for linn
itatlon Of pOwerr Have We found angels in the
form OF men 10 govern usr Cheers. don't
know how it may have been in his time, but
know that We have not found any such cfmac-
tiers in our time. Loud laughter and cheering.
No. mol no, they're little lower than angels.
Loud and continued cheering. And | enter.
tain the same spirit which Mr.. Jefferson did.
when he said 'an elective despOtism is not the
Government we fought for Cheers MOI but
our fathers fought 70 create and maintain a Gov
eminent which should be hedged in all round so
tight and so closely that it couldn't make any en-
croachments in any quarter Cheers. Or. as
think | have heard some of YOU Nrginians say,
fenced out all round with five rails and top
riderl' Loud and continued roars of laughter,
and tremendous cheering
"Why, gentlemen, there is a good axiom
tant. that the quantity of liberty possess is
precisely equal 70 the quantity OF restraint which
We pat upon the Government And this y trne.
If the Government is restrained from putting its
tent YOU are free. and no more. And il indi
yduals are restrained from putting their hands
upon you, you have more freedom. All liberty,
therefore, consists in putting such RESTRAINT up
on your Governments, and upon individuals, that
they can not touch your rights your liberties.
Loud cheering.
This is beyond cavil the true doctrine OF lib
erty And the distinction which the great ex-
FOUNDER OF the Constitution laid down, has been
Il L. kotv tna and In
servatiye men for the past year OF the Repub
can party large numbers have been on the right
side throughout, while the Democrats have very
generally opposed Unjust and unconstitutional as
sumptions of power. by Departments OF the Gov
eminent, or by the Government itself Ii is not
so necessary now To refer to the past il is to
beware OF the future. To calm observer, il
begins To be apparent that the course pursued for
a year by the powers at Washington has begotten
peculiar notion of absOlutsm ii Congress and
elsewhere. 1t shows itself in the tax BILL in the
financial measures in the style OF orders issued TO
news apers and the peremptory threats of suspen-
sion which are adced to orders. ii the power to
execute attended the power to complain. 1t APP
pears in the speeches of Senators and Represent
atives. in the tone of debate. in the attempt to
exclude Senators offering to take the oath of al
lesanee and presenting their credentials from
sovereign State authority. No one can look at
the tone OF feeling which perVades tbs nails OF
Congress and animates the action OF some Cabinet
officers, without conviction that many of our
temporary rulers have derived an idea from the
absolute dominion of the past year. either that
they are above the people. or that the day OF
popular ballot and voice is passed. We have no
great apprehension for the far future, but We have
serious fears of the immediate act OF these in
different Republicans" Bills are before both
Houses which propose to take into the hands OF
Congress absolute powers, reserved 10y the Con
stitution from their reach. Bills of attander are
freely advocated, and wholesale legislation against
States and communities is proposed. 1t - time
that such words as those OF Mr. Webster were
uttered on the floor of Congress by some worthy
successor of the great dead. The coming Au-
tumn will afford the opportunity to the people OF
turning radicalism out OF the House OF Represent
atives, but the present House remains through
next winter. and the disposition of certain gen
tie men, to make the most despotic use OF their
short lease of power grows more violent as their
condemnation at the polls becomes more. and
more evident. We lock TO conservative Repub-
licans and Democrats for the influence to check
this growing opposition to Republican liberty
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