The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1863-04-02
Extract from n Speech Of Thomas
HI. Seymour Of Connecticut.

HI. Seymour Of Connecticut.
"Now, gentlemen. I see around mt
quite number Of naturalized citizens, and
| wish to say few words to them. The
time has come when We may speak plain
ly TO each other. ask you, my friends,
what induced you to this county? TO es-
cape tyranny.'] pon't think me impersi-
nent for asking the question and giving
the answer to it myself. Why did you
leave the Rhine and tie Rhone, and the
borders nf Lake Geneva? Why did YOU
leave Neufchatel and Constance? Why
did you leave the Elbe and Scheldt, and
the Hague Why did you leave sunny Italy,
the scene of civil war for more than a
hundred years, and why the vine-clad hills
of France? Why did you leave Caledonia,
"stern and Wild" and the sweet lakes that
nestle in the bosom of hills? Why did
you leave Killarney and Kilkenny, and
those consecrated places where Curran and
Grattan thundered against oppression, and
Emmett laid down his life? Applanse.
Why did you leave the graves Of your
kindred, in the Fatherland, "lhe God 8
acre. Of Germany, and the church ards
of the United Kingdom! Why did you
leave the historic scenes of the old world
where the Roman, the Northman, the blue
eyed Goth have been, and where they
have left the imprs 9, Of their moral power.
over brute force; scenes where | have
sometimes stood, as il were, entranced
til seemed to be incorporated with the
past, whilst the ages surged by me. Why
did you leave the bright. the beautiful. the
tender, the touching, the sublime-why
did you leave all thess for the new world?
Better. perhaps, have sometimes thought
in these days of trial, that the good ship
in which you embarked, had been stand
d on the Frcnch. the German. or the Irish
coast. a. you plucked f.om the remorse-
ess wave--not more cruel and remOrse
less than the ralh OF man-have returned
to your native village. there to take up
the burthen of life again: better this than
that you should have come here just to
,ase e the sweets Of liberty. and all at once
have the cup dashed from your lips. Ap-
plause And now for the answer: You
came here to get rid of unjust law, of odi
nus taxes "that take from the mouth of Ia.
the bread which it has earned" to
& rid Of large armies and navies that a
ut he substance of the people, to get rid
of stamp acts and cnnscrip,ion acts, TO lie
rid Of provost mar>hals, and game ksepe
aud bimba lifts, the instruments Of the
iron RUE. Great applause. You came
hlther to get rid of n vile system of espoin
aye, for which our language has no name,
and to get rid of the passport system tha,
st ps you at every frontier town I'LL your
pa sport can be r;sed and stamped. You
came where speech was free, aud the press
was free, where there was trial by jury
vh re labor was honored, and man, the
lord Of his little patch of ground, or. it
may be, of his acres, could take his chill
dren to his arms and thank God that he
WAS born in land of freedom. Great
cheering This i; what you came for.
And you came where civil and religious
liberty had found an asylum and reared
her temples to justice and to the worshp
of the living God. But. men of foreign
lands, YOU whom | have sometimes wei
coined to our shores, | am bound 10 fell
you that in some things you have been
misled. deceived, beguiled and cast, as it
we're. into the horrible pi:. In the last year
"a year which. for its violation of person
al rights and disregard of constitutional
obligations, should be stricken from the
calendar-the men in power. d;sregarding
the rights of the people under the cons'i-
tuition, have struck down.: in a succession
of outrageous blows, many Of the rights
which you had acquired here, and the
privileges which you had begun to ENJOY,
and have renewed, here in our country.
some of the worst features Of the rotting
dynasties Of European and Asiatic coun-
tries. And now. gentlemen. your remedy
is in your own hands. United together,
and firm in your purpose. you may recov-
er that which you have lost, and recover
these inestimable privileges in a consttu'
tional way"
MIGHTY DRY.-A witty young rascal.
passing through an eastern town, wanted