The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-17

/ i. i. ...,. JUNE: 1889
ont essentially an aristocracy ~ mon
arcby. We are 10 free that we cannot b
perrraded that We are IN danger of looslng
our liberty. We are not BY foreign agrees
sion. or from any open or obvious cause.
But We may destroy IL ourselves. We
may he untrue to the principles IN which
it resss. and which are needfHl 10 it; and
il may die out by reason Of our uasailhful-
ness. ~ I. -
rtis ia view OF these statements, then,
that desire every right-minded man 70
stand yaliantly for the Government, and
refuse TO 20 with that ill.assorted party
that mas es stolen the sacred naTes q ;1S
kiss. For declare that the Democratic
party. AZ It II now organized, and under
the influence of the men that now control
II. is no more like the old Democratic par.
" than Judas was like Christ. I do not
cay that all the men who will vote with
that party meanto betray liberty; Far be
|that large majority Of those who win
vote with that party think that they arc
serving the interests Of liberty. But par
ties, remember, are not controlled by the
amiable sentiments and obliging wishes Of
the citizens who train in them. Parties
are controlled by great agencies; frst, by
the men that lead and control party-ma-
chinery; and, thirdly, by the principles
adopted in policy and platform. These
things determine the life and The d;rec-
ton OF parties. Many q party meant
right in the start, but was crowded by the
force OF conflict into smother channel than
AT NH or
II Capt. Seu1n:es with his new ship, and
Capt. .Winsiow with the Kearsarge should
both anchor OF the battery, and should
both beat up for volunteers, each claiming
TO be patriotic, and should enlist full crews
the men all thinking they were attaching
M to P9h s set tes ees11 sn
that was on the ship that bore the Starsand
Stripes would be for patriotism aud coun-
try and liberty, and every man that was
on the ship that bore the bastard dag ofthe
Southern Ccnfedcracy would be for piracy.
and against patriotism, ana .country, and
liberty. What these men thought when
they enlisted would make no difference
with these facts. 81 39x
Now, party like ship. II is like .
train of cars. / do not care how sincerely
man desires to go In given direction, II
he by mistake gets on e. train Of cars that
is going ID the opposite direction, he win
When / wAs once goirg to Portland from
BOstOn, the Uonduct0r examining the tick
ct of the man who sat next 10 me, said %
him, "What are you In this train forf This
Ii ticket for Boston. "Well, said the
man, ''Is NOS this train going TO Bostonf"
mo, il is going to Portland: 'Jerusalem!
just came from there,'' said the man. He
had tO 60, where the train went that he had
got intO.e .WAk 4 tn.2 +. 9aaasne
I Now, you may think you are going 70
Washington, hut ydu are going. % Rich
mond IL you are in the wrong carl Laugh
Mr. Mcclellan II well-intentioped man.
| I believe that he IS patriotic, and that he
thinks himself to e be s Solng his duty o. to his
be ID Of not time will decide. Thousands
will "a with him. But the Democratic
party does not depend for its character up-
on Mr.. Mcclellan. That party depends
for its character upon circuInstx1ices.
Now We have sQuatted on the land OF lib
every one Of the principles of the old gov
erninent; We go for the rights Of al men,
without regard to condition Or color and
| they muet take what is LEFT. or they are no
| Opposition party. The nature Of the policy
which that party adopts will Determine its
character, and il we have adopted the p0la.
cy or the greatest liberty, they must oppose
II
/ policy that ID The ant3thesis OF ours.
That party must be controlled BY the
men who manage il and n You take m in
l ventory Of the men who do manage it, you
cannot but judge that Il VIII be fslse TO de-
That party II now. and it must be moro
and more, Ia sympathy with the South,
which is now armed in an attempt 70 build
a nation on the cornerstone Of slavery,
and which, by Stephens, Avows its open
and scornfnl rejection Of the very first
principle Of democracy,. that al men are
politically free and equal. -
| If ever q government wag ret mp to carry
the common people out from under dynas-
ties and aristocrAcie1g and TO put them on
tho broadsst grounds Of Liberty, It was this
0overnmsnt; and all the writings Of the
early statesmen, their Billa 0f Rights, their
protests against thei British Oppresslons,
aud their records, point one way; and that
10 the way oar party h travelling. It is the
way we have been lOrcedr to 20 tV the mar.
| row construction which has been put upon
the Constitution. The EdustitVtisn was
made with big feet; and able to walk; but
men have made, IL like Chinese women,
and compressed its feet, till + has hardly
been able to stand alone, until lately. The
old original sdcsign of this Constitution
Iwas,liberty; bat you know very we'll that
! for the hast fifty years liberty has been un-
popular, so that no man who regarded bis
| standing in society has. dared TO say iiberty,
| il he meant anything by It. There was .
Fourth Of July lingering senthcsiasm for
liberty; but y0u know very we'll that NO
man dared to say that all neughad n right
to be free, and look black man in the face
when he saidsit. No thing has teen so un-
popular during tho last ten years as that
very liberty for which our fathers framed
tthe Government and made the Constitu-
tjon. = And the whole leRney of the old COL
onial ideas, and the early national ideos,
hnd the ideas On which are foonded all our
IscharacteF institutions, is now
embodied In the Republican psrty--if I
may callis Republican, Tor. really. 1t is the
true Democratic party. And, on the other
hand, that party that 10 In sympathy with
Davis and Stephensy and that seeks srmis-
tice and peace for the sake Of the humiiia-
| ton Of the North and the re- empo wsrinR or