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

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from the top or Mount 40. lscr there
are no laws which men are SO much bound
70 respect and obey as those which have
been wrought out through the convictions
of an experienced, reasoning, rational SUBJ
ject. And there Ii not country on the
globe " here law in 10 stable as in America.
There is not country where law is 30 lit
tie IN danger from riots and revolutions aS
In America. And in no other people in
there that mobility, and that facility Of
righting itself when disturbed, which is
found In this. HaV0 You never seem these
toys that arc made broad and heavy 1t the
bottom, and email and light at the top, 10
that when they are knocked over they will
not stay knocked ever, but will come right
back again upon their base? Our people
are mobile, and mercurial, and excitable;
ard you can raise them up and let them
down, and sway them as trees are swayed
~ the winds. But though, the oak gives
+tts branches to the north and to the south
winds, no sooner do these winds cease to
blow upon It than It comes back to its
bearings uninjured, by reason Of the flexi-
bility OF leaf and stem, and every part;
whereas, II it were stiff and immovsbAe, IL
would Be broken and deatloysd by the
gale. And when we draw near to 0ur cleo
tions, both sides declare. s.The Judgment
day ia at hand. and the world win surely
come to an end on the Sth OF November II
we are not placed in office, md al men
are intent, and nervous, and screwed up to
the highest pitch Of excitement, bnt silent
IL goes down the white and shining ballot,
and the next morning the tinker is in his
shop, the farmer is on his estate, the pro-
fessionel man is in his oflceSand every
body is engaged in his regular vacation
What Is the matter? We'll, the people have
voted, and gone back TO their business
that-is all.' We have been going through
with this ten years, and twenty years, and
go5 through with il I've hundred years
more; and we shall stand under il, TOO
When, therefore, il is said that monarchv
makes the best laws, the stablest laws, I
throw back the assertion, and say that de-
mocracy makes the best and stablest laws,
and laws that are more potent, more res
pectd, and more readily and cheerfnlly
Qbeyed than those Of any other kind Of
government under the sun.
Europe believes that the rights of prop
erty are not safe under democracies. When
I WAS In Europe about half the men met
believed that, In this country, every other
man had his hand In every other mans
pocket, that We Ill slept with . revolver
under onr pillow. that We used bowie
was den or wild beasts kept from each
others throat BY some Wild keeperl Now.
I declare that there Is no government un-
der the sun in which the rights Of property
are safer than in this government. In En-
rope they do not understsls Z, they are not
IN condition to UNDERSTAND, the effects Of
our institutions in this respest. For whore
families are able tn a roll over vast estates,
ty ing them up TOR their own personal inter-
ests where by, private monopolies large
fortunes are anassed where churches hold
immense properties; where the dead hand
lfes on whole districts, il il in the nature d
things that the common people should hate
property. They see it smoking up the re-
sources Of entire provinces !; they see that
men are made TO be MOBILES by riches, and
that the great mass have no chance; and
they bate property aud rich men. And
| do not wonder at It. If did not know
more than they, should. But in this
country II is different There II no man
bonn that does not expecl before he dies tc
touch golden wealth; or, that, II be does
not, some Of his children viii. For the
waves arc owned by all men and the
winds are all mems Winds and the noun.
txat God has stored up in 4, and the sky
and the seasons, are for all. These thingl
do not belong to any one man, or any class
of men. They belong 70 every man thai
can 60 in and take them. There II no hin.
ertv ~ nocordinr tc his own capaCity and
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