, 1866-03-02
,DrrrArInN.-NO. 8.

ED,-op SrATEsNAN - Having, as we thinAi
established the propositions, tnat 80 of
would decrease our taxes, decrease 'ue P-o or
merchandise, increase our wealtn, '...o re-
7 n nronertv we will proceed upon the consul
Grafton of this proposition: That anne1aslon wv
vonld remove MS from a state OF coIohlai teo
soIage IN that of civil and political hoerty'
The Declaration of Independence emoIa0es ~
the short phrase, " Governments derive MI -
inst mowers from the consent OF tne
q de6nition of political liberty. The power .uat
. r,oSas laws which govern a people, the judges
who administer il, and the executive whlcn exc
rntps the law comprise the government "hen
these three departments derive all their power
from the oeopie over whom their official power
extends the Government is republican or oemo-
cratic Whenever any of these officers derive
their bower from a source extrlnslc OF the peo-
pie over whom they preside, then tne govern
ment departs so far from popular, repuohcaH
or democratic one, and approaches an oligarchy
or monarcbial form Whenever an officer OBJ
tains power. from some other source than the
Deonle he Ioses his wholesome fear of the peo-
nIe and as his interest does not depend upon
then. he will disregard their interest whenever
self can be benefited by this disregard. Thus
we find that the tendency of oligarchies and
monarchies is always to oppress people. Our
forefatbers understood this. The cause of the
quarrel between the colonies and Great Britain
was not founded upon any very great present
actual hardship The stamp act was not as Sc
we're as our present one; the tax on tea was
trife. They would not have felt their payment.
Yet, with scarcely three millions of people, they
took up arms and pledged their lives, their for
tunes and their sacred honor, that they would
not be governed by power extrinsic of them
selves that none but themselves should tax
them In this it has been said, our fathers
showed themselves superior to any other race OF
mankind Never before had a people arose to
vindicate a theoretical political liberty when
they did not suffer any very actua! oppression.
What was the relation of those colonies to Great
Britain compared to our relations with the United
States? Great Britain had given to the colonies
charters or in other words organic acts. The
United States have done the same by us. Great
Britain appointed Governors for the colonies
| the United States does the same by US. The
| judiciary was sometimes created by Great Bri-
! tain; it is always so by the United States with
u.s. There was not a colony of the British but
that had a more liberal charter and whose leg
! islature had not more power than has ours.
| Finally, however, Great Britain said that these
charters could be revoked at the pleasure of
| herself and that she had the right and the pow
| er to govern the colonies in all cases whatso-
| ever. This is what the revolutionary war was
about The United States claims that she has
the right and the power to govern us in all cases
| whatsoever. But allow me to quote what the
great and learned Chancellor Kent says on this
subject: "If, therefore, the government of the
United States should carry into execution the
| project of colonzing the great valley of the
| Columbia or Oregon river to the west of the
Rocky mountains it would afford subject of
| grave consideration what would be the future
civil and political condition of that country.
1t would be long time before it would be pop
ulous enough to be created into one or more in
| dependent States and in the meantime, upon
the doctrines taught by the acts of Congress,
| and even by judicial decisions of the Supreme
| Court, the colonist would be in n state of the
most complete suhordination, and as dependent
upon the will of Congress rs the people of this
country would have been upen the King and
Parliament of Great Britain, if they could have
sustained their claim to bind us in all cases
whatever. Such a state of absolute sovereignty
OF the one hand, and of absolute dependence on
the other, is not congenial with the free and in
| dependent spirit of our nations institutions.
| And the establishment of distant Territorial
| governments, ruled according to will and pleas
ure, would have n natural tendency, all pro-
consular governments have had, to abuse and
! Cypress" VOL lst, p. 48O, Kent's Coin. To
change this state Of vassalage our fathers fought
| the revolutionary war, butit appears that some
| of their sons hug the chain, and rather than
pay ten cent piece in taxes for their own sup
port, would sell their birthright of liberty for
mess of pottage. But even this motive in our
case does not exist Do persons perfer slavery
! to freedom? Or they so ignorant of the
| principles of government that they do not know
| what liberty is? Would they not he content 20
| be governed by Russia or Great Britain if they
| imagined that they might escape a slight tax
| thereby. When man has become so ignorant
as not to discern what liberty is, or so corrupt
as not 20 prize it, he is an unworthy guide for
the people The glory of our ancestors ought
to make such men ashamed to utter such senti-
ments, either publicly or privately. When a
man says that the general government of the
United States can rule US better than we can
rule ourselves, he insults the voters of this Ter
ritory and the memories Of our revolutionary
| fathers. The official conduct of the Federal Of
fcials in this Territory aud Idaho, and ,he kind
or men sent to rule over us, show .nat the nature
of pro-consular governments are now of the
same ineffective CHARACTER as formerly. See
Judge Wyche's excise, That ought to open our
eyes: BIT of this and some other matters in
the future, VKRNo.
FOR BLACKF0OT AND COLVILLE.
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