The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-05-17
To the 10th Congress.

That portion Of the 40th Congress:
known as the Reconstruction Com.
mittec would do we'll to carefully look
over and ponder upon the following
extracts from the speeches ofemincnt
men of other times. Let them il
bordering upon the words Of truth
and soberuess promulgated by these
eminent apostles of liberty, lookupor
themselves as they will be when they
are as the Frenchman in the tiger
hunt, given in his own language as
follows:
when re IRENE Imam hunt &c
tigare, ali, re sport is grand, mag
nif9ue; but when re sigare hunt re
Frenchman, zere is re very devil to
pay
Let them remember that the day
of their probation is rapidly drawing
short; that with every species of op-
preston, tyranny and taxation, i'm
posed upon one section of the country
that the other may by standing ar
mics retain themselves in office; levy
and impose high taxes and tariffs, d.
rect and indirect, that six million Of
whites may be reduced to abject
submission. and four million negroes
be supported upon the tell, sweat,
and treasure, drawn from the toiling
millions of the North, while the cap
tai Of the rich bon d-holders; capital
ia the shape of Government bonds; is
exempt from all Government taxes,
IS rapidly arousing the tiger Of pub
.ic vengeance, in the popular mind;
that the day is drawing nigh when
this tiger will Undue its jaws in the
UNANIMOUSLY rotten and corrupted flesh
Of its oppressors.
For it is not in nature, and it
can never be brought to pass, that
men can love government under
which they are loaded with heavy
taxes, and pay considerable part
# their estates to maintain an army
which insults them in the possession
# the rest, and can turn them out
# the whole whenever they please. p"
-[Sir Thomas Hammer. III.
"Nay, this notion is not only in
furious, but impracticable; for what
I have frequently advanced here
must be universally allowed THAT
the civil and military power cannot
to foretell which wi Il at last assume
the sole dominion. We see the fatal
effects of such conjunction in those
Kingdoms where armies tyranizc, and
where Senates seryilely obey. -
[Mr. Shipper, 1871.
eff an army be SO numerous as to
have it in their power to overawe the
Parliament, they will be submissive
go long as the Parliament does moth
ing to disoblige their fayorite Gen
eral; but when that case happens, l
am afraid, that instead Of Parlia-
ment's dismissing the army, the
army will dismiss the Parliament,
as they have done heretofore. Nor
does the legality or illegality Of that
Parliament, OF of that army, alter
the case; for with respect to that
army, and according to their way of
thinking, the Parliament dismissed
by them was a legal Parliament;
they We're an army raised and main
tanned according to law; and at first
they were raised, as they imagined,
for the preservation Of those liber-
ties, which they afterwards destroy.
ed. "--[William Pultncy, 1871.
"By political and cunning ad-
ministration the people may be
cheated out of their liberties; by
some species of pretence or another
they may be induced to give up all
those barriers which arc the defence
and protection of their liberties and
privileges, but the fraud will at last
be discovered, and as soon as it is,
the people will resume their ancient
privileges, if there be no new sort of
power established for protecting the
arbitrary government against any
such resumption, which power can
never consist in anything else but a
standing army of some kind or other.
- Lord Bathurst, 1888.
"The citizens of the United States
however different in some respe cts,
are we'll known to agree in one
strongly marked feature of their
character warm and keen sense
Of freedom and independence. -
James Wilson on Federal Constitu-
tion, Nov. Goth, 1857.
''The State Governments possess
inherent advantages, which will eve,
give them an influence and ascenden-
cy over the National Government
and will ever preclude the possibility
Of Federal encroachments. That
their liberties indeed can be subver.
ted by the Federal hand, is repugnant