Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-01-07
JANUARY Z, 1861

trlumpnSaHd glOrleS itle Anglo OaNOnS.
From the day ybraYe men qompeied. al nm
willing king to grant p,ggpg chartg, to the
present hour, their whole history i full OF
struggles and victories for cilirliberty.
No Anglo Saxon could eveEbekept a slave.
ItFequired no army Of q superior, race to
I break the chains that bound, them. BY
! their own strong arms they threw or tile
| letters almost as soon as they were placed
| upon3 their limbs. When d King refused
| rights to which they were entitled. they
| Bternly demanded guarantees, and the
monarch dared not refuse. When stuart
would levy taxes whiehthey had not i'm
posed, they dragged him from bis throue
and sentenced him to die upon the, scaaold,
Neither thrones, nor scepters, nor, Kings,
nor hereditary fight delayed them when
they required their privileges As Engllshn
men. England, that little stormy island of
Anglo Saxons, has become the seat OF an
empire whose arms extend TO the remotest
ends ofthe earth. Herrmills aud her facto-
fieS, with their ten Thousand wheels and In
trieate machinery, nlanufacture goods Tor
the world Whittier wharfs and herdOcks,
her vessels and colonies, she has COM
merce that visits every port breaks down
every barrier, and empties the W, alth of
every cline at her feet. Willie England
has been developing her physical resources,
literature and the sciences have been. by no
means neglected. Shakespeare, Bacon,
Milton and Newton, at the very summit of
human thought, with whom Homer and
Plato, Kepler and Goethe alone of the
worlds thinkers can sit, need but to be
mentioned to show what the literature OF
Anglo SaXOns has been. Then there are
names of lesser note, brighter than those
of the Augustin era and alone excelled by
Of ha of :
Then there IS the system of Anglo Saxon
jurisprudence, which, possessed of what is
best from the civil law under the name of
the common law, makes every Englishman
a freeman. With all this history and with
glorious traditions growing out of it as
their legacy, our fathers framed the Federal
Constitution. Our own history l need
not repeat. How great our country be-
came from small beginnings, and how pros
porous, every school boy knows. Suffice it
to say, that the same great qualities which
our Anglo Saxon ancestors in England
display, their Anglo Saxon descendants
have manifested here.
Shall, then. the inferior races named, which
have accomplished nothing for their own
civilization, be made the political equals of q
race with such history? Shall the destinies
OF this republic be committed to the hands
OF peopl, who have nothing in tradition or
race in common with us: Even concede
that it is doubtful as to what constitutes
United States citizenship, is it wise even to
amend the fundamental law, so that by any
possibility political rights may be confer
red upon the races that are inferior? For
my part prefer that the rulers of this
continent of freemen be of the race which
established our institutions. | say with
that great statesman, whose memory l
revere, that this is white mans Gov
ernment, made by white men for white
men, and should be ruled by white men
only"
L object, in the third place, to this
section, that it makes too strong and pow
erful the Federal Government. 1t places
in the hands of the Government all power
overall the civil rights of the individual.
1t works thorough consolidation, and de-
stroys the Federal feature of our consLitu-
tional system. The danger from such
q provision is manifest. q. arI turi
/ cannot contemplate the centralizaiion
that must follow the adoption of this sec
ton without alarm. The theory that as
to all domestic affairs States are 'su-1
preme, willbe oYerlhrown. BY a liberal
construction all power over every possible
subject will be drawn to the General Gov
ernInent. The States, instead of beng
,,,iII ~, nh;aots ftpha .fIal;oors
6oisnces v, "hety.en % the EeJersi. and State
Goyernments will be d stroyed. The in
fluence of the United States, which once
rested lightly upon our people as the at
mosphert, will weigh them down like an
incubus. Home courts OF justice, home
officers for the doings of public business,
home laws for home interests, which the
States have always provided, will be SUI
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zion will supply their places. State Gov
ernors will be the mere agents of the Fed
eral mower: and State Legislatures become
the obedient registers of the Federal will. /
In the complete consolidation most of the
traces of our fathers institutions will be
lost. Though we NAV retain the forms of
the Constitution. AS when Augustus es.
tablished the Empire. the consuls and 9TH
err officers, and insidrlia of office of thef
Republic, were allowed to remain, so the
forms of our Constitution NAV exist long
after thespirit which gave them life has fled.
The National Government, as il will then
indeed be, will obliterate the State lines,
1estroy the rights Of which the States are
proud and sooner or later the liberties of
lThe A merican people will be overthrown.
IThis Is no overdfawn picture, but what
our fathers ,labored to avert Would that
itheir sons wonld initiate their exampTe.
and listen to their admonition. Oh FTTf a.
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