The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1867-08-15

yourselves. We must either al rise or
all go down together Dcspptism may
come. empires may risc and fall among
US, bat whether they do or moi, We
shall not have Che reign Of Radical
party. Understand nss: IL say man
cahuot live high uP in the air, I do not
raean he cannot 80 up 10 balloon aud
retnain for time or II say a man
cannot live under water, do pot say
he cannot 30 down in d diving. bell and
remain while but the Radicals will
as certainly fail to perpetuate theirpo
CT under this scheme, as that man
will fail who attempts to dwell in the
arr, or drown Who makes his home I'M
der water Such government would
be unnaturaf--a political monstrosity,
and cannot possibly last; but you msy
destroy the forms Is well as the princi-
pies Of free government, and then you
will have a monarchy, an aristocracy, an
empire. or despotisIn, as the case may
be.
Itmay bethat we Of the United States
have been 50 crazy in leaving the Con
stitution--the only Ark safety--that
our Heavenly Father has doomed US TO
perish, but | am gratified with hope
that it is not so. II not, there Is but
one method for our rescue, aud that is
by prompt restoration Of the Consti-
tuition. win il come? Willwe escape
an agrarian war, with resulting despo-
tism, aud save our institutions for our
children ! hope we shall; I believe
We shall. Though great effort is be-
ing made designed effort--to destroy
US as Rome was destroyed, believe the
effort will fail ! have great faith in
the Auglo-Saxon blood. / derive great
encouragement from Anglo Saxon his
tory. Our liberty was not born iu a
day. Ii is not the work Of one genera
ton II is the fruit ola hundred strug-
! giles, aud its guarantees have Leen per-
fecting for eight hundred years Many
have been the efforts 10 destroy it. Of
ten the English Constitution was tram
pied on. Often traitors sought to sub
stitute arbitrary win for weiltestablished
law, aud elten have the people for y
time been misled. But thus far they
have always walked up aud called the
traitors and faetiouists to account
Charles /. t. ampied on the Constitution.
He had judges who decided that his
will was the law, and all who resisted
that viii aud defended the Constitution
we're punished as disloyal. And it did
seem as II his power was Irresistible
No doubt if you weak kneed Radicals Of
the South had lived IN that day You
would have said, ssthe Constitution Is
dead, aud we must consent to what We
cannot resist But John Hampaen
won4 not consent He resisted He
was tried as criminal for resisting and
was coudemned. But what was thcsse-
quely The people finally asserted their
power Charles and bis ministers per-
ished. The very judges that condcmn-
cd Hampdcn were themselves tried and
condemned as criminals, and the very
officers, even the sheriffs who executed
, the orders Of Charles and his courts,
were sued by the citizens for damages,
and had 20 pay nearly q million Of dol
, lars for executing the processes os n
+ void, unconstitutional law For timo
traitors held the power aud trumpled on
rights, bat Vengeance came, and perpet.
nal infamy followed.
SoCromwel and his Parliament yio-
lated the Constellation, and though they
! also fourishcd for a season, they too
were overthrown.. So James III. tram
! pied on the Constitution, and had t5fly
: from his kingdom fugitive forlife. III
! all these struggles good men, fora time,
/, suffered, aud bad men, for time, ruled
but the English rnce have never yet
: failed 10 rescue their Constitution from
/ the power both Of traitors and fanatics
Fl ! tell you the Aneris an people will
: not always be deceived They win rise
d in defence Of their Constellation, aud
|, traitors will tremble. They xho rallied
G three million strong to defeat what thcy
a considered an armed assault on the Con.
b stitution aud Union, will not sleep until
c few hundred traitors from the mask I'd
4 battery Of Congressional oaths and DO
: ceptisc prstensions of loyalty shall ut.
II tcrly batter Gown the Consultation and
/ Union forever I warn you, boastful
$ yipdictive Radicals, by tie history Of
:, your own fathers, BY every instinct q
n manhood, by every right Of liberty and
d every impulse Of justice, that the daJ
It is coming when you VIII feel the powel
I Of an outraged and betrayed people,
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