The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-11-09
THADDEUS STEVENS.
HIS VIEWS UPON THE PRESENT or oCH GOVERN
MENT BRIEFLY EXPRESSED.

If every citizen of any State is entitled TO
all the inulienable rights, privileges, and
immurities of this Government, and il one
of those inalienable rights is the right to
cast his ballot for every man who is to take
part in the Government, show me the man
who is so impudent as to deny that suffrage
by the ballot is due to every being within
this realm to whom God has given immor.
tality. He must he an impudent citizen,
and ought never to profess to believe in the
existence Of q Deity for that world could
! be created and governed without m overrnI'
ing ceuse, is more feasible than such pro,
position. What would be effect Of confer.
ring this just right upon every citizen in this
republic according to one original intention
of our fathers2
Ii ever there was spot on enrth where il
could be tried with perfect success, and
| bcstow perfect happiness upon all those who
are their own relars and their own subjects.
that spot is tho continent of North America.
In less than ten years it will contain n
sound population Of more than fifty millions
of people, GRIT round with deep and broad
| waters, which no force could cross without
our consent. The sea grit isle of Great
Britain, which was said to be cut off from
the rest of the world, was not half so secure
from its water defences alone "a this cont
nent. Tint would be 4 tall and q bold ad.
mral, who hereafter, with hostile intent,
should venture this side Of the Pillars Of
llurcules. Before any monarchical nation
| shall again attempt to erect its institutions
on this side the lsthmus of Darien, they
! will find that there exists Republic com.
posed of the islands of the sea, more power.
iul than the European portion OF Great
Brtan-not less powerful than was the
AchGan League-which republic we shall
nc. hlush to call an ally because meridian
sun and the tyrah: las b have planted into
their color and into their souls the deep and
inextinguishable principles Of adherence to
human bondage. people nov, bat little
understood, but in a few years of progress,
with their own institutions really free, in.
stead of being ground by the nominal free
dom but real dcspotism of Jamaica. will
have made as long and rapid strides in the
cause of civilization as our Southern States
are now making, The seed Of such IN en-
pire is already planted, and is terminating.
1t may not be known to all that the Danish
possessions Of st. Thomas, Santa Culz, and
St. Johns are sustained by republican insti
tutions--though all tho legislators and most
of the executive officers, chosen by them
selves, are colorcd.
They have free schools and can, with
scarcely the exception of Il single individual
Of the proper age, read and write, aud have
all of the essential requisites ola free repub.
i.lic, except, perhaps the appointment OF
few OF the executive officers by the home
government, when the wishes Of the people
are always consulted. Lot lyrant attempt
to PLACE his foot upon such bombshcll, aud
he will be blown, With all around him, to
inevitable ruin. Before the twe supposed
for such action shall have arrived, Cuba,
the most fertile and productive spot of its
size, except perhaps tho Delta OF the Nile,
will have become SO saturated aud ripe with
the snrsting principles OF freedom, aud to.
gctbcr with St. Domingo, Hayti, Jamaica
and their coguate races will be ready to leap
to arms AID defeud their appropriate do.
minions, it such aid should be needed in
the cause Of freedom, and il they shall not
] then have been added 10 our own dominion