The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-02-28
Speech Of Hon. James Brooks.

Speech OF o james
The Radical press having wilfully mis-
represented the speech of Hon. JAMES
BROOKS, rs delivered before the Connecti-
cut Democratic State Convention. we re-
print that portion of it as he publishes it
in his own paper, the New York Express:
'Thc Radicals have now before the
country two projects for the subversion of
the Supreme Court of the United States /;
the other, the deposition of the Executive
branch of the Government, and the substi-
tuition, in lieu thereof of some Senator In
in Congress. Til Supreme Court cannot
be oVerthrOwu without first deposing the
President. A distinguished General from
Massachusetts, n very distinguished Gen
eral-not General B~anks-tcries of toho :
WHO? with innumerable other criesl-prO-
poses first deposing the President, and his
arrest and Incarceration. by the Sergeant
at-Arms of the House of Representatives,
under a simple act of the Rump House.
This deposition of the President is to be
followed forthwith by the installation of Il
Senator as President. The Supreme Court
cannot be overthrown until the President
Is first overthrown-for the President nom
mates and so far creates the Judges of this
court. Gentlemen. | tell these Radicals to
beware, Their hold upon this Government
all hangs upon Democratic love of law
and order, upon their reverence for the
Constitution of the land-the supreme law
We have the bone and muscle of these At
lantic States, from the boundaries of Massa-
chusetts to the Potomac river, the hard hand
ed, ~hard-iisted, iron-muscled men of the
workshops, the ship-yards, the foundrieS.
The fighting men are ours three, II not five
to one. They nave put us in prison with
ont the law, and we have gone there. They
have fettered and manaeled us in prisons
and on the way there, and we have submit
ted. They have torn down u printing
presses. They nave mobbed our people.
They have sileneed free speech and free
press. Their gentlemen in epauletteS
their Provost Marshals, have inflicted upon
us outrages which, under a hopeless
despotism, would have driven men
forthwith into rebellion. But we all, in
Fort Lafayette or out, have submitted, be-
cause, in due time, we knew that the free
institutions of our country would rise SUI
pcrior to oppression, and vindicate law and
liberty. This Supreme Court of the United
states has now pronounced all these OUT
RACES upon the Democracy of the country
to be lawless and revo~lutionary-in SUBJ
stance, has decided that the Demo-
cratic party were right, and the Radical
party were all ~wrong-that we were the
loyal men (the only loyal men-that is,
men obedient to law), and they the dis
LOYAL. lawless men of the land. [Great
cheering,l These Radicals have educated
MS during four long years of civil wal
to recognize the Administration of the
Government as the Government. When
the hdbeaS corpus Mas SIT prpded by
the President, the Government sus-
pended il, we were told, MS the Govern
ment had a right to suspend it. When Pro
vost Marshals violated all laws, human and
divine, under the order of the President
the Government, we were told, had a right
so to Ordain. We are not, then, we cannot
be, forgetfnl of these lessons. We may no
approve them in principle, though taught
TO put them In practice, and suffering from
such teaching. What, then, | have to say
is this If the programme of the very dis
tinguished Generals from Massachusetts i
executed by the Rump branch of Congress
and the Executive Department is broker
up, and the President arrested and in
carceratcd-a proclamation from him in
voking the aid of the people Il
stand by the Government will star
the hard-fisted Democracy from their foun
dries, their workshops, their ship-yards-
and no one railrOad-n0, not a Thousand
railroads-will have means enough To carrl
them on TO Washington. loud cheers.
Orr ministers of religion have taught us
obedience to government Is obedience Il
Cod and, God willing, we mean TO stanC
bv and TO maintain this Government, anC
10 bandit down to our children just rs on
fathers handed IL down to us-the inherit
ance of Ireemen, of free institutions, am
of constitutional liberty and law PRO
longed cheers.