Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-05-21
Speech Of Henry Clay Dean---The Mother of
States and Statesmen.

Hon. Henry Clay Dean, of Iowa, lately ad
dressed large and enthusiastic meeting a
Louisville, Kentucky. He said that he came
to plead for the re-establishment of the Ameri
can system of government on the continent o
America. After referring feelingly to the los
of liberty in Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Ken
lucky and other States, where the Radicals rule
with an iron hand. he thus referred to the mil
itary bill and the character of Virginians:
1T is crime against Christianity. Yor
have here the utter ignoring of self lf-government
and the government of country by negroes
who actually practice heather orgies at this day
The intelligent and learned are to be trampleo
down by the unlearned, the gross, the bestial
[ would like to have debate on this subject
and L gave them an opportunity to discuss this
Do you know that when South America poured
her gold into the lap of Spain. and the wealth
of the new world was made tributary to the old
that some of the first families became jealous Of
growing aristocracy? 1t was thought this
could be remedied by the introduction of emi
grants. The result was that, by investing In
dians with the right of suffrage, instead of ele-
waiting the Indian, the Castilian was degraded.
God never made Indians for government. He
made them for anarchy, and they have got it.
The islands Of the sea, settled by negroes, un-
derwent the same process.
but who are these people that are to be
subjected to this kind of government? They
are men like the Virginians and the South Car
olians. Who are these Virginians? Since
Adam was driven out of Eden there never was
such an eventful century as that which com
menced with George Washington and ended
with the surrender of Robert E. Lee Loud
and continued applause. When Burke and
Pitt and Charles Fox and Sheridan and the
great British statesmen were in their glory a
plain Virginian farmer wrote these words
"All the just powers of a government are de-
rived from the consent of the governed -
lApplause. When the American colonies
knew not what to do, land it is easier to start .
revolution than to carry it through,) George
Washington, Virginian was called to lead
their armies to victory, to place in the temple
Of fame letters written in living fire that will
burn long after the light of the sun has died
out, when the angel Of salvation shall dip his
pen in the blood of Calvary, and write forever
in the Lambs Book of Life-George Washing
ton, Virginian [Applause The Constitu-
ton Of the United States, that bound the peo-
pie of America together for three quarters of a
century, was written by James Madison, Vir-
ginian. When the people wanted their rights
secured by pure judiciary, they cast their eyes
on John Marshall, a Virginian. Applause. !
Virginia Why, when Charles the Twelfth,
lavished empires and gave Kingdoms to neigh
boring monarchs, it was thought to be won
derful benevoence but Virginia claimed moth
ing for herself when she gave up all this State
of Kentucky. She did not even ask for money
to buy the stamp or to pay for writing the deed
CHEERS. | say it here, to cheer every broken
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existed, since God made the world, ever had a
better right to surrender their history to COM
petent men, so as to warn every tyrant and
cheer every lover of liberty"