Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-07-03
CHE W. q. Ghrunifle.
sPEBCH OF
HON. FRED. HASSAUREK,
OF CINCINNATI.
Delivered at Columbus, June 10, 1857

OF C1NC1H N AT1s
Delivered at Columbus, June 10, 1856
If the Bourbon leaders of the Demo
cratic party have forgotten anything,
is only the great fundamental princi
pie of Democracy to which their part,
owed its origin and former strength
They have forgotten only what the,
should have remembered, but, will
reference to all that they should hay,
tried to unlearnt, their memory is a
tenacious as that Of the Bourbons o
Europe. Our American Bourbons are
still fighting the issue of the first bat
tie of Bull Run; but they have moi
yet learned the news of the fall o.
Richmond and the surrender of Lee
They haYe not yet realized that the
war has terminated in the defeat oi
Secession and the vindication of our
National integrity. They are still con.
ming over an old pro-slaYery dispatch.
written by Mr.. Seward, early in the
beginning of the war, when reconcilia-
ton and peaceable reunion were still
thought to be possible. But they will
not realize, that, in the meantime,
their pet Institution had been swept
away, and new era inaugurated BY
the success of the Federal arms. They
went to sleep, like Rip Van Wrinkle,
years ago, with the resolutions OF
1898 under their pillows, and they are
just awakening from their Dreams
They cannot believe that Mic Vedder
and Jacob Stein are dead, and that
the days of poor Rip are gone They
have again presented themselves to
the people of Ohio with q platform of
political Bourbonism. Its outward
features Its interminable length. Its
intrinsic feature is disloyalty. 1t is a
rehssh of the antiwar speeches of
Pendleton and Valandigham. Il bris-
ties with nullifcation. It's breath is
repudiation. 1t is fraught with bad
faith. 1t spurns the obligations our
national struggle has deyolVed upon US.
In the speech which / had the honor
to deliver before the Union State Con-
vention of last year, 1 said that the
people of the United States have as
sumed two solemn obligations. One of
protection to the nations wards, the
freedmen, and the other OF good faith
to our national creditors. If the Demo
cratic party had had the power, it
would, to our everlasting disgrace, have
both these obligations.-
Whether the Union party undertook
toward the performance of these obi
cations, met with the UNQUALIFIED op-
position of our opponents. They op-
posed the war for the suppression Of
the rebellion. They opposed the abo-
lition OF slavery. They opposed all
measures for the protection Of the lives
and liberties of Southern Unionists.-
And if our national debt is being paid,
t is done in spite of the Democratic
party. If it were not for theexistence
If the Union party, the true genuine
Democratic idea would now be with
,ut representative.
Governments are instituted for the
protection ofindiYidual rights. Wheth-
n the power necessary for this purpose |
hall be conferred on an aristocracy of
privileged few, or many, or whether
shall be vested in the whole people,
8 the great question which now agi-
ates the public mind in both hemis-
heres, in England as well as in Ameri.
a. The history of the last few years
as clearly marked cut the policy
Thich viii De adopted by our people.
md this with your permission / shall
rieHy proceed to show.
he EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF PROTECTION
FROM ABOVE DoWNWARDs.
In order to fulfill our duty to the
'eedmen by protecting their lives, lib
rty and property, several laws had
cen passed by Congress which proved
sufficient The amendatory Freed
len's Bureau Bill was passed. So was
le Civil Rights Bill. But these laws
id not fully accomplish their purpose.
heir execution depended on an un-
illing President the machinery crea-
ID by them was too complicated and 8
and their object was defeat
by the determined hostility of pub {
9 opinion in the States for which they !
ere chiefly intended. Thus far Con-
'ess in endeavoring to protect the per- j
ms and property of the freedmed had I
ted on what l might call the Euro s
san system of protection, which is i
objection from above downwards.- 7
hat system proved insufficient; and
became necessary to resort to the
merican system of protection which Q
protection from below upwards s
ne European system is the inverted f
Tramid resting on its apex; the 8
merican system is the pyramid in It's t
Itural position resting on its broad q
uare foundation. In continental v
1rope the government in order to r
otect those under its charge, reduces O
EN- to pupilage and leads them like O
ildren tied to its apronstrings. 1t S
terferes with everything and regu- 8
les everything. You meet it at every
rner. 1t prizes into every mans bust "
ss. You cannot lay your hands upon a
y thing for which it has not prescri- q
d rules and regulations. That sys- Z
N would never do for US. 1t would c
impracticable in view of the extent b
d magnitude of our country. It @
,uld be unsuitable to the peculiar q
aracter, the self-reliance, self-asser- %
N, and strong individuality of our 5
ople. 1t would be incompatible with 81
r fundamental idea of self-goVern- b
snt. For this reason it also proved If
practicable as q means of shielding q,
e freedmen against outrages and op- a
ession. 1t became necessary, there G
,e, to apply our own system to them d
our great American system Of self
'teet;on-that is to say, of employing Is
FFRAeE as the principal means of at o.
ming the ends of government. ic
z AMERICAN SYSTEM OF ysELF-PRoTEcTIoN n
R PROTECTION FROM BELOW UPWARDS. 81
Dur system is based on the supposi- y
n that vote is q much stronger ~
apon than the club of policeman, o.
the bayonet of soldier. We be- \ X
We in the educating and ciVilizing 10
luences and protective virtues of the %
lot. 1t continually reminds those 81 =.
10 form the apex of the pyramid ~
1t they are dependent on, and res p
nsible to, those who form its base u
recalls rulers apt to forget them ~
yes in the sweet enjoyment of pow "
to sense of their true position.-D De
has remarkable tendency to make "a
,se polite and affable aud friendly 81
ON little brief authority inclines W
be rude and oyerbearing. If the Ju
rks in Dickens circumlocution Office IT
l had reason to fear Mr.. Clennam's
e, they would have treated him
eh better. Suffrage is q powerful ~,