The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-07-11

pressed of all nations, should be fos-
tered and encouraged by liberal and
just policy. Is this foreign immigra
ton fostered by policy which is the
mask of laws just passeddeclaring eight
hours to be legal days labor, by the
cost of the Government and OF swarms
of officials which so swell the cost of
living that men must toll on to meet
these exactions Cheers The
time was when we could not duly in
yite the Europeans to share with us
the material blessings OF our great
country. But more than this. We
could tell those who fed from oppres-
sion that we lived under Government
of laws administered by the judiciary,
which kept the bayonet and the sword
in due subordination. We could point
to a written Constitution which not
only marked out the powers of the
Government, but with anxious care Sc
cured the humblest man the rights of
property, of person and of conscience.
Is immigration encouraged by tramp
ling that Constitution in the dust, treat
ing with contempt and Stacking the
Judiciary, insulting the Executive and
give all the world to understand that
the great guarantees of civil and polit-
ical rights are destroyed. Great APP
plause.
But the browning Indictment against
the follies and crimes of those in pow
er is in these words That we re-
cognize the great principles handed
i 81 IT,
dence as the true foundation of Dem
ocratic government, and we hail with
giadness every effort towards making
these principles living reality on ev-
cry inch of American soil" If within
the limits of ten States of this Union
an American citizen, stung by sense
Of his wrongs should publicly and
truthtally..denounce the men in power,
because in the very language Of this
Declaration of Independence, they
have elected a multitude of officers,
and sent hither swarms of men to har-
rass our people and eat out their sub
stance" he would in all probability be
dragged to prison. Or if, in the
indignant language of our fathers, he
should exclaim, g They have affected
to render the military independent of
and superior to the civil power, they
have abolished the free system of En-
glish law and established herein an ar
bitrary government for the offense
of associating these principles he
would be tried and punished by mil
itary tribunal. Great cheering. /
Having declared that the principles of
independence should be made living
reality on every inch of American soil,
they put in nomination military
chieftan who stands at the head of that
system Of despoJism that brushes
beneath its foot the greatest principle of the
| Declaration Of Independence. Cheers To-
day, in some of the States, it is held by mil
ltary orders to be a crime to speak ont the
indignation and contempt which burn with
in the bosoms of patriotic men. If to-mor-
row military order should be put forth in
that State where the ashes of Washington
are entOmbed, that it be an offence to de-
clare that the military should ever be sub
ordinate to the civil authority, to speak the
sentiment that it was disgrace to our coun-
try to let hordes of officials eat up the sub
stance of the people; he who uttered these
| words could be dragged to prison from the
very grave where lie the remains of the au-
Loud cheering From this outrage there
should be no appeals to the courts, and the
Republican candidate has accepted posi-
ton which makes the rights aud liberties
of large share of our people dependent on
his will. Applause. In view of these
two things can there be one man IN this Con-
ventiOn who can let personal ambition. a
passion, prejudice, turn him aside one
hairs breadth in his efforts to wipe off the
wrongs and outrages which disgrace our
country! Can there be one man whose
heart is so dead to all that is great and noble
in patriotism, but that he will gladly sacri-
flee all other things for the sake of his coun-
try, its liberty and its greatness? Can we
suffer any prejudices growing out of past
differences of opinion to hinder us uniting
now with all who will act with us to save
our country? [Cheers.
We meet to-day to see what measures can
be taken to avert the dangers which threat
en- our country, and to relieve it from the
evils and burthens resulting from bad gov
eminent and unwise counsels / thank
God that the strife of arms has ceased, and
that once more in the great Conventions of
our party, we can call through the whole
roll of States, and find men to answer for
each. Time and events on the great cycles
have brought us to this spot to renew and
invigorate that constitutional government
which, nearly eighty years ago was inaugu-
rated in this city. Loud cheers 1t was
here that George Washington, the first Pres
ident, swore to preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of these United States
[Cheers.]
And here, this day, we as solemnly our
selves swear to uphold the rights and liber-
ties of the American people. Then, as now,
a great war which had desolated our land
had ceased. Then, as now, there was in ev-
cry patriotic breast longing for the bles-
sing of good government for the protection
of the laws, and for the sentiments of fra
ternal regard and affection among the inhab-
itants of the States of this Union. When
our Government, in 1889, was inaugurated
In this city, there were glad professions of
men, and those manifestations of great ioy
which people show when they feel that an
event has happened which is to give lasting
blessings to the land. To-day in the same
spirit this vast assemblage meets, and the
streets of this city are thronged with men
who have come from the utmost borders of
orr continent. They are filled with the
hope that we are about, by our actions and
our policy, to bring back the blessing of a
good Government. 1t is among the happiest
omens which inspire us now, that those who
fought bravely in our late civil war are fore
most IN their demands that there shall be
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