Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-12-02
John Quine y Adams on DisIOyal-
ty aud Rebel Outrages.

From recent speech delivered by
this gentleman, we extract as follows
What is their favorite charge aginst
all who differ with them? " They are
disloydt ?" What is that? Well,
Will tell you. Loyalty is Il word deriv-
ed from old feudal times, and expresses
the relation of the slave to his master,
the subsection of the serf to his lord,
the regard of the vassal for his king.
The citizen is free, the subject is loyal.
Loyalty is no new thing. 1t was ram
pant here before the battle of Bunker's
Hill. Then as now, the rich and high
were most loyal" The loyalist,
however, disliked the climate after the
Declaration" They are remembered
as Tories now. Generals Warren and
Putnam were "rebelsn about the same
time. Let the negro, If he likes, be
loyal to his carpet-bagger, and the of
fice-holder to his patron, and the Radi-
cal politician to his government, but
as for us we will be content with the
old fashioned ways of our fathers, and
swear with them "to the best OF our
ability TO preserve, protect and defend
the constitution of the United States"
These are net my notions, gentlemen,
they are the notions of Thos. jefferson.
According to him each man has right
limited only by his neighbours equal
rights-to his liberty, and to pursue his
own happiness in his own way. These
were rights which he maintained to be
inherent, inalienable, and not deriva-
tive or held by any service. All that
governments can do is to see that these
rights are not interfered with, or the
mans innocent, free action hampered.
The best government is that which
governs least. The best government
is that which governs least. The best
governments are those who govern
| Themselves. My friends, exactly that
is our notion to-day. al that is neces-
| sary TO dispose of all these questions
that the eternal medling and managing
of the party of all the morals has rails
| ed, is TO apply the simple Democratic
| test to them, and mark the result. Do
you ask me how to deal with the
South?
The Democratic doctrine is contained
in n queer, cid, rusty, forgotten pam
| phlet-Let me read il to you: 1.-THE
people of this wealth have
| the sole and exclusive right of govern
ing themselves rs Il free, sovereign anC
Independent state; and do, and forev'
| er hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy
every power, jurisdiction, and right
which is not or may not hereafter be
| by them expressly detey0tcd to TIE
| United States of America in Congress
assembled And if that is treason
as ! suppose ii is now-a-days-why, II
| is high time that the book which con
tains it be burned by the common
hangman. 1t is entitled, a declare
ton of the rights of all the inhabitant'
of the Commonwealth of Massachu
sets" That gentleman. is pure dis
loyal Democracy, and nothing else, ant
we stick TO it still. But, then, color
ed gentleman, nj Faneuil Hall, told M
that there were "outrages" at th'
| South. Well, | should think it very
probable. | only wonder there are no
more. 1t must be a mcanspirited peo
pie who would not get outrageous un
der such tre. tment. / am sure Massa
chusetts people were rough enough
when similar ATTEMPT was made L
reconstruct them in l765. For an IN
fringement of their liberties, not ON
hundredth part as gross rs that perpe
trated OH Georgia, they burnt down TN
house of Governor Hutchinson, an'
plundered, rifled and robbed the kous
es of the Register of the Admiralty aG'
OF the Comptro Ter of the Customs IL
the city of Boston. And, my trends
! am very much afraid they would dc
it again, loyal as they are, in n lik'
ease. Ii is always so in such cases
Ireland is full of "outragos," and Hun
gary WAS so outrageous that Austrii
has been compelled to restore her con
stitutional rights TO her i'm order TO stol
the "outrages.n OF course there ar
outrages in the subject States. / know
of one myself, gross outrage; indee'
very nearly as Infamous an outrage n
ever was committed upon free people
the great original supreme outrage
reconstruction.