Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-11-11
John Quincy adams Democrats IN Caaaa
ctf-speech of H1r. Adams.

mination to Nuke big fight. Thsir nom
inee for Governor is that clesr headed
staunch patriot. John Qaincy Adams. an
immense mseting was held in Fanenl
Hall, few days since, at which Colonel
Adams spoke in his usual clear and forci-
BILE style.
We print his address, which we com
mend to tho attention Of our readers.
After opening with few words Of greet
ing to his friends, he said
Let Government prevent men from
expressing and cheating each other, but
beyond that let each man absolutely alone
to pursue his own happiness in his own
way, without any interference. So saith
Thomas Jefferson, and that is ali the law
} and the prophets. 'Tne moment a Gov
ernment assumes the direct rg and pro
tecting plan," that moment it ceases to be
Democracy and becomes ari5tocracy. The
representatives Of a people who all vote
will necessarily, in the long run. be exact
ly equal in worth to the average Of their
constituents and no more. For the repre-
sentative Of an average to assume q WI
dom superior to The average Of his people
is absurd. All he can do is to leave them
alone, and pass such necessary laws the
fewer the better as shall compel them TO
leave each other alone in all innocent pur
suits. Beyond that, not one step. The
rule of the best is generally, "a We know
to our cost, the best government the world
ever SAVIOR tie best. But very respect
able colored man told rs bere, IN this hall,
some days since, that it was wIoog to leave
the people Of the South free to govern
themselves, because there were ''Outragas'
there. Now, we know that fellow ''Out-
rage and his ways by this time as well rs
we got to know tho Intelligent contra
band" during the war, and just before
election we have become accustomed to
look for good many Of him. But, sup
posing for the sake Of the argument, that
they were bona 1ide 0utrages-sCppOsinC
that they were as genuine Outraces a3 the
people of Boston were guilty OF IN old
Colonial times, Imagine that tho Ku-
Klux were rough as the mob which
sacked Governor Hutchinson'a house, and
broke open and ravaged the dwellings Of
Storer and HalloWelI-'IoyGl" men ana
officeholders or as lawless a7 the men
who threw the tea into the harbor down
below here, or helped Attacks stone the
'lobster- backs over in King street,
yonder.
Let us assume, for instance, that they
love Reconstruction" and ''disfranchi7o-
nent" and negro aristccracy just as well as
our fathers liked King George an ! "ta1-
alton without representation" aud the
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that kind Of thing as Sam Adams Or John
Hancock. What does it prove CnIy
this, that If you will violate tic law Cf free
| government, you must take the cousC-
quences. If you will tramplo on mems
pride and sentiment-yes, or even on their
cherished prejudices. 10 say nothing ii
their rights--yOu may lOOk for ''outraS =.
Why, gentlemen, L have read CT these o 1t
RACES in history before now, and, y h re
do youthjnk they occur Why, Ireland
has been famous for 'outraGeo" fOr ccE-
| turiea. Poland las been land Of out
RACES. Hungary was for very many yfars
q very nest and hot-be3 Of ontcaScs, and
indeed she became so Ontra5ocu@ jDAt
Austria had finally to IiaG cure. AID
she found one, my friends. rerfac. care;
not an ''outrage" now 10 be heard Of. Aua
what was it q? Why. she restored 10 I2a-
gary her constitutional right that il all.
! And as soon as we restore TO the South hGr
rights under the Constitution we shall
hear no more of ''outragcs" No wonder
there are outrages. [ wonder there afe
not more. [ am sure we shonld not b8 rs
quiet if the cases were reversed. know
we were not at alI quiet one hundred
years ego when it was tried here. [ fear
if you should put the Asiatic to rule over
US, as we have put the African 10 rule over
them there would be some trihlng ont
RACES going en-. But there is very little Of
: political violence down there, though
certainly there are some "outragea." L
know OF one myself; plain, manlIest,
! fragrant, intolerabe outrage upon free
.. government and constitutional law, and
= that is Reconstruction" itself. Nc, my
friends you must stick 10 your principles
even if the clouds do lower.
: Although the way seem inpassable. you
must go on fearlessly, Or on are lost
, Either the good sense anG coed feeling of
. 4 s I, 4, 1o-1 i1c =
established peace and good order and good
: government there without the dictation of
. Congress, the disfranchisemenI of ''rebels'
= and the enforcement OF liberty by the sol
= diers, or else the ''truths of the Declar-
? alton are lies and the whole charter a
,, fraud. This way of spreading liberty by
the bayonet is q very favOrite way with our
Republican friends, and it IS growing more
useful aud more necessary to them every
8 day. Judge Hoar declared at R2xburY
that the Republicans must not permit the
Democrats to tal1O Office, because it they
were once in, the Republicans could never
q get them out without a civil war. Well,
q that is true, think. If once the people
do taste liberty again; If once they are
free from this expensive, fussy, Ineddio.
. some, corrupt concern of money ana nor
} ais, this aristocracy, nlcknamed repubii-
: canism, think myself that they will be
u very 10th to let it mount them again. IN
s fact do think that once out the Repab
9 9 lican party will have to inaugurat9 4 civil
war before ever the people wi submit tc
: them again. Ono taste OF such q rule as
Q theirs is very satisfying. And [ am the
% more confirmed in this belief by tho c0I-
IL slant and considerable display OF force
e which is requisite even 10 keep from over
q throw that odious oIigerchy. For seyera
g years past bayonets have been necessary II
% ten or twelve States to point ont 10 the
rs people the blessings of Radical rule. Ii
e North Carolina, lately, even this favorite
IL argument of arms failed to convince peo
g pie fatally bent on freedom.
10 Whole companies Of soldiers at the poll!
IL were hardly sufficient to repress the un
a reasonable desire Of Pennsylvania TO b'
il rid of her oficious b8nefactoIs, and ten
D. thousand United States troops haYa been
l. assembled to make sure that New York i
70 thrust back under the servitua8 she ha'