The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-12-07
Jehn Quincy Adams GIN the Resph.
lean Party.
A SPIRITED SKETCH

The following extract is from sneo..
delivered by John Quincy Adam,
franklin Hall, Boston, October aza
1870:
Look again at Missouri. The,a
an honest division of opinion ans
honored and eminent leaders of the p.s
publican party on n question of p,;.s:
pie. Mr.. Crate Brown and Say. ei'
Schurz maintain that it is a paroJs
equal rights to give votes tn VI
black man in the State, and to refn:ss
votes at the same time to fifty tho,
sand white men. And so tb;nl a ,
so thinks the honest half of the Psna sa
lican party. And yet President csas.
meets this debate hows By arcr,m.a.,
He cannot speak. By ideas 7 Ha w.
none. BY persuasion Ills of sn nay
kind rs he knows, and the only L;s sa
his party prescription. foro.
"war power He turns ont NJ ~m'
all who differ from him. / tell van
my friends, the fanlt is in the uto,s,
grand, systematic, combined and con
solidated paraphernaIia of au.oer.or
denominated the Republican nart,
From its Pharaisaic thanking OF GA
that it is so much more moral tLs.
other parties are, tfro Ugh the brno
critical humbHg which Processes ).
cite the Declaration of Independe,.s
with its assertion that Government,
derive their just power from the con-
sent of the governed" in defense of
reconstruction" down to the flaoran.
fraud which protests that it proteet.
all equally by tariff, which allow
tile employer to charge monopoly prices
while the employed must starye ON
Chinese wages, from top to bottom. !.
from end to end-the thing is rottan
and corrupt oligarcho of money. Ana.
now, fciiowcitizens, you may fairly asf
us what we have to propose if you piye
the power to the Democratic party. /
will tell yOn it is easy to tell. for Ihaye
no new thing to discover. The prinej.
pies oil Democracy are as old as Tho
government itself, and they are "A
plain as the sun at noon-day. Tina
doctrine is the same that it was seven.
ty years ago, and will be seventy years
hence. Democracy, in word. begins
ut the other end altogether. 1t taka
the individual man as the starring
point, aud says that he is the impcr.
tant matter, and your government i,
only an incident and creature of h;s
convenience. 1t laughs at your nre-
pOsterOus idea that government is wiser
and better than the people. 1t is q.
istocracy which assumes a superior
merit to direct and advise its suhjecfs.
1t is monarchy by grace of God Which
pretends. TO this power of cossetipr
and dandling its children. 1t is i'm.
perialism which conqners and admins
tiers abjcet and subject provinces. De-
nocracy leaves each man free TO seek
his own happiness, provided he does
not injure his neighbor. Why. nv
friends, even the language Of the Rad.
cal newspaper and stump smells OF the
obsequious spirit which bows to an
aristocracy of spectators and money
changers and shop-keepers. What 10
this their f;lvorite charge against all
who differ with thcm7 '.,rhey are dis
loyal" What is that Well, | will
tell you. Loyalty is word derived
from old feudal times, and expresses
the relation of the slave to his master;
the subsection of the serf to bis lord;
the regard of the vassal for his king.
The citizen is free, the subject is loyal.
Loyalty is no new thing. Il was rau-
pant here before the battle Of Bunkers
Hill. Then, as now, the rich and high
were most "loyai.n The '.loyalists,a
however, disliked tie climate after ihs
Declaration" They are remembered
as Tories now. Generals Warren and
Putnam were "rebels" about the same
time. Let the negro, if lie likes, 10
loyal to his carpet-bagger, and the
office holder to his patron and the Rad :
ical politician to his government
but as for US, we will be content with
the old-fasl,ioned ways of our fathers,
and swear with them "io the best of our
ability to preserve, protect. and defend
the Constitution of the Uuited States
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