The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1870-11-19

;. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, At BOSTON
OCTOBER 2l.
And now, fellow citizens, you ma,
fairly ask us what we have to prOpos
if you give the power to the Democrat
) ic party. l will tell you, and it is cas-,
to tell, for l have no new thing to dis
cover. The principles sofDcmocr:icy ART
as old as the government itself, an(
they are rs plain as the sun ut monday
1.-THE doctrine is tho same that it wa:
seventy years ago, and will be seventy
years hence. Democracy, in Il word
begins ut the other end altogether. II
takes the individual man as the start.
ing point, and says that he is the inn
portant matter, and your government
is only an incident and creature of his
convenience. 1t laughs ut your pre-
postcrous idea that government is wiser
and better than the people. 1t is aris-
| tocracy which assumes Il superior merit
| to direct and advise its subjects. 1t is
| monarchy by grace of God which pre-
tends to this power of cosseting and
dandling its children. 1t is imperial
| ism which conqucrs and administers
abjcct and subject provinces. Democ-
racy leaves each man free to seek his
own happiness, provided he does not
injurc his neighbOr. Why, my friends,
even the language of the Radical news
paper and stump smells of the obsequi-
GUS spirit which bows to an aristocracy
| of spectators and money changers and
shop keepers. What is their fi,vorite
charge against all who differ with
them: " They are dis1o.yal." What is
that? Well, I will tell you. Loyalty
is Il word derived from old feuClal times,
and expresses the relation of the slave
] to his master, the subjection of the serf
to his lord, the regard of the vasscl for
his king. The citizen is free, the sub
ject is loyal. Loyalty is no new thing.
1t was rampant here before the battle
of Bunker's Hill. Then, as now, the
rich and high were most '' loyal" The
"loyalists," however, disliked the eli
mate after the Declaration" They
are remembered as Tories now. Gener-
ais Warren and Putnam were " rebcls''
about the same time. Let the negro,
| if he: likes, be loyal to carpet baggers,
and the office holder to his patron, and
t>the Radical politician to his "govern-
mcnt," but as for us, we will be con-
tent with the O1d-G,ShiOned ways of our
fathers, and swear with them "tO the
best of our ability to preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution of the
l United States" These are not nv no.
tons, gentlemen; they were the notions
of Thomas Jefferson. According to
him each man has Il right-limited only
: by his neighbor's equal rights-to his
life, to his liberty, and to pursue his
own happiness in his own way. These
were rights which he maintained tC
be inherent, inalienable, and not deriv
ative or held by any service. All gov
crnmcnts can do is to see that these
,.s.s sl,<, :,,f1 1ef.,
mans innocent, free action hampercd
The best government is that which gov
crns least. The best governed are those
who govern themselves. My friends
exactly that is our notion to-day. All
that is necessary to dispose of all these
questions which the patcrnal mcddling
and managing of the party of all the
morals has raised, is to apply the sim
pie Democratic test to them, and mark
the result. DO you ask me how to deal
with the South? The Democratic doe
trinc is contained in a queer, old rusty,
and forgotten pamphlet. Let me read
it to you: "Thc people of this "ur,nl-
mOnWcalth have the sole and exclusive
right of governing themselves rs Il free
sovereign, and independent State; and
do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise
and enjoy every power, jurisdiction
after be by them expressly delegated tC
the United States of America in Con.
grcsS assembled" And if that is trca.
son-;s suppose it is nowadays-why
it is high time that the book which
contains it be burned by the common
hangnan. 1t is entitled, "A dcclara
ton of the Rights of the inhabitants o.
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ,
That, gentlemen, is pure disioyai De
mocracy, and nothing else, and We
stick to it still. The policy which dis
franchises men because they were rebels
is just as undcnOcratic as that which
brands men because they are black
But, then, II colorcd gentleman the 9th
cr night, ut Fancuil Hall told US tha
there are "Outragcs'' at the South
Well, / should think it very probable
j only wonder there are not more.
must be Il mean spirited people tina
would not grow outrageous under sucl
treatment. l am sure MaSSachusett
people were rough enough when II sim
liar attempt was made to rcconStr,Ic
, them in 1860. For an Infringement o
their liberties, not Onc-hundrc1lth par
: as gross as that pcrpctratcd on Georgia,
! they burned down the house of Cover
) nor Hutchinson, and plundcrcd an'
, rifleu and robbed the houses of the reg
. lister of the admiralty and of the comp
trOllcr of the customs in Boston. An,
: my friends, ! ann very much afrai,
r they would do it again, loyal as the.
are, in II like case. IT is always so il
) such cases. Ireland is full of uout
: RACES" Poland was famous for g out
l ragcs," and hungary was so outrageou
t that Austria has been compelled t