The Republican journal., 1871-01-26

with them '1hey are d1Spyal." w Hat Is that =!
Well | will tell you. Loyalty is word derived
from the old fcudal times, and expresses the rea-
ton of the slave to his master, the subsection of the
ser to his lord the regard of the vessel for his king
The citizen is tree, the subject is loyal Loyalty is
no new thing 1t was rampant here before the bat
tie of Bunker's Hill. Then, as now, the rich and
high We're most 'loyal." The "loyalists," howev..
er. disliked the climate after the "Declaration:"
They are remembered as Tories now. Generals
Warren and Putnam were rebels about the same
time. Let the negro, if he likes, be loyal to the
carpet-bagger and the offce-holder to his patron,
and the Radical politician to his '.governm1esnt,
nut for us, will be content with the old-fash-
toned ways of our fathers, and swear with them
ito the best of our ability to preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution OF the United States"
These are not my notions, gentlemen, they were
the notions of Thomas Jefferson. According to
him. each man has right-mted only by his
neighbours equal rightsto his life, to his liberty,
and to pursue his own happiness in his own way.
These were rights which he maintained to be inhe-
rent, inaenable and not derivative or held by any
service. All governments can do is to see that
these rights are not inerfered with or the mans
innocent, free action hampered The best govern
mcnt is that which governs least: The best govern
ed are those who govern themselves. My friends
exactly that is our notion to-day. All that is nee
cssary TO dispose Of all these questions which the
paternal meddlng and managing OF the party Of all
the morals has raised, is to apply the simple Demo-
cratic test to them, and mark the result. Do you
ask me how to deal with the South : The Demo-
cratic doctrine is contained i'll queer old, rusty
and forgotten pamphlet Let me read it to you.
1.-The people of this commonwealth have the sole
exclusive right of governing themselves as a free
sovereign and independent State; and do, and for
ever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every pow
CT, jurisdiction, and right which is not or may not
hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the
United States of America is Congress assembled"
And if that Is trcasOn-as | suppose 1t IS n0W-a-
days-why, it is high time that the book which con-
tlinS ii be burned by the common hangman. 1t is
entitled, "a Declaration of Rights of the inhab-
ttnts Of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,"
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nothing Clse and stick TO it still. But, then, gem
trman the other night at Faneui Hall told us that
there were "outrages' at the South Well, l
should think it very probable. l only wonder that
there are not more. 1t must be a mean spirited
people that would not grow outrageous under such
treatment. am sure Massachusetts people were
rough enough when similar attempt was made to
reconstruct them in 1l65. For an infringement of
their liberties, not one hundredth part gross as
that pcrpctrateG on Georgia, they bore down the
house of Governor Hutchinson, and pundered and
riied and robbed the houses of the Register of the
Admiralty and of the Comptroller of the Customs
in Boston. Ald, my friends, | am very much
afraid they would do it again, loyal they are, in
Il like case. 1t is always SO in such cases. Ireland
is full of "outrages,' Poland was famous for 'out-
RACES and Hungary was SO outrageous that Aus
tria has been compelled to restore her constitution
III rights to her in order to stop the "outrages.'
OF course they are ourages in the subject States.
| know one myself, a gross outrage; indeed, very
nearly as infamous an outrage as ever was commit
led upon free people, the great, original and SUI
premc outragc-rcconstructiOn
There Is nothing for it but to trust the people un-
re>eryedy, confident that sooner or later the COM
sense of most will guarantee the liberty of all
in the subject, less than in the free States of the
Union. or else the fundamental idea of the Declara-
lion is false and the basis Of the Constitution a
fraud If You ask me about tariff and taxation,
beg you TO apply the plain rule yourself. Why, for
heavens sake, should not free man sell what he
has and buy what he lacks precisely where he
leases, so long as he pays his share of the common
expense: BY what right can any Set of men in
this nation dictate to me how l shall employ my
money or my memory so long as pay my score ?
Whence came this heneicent patronage which pres
ses profit on me, if manufacture, and menaces me
With ruin ii plough Whence comes the special
illumination which teaches majority that it is for
10y good to take my money away from me and
give il another to help him out of bankruptcy -?
The reason why is--torce. The reason why is, that
Congress assumes to know better what is good for
the people than do the people themselves. And
so, gentlemen, as to corruption. The Republican
party can deal with corruption-they have made it
the very vital force of their organization. BY that
lives and moves and has its being, and without it.
us mission long since accomplished, it would die.
To deal with corruption effectually, you must cut
If up by the rootS-abolish the Offices dismiss your
assessors and tide-waiters, cut down the taxes,
stop your gifts and grants, abolish special egisla-
ton-and all this the principle of democracy re-
quires. This is what it means. For it will suffer
no man in ideness nor levy dollar that is not nee.
eSsary. Cut down your army and abolish those
nests of corruption and fraud the navy yards, and
clean out all the Augean stables of filth which has
been piling up for thirty years. Inspect rigidly
Your custom-houSes and simplify the antiquated
tormuliSm which employs one man to do nothing,
and ten men to help him do it.
Rake out the cumbrous machinery at Washing
ton and dismiss the myriad myrmidons of the
Treasury. Reduce your expenses one-haf and then
ent down your taxation so low that you can Just
pay that with all the interest and twenty millions
of the principal of the debt each year. and take not
one dollar more from the people. That is Democ-
racy, LET the people alone" Governments
were made for man, not man for governments.
Hands off," Put more trust in humanity and less
in quackery. Contide more III the capacity of man
10 take of himself. and less in your ability to
take care of him. Remember that the best
service which Congress can do the American
people is just to keep out of their way. For that Is
Democracy And hearken to the man who swore
by the Eternal that the Bank of the United States
should come down. And who brought it down
IF the principle of constructive power and suppos-
cu adN antages OF tempory circumstances shall ever
he permitted to justify the assumption of power
not given by the Constitution, the general govern
ment VIII before long absorb all the power of legis-
lation, and You will have in effect but one CONSOLE
dated government For that is Jacksonian Democ-
racy. / know well how hard it is to induce men
TO trust in the simple methods of nature or initiate
the free government of God. We all love humbug
and cleave TO quack. We adore smart men and
banker for short cuts. If the body polite feels a
pain, quick clap on the specific plaster sovereign
cure of all ills of State, statute. We must still be-
heVc i'll our hearts that the famous man who made
ten thousand dollars one morning before breakfast
by merely marking up his stock actually realized
the cash, or we should not cling to legal tender.
No one who votes for tariff can really doubt
the tradition that two fellows once locked up in a
room together made S25 900 each BY simply swap
ping jackknves. But for this superstition it would
be difficult for us to measure the prosperity before
MS But for one obstacle the path of each one of us
would be clear to attain such happiness rs he was
able That obStice now is the present administra-
lion of the government of the Unieu States
In the words of Thomas Jefferson: '.With all
theSc dressings, what Is more necessary to make
happy and prosperous people? Still one thing
more, lcioW cltlZens-a wise and frugal govern
ment, which shall restrain men from nuring one
another, which shall leave them otherwise free to
regulate their own pursuits of industry and i'm
proVement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned This is the sum of
good government" Now, Judge Hoar told us last
week, ut RoXbury, that if once you let the Demo-
cratic party in it would never be got out again
without 1t civil I war; and my friends, have no
think that the Judge was prophet that time l
believe myself that if once the people felt the bless
ing of real Democratic rule, that if ever the old
men of the sea who ride and choke them were dis
mounted they would never again submit their necks
to such usage without fight. And am more in.
clined to think that the Judge was prophet that
time. believe myself that if once the people felt
the blessing Of real Democratic rule that if ever
the old men of The sea who ride and choke them
were diSl1ountcd they would never again submit
their necks to such usage without fight. And l
am more inclined to agree with the Judge, from
the fact that have observed that even to keep the
people from throwing them as it is, it has been nee
essary to keep good many soldiers in ten States of
the Union. That in North Carolina not even
troops suffced. That Philadelphia required CON-
panes of soldiers at the polls to keep her ''loya
and New York is so FESTIVE under Radcalism as to
require every available bayonet to pacy her to the
yoke Yes, my friends, the Judge is right; the
monopolists will have to subdue us by arms before