The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-07

imprison or dispense its Legislature, ST.
lence its judges, and trample down its
people under the armed heel of
his troops. Nothing is left to
the citizens or State which can any longer
be called right. All is changed into
mere sutferance. As sure as We live, this
is the great issue and the danger is upon
us now. Everybody feels that revolu-
ton is going on in that direction. The
very ground is giving way under our feet.
Radicals admit it some avow and Justify
It, ana some of the best friends of repub-
llcan government fear that the revolution
has already gone too far to be arrested.
But, gentlemen, let US not despair truth
will rise again. In the nature of things,
in our system of government, two forces
are always at work like the two forces in
our planetary system the one tending to
draw all planets to the center; the other
to take them out of the system altogether.
They have been constantly struggling with
each other from the beginning and from
before the beginning. As by compro-
mise of forces the planets were made to
revOlve in their orbits around the sun, so
by a wise compromise and balance of forces
in our political system our composite form
of government was made To the Federal
and delegated powers, necessary to the
Union TO the common defense, and the
general welfare. All the remainder, ex-
cept just enough to carry into effect the
powers delegated, were reserved to the
States and the people. With men of ex-
IRENE views and radical tendencies it seems
almost impossible to comprehend limi-
Ia ion of rights and powers. To illustrate ::
With the Radicals of the Southland
might add, some at the NOrth-befOre
the war, the Federal government had
no rights the States were bound to
respect. The war, | think, has cured
or ought TO cure that delusiOn, but
| fear 1t has given rise to another !;
for since the war the Radicals of the
North seem to think the States have no
rights the Federal government is bound
to respect. And this last delusion is as
dangerous to liberty as the first Extreme
follows extreme. The pendulum from one
side of the arc swings always to the other,
anG the higher It rises on one side the
higher 1t rises on the other. The rebound
from the war began. The Southern Rad
icals' idea of the power in the States is
now, under the lead of those who control
this administration fast driving all power
into the Federal government. | repeat, in
my opinion gentlemen, the real issue, par
amount over all others at this moment, is
whether the true Republican form of gov
crnment oi our fathers shall give away to
ntralization and to military despotism.
1t has already made long strides in that di-
rection. Theg great duty of the Democratic
party, and of all who love republican lib
crty is to bury all the issues of the past,
and to unite in an honest, earnest, self
SaPTltlPlDU effort the finn thar
progress of that revolution. We can only
do that by change Of administration by
restoring, as far as the Constitution will
allow it. to State Legislatures State Jude
iar!es, State Executives, and State military
forces the defense and maintenance of the
rights and liberties of the people, which
centralized power cannot defend, but will
certainly destroy; by placing the civil
above the military power in ali the States
by reducing the standing army, that
standing menace of all republics, with its
tetenures, aristocratic tendencies, and by
preventing its further interference with
the freedom of elections
Other issues and duties Of great impOr-
lance rest upon us, also growing out Of
our foreign relations, finance, national
debt, tariff and internal revenue reform
Gentlemen, let Us organize for victory aud
ucl lDT uel6dl III the next contest. Many
who were divided upon the issues of the
past are shoulder to shoulder with us now
upon the issues of the present and many
more are coming. Let them all come. Let
Us restore TO its prestige and power the
old Democratic republican party Of JEFF
fersOn of Madison, and OF jackson; let
US cordially invite to its support all who
are with us upon the great issues involved ;
all who love republican institutions as es-
tablished by our fathers in substance as
well as in name; all who cherish republi-
can simplicity, integrity, economy and
fidelity everywhere in State and Federal
administration all who would Tighten the
heavy pecuniary burdens of our people by
their more equal distribution, and all who
while maintaining the national faith and
honor invi0late, look forward swith hope
and courage to the return Of that period
when The burdens of the general govern
nlent will be as light as It's blessings are
benifcent; when the rich will not be
made richer and the poor poorer by act
of Congress when the Federal and State
governments, each in their sphere protect
ing the equal rights of all, and granting
tavors to none, shall, in the language of
Gen. Jackson, bestow:th blessings like
the dews Of heaven, unseen and unfelt,
save in the richness ani beauty they CON
tribute to produce"