The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-09-27
SPEECH OF THE HON. JOHN III. GII..
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government without stable and inviolable
union; and there can be no constitutions
union without the states The liberties OF
the people depend mutually on both, and
will be destroyed when the union is consol.
dated by the humiliation of the states, OF
the states subordinate the constitutional
and legitimate powers of the Federal gov
ernmcnt to sectional or geographical COM
binations.
All legitimate power under the constitu-
tuition springs from, abides with, and should
be held amenable to the people of the
states, from and out of which the union
was created. There are both in the states,
and the American people as q whole, three
species or divisions of the popular will,
chal acterized and controlled bv three dis
!inct and antagonizipg denominations Of
democracy. These divisions spring from
the nature of man, and are incident to all
social compacts. When they counterbalance,
the one tho other, a healthy tone is given to
and exercised by government. whenin open
and violent antagoniSm, the functions of
government are more or less disturbed,
and, if not regulated and promptly
checked, revolution will always result !;
two of the three divisions combining against
the third. .,6..,
These divisions spring from the natural
temper, habitudes of tho ught, and educa-
tiOnal training of men in all classes of So
ciety. Like the various denominations of
churches, they are sought after and adj
hered to, according to the peculiar taste of
each member Of the body polite. They
are the personal or individual democracy;
the humanitarian or socialistic democracy;
and the territorial democracy. Each of
these divisions have adherents and adyo-
Gates IN each state, district, county, city,
aud parish, in the Union; but their, aggre-
gative power has prevailed in different Sec
tons of the Union from the commence
ment of the government. In the southern
states The personal or individual democracy
largely prevailed; was sedulously cultivated
by John q. Calhoun and his school of
statesmen until it eliminated in the con-
summated act of secession, war, and a
temporary disruption Of the Union. sos
The humanitarian or sociaistic democ-
racy prevailed in the New England states,
and was the growth Of religious fanaticism
and socialistic convictions. Since the
formation of the government, these two
antangonizing elements each powerful in
its peculiar section-have been in state of
progressive hostility, and in 1860 proved
too powerful for the present restraint and
active influence OF The tel ritorial democracy,
represented by the Federal government,
and which prevailed only in the middle or
central states.
The war commenced without the hope
of present reconciliation. 1t became
necessary that one of these two oppos-
ing sources of sectional power should at
once join with the Federal government,
and thus war on Its common enemy. The
personal democracy, self-elated, prouda
vain-gloriOus, domineering, believed itself
endowed with sufficient strength TO over
come the territorial and humanitarian
democracy. In this terrible conflict,
after the most heroic accomplishments, The
personal democracy, las an, organized power,
was crushed /; and then commenced the
fearful contest now waging with increased
dangers to civilization, religion and consti-
tutional liberty between the humanitarian
or soclalistic democracy and the territorial
democracy. That contest commenced in
1872, and is still raging. Horace Greeley
headed and represented the Humanitarian
democracy, and acas supported aoah aoiM, if
not mad, enthusiasm By eue,y member Of the
ptite mani party IN Vuyinia, against which
every informed member of the territorial de-
mocracy is in brave, determined and, |
hope, successful opposition. Having ut
terly failed to place the government in the
hands of the humanitarians of the north,
the old element of antagonism still exist
ing, the Democracy of Virginia now seek
to return, in the desperation of men, as
founded at their recent ignominious aban-
donment of principle. party, section, and
country, to their original CONVICTIONS, and
rest this whole contest on one isolated,
narrow, selfish, personal issue, the qclsite
man against the black man.
In this last desperate effort TO regain
their lost power, this same Democracy
stern in their resolves las they arc reyo-
lutionary in their designs, abandon all pr'n
ciples, oblterate every glorious and ennob.
ling recollection of the past; emboldened
by desperation and lrenzicd by defeat, they,
the former compeers Of Jefferson, Madi.
son, jackson, stake the whole issue o
this campaign on The white man arrayeG
against the black man. un nti
:. Spirits Of the immortal dead! hallowed as
socations OF the great pastl God of liberty
and truth to what has the once great, pow,
erful and domineering Democracy come .
Their manhood gone! their devotion tC
principle extinguished their love of coun
try, once so pure and feryid, merged into on,
little, insignificant, despicablc sense of fea,
of the black man!
What say the admirers Of the great, pa
triotic, chiyalrous Clay? What say tn
followers of the gallant Douglas? VIVA
say the tariff-men the anti-free-trade men
the internal improvement men the labor
ing mem; the anti-repudiation men? VIVA
say We, people Of Portsmouth, warmed b.
the same sun, famed by the same breezes
which were enjoyed by your fathers? I...
Who believes this of the Democracy o
Virginia2 Who so blind as not to pene
trate the film thus sought to be throw
over the popular vision IL fades ava
at the first touch of the wand Of truth ;
shrinks from the first glmmering Of reason
and beyond this craven cry of fear of til
black man is seen the resolute, determined
combined design to overthrow the RI
publican administration of General Gran
and reinaugurate the orgies Of Grcelcyisn
This is not q contest between the blae
men and The white men. There is agre;
principle underlying all this pretentiou
fear of race domination. This is o conte
of and for principles as eternal as truth, az
for rights as sacred as they are indestruci
BILE. Because the colored men of Virgin
from the instincts of their souls, o
pose the Democracy aud support III