The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1879-05-10
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foreign bondage aud lay the fOnn
datlons of our temple of free insti
tutlons; when | think of the liv.
ing and unborn millions whose
fate Is bound up in the success of
our experiment of federated
republic of commonwealths-E
feel that to doubt the triumphaut
destiny OF the American people is
weakness, to despair is crime,
If the committee will pardon
me l will say that no man in this
House has loved and admired our
constitutional system more than
| have done from boyhood to the
present time. | believe, if pre-
served In its purity and integrity
1t Is the wisest system of govern
ment ever devised by the wit of
man.
But our faith must connect it,
self with "a wise, broad, and com.
prehensive policy.
II, Mr.. Chairman, I should ven
ture to predict the policy of tri-
umphant tuture,I would fix it's
landmark thus Let us cling to
the Constitution as the tabala Sn
naagrdgio, as our only hope under
God, Oh the breakers and amid
the storms which beseL US; that
Constitution which is a bundle of
the institutional liberties of the
Anglo Saxon race secured by new
and republican forms of govern
ment:
Let us uphold the Federal au>
thority in all its integrity to. the
full and legitimate extent Of its
delegated powers, aud preserve
to the governments and the peo>
pie OF the several States all their
rights and powers tor the main-
tenance of their autonomy and
for the promotion of their local.
distinct. and peculiar interests;
SO that, with the common prog.
ress OF all under the control Of
. our federative system, each State
may have its distinct and sepa-
rate type of civilization "dis- :
tlnct as the pillows, one as the
sea ;"
Let us strictly and zealously
Sc ure to every citizen his indivi.
dual and personal rights to life,
liberty, and self development by
the abolition of special privileges,
and opening the gates Of enter
prise to all, az equal contestants
for the prizes of life by the pre-
strvation intact Of the sacred
writ OF ha5eas corpus against mill
tary and civil power; by the su-.
prrmacy of the civil authority
over the military; =; by a non parti-
san Judiciary by fair and impair
tlal juries, as the palladium Of
freedom and by free elections,
free from the force of military or
civil officers, and from the fraud
VI sooN VI
Let us grant to governments
the minimum Of power, and to,
the citizen the maximum of liber-
ty, consistently with the order
and safety of society:
Let Law, with the civic crown
upon his brow, aud wearing the
judicial ermine, trcading the
pathway of our civilization with
no iron heel, and gently and with
unmailed hand lead forth Liber-
ty us his welded wife, and whelr
asked for her most precious jew
els let her, like the mother of the
Gracchi, point to her happy chill
dren' looking up with Loving
hearts to these lionored parents
of their peace and joy
Let the Army and Navy be the
willing servants of this noble
pair, ready at the command OF
law to execute its DEGREES and to
put down lawlessness, and at the
Cry OF liberty to drive out the
usurping intruder upon her "a.
cred precincts Or, t. quell the
many headed despotism of q Ii.
centions mob.
MI. Chairman aud gentlemen,
feeling as do that the fire of
early ambition is t1ickering faint
and low in the socket shat ]
have reached that period, when
soor I must fall into the "sere
| and yellow leaf" aud the shad.
ows OF life's evening will be
lengthening to its close-if,
when the last hour shall come,
my hopes and aspirations, my
dreams and visions tor free insti.
tutions under the genius of Amer
ican civilization shall have beer
realized, l shall be content will
humble reverence TO paraphrast
the prayer of the pious patriarch
Lord j.! now lettest thou thy se
want depart in peace, for my eye
have seen the salvation of the lib
critics Of my people, and the rest
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