The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1881-09-08
FINANCIAL FACTS.
An Address BY Judge War
wick Martin.

An Address BY Judge War
wick Martin.
Delivered - tho Lansing Camp
Meeting.
One hundred and ave years ago this day,
our illustrious fathers, In Congress assembled,
appealing to tho God Of the universe for tho
purity Of their motives, declared that these
United States are, and Of right should b, fires
and independent States" That day our ma
tional history commenced.
We shall briefly treat this subject under the
heads:
!. The causes which I'D 70 the separation.
= Tho great disparity betwscn the contend
ng parties.
8. Tho means employed BY England 70 sub
due the colonies.
1. The means employed BY the States 70 gain
their liberties.
g. Tho termination OF Tho contest
We shall give some OF them In tho language
OF the Declaration itself. Kng George Ill
Ind refused his assent TO the most wholesome
laws. which we're necessary 10 the public vel
fare had placed Governors over the people,
and forbidden Thorn to pass any laws though
Of immediate and pressing necessity, unless
their operation Was suspended until his Ap-
prevail thereof could be obtained; and then he
had wholly neglected them had demanded
that the people should relinQuish their right to
representation, right incstinAble TO them and
10 be feared only BY tyrants had called them
together In legislative assemblies ut unusual
places, where no public records were kept, for
tie purpose OF fatiguing them into submission
to his demands; had dissolved representative
houses repeatedly for opposing with manly
firmness the invasion Of their rights, and re-
fused TO have others elected thus exposing the
States to the danger Of invasion from without
aud commissions from within had attempted
to prevent population Of the States by refusing
to pass laws VI naturalization, thus preventing
the settlement Of the country; had INSTRUCTED
the passage Of laws creating the judiciary had
created many officers and placed them over the
people to control them and TO eAt up their sub
stance had kept standing armies In tho country
IN time Of peace, without the consent Of the
legislature had made u . military superior to
the civil power had quartered the troops IN
they committed murder had cut OF their trade
with Nil PARIS OF the world, and had taxed both
their exl orts and their imports without their
consent had deprived the people OF trial by
jury, aud transported them beyond the seas,
there to be tried for pretended oRensss had
abolished the system OF English laws, and taken
sway Their charters had assumed to legislato
for the co,onies without their consent, and to
tax them without giving them representation !;
had plundered their seas, ravaged their coasts.
burnt tn i towns, and destroyed the lives OF III
people. These and other wrongs, they alleged,
wsre : sufficient canse for dissolving their con-
nection with and allegiance TO tho British
Crown and for considering the English "ene-
miCsin war, in peace. friends"
Great Britain WAS then the most powerful
nation ON earth. 1t Was her boast that Brit.
annil ruled the wave and was mistress of the
seas. Her armies had generally been success
nations Of the civilized world. The credit Of
En-. land was unboundcd she could command
money III war aud peace. She had large pos
sessions in all parts Of the world. She could
boast that the sun never Get upon her domin-
ions.
The colonies numbered only 3,OOO.OO0 souls,
old and young, rich and poor, male and female,
black aud white, free and slave. The country
Was comparatively poor 1t al times. and es-
pccially 40 1t that time, owing TO what the
Colonies hsd suffered from Tia mnfher comntrv
Tina ITnif,d q ,nnes had no armv M nsrv
iffl, or no void az silver money And no nation.
al credit upon which they could depend for aid
in the way OF loans. They had declared them
selves republic, predIated upon the natural
equality OF oil men endowed by their Creator
~sr.. Ira ihsr.v ana ina nnrsm,, ~ h.ennaS.
The.e nrni.ss;nns ~ers Il cnnsict lily, shos.
II the combined monarchias 81 tho Ola world
IA Aid comld tnereforc IN s1nscta., " srnm
them nnless Their hatred "a Enuiana
A. s' tn.. ,;n,s .hs rnsa Tin,.aS
STATE. were without maternal lsn.is money ~
revenue Steamboats. steamshlns and canals
'' v.. - A.,s.s. ssJ.ps snI o.n.'s
nnLnorn TSer did not a s,st P. . . .n
feleyranhs had mot "a mnch a. hesn 1hnmCht ~
The whole Atlantc coast from Name Ia Flor,d.
Ma nnfnrtiassi ana mnnroieciea Ths srnn,is-.
81 III the stafes vsre scsrmin~ ~ith host,l.. n.
dams. Who vcrs easiiv cmnloyed ~ ths Enrl.h
10 firht the ,nhahta nts 81 the Staias YIsT;ne
tha cnna,,;a,, n III. mi, a nt.ta. "a C.ase
Rr,s,n sr.,,, -. =. ra-.osrt -. o., n $780,
and r.rht thar 80 No ~
Sormsr .nS tha later ;,.dsa ..,,,ss - ss
hem ,ha man rho srrs ~;,h rn. IA
sxsilst such vast power. NoInlnr but anon
language q that need by Patrick Henry. .sC1ye
me liberty or give me DEATH" could have in
duced tho men Of the Revolution 10 take mn
arms against tho mother country.
For twelve years previous 10 the 4th Of IN
IL. l776. the people 81 the colonies had NO idea
OF separating from the Government az En-.
gland. In their address to the British throne.
np to Hts, they STYLED themselves ..Your
Maicsty's most faithful sabjects.s Even after
tue battles Of Bunker HILL and Ccceord this
was the case. All their efforts were directed to
The maintenance Of their rights a. British sub
Jects. Nor did they contemplate independence
until all their efforts for Justice, liberty and
leace had failed. They then said ave will
lave liberty or DEATH" All Their petitions and
appeals had been treated with contempt.
There WAS nothing left but TO fight for liberty
or become slaves. They decided upon the
former.
They first attempted TO subdue the colonies
bv tho cruelues and wrongs detailed in the
Declaration Of Independence Seeing those
measures had failed, they resorted to still
Sruater wrongs and cruelties. They then 1T
tempted to ovcrwhelm the colonies by milf
tary fore and by tls use OF gold and silver coin
TO seiuce them from the cause they had es-
Poused. They went 80 far - 20 counterfeit
ana circulate the Continental bills Of credit. "a
az 10 destroy their sinews OF war. They finally
attempted to bride. and did brihe one OF oul
pfincapai Generals, 70 surrender the forces ul-
der his command 10 them.