The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-07-14

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cases Whatsoever without representa-
ton and against their will This claim
was broad and distinct. IL admitted
no limitations and was cloggsd with
no conditions Il II true the power
had been exercised to very limited
extent only to tax tea, STAMPS lseai
documents, newspapers etc. All this
Our fOrefaLhcrs could have paid with
perhaps slight inconvenisnce, and 10
could Hampden have paid the ship
money illegally claimed aud exscted
30 could any maa submit TO wroOg
and the exercise Of ARBITRARY power
over him and his property. But in
these cases resistance occurred and il
rested upon higher principle than the
few paltry pennies involved; it was re-
sistence TO arbitrary power; IL was q
solemn protest in bsh slf Of human free
dom aud each Of these sVsnts are great
land marks in the worlds history. Our
fOrefathers realized that "tbe power TO
tax 10 the power to destroy" that pre-.
cedent makes Law and tnat if this ar.
bitrary assumption were once submit
ted TO the right could never be there
after questioned.
The Declaration Of Independence,
which has been rsAd in your hearing
to-day was ths 6nal snsWer Of the
colonies to parliament King and minis-
try. Abb It was the clarion note Of
freedom eeboing froln ths shores Of
the Western world +d sent reverbee-
ating through the palaces Of Kings,
asserting the great Truth never fOrmul-
gated in articulAts speech before, that
governments are instituted among
men, deriving their just powers from
the consent Of the governed" It was
an earnest protest against lsgslized
wrong, il was q petition addressed TO
the re,son Of the civilized world in "a
yor Of the rights Of man. IL recognized
man as factor in The State, his indi.
viduality a. something sacred that could
not be rghtGully destroyed either by
Law OF ruler, aud that il WAS his right
70 Us tried by jury Of his peers and
the vicenage.
And this day is the one hundred and
sixth anniversary Of that great declAra-
tisn Happy glorious day. Il constitutes
an epoch in history ami ia the destiny
Of man.
Hare va pause and take our reckon
ing. Lookingbackward We behold race
OF heroes and patriots, not political trim
mers, who carefully survey the field, to
BE- sure they are on the strong side the
side which bAs the power and the will
TO bssto~ place and money in considera-
ton Of partisan services; but self-sacri-
6cing devoted men, who here laid deep
and broad the foundations Of American
freedom, and maintained them success
fully after eight years trlal on the battle
fields Of the r evolution. Bitish arms
assisted by the torch and the merciIess
tomahawk Of the savage, could not
subdue them British gold could not
corrupt themi Tbs Establishments Of
power and place, could not seduce thsrn!
Nobel devotedl consecrated heroes;
where, in all the history of the worli
can their equals be found They rise
in patriotic grandeur far above all who
hadgone before them Washington Jeffer
son and the Lees, Patrick Fl snry Adams
and John Hancock who wrote his
name To the Declaration. Of Iadspeaa-
ence in such characters that the min
istry could read it without using their
spectacles; Otis, Morris, Marion, and
that gallant son Of France, Lafayette
Jay, Franklin, Gates, Green, and Put
mao these men AMI others, with theil
associates, are the heroes Of civil lib
erty peerless as statesman, warrior
and diplomats: The receding ages ONLY
add a new and more resplendent hall
abou their memories.
''Thsy never fail who die
Ina great cause the black may soak their gore:
Their heads may sOddsn In the sun; their limbs
BE strung 70 city gates and castle walls
Bot stil their spirit walk AbruaA Tho yeaTs
Eapss. and others share As dark doom.
They but au sm ent the deep and sweeping thought
which over power ali others. and eonduct,
The world =. last To treSIOrn."
The crown was within the grasp o.
WAshington,-he put it out Of sight
royalty was within the reach of all, bu
they spurned it. One Overmasterin;
controlling purpose astuated all alike
and that was, to establish government
where men were equal to bestow M
honors that were not possibly within
the reach Of all. "Verily, there wer
giants in those days" twas persona
ambition which gave the heroes of the
ancient world nishe in the temple o
immortality. II was the love Of powe
that impelled Caesar to cross th,
Rubicon. Ii vas the love af conques
that lead Alexander the Great to th
confines Of India and the like grset
and lust seem to have impelled Ma
peleon onward until be had deluge
Earope with blood and his own sta
Of destiny went down amidst tempes
of battle at Waterloo to rise no more
Averice undermined, corrupted anG
destroyed the most pemPous patriarch O
Rome. It was the boast Of the barbarial
Jugurtha, that "Rome would sell her
self if she could only find purchaser.
King Phillip of Mareedon did more t
undermine and destroy the liberties @
Greece with his gold than b
did with his arms. The peril
which threatened US in the past, upol
the battle fields, in the cabinet in th
| halls of legislation and in foreig
courts have all been met aud ovsroom
by the wisdom, valor aud prowers 0
our ancestors, and they have transmit
ted to us the undisppnted possession Q
continent unsurpassed in fertility an
, preductiveness and system of govern
! ment more bsneicient than has hereto