The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-04-24

they began to reject and revolt.
Wars ensued, states were riven With
|throes Of revolution, and up out of
the trimult Of revolution, up out of
the roar Of convulsion, arose the ma
jestic voice liberty, pEDclaiming: All
power is inherent in the people. and
governments derive the jdrist powers
from the consent Of the governed.
Thus arose the other school of think
ers, whose ideas constitute the bed
rock upon which stands the temple
of liberty, and whose doctrines were
the chosen doctrines of the fathers of
this republic. The old exploded doc
trine Of divine right, il taken up and
adopted by the prohibitionists as the
foundation and starting point of all
their theories, and we'll it may be, for
prohibition could never prosper upon
the foundation principles Of this re-
public, which declare that all govern
ments derive their Just powers from
the consent Of the governed. The
methods and processes Of the prohi-
bitionists could never find any anc
ton in the doctrine Of popular consent
in government. They choose to
adopt as their fundamental princi-
pal that dogma which il the cardinal
point in every despotism, and under
which all tyrants justify their tyran-
MES. That blood stained, inhuman
doctrine by which the car logically
denies to his unhappy people all quar-
anty Of protection against the uncon-
trolled and arbitrary action of him
self, his ministers and myrmidons;
and BY means of which, without TIL
al and in the name of God, sends
them to Siberian torments. 1t is the
same doctrine by means of which the
Sultan holds his deluded subjects in
q despotism absolute and internal.
It is the same doctrine which supports
every throne and protects every crown
on earth. It has been invoked to
sanctify every outrage that was ever
perpetrated upon humanity, and it is
meet and proper that it should now
become the bulwark of those whose
favorite idea can have effect only by
prostrating and stamping out individ-
ual liberty.
The gentlemen from Sedgwick
says that civil liberty is defined by the
civil and divine law. Ideny that the
divine law has ANYTHING to do with
civil liberty, and now | wish to call
your attention to the sentiments of o
man who, in his life and in his death,
was loved and honored by us all, and
at whose open grave the world stood
uncovered. In his place in congress
q few years ago, General Garfield
said:
II called attention to the fact that
under our form of government, the
NEST precious rights that men can
possess on this earth are not delegat.
ed to the nation nor to the states, but
are reserved to the third estats-the
people themselves. | had occasion
at a late hour in the last congress to
say something on what may be termed
the voluntary element in our institu
tons. / called attention to the inter
esting fact that lately the chancellor
of the German empire made the
declaration that it was the chief OBJ
iect of the existence of the govern
ment to defend and maintain thu
religion of Jesus Christ So object il
reference to which our congress i
absolutely forbid to legislate at all. ]
also desire to call the gentlemen's at
t~ention to the following furthur fact
that in the treaty with Iiipoli, Ger
Washington told the Tripolitian
that the government Of the Unitet
States was In no sense founded upol
the christian religion; thus shown,
plainly that Washington knew wha
all true freeman know, and as e1
pressed in the constitution of Kansa,
"that all political power is inheren
in the people, and all free government
are founded on their authority"
Now, / am here to assert that tn
authority to govern man in civ;
government is derived, not from an,
God, but from man; that lsgall'
speaking this is not q christian natior
but a human nation; that any syste1
founded on the dogma Of divin,
right must inevitably end in a con
pulsory ENGRAVING Of the tenents
doctrines and practices of the churc
upon the laws and body politics, an
that the only safety for liberty lie
in resisting every encroachment {
ecclesiastical bodies and powers, an
absolute and perpetual divorcemer
of church and state, and in purgin
the state of the last vestiga of eccles
iasticism and the last remnant of d
vinity.
Gentleman I have spoken thus FIRE,
~, frankly and conscientiously m
actual sentiments, / know my caus
is hopeless for the present here i
Kansas, but / shall stand by it. L.
come what may, come calnmnY, com
destruction, come misrepresentation
come the pad, wild waves of infat,
ated folly, / will stand by the basi
doctrines of my country.
Richard Grant White the crit
and author, died at his home in Ne,
York the 9Th.
An attempt Vas made to ASSASSIN
ate Gov. Hoadley Of Ohio by a
internal machine on the night Of tn
10th inst.