The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-24

payment of our debts and sacred preservation
OF the public faith; encouragement of agricul-
lure, ana OF commerce as its handmade. the diff
fusion OF information and the arraignment of all
abuses at the bar of public reason: freedom of
relglon, freedom of the press freedom of per-
son under the protection of the habeas corpus
ana Trials by JurieS impartially selected-these
principles form the bright constellation which
has gone before US, and guided our steps
through an age of revolution and reform alton.
me WISDOM OF our sages and the blood or our
heroes nave been devoted to their attainment.
They should be the creed of our political faith
the text OF civil 1nStruction-the touchstone by
WHICH TO Try the services of those we trust. and
should we wander from them in moments of
error or alarm, let US hasten to retrace our
steps and to regain the road which alone leads
10 peace, liberty and safety" 1 ask the ques
tlon' Ii these pr c1ples which are condensed
III Inc snort statement that l have read re-
garded and kept steadily in the mind how can
human liberty suffer or be endangered? When
mat great man walked in before the Congress
Oh the United States and read that paper 1t
made the crowned heads and emperors of
Europe
TREMBLE IN THEIR CHAIRS,
and to-day many OF them lie in the basket and
RepubhCan freedom rests upon their remains.
II IS put lalr TO say that, adhering TO these
principles, the Democratic party of America
naS IlVed and survived adversely that would
nave deS lroyed any other politica party. l do
not claim for my party that all OF them are good
men DO not claim that the Democratic party
claim is, that whenever il has adhered to these
principles 1t has had su ccess and whenever in
an EVIL hour for the sake of power and emolu-
ments it has depa? ted from them, il has had
ana has deserved defeat
FoLowlng this line OF principles, my friends,
we ma that the Democratic party has had to
zeal hrst, with this National party, as it was
called. 1t has mad to deal later on with the
wing party 1t had to deal later on with the
hnoWnoth1ng party: with the Abolitiorist
party, and finally with the Republican party.
IL mas destroyed the Republican party's ances-
tors, and so sure as it's devoteeS shall hang to
lis principles, so sure time shall last, it will
uestroy THIS Republican party. 1t has been said
mat the Democratic party was neither subject
10 oeath nor open to new IDEAS That is true.
III 5 almost literally true. 1t is certainly not
subject TO death. 1t is certainly not open to
any new Ideas except the enlargement of those
which form its foundation. Other parties NAV
come and go; but tell you, my friends, that
When this ensign of liberty (pointing to the fag)
snail wrap its folds around the dead republic
IL Will at the same time be
THE WINDING SHEET OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY.
Opposed to us in the past as l have recited,
put mark you, influenced by the same i'm
pulses and guided by he same ideas, the nat
lonal party that was contending with the Dem
ocratic party in the formation of our constitu-
tlon, Is The same party that to-day dismantles
the states ana concentrates power at Washing
ton. L announce thai there can be no more
by the church that he is raised in, than of his
political principles by the party that he is edu-
Gated IN We are men of ideas and we are men
VINO think. These contentious are not mere
Yagarles, as l have said. Let me show YOU
When the constitution was formed and sent out
TO The states TO be Ey them ratified, there was
yet abroad in the thirteen colonies lingering
doubt as to whether the people were not sur
rendering their liberties by this union. and
when the states of Massachusetts. Virginia
New York and some others ratified the consti-
tuition, they did So at the same time by pro
posing amendments, and having it understood
that these Amendments were to become part
OF that constitution. The first ten amendments
that we find to our constitu Ion were those that
were reported back by the states. To use the
language of the convention of Massachusetts
Il believe it was), With full confidence that
the patriotism of the American Congress
would submit them back to the states for Their
ratification" What were they?
The first eight are those which preserve and
such as