Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-11

the state governments with the civil
what concerns the State generally; the counties
with the local concerns OF the counties, and
each ward direct the interests within itself 1t
is by dividing and subdividing these republics
its subordinations, until it ends in the admins
placing under every one what his own eye may
superintend, that all will be done for the best
WHAT has destroyed liberty and the rights OF
man in every government which has ever exist
ed under the sun? The generalizing and con-
centrating all cares and powers into one body,
no matter whether OF the antocrass OF Kussia or
France, or Of the aristocfats OF Venetian
senate. And do believe that If the Almighty
has not decreed that man shall never be free
land 1t is a blaspnemy to believe it) that the
secret will be found to be in the making himself
the depository of the powers respecting himself,
SO far as he is competent to them, and delegating
only what is beyond his competence, by syn
rhelical process, to hi cher and higher orders Of
functionaries. SO to trust fewer and fewer
powers In proportion IS the trustees become
more and more remote. -
Again: 1.-the capital and leading object Of
the constitution was to leave with the states
zens only, and to transfer to the United States
those which respected citizens of foreign or
other states: To make us several as to our
selves, but one IS to ali others.
81 ask for no straining of words against the
General government, nor yet against the states.
1 believe the states can best govern our home
concerns and the General government our for
eign ones. wish, therefore, to see maintained
that wholesome distribution Of powers estab.
both; and never to see al offices transferred to
Washington, WHERE, further Withdrawn from
the Of sn nsy
Again: 1.-The original objects Of the Federal
lists were, first, to warp our Government more
second, to weaken the barriers of the State gov
ernmeDts as CO. ordinate powers. In the first
they have been go completely foiled by the uni
versal spirit Of the nation that they have
abandoned the enterprise, shrunk from the
odium OF their old appellation, taken to them
Republican mask, are row aiming at their sec
ond object; and, strengthened by unsuspecting
or apostate recruits from our ranks, are advance
MIR. Jefferson was especially distrustful Of the
Federal JudieisTGy h he fe
cured against all liability to account" He
feared that the judges, ambitious for power,
would strain the constitution, and undermine
and ultimately shatter the fabric erected upon on
wrote:
III has long been my opinion, and have
Of dissoIusio Of our Federal government is in
the Constitution of the Federal judiciary, an
irresponsible body Cor ilnpeacbment is
lty- by night and by day, gaining 9 lit
tie: today and q little tomorrow. and ad-
ield of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped
from the states, ami the Government Of all be
consolidated into one To this am opposed
because, when all government. domestic and
foreign, il little as in great things. shall be
drawn to Washington as the center of all pow
er, it will render poweriess the checks provided
Il one government on another, and will be-
come as venal and oppressive as the govern
ment from which We separated
esting and instructive quotations from the writ
;ngs of this remark able man until they should
grow into volume, but it is impracticsole. IT
this behalf What / have read is sufhcient to
disclose the opinions and convictions Of the
whatever the FederaIists Of this day, whether
masqueradIng as Democrats or Republicans,
may think of these quotations. want the peo-
the writings of Thomas Jefferson 1 want all
the people to remember that 1t was the same
Thomas Jefferson who wrote the Declaration of
American Independence Iwant all Democrats
to remember that 1t was the same Thomas def
ferson who organized the Democratic party to
uphold the Democratic principles he advocated.
1 want all Missouriaus to remember that it
was under the administration of this same
Thomas Jefferson. and result OF his matchless
embraced in our beloved State was acquired
from foreign potentate Nothing have read
to you was written by him in . spirit of par
after Mr.. Jefferson I'D retired from public life,
and from active participation in public affsirs.
sion to the matured Judgment Of this wonderful
character in American history: I stand by
Jefferson still And when stand With Jefer-
Andrew jackson, and great host Of our great
n. !
cannot go astray.
NATIONAL PATRIOTISM.
Mr.. Chairman: yield to no living man on
the point of national patriotism; yield TO none
in fidelity to the republic, in devotion to the
essence Of perfect union, and in the applica,
ton of its principles is to be found the most
substantial assurance of national permanency
Upon those principles the Government was ee-
tablished. and by them alone can the Union be
preserved and our free institutions perpetuated.
Local sovereignty Is source OF national
strength, not OF weakness. Federalism may
develop national splendor, but it will lead to
early blight and decay. The local governments
ty, and the IN 1sl reliable Safeguard against
corruption or imperialism. To distribute power
is to diminish the danger OF its abuse To limit
aui hority Is to check usurpatiOn. To divide
responsibility is to multiply restraints. State
sovereignty, within the Constitution, Is the
safety OF the people and the surest buiwark of
Above all things else love the union Of these
states-the glorious union of these sovereign
domain upon which would not feel at home,
ana which do not regard as my native land
Let the flag, starry emblem of union and liberty,
fiutser In every breeze, float above ever school
house. and hang unfaried in every home. Let
our children be taught that it Ia the symbol Of
American who does not uphold it against ali
other flags and against all the nations of the
world Is unworthy 70 live in the land over which
it waves; but let our children DE alec taught that
every star shining upon its field Of blue was set
there to represent great and sovereign state
Not only should no star in that ornament ever
be blotted out, bat not one among them should
ever be in the least diminished in power glory.
If could stamp motto upon the flag IL wonld
be, ssThe.uniOn, undivided and indissolubie for
ever, with State sovereignty preserved intact
and unimpaired -
A.. P A.
Governor Stone next discussed the subject Of
religious liberty, protesting, as he expressed 1t,
against any direct affinity between religion
and politics, or ANYTHING squirting at . con-
scious union between church and state He
and un- American, and characterized the move
ment as a revival of Know-noshingism, of that
old spirit of political prescription based on
birth and religious opinion, which the Demo-
cratic party stamped out forty years ago. Con-
tinuipg along that line, he said:
sin that fight. away back in the hfties, the
was very similar to the situation of
today. History has repeated itself; the condi-
lions OF that day are reproduced in this
The 'Know-nothing' or so-called Amer1-
can party was more formidable than the