The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-05-14

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death with musket and ball. Now
maintain that this cause will not die
in these United States. The liberty
loving people Of this land know that
they brought-th;s sentiment and prlncl:
pie over with them from England, and
upon i, they buil'ed this goodly land
of equa rights to AL men; no SAFE
,el;gio", no creed; this broad land for
broad minded men; this land OF the
Wilderne-s for human na ure to take
new start in, and t. push the cause OF
the individu Il citizan away from and
from under the sway of kings and
mobiles and to dress man in the native
robes of his manhood. But to do this,
to accomplish this exaltation of man
and to realize this idea of citizenship,
nc men knew better than the P'ymoth
fathers that you must let man alone
as much as possible, that the principle
of such a government was the SELF
government of the citizen, that the
coalition Of civil liberty, as they
wanted it, was that man must be left
to FORK out his own destiny IN this
land, unimpeded and unrestrained as
little as possible by government.
Again and in order that the liberty
thus indicated might not degenerate
into license and to supply the place, OF
strong arm of government. they
knew that the common law of England,
which means the customs of the people,
was strong enough to restrain the
citizen and lax enough for him to
grow and increase And now / am
prepared to say without any fear CT
contradiction, that this government
was built upon the idea of the local
law of the township, the village, the
parish, the municipality, and that out
of such assem- olages of government
this land has grown TO lis present
greatness and out of these grpups
come the spirit and sentiment of all
lust ami necessary laws.
I again assert that most all the
trouble in this country has proceeded
from violation of thi, principle of
local self-government, and every time
you trample on this principle the
people of these United States will
lake the alarm, and if you do not stop,
the musket will answer for their indig-
nation. Try ii anywhere in these
United States. I am not afraid Of the
test in any locality, and when you or
or any other man attempts to enter
one Of these States and seconds OF
proposes any legislation, which is not
in keeping with the local customs OF
the people, we strike the genius of the
American people then and there, and
will find it as intractable 10 our Will
as the simeon or cylone, as needless tc
our notions of reform as if we should
speak to the trees of the forest and bid
them not wave their tops when they
are tretted with the gusts of heaven
Aud The trouble now around us.
thickening AID perplexing US, is thai
the Government of these United States
Will not let the people alone. 1t made
uloney for them, when they never asked
it Or authorized it to do it, ano
hence the perplexity of our hnancla
troubles We want a little local cur
rency and this government says: You
people who were made out of the
| laws of the neighborhood, must have
money according to The laws of 8
great national banking system Lei
US alone. Give US the right to manage
our affairs in our own little village
ways, our little community ways.
that is what we builded this government
for; that we might help ourselves, and
let US dc, it so long as we do not hurt
our neigaors
Again When the magnificent party
of this principle of local self-govern'
ment, the democratic party, was
ushered into power with a unanlmity
Of sentiment that showed that the
people had spoken, that local self
government was demanding instant
recognition and when this party turned
it's back on its principles. and under
tie gamor of material greatness forgot
the liberty of the citizen, when ii
! hesitated before the teachings of the
very horn book Of lis policy and prin.
ciples the people turned from it and
refused to stop where its leaders had
| stopped, cast it out and sought a
remedy and a PRONUNCIATION of this
principle in the consistent policy OF
even their political enemies.
And when this proud party forgot
the creative principle of its existence,
forgot the rock from which it was
dlgged, and taxed the produce and in
comes of a people, this liberty loving
principle of local self-government was
| the kew which uRlocked the wrongful
ness of,such undemocratic legislation
and with it the income tax was found
to be undemocratie, unrepublican, but
above all un-American.
/ This Southern cause was and is the
csu-e of man. It is struggling now
I all over the world for some kind of
recognition, and the people are filling
the thrones of power. am not mar
rowed by a sectional partially, l can
think out ofandfarthertha South Caro-
lima. can embrace in my mind and
hold in nv conception and before my
Imagination these several S ates, and,
measuring my words, / pronounce
this prophecy: that the Southern cause
will never die until this republic dies,
Eand this republic will lose its place
among the beneicent governments Of
this earth, when it forgets the princi-
ples for watch the men who wore the
grey died.
Again I assert with some eXamina-
| ton of the subject that the only plan
upon which YOU can erect stable and
lasting republican government is upon
! the recognition of local self-govern-
ment as the chief corner stone When
different people of different latitudes
become the same or homogeneous,
| Government is ha>tening to the form
of Empire or Monarchy; when such a
people are unlike or Heterogeneous, it is
almost impossible to establish or main
tain any other kind of government
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