Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-03
THE HOAR PERORATI0I.
Impassioned Appeal of the Veneer
able Senator.
AN IMPRESSIVE ROLL CALL
He Has an Assured Faith In Justice and
the Love Of Liberty Of the Ameri-
can People.

The recent speech by Senator lloar on
the Philippine question will be one OF the
leading campaign documents Of the dem
ocrats. 1t is $4,000 words in length and
has been carefully prepared and put in
form for extensive circulation. There
has rarely been as matchess piece OF
oratory heard in the United States senate
as was his peroraticn. The venerable
senator was powerfully moy ed by emotion
and those who disagreed with him were
forced to pay tribute to his earnestness
and eloquence. In closing the senator
said:
"Certainly the flag should never he
lowered from any moral field over which
it has once waved. To follow the flag is
to follow the principles of freedom and
humanity for which it stands. 10 claim
that we must follow it when it stands for
injustice or oppression is like claiming
that we must take the nostl ums OF the
quack doctor who stamps it on his wares,
or follow every scheme of wickedness OF
fraud, if only the flag be put at the head
of the prospectus. The American flag is
in more danger from the imperialists than
there would be ii the whole OF Christen-
dom were to combine its power against it.
Foreign violence at worst could only rend
it. But these men are tr, ing to stain it.
at is claimed-what 10 not believe
that these appeals have the sympathy Of
the American people. 1t is said that the
statesman who will lay his ear to the
ground will hear their voices. | do not
believe it. The voice Of the American
people does not come from the ground.
1t comes from the sky. 1t comes from
the free air. 1t comes from the noun
tans, where liberty dwells. Let the
statesman who is fit to deal with the
question Of liberty or to utter the voice Of
a free people lift his ear to the sky-not
lay it to the ground.
'Mr. President, it was once my good
fortune to witness an impressive specta-
Gle IN this chamber, when the senators
answered to their names in rendering
solemn judgment in great state trial.
By special provision each senator was
permitted, when he cast his vote, to state
his reason in single sentence. have
fancied that the question be-
fore us now might be decided not alone
by the votes of US who sit here today,
but of the great men who have been our
predecessors in this chamber and in the
continental congress from the beginning
of the republic.
"Wouid that that roll might be called.
The solemn assembly sits silent while the
chair puts the question whose answer is
80 fraught with the hopes Of liberty and
the destiny OF the republic.
"The roll is called.
George Washington: No. Whv
should we quit our own, to stand on for
eign ground?'
alexander Hamilton: NO. The Dec.
laration of Independence is the funda-
mental constitution OF every state
"Thomas Jefferson: No. Governments
are instituted among men deriving their
just powers from the consent Of the gov.
erned. Every people ought to have that
separate and equal station among the
nations Of the world to which the laws Of
nature and of natures God entitle them,
"John Adams: mo. l stood by the
side of Jefferson when he brought in the
Declaration was it's champion on the
floor Of congress. After our long estrange.
ment, come back to his side again.
"James Madison: NO. The object oil
tIlG IGQcIdl OOl6tI.uttOI 10 w cCCO1O VIC
union of the thirteen primitive states,
which we know to be practicable, and to
add to them such other states as may
arise in their own bosoms or in then
neighborhood, which we cannot doubt
will be practicable
"Thomas Corwin: mo. l said in the
days of the Mexican war: III | were q
Mexican, as am an American, would
welcome you with bloody hands to hos
pitatle graves;' and Ohio today honore
and loves me for that utterance beyond
all her other sons.'
"Daniel Webster: NO. Under oul
Constitution there can be no dependen'
cies. Wherever there is in the Christian
and civilized world q nationality OF char
acter, then national government is the
necessary and proper result. There IL
not q civilized and intelligent man on
earth that enjoys satisfaction with his
condition il he does not live under the
government OF his own nation-his own
country. A nation can not be happy bul
under a government Of it's own nation
his own country. A nation can not bt
happy but under a government Of itt
own choice. When depart from these
sentiments depart from myself
civilian II. Sew ard No. The fran.
ers OF the Constitution never contemplated
colonies nor provinces at all. They con
templated states only nothing less thar
states-peIfect states, equal states, SOW
ereign states. There is reason, there il
sound political wisdom in this prov isior
of the Constitution-excluding colo MES
which are always subject to oppression
and excluding provinces, which Away
tend to corrupt and enfeeble and ulti
mately to break down the parent state
"John MARSHALL NO. The power t.
declare war was not conferred upon con
gress for the purpose Of aggression o
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. A war declared by con
gress can never be presumed to DO waget
for the purpose Of conquest or the acqui
sition Of territory, nor does the law de
claring tine war imply All authority t
the president to enlarge the limits Of tn