An Address to the People of Rhode-Island
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Excerpt from An Address to the People of Rhode-Island: Published in the Providence Journal, in a Series of Articles During the Months of September and October, 1844 And if the freedom which was won by Whig valor - if the noble Constitution and the liberal Republican Government, which were framed and established by Whig wisdom, are to be preserved to us and our children, and transmitted to future ages unimpaired, it must be done by the beneficent operation of pure Whig principles, by a firm and patriotic adherence to the Whig cause. The first great interest of every civilized community is the security of life, liberty and property, by a government of laws. Whatever else may be desirable, this is paramount and indispensable. It lies at the very foundation of every thing which men hold dear and sacred. Without this security all other blessings are mere mockeries - all other good sinks into valueless insignificance. Every man in society should feel that the invasion of established authority, resistance to public law, is an attack upon the palladium of individual and public safety. He should feel that with the battering down of this strong bulwark, falls all that is worth possessing. - Whenever popular commotion shall rise so high, and its towering waves dash with such wild fury, that the solid defences of public law shall give way, all our rights, public and private, civil, social, political and religious, will go down - ingulfed in one wide ´submerging maelstrom´ of anarchy and blood. Our Government is in form the freest and the best which it ever fell to the lot man to enjoy. It has during a trial of more than half a century, proved itself, if wisely administered, capable of accomplishing all the high objects of our Federal Union. But its freedom makes the support of general intelligence and virtue in the people, who, through their chosen agents, administer it, the more necessary. Its administration, which docs much to give character and tone to public feeling, should be watched with the sternest scrutiny and its purity guarded with more than vestal vigilance. It must be apparent to the most careless observer, that our free institutions are passing through an ordeal roost searching and severe. The elements of disorganization are every where active. The wild spirit of insubordination to established authority - of determined disobedience to public law is every where so manifest and alarming as to a awaken serious apprehensions in the minds of all considerate and patriotic men. And what is most lamentable in the matter is, that those who have had control of the government have been the first to commence this career of violence and disorganization. - When Andrew Jackson struck down the appointed agent of the law, and driving from his post the sentinel of the General Treasury, laid violent hands upon the public money deposited in the custody where the pledged faith of the government had placed it, a blow was given which inflicted a vital wound upon our free institutions, from which they have not yet recovered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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