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154 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 24, of regard and appreciation of his services to his country in her peril and trial; in the support of the constitution, in the restoration of the Union, and. in the faithful maintenance of the laws, and in protecting and preserving inviolate the purity of the elective franchise, and supremacy of the white race, and in nobly sustaining our national honor before the nations of the world. 2d. That the world is beginning to understand that an injury done to one race to benefit another, ultimately proves an injury to both. Therefore to secure the prosperity of all, all must be consulted; and to secure the greatest good to the greatest number; and the ends of justice further- ed towards the people with even-handed justice, and legal rights to all, all mankind must come equal before the law, and that the' fidelity of a dog is preferable to the trickery of a man, and that a living dog is better than a dead lion; and that leniency to the enemies of the government, is but cruelty to its friends, and that mercy without justice is a crime. 3d. That he that would do aught by word or deed to dis- solve this Union, is false to himself, false to his God, an enemy to his race, and a traitor to his country; and thereby acts more like a knave and fool than that of a wise and honest man; that were the people of the United States to allow this government to be broken up they would betray the greatest political trust that was ever placed by Almighty God in human hands; the goddess of liberty over the fallen ruins of her temple would sit and cry aloud in sad wails to the nations of the earth that she had nursed and raised up children, and they have rebelled against her. 4th. That from aspiring potentates and factious citizens in a vicious commonwealth no assiduity can warn, no wisdom can protect. Drunk on blood to vomit crime, they have de- throned reason to pull down the temple of their country's liberty by the most despotic usurpers and cruel tyrants the world has ever known. The subjugation of their treason will leave this nation regenerated and disenthralled. Without law we can not protect life, liberty nor property, weakness against vio- lence, nor virtue against vice. 5th. That the policy of this government should be to re- ward merit and punish crime, and bestow superior distinc- tion alone upon superior merit, and plant the tree of liberty so deep in the American soil that all the nations of the earth can never uproot it, and the flag of our country, like the ocean, never cease to wave 1 6th. That while with the sympathetic cords of our hearts we bind up our national wounds, we rejoice to know while the |
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