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 Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1836, by Thomas 
 Jefferson Cade, in the Clerk's office of the Eastern District of Pennsyl- 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 Such is the crisis, and high political excitement of the 
 times, that this speech is submitted for publication almost 
 without comment or preface. And being inspired with 
 a sense of duty I owe the people, notwithstanding the 
 sacrifice to consent to have it published. And I am 
 conscious that it would be an act of gross injustice to with- 
 hold it from the public good. Being well aware, that 
 there is nothing contained within its pages derogatory 
 to the cause of Christianity, but on the contrary it is 
 just what its title page declares it to be ^'The King's 
 Speech on the Presidential Contest, to the People of the 
 United States." — *^The expenses of etching and pub- 
 lisihing will be inconsiderable, and the people shall have 
 it as reasonable as possible. I shall now trust to the 
 munificence and unprecedented benevolence of the peo- 
 ple whose patronage is most gratefully and respectfully 
 inscribed by the author. 
 
THE KIXG'S SPEECH. 
 
 Fear and tremble! Bow before the Lord! Before the 
 presence of the Mighty God of Jacob the Great Jeho- 
 vah, our Saviour and our God!!! 
 
 Know ye this day, that Israel is saved, and that Je- 
 rusalem is built up! The City of the living God the 
 Great Jehovah!!! The City of our Great King!!! 
 
 For great is the glory of the Lord! And great is the 
 Salvation of our God! Look up and see the Salvaton 
 of the Lord!!! For great is the glory of the Lord! And 
 great is the Salvation of our God, the Lord God of 
 Hosts!!! Honour! To whom honour! And tribute, to 
 whom tribute is due!!! 
 
 Therefore, friends and fellow citizens, render unto 
 Caesar the things which are Caesar's, And unto God! 
 the things that are God's!!! 
 
 To THE People of the United States: — 
 Behold! the Mighty Thunderer Cometh!!! 
 Friends and Fellow Citizens, 
 
 It is to you, to whom I look to, and it is to you to whom 
 I address, for council and instruction as the peace esta- 
 blishment of this our great and happy nation!!! And 
 it is to you, friends and fellow citizens, that I ask for 
 counsel, for advice, and for your co-operation and sup- 
 port in the promotion of civil and religious liberty, for 
 providing in the protection of our common defence, 
 from foreign and domestic aggression, as well as for 
 your assent and support in advancing the man of your 
 choice, to the high and exalted station, in the gift of 
 
the people, to the office of Chief Magistrate as Presi- 
 dent of these United States of America. 
 
 If you would inquire who I call friends and fellow 
 citizens? I would answer, it is the agriculturist, the 
 merchant, the mechanic, the artisan, the patriot, the 
 sage, the philosopher, and the philanthropist? Yes! I 
 answer it is those who have contributed so highly, and 
 so freely, to the advancement of our free and enlighten- 
 ed institutions, to the arts and sciences, agriculture, 
 commerce and freedom, manufactories, internal im- 
 provements, canals, railroads, as well as other great 
 public works; and in the promotion of the public good, 
 and for the glorious cause of liberty!!! 
 
 I presume it is unnecessary to go to the trouble of 
 criticising word for word, and that this should suffice, 
 we must have a beginning somewhere, is so much to the 
 point, and as the duty and labour however painful, 
 condescending or humiliating devolves upon some one, 
 that will act, or upon myself, that I want nothing pub- 
 lished but what is reasonable, and necessary for the 
 public to know? And something must be said or done, to 
 br ng the public mind to bear and enlist attention on 
 this momentous and all-important subject? 
 
 For in the beginning was the word, and the word 
 was with God, the same was in the beginning with 
 God, and the v^ord was God, and all things were made 
 by him and v^'ithout him was not anything made that 
 was made: in him was life: and the life was the light 
 of men: and the light shineth in darkness, and the 
 darkness comprehendeth it not. 
 
 And moreover, in the beginning God created the 
 heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form 
 and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep: 
 and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 
 And God said let there be light: and there was light: 
 and God saw the light that it was good: and God divid- 
 ed the light from the darkness: and called the light 
 day, and the darkness he called night. 
 
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 And inasmuch as an editor cannot afford to print 
 and work by faith and hope alone, as it is revealed in 
 the Scriptures, but should be well remunerated, that I 
 am prompted by a deep sense of duty to submit this 
 exposition of the subject unto you, of my faith, hope, 
 belief and practice, now before you, for your consulta- 
 tion, consideration, wisdom, justice and judgment? 
 Which now only requires the confirmation of public 
 opinion on this point to insure success? 
 
 Now therefore be it known unto you, that the Lord 
 has been pleased to reveal unto me in a dream, in the 
 depths and councils of eternity at various times and in 
 divers places, and in the dark and silent watches of the 
 night, and in the brightness, and effulgence of the me- 
 ridian sun at noonday all in gold! whose words came 
 unto me saying, that I, Thomas Jefferson Cade, am 
 King of the United States!!! And also, that to day is 
 the day of Judgment!!! Who is the God of Abraham, 
 of Isaac and of Jacob, and who is God Almighty! and 
 very God, of very God! And the all wise, all searching, 
 and invisible Jehovah? Who is the same in Spirit and 
 in substance as our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!!! 
 And all we want now is, is a corresponding co-opera- 
 tion and concurrence of action, activity and belief on 
 the part of our friends and fellow citizens, to carry on 
 the work, circulate information and insure success? 
 
 Now therefore in all probability you will shortly be 
 called upon to act, for according to the cause of human 
 nature we are all fast hastening away from time into an 
 awful and into a fearful eternity! And inasmuch as it 
 is now the day of Judgment, and we have now come to 
 the end of the world, that I now stand on the very 
 brink and verge of eternity, to declare these awful 
 tidings unto you! And how soon our probation in this 
 life will expire with many of us, is unknown to us! 
 And the events of the Providence of God, and the ex- 
 piration of the term of the present Executive of the 
 United States, that we shall soon be called upon, for 
 
our strong and united efforts to act in the choice and 
 support of a man for that high and exalted station, as 
 President of these United States? And how soon, 
 friends and fellow citizens, the National Convention at 
 Baltimore in privy council will be assembled to decide 
 on this momentous and all absorbing question, is not for 
 me to determine? No! But it is for you, friends and 
 fellow citizens, to whom I confide? Yes? it is in you 
 in whom I trust? And it is to you, that I make this 
 awful appeal? Yes? Friends and fellow citizens? the 
 gift is in you?, And as it were that I was in the presence 
 of God! Is this call and this appeal made unto you! 
 That in Him only can we confide, and in Him only can 
 we trust! And in order that we should not be neither 
 before nor behind hand, but in good and seasonable 
 time, is apparent to every good and well regulated mind 
 of man? And moreover, that we must have a great and 
 mighty mover on this subject somewhere, is self-evident 
 likewise? I am not insensible also, that a great many 
 of you laboured hard in General Jackson's cause, and 
 have no doubt to suppose but what you have all receiv- 
 ed your merited reward? 
 
 Therefore, as it is a great public trust? In the man 
 who shall be our ruler, and preside for the general 
 welfare, over the destinies of this, our great and happy 
 nation? And who is at this present time, making such 
 rapid and gigantic strides to wealth, to fame, to civiliza- 
 tion, and to greatness? That in consideration of these all- 
 important questions, which this call has prompted me 
 to lay before you? That he should be a man in all 
 points of view, qualified and selected by the voice of 
 those free, happy, enlightened, and independent peo- 
 ple of these United States? And he should be, more- 
 over, the man who is taken up by the Convention un- 
 solicited for? I would inquire then, who is your man? 
 * None! None! None! 
 
 None! No one to reply? 
 
 I would answer then! Am I that man? Have I any 
 such mark of love, of favour, or distinction in your 
 
hearts? Who now addresses you? I answer, then, 
 such, and no other is ray pretensions and presumptions! 
 And in no other light do I wish to be understood as 
 such! And such only, do I now present myself before 
 you, and before the public! And although I may not 
 be your choice, yet I have the assurance to inform you, 
 and flatter myself that I feel conscious of being compe- 
 tent and qualified in every respect for that high and 
 exalted station of Chief Magistrate of these United 
 States, should that faith and confidence be reposed in 
 me, by my friends and fellow-citizens! Therefore, to 
 be, 01* not be, to live and not have a subsistence! Is now 
 to be determined through the acts of benevolence, co- 
 operation, concurrence and support of my friends and 
 fellow citizens! If I am your choice, I shall have your 
 assent, countenance, approbation, concurrence and sup- 
 port! If on the contrary, I am not your man, I shall 
 have to take upon myself, for this base piece of infatua- 
 tion, shame, confusion efface, contempt, and utter con- 
 demnation of public opinion! However, I can write 
 my own name and takt the people's money; as well as 
 discharge the duties of the ofiice, and that is as much 
 as any body else would care about, you know! I am not 
 on the other hand, insensible of my unworthiness in the 
 sight of God, much less in the presence of my friends 
 and fellow citizens, and that of myself I can eifect any 
 good word, or work! Yet on the other hand, with your 
 help and assistance, which has great bearing and influ- 
 ence, I can do all things? If, therefore, friends and 
 fellow citizens, it is your will to crown my wishes ul- 
 timately with success in the gift of the office of Presi- 
 dent of these United States! Then my only prayer to 
 God will be, that I may be worthy to enjoy the honour, 
 and discharge the duties and trust reposed in me, by 
 my friends and fellow citizens! Therefore I forewarn 
 you, as a sentinel on the watch walls of Zion, to be on 
 your watch! And as fellow labourers in the vineyard of 
 the Lord, I admonish you, to be on your guard! And 
 
with the fervency of the Holy Spirit I exhort you! Not 
 only to act in this cause, but to work and believe in it 
 likewise! For whatsoever the Spirit shall teach you to 
 do, that same do, in very act and in very deed! Pro- 
 vided always nevertheless, that nothing shall be said or 
 done, or misconstrued to infringe on the decalogue of 
 the usages and customs of modern church government 
 throughout the United States- That you may all be 
 guarded against the many evils of dissension, of con- 
 vulsions, disruptions, and of bloodshed! Ofthelawsand 
 discipline of modern church government throughout 
 the United States! But that every man shall have the 
 free use, privilege and protection of our laws to wor- 
 ship Godaccording to the dictates of his own conscience, 
 under his own vine, and under his own fig tree! And 
 hence will you have the very doctrines of our Saviour 
 realized unto you! That whosoever doeth his Father's 
 will, the same are his mother, his sister, his brethren 
 and his friends! Therefore, friends and fellow citizens 
 be engaged! Be zealous! I exhort and admonish you! 
 If it is the cause and work of the Lord! Why see well 
 to it! If it is the interest, well being, happiness, peace, 
 prosperity and tranquility of the Commonwealth at large, 
 as well as your interests, and our nations' best interests! 
 Why by all means in your power attend' to it! I 
 would therefore exhort you to rise before or with the 
 Sun! The King of day, whose radius, brightness, efful- 
 gence and glory in the firmament, equals in lustre with 
 our great Head, our prototype, our Lord and Saviour 
 Jesus Christ, who is our wisdom, our life, and our light, 
 and the Redeemer of the World!!! 
 
 And in regard to the United Bank, friends and fel- 
 low citizens, it should have been most unquestionably, 
 without the shadow of a doubt, rechartered, or re-esta- 
 blished! But to return to the question in point! I shall 
 not be careful to answer you in this matter; and if I am 
 to be the umpire, who is to settle this great political 
 strife, and this great political conflict? I shall strike it 
 
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 dead! Boldly and fearlessly, and at its root, at the very 
 first blow! And was I vested with all the power and 
 authority of the President of the United States, my 
 doctrines should ever be the same! That is, the great 
 increase of our national prosperity, of internal improve- 
 ments, canals, railroads, manufactories, as well as other 
 great public works, as well as the enterprising spirit 
 and industry of our citizens! And the great tide of fo- 
 reign emigration to this country! That it will always 
 warrant the necessity, as well as the great security of 
 our lives, our persons, our property, and our real es- 
 tate! For a National Bank of the United States! Not- 
 withstanding, I am conscious and well aware, that com- 
 mon justice is broke among mankind, and that the great 
 prevalence of distrust, bankruptcy, want of faith and 
 confidence, as well as public trust in one another! Has 
 long since been violated and destroyed! And although 
 a National Bank is a subject of too much prejudice, 
 sectional interest, party jealousy, and speculation, yet, 
 I shall strip and divest it of every thing opposed to our 
 free and enlightened institutions, civil and religious li- 
 berty, and a republican form of government! And shall 
 place it on a basis of patriotic principles, that shall only 
 conspire, to promote the people's interests, preserve 
 their rights, liberties, happiness and prosperity! And 
 the advancement of our country's best interests! And 
 our country's cause! 
 
 If there is any interest, or a source of Revenue aris- 
 ing from the United States stock, vested in the National 
 Bank! Or the revenue arising in the sale of public lands, 
 vested in Bank stock! a bonus! Or chartered privileges! 
 Surplus revenue! or otherwise! It should of right, and in 
 justice, ought to go! To support the President of the 
 United States! Liquidate and pay off his salary and ex- 
 penses! In the first place, and in the second, to pay off 
 and discharge the demands of the Senate and House of 
 Representatives of the people! And in the third place 
 it would relieve the people from the enormous and un- 
 
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 just burthens of heavy duties on foreign goods and mer- 
 chandise! And in the fourth place, from the enormous 
 and unjust burthens of heavy taxation! The responsi- 
 bility and security of the United Bank! The bank's ca- 
 pital, its officers, organization, and all its chartered 
 privileges, interests and immunities should all devolve 
 upon the Senate and House of Representatives, the se- 
 veral and respective States of the Union! As well as 
 regulated and governed by Congress, the Constitution 
 and our laws! And then, friends and fellow citizens, 
 will you have re-established a National Bank! On the 
 imperishable foundations, and fixed principles of equity, 
 truth and justice, as impervious as adamant, marble, 
 brass, or iron! And on the broad basis of a Banking 
 House Exchange on all parts of the Union, as well as an 
 Exchange on London, and on all nations! So that, friends 
 and fellow citizens, you will be able to discover at once 
 that all is wanted to effect this work, and make it a 
 National Bank, is a change in the stockholders of the 
 present Bank of the United States! Then! 'and then 
 only, will you be able to ascertain whether you are 
 ruled and governed by a momrch, a sovereign, a prince, 
 a king, an emperor, or a plain republican President! 
 For there can be no possibility of danger, not even the 
 shadow of a doubt, of having unconstitutional laws, 
 whenever the wisdom, policy and interests of our free 
 and happy government shall see proper to enact and 
 enforce them! And that such is the political excitement 
 against rechartering of the United States Bank, that 
 agriculture, commerce, and freedom, manufactories, 
 internal improvements, alike exhausted and all expir- 
 ing nature must wither and die for the want of patron- 
 age, encouragement and support, from a few political 
 aspirants and demagogues for office! However, friends 
 and fellow citizens, you willl always find in me a firm- 
 friend, advocate and supporter of the Declaration of 
 Independence, the Constitution of the United States, 
 and in favour of the re-establishment of the National 
 
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 Bank of the United States, as well as happy and ready 
 at all times to believe and co-operate in relieving the 
 wants, distresses, tribulations, misfortunes, and neces- 
 sities of my suffering friends and fellow citizens of the 
 federal government, and the several States throughout 
 the United States! Therefore, friends and fellow citi- 
 zens, being under a deep conviction of a sense of duty 
 that I owe to my friends, my fellow citizens, my coun- 
 trymen, myself, my country, and my God! A common 
 debt or obligation which is due from every man to his 
 Maker, and from man to God, his friend and benefactor! 
 that I cannot rest freely acquitted from a remorse of 
 conscience of having done my duty, and in submitting 
 this question to your consultation, wisdom, justice, and 
 judgment! And I hope through the importance of the 
 subject in which we are involved, and the duties incum- 
 bent on us all, 1 trust, you will all take an active part 
 and feel deeply interested! It is all very true, I will 
 admit, friends and fellow citizens, that you have got 
 no warlike achievements of my execution and valor to 
 boast of to mingle with a political faction! No! friends 
 and fellow citizens you cannot boast of me, as the peo- 
 ple did in ancient times of Saul and King David! that 
 Saul had slain his thousands, and David his tens of thou- 
 sands, or that Washington had slain his thousands, and 
 General Jackson his tens of thousands! No! you can only 
 say of me, that I served my country in the late war with 
 Great Britain! and say, as history and tradition says of 
 JosephV dream, that the sun, moon, and stars, and all 
 the sheves of Joseph's brethren, all bowed to Joseph's 
 Sheaf! However, this much you can say, friends and 
 fellow citizens that I have endured the hardships and 
 fatigues of a campaign in the service of my country, as 
 well as endanger my life and health from the inclemency 
 of the seasons likewise! and loss of health from exposure 
 in the service of my country is as important> and is as 
 much to be taken into consideration,as loss of blood and 
 treasure! However, not that I, want to excite any false 
 
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 hopes, or apply any selfish adulations to myself! No' 
 friends and fellow citizens, far from it, my object is to 
 expose you avowedly and openly to conviction! and let 
 you know, moreover, that it is not my wish to disappoint 
 nor defeat the most sanguine anticipations of my friends 
 and fellow citizens, and then I am done! 
 ^ And I would moreover, help you to consider that 
 inasmuch as it is a great political question in which we 
 are all interested, that we are not to move and act alone 
 in this matter, but for your sons and your daughters, 
 and for the scrutinizing eyes of future generations, as 
 well as ages and millions of the human race yet unborn* 
 Yes! friends and fellow citizens, I appeal to your jus- 
 tice. Yes, I appeal to your magnanimity. Yes, I ap- 
 peal to your judgment, and your consciences. Yes, and 
 1 appeal to all the sacred ties of consanguinity, and of 
 blood, human and divine, to awaken to a sense of your 
 duty and danger. Yes, do not these utter volumes, 
 trumpet- tongued for your counteraction, activity, union, 
 belief, perseverance, co-operation, concurrence and 
 support! awake, then! from this long sleep of lethar^v 
 and from this long sleep of death! 
 
 Still I am not satisfied with the present discharge of 
 nny duty! and I would still warn you and admonish you 
 again and again, to be on the alert, and on your guard' 
 and inasmuch as you have got me to run for you, I want 
 you to make the best use of our time. I was thirty- 
 j )ur years of age on the 7th day of April, A. D. one 
 I tnousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and in one year 
 hence I shall be old enough to be put on nomination for 
 • he office of President of the United States, and if I am 
 be a candidate, it is my wish to be run as early as pos- 
 ^ble. But in the first place, consult public opinion, and 
 •If quire what shall be our course, and order of proceed- 
 mgs on the subject, and if I am nominated, to have this 
 intelligence in such a train of communication that rily 
 election shall go up alike unto Solomon's Temple, with- 
 out the sound of a chisel or the noise of a hammer: and 
 m the twinkling of an eye! 
 
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 Therefore, friends and fellow citizens, in taking leave 
 of you, and of this subject, and bidding you farewell 
 forever, I have all things to hope for, and all things to 
 trust for a corresponding understanding, of union, ac- 
 tion, belief, benevolence, co operation, support, and 
 concurrence on your part, in forming the great con- 
 junction, and that you will in good faith, believe and 
 co-operate, is all that I can reasonably anticipate, trust 
 or hope for. 
 
 Having submitted these remarks on this all-import- 
 ant subject to your impartial investigation, I shall com- 
 mit our common cause into the hands of the Lord, from 
 whose all-seeing eye, nothing can be hid, and whose 
 Omnipotence rules and governs the universe! and that 
 my prayers to Almighty God, may be so directed and 
 applied to the guidance and influence of His Holy 
 Spirit, that it may predominate over them, guide and 
 direct them, in all their delibertions is my hearty and 
 sincere prayers; and may the Lord confirm, strengthen, 
 and bless you, in all things appertaining to the magni- 
 tude of this all important question, that our God! our 
 country! the peace! happiness! and tranquility, of a 
 great mass of this commonwealth should be our most 
 jealous aim and aspirations, and that God in his most 
 infinite wisdom, goodness, and mercy would bless us, 
 and would bless us as a nation! andwouldbless our coun- 
 try, and would bless our country's fireside, is my ardent 
 and sincere prayers to the Lord God of Sabaoth!!!! 
 
 With feelings, friends and fellow citizens, of the 
 highest reverence and veneration of love and esteem, J 
 am, and shall be, and ever remain your much obliged i 
 and public humble servant, 
 
 THOMAS JEFFERSON CADE. ' 
 
 Woodbury, N. J. July 28, A. D. -1836. ' 
 
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