Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-05-02
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calls upon the President for the exercise of this
extraordinary power of the government, and
when the strong arm is once raised it is to be
directed against those who would throw off the
claims Of the government upon them for obedience
to her laws. This is a power OF the govern
ment which although oil the greatest import
anee can only be exercised by and through the
insirumentalify of those who remain loyal 10
her authority, and her interest, and who prefer
her lust demands to the will and wickedness Of
the mob.
The secession of the Southern States that are
now arrayed in hostility to the flag Of the L.
Mon cannot be, directed against the present
chief executive, simply because they imagine
his policy and the tendency of his administra-
ticn viii be adverse to their notions of the corr
trect administration OF the government, for that
would have saved the preceding administration
from .disloyalty or indignity from them. But
such is not the case. For fivc months, or more,
have they been plundering the government,
marching and countermarching their mobs, dis.
patching their emessaries to the capital of the
nation, and there insolen.ly demanding tie
surrender of the government forts, not in pursu-
ance to any law +; but in violation of all law,
and contrary 10 the whole tenor of precedent,
and correct government. Claiming the right
TO retire from the Union and TO repair to South
ern frenzicd mob assemblies: then and there to
define and declare the rights of the South. and
at the same time declare the North ont of the
National connection. My fellow citizens. can
this be done, and there be no violation of the
laws of the nation :? The language of the law,
above referred to. is too explicit TO permit you
to err in your decision.
Ose OF the objects had in view at the time Of
organizing this government, was TO definitely
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rights of The citizens, SO that the greatest
amount of good should result 10 the greatest
number Of individuals. When the government
shall cease to secure this intended good t. the
citizens, we have provision, an agreed plan in
the Constitution itself. for IFS improvement by
a convention for its amendment. But surely
this remedy could not be applied. this agreed
plan for improvement could not be obtained in
the resigning of the members of congress, by
calling conventions in the SouthreR States to
resolve against the further existence OF the u
Mon, or by resisting the execution of laws hich
are as old as the government itself.
If the government has been illegally admin
isteled by the administration of james Buchan-
an or if it is nnconstitutionally in the hands
of political opponent, or if it is being unccn-
stitutionally administered, We have provision
in the government itself for its correction and
sure test OF the Judiciary, to the Wild and IA
natical mobs of those who are now exulting in
their opposition to the government and her laws.
Under the Constitutional administration ofthis
government no State, party, OF citizen, can be
injured or be deprived of any right by uncon-
stitutional legislation. Congress can pass no
laws inconsistent with that instrument; but
what the first attempt of its execution enables
the party whose rights are 10 be affected, to call
upon the whole powers of National judiciary to
declare it void and powerless to affect the rights
of a citizen. The passing of unjust, or uncon-
stitutional laws can afford no pretext or snffl-
cient cause for secession so long as the naiion
has an intelligent and vlrtuous judicial power
to be exercised TO redress the injured.
To say that this administration or the next or
any future Congress will do injustice to the
South, or to her institutions, is premature
alarm unworthy to be entertained by any one
possessed of ordinary intelligence. That such
will be the case, is prophecy. thing not con-
templated in our systom of government. That
it maysoccur, that bad laws as well as unconsti-
tutional will be passed is eonsonant with the
whole theory of the government and ample pro-
vision is made therein for correcting and avoid
ing all evils that might flow from such a source
but in vain will we search TO find the remedy i'll
erecting floating batteries at Charleston, with
which 10 batter down the national forts. or the
organizing of confederacies North or South in
dependent of the present Union, nor could we
expect this wholesome provision TO be exempli-
fed by organizing in the South a party 10 tear
the American flag from the National forts and
hoisting in its place the flag of a mob
The President has called upon Ohio for ten
thousand men of the MALTA who are willing to
take up arms against the traitors of the South,
who oppose and resist the execution oft laws,
passed under the administration of our WASH
ing,on, as well as all the other Presidents. who
have given their best energies for the perpeiua
tion of the government. The present chief ex
eeutire no less than all his predecessors was
el cted TO discharge every duty of the position,
the laws he tellsare opposed and their execution
resisted. What can he do but to ask the loyal
citizens to march to the counlry's defence to
whom shall he appeal? to the MALTA of the
States, who prefer the peaceable execution of
the law to the violence of mobs and treachery Of
traitors. Our fathers gave us a government es-
tablished at n great expense OF money and of
blood, with the impression that it was never to
be taken from US by mobs, under it we have
had name, prestage and a power high and
honorable amongst the nations of the earth.-
Shall an inheritance SO great from an ancestry.
SO noble, now be torn from us and trampled in
the dust by a jeff Davis mob This question
you will answer by your response to the call
now made upon the militia for the suppression
of the mob violence offered against them.