M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-07-24


tho cry that went mp fifteen months
ago, "ralley to defend the flag and for
the rescue OF the capital" and went
forth tO battle, with honesty in his
heart, his life in bis band, with cOur-
age in every fiber, and patriotism in
cyery vein, lies wan and cad on his
pallet in the hospital, your surgeons
are forced to devide their time between
the wounded soldiers aud these vaga.
bond might've Slaves, who have been
seduced or forced from their service
Oltheir masters. these things and
much more-l hHve told yon not a
tithe Of all-are done in Washington.
We know it there, though it is with
held nom the people, and While every
ialsehOod that the Ingenuity Of man
can invent 10 delude and deceive, 10
transmitted or ALLOW ed. By the tele
graphic censors oil the Administration
themselves usurpers unknown to the
Constitution and laws-these facts
are not permitted to reach the people
OF the United States. Your newspa.
pers, the natural watch dogs Of liberty,
are threatened with suppression if but
the hall or the hundredth part OF the
truth be told. Aud now, too. when
but one other means remained for the
redress OF this and the hundred other
grievances, under which the land
groans-party organization and pub.
lie assemblages Of the people-even
these, too, are threatened with sup.
preston by armed ivrce. Aye, sir,
that very party, which not many years
ago, bore upon every banner, the mot
to"Free Speech aId a Free Press,
now day by day forbids the transmits.
ion through your mails of the papers
from which you derive your knowl.
edge ofpnblic events, and whic advo.
cate the principles you cherish.
and Democl attic editors, too, are
seized, "kidnapped' in the midnight
hour-torn from their familes-gagged
their wives with officers over them
menacing violence ifthey but ask one
farewell grasp Of the hand, one part.
lug kiss--tnrust into a close carriage
in the felon's hour oil midnight, and
With violence dragged to the Capitol
ana sere iorced upon an express train
and hurried off to a, military fortress
Of the United States. Yes, men OF
Ohio, to fortress that bears the hon.
ored name OF that first martys to
American liberty-the Warren OF
Bunker Hill; or it may be to that 9th.
er bastile desecrating that other name
sacred in American history, and hon
cred throughout the esrth--the name
Of the man who forsook home and
gave up rank and title, and in the first
flush Of youth and manhood came to
our shores and linked his fortunes
with the American cause.-the prison.
er of Olmutz, the brave and gallant
Lafayette. Aye, lreemen ofthe West
fortresses, bearing these bonoTed
names, and meant for the defense of
The country against foreign foes, and
out OF whose easements bristIe eau.
non planted to burl death and dis
truction at armed invaders, echo now
with the groans and are watered by
the tears-nOt Of men only from
States seeded and in rebellion, or
captured in war, but from the loyal
States of the North and the West, and
from that part which has contributed
nearly three fourths of the soldiers in
the field to-day. Are these things to
be bornel (Never, no, never. If
Jon have the spirit OF freemen in you,
bear them notl Great applause, and
cries of that's it, that's the talk.)-|
What is life worthl Wha! are prop.
erty and personal liberty and political
liberty WORTH OF what value are all
these things, if we, boru Of ali ances.
try Of freemen, boastiag in the very
first hours of our boyhood, Of a more
extended liberty than was ever vouch.
safed to any other people, are to fail
in this the hour of sore trial, to de.
mand and to defend them at every
hazard1 Freedom of the Pressl IS
the man who sits in the White House
at Washington, and who owes all his
power to the press aud the BALLOTS he
now to play the tyrant over usi (No!I
never. never.) Shall the man who
sits at one end of a telegraphic wire
in the War Department or. the De.
partment of State, a mere clerk it may
be. servant Of servants, sit down and
by one single click Of the instrument,
order some minion of bis thousand
miles of, to arrest Samuel Medary,
Judge Ranney, or Judge Thurman
and hurry them to bastile2 (No; it
can't be done; we will never al.
low it.) The Constitution says mo
man shall be held to answer for crime
except on due process of law" Our
fathers, six hundl ed years ago, assem-.
bled upon the plains of Runney Mede
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