The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-08-06

heard the cry that went up fifteen months
ago, "rallY to defend the flag and for the
rescue OF the capital" and went forth tC
battle, with honesty in his heart, his life il
his hand, with courage in every fiber, and
patriotism in every vein, lies wan and sad or
his pallet in the hospital, your surgeons are
forced to divide that time and care
between the wounded soldiers and these vag
agbonds fugitive slave, who have been seduced
or forced from the service of their masters
These things and much more--I have told
you not 1.-THE OF ali--are done in Washing,
ton. We know it there, though it is withheld
from the people; and while every falshood
that the ingenuity Of man can invent to de
lude and deceive, is transmitted or allowed
by the telegraphic censors OF the Admsis
tration--themselves usurpers unknown to the
Constitution and laws--these facts are not
permitted 10 reach the people OF the United
States. Your newspapers, the natural watch
dogs of liberty, are threatened with suppress
ion if but the hltf Of the hundredth part of
the truth b. told. And now, too, when but
one other means remained for the redress o
this and the hundred other political greivan.
cieS, under which the land groans--party
organization and public assemblages OF the
people--even these, too, are threatened with
SUPPRESSION by armed force. Aye, sir, that
very party, which not many years ago, bore
upon every banner, the motto "Free Speech
and Free Press" now day by day forbid
the transmission through your mails of the
papers from which you derive your knowl.
edge Of public events, and which advocate
the principles you cherish.
And Democratic editors, too, are seized
kidnapped" in the midnight hour--torp
from their families gagged - their wives
with officers over them menacIng violence il
they but ask one farewell grasp of the hand
one parting ksS--lhrust inte close Garage
in the felcn's hour OF midnight, and with
violence dragged to this Capitol and here
forced upon an express tram and hurried of
to a military fortress of the United States.
Yes, men Of Ohio, to fortress that bears
the honored name of that first martyr to
Anerican liberty-the Warren Of Bunker
Hill; or it may be to that other bastle
desecrating that other name sacred in Anne.
rican history, and honored throughout the
earth--the name Of that 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 prisoner of Olmutz
the brave and gallant Lafayette. Aye, free
men Of the West, fortIeSses, bearing these
honored names, and meant for the defense o
the country against foreign foes, and out o.
whose classmates bristle cannon planted ia
hurl death and destruction at armed invaders
echo now with the groans and are watered
EU ha too nj
seeded and in rebellion, or captured in war
but from the loyal States OF the North and
and West and from that party which has
contributed nearly three fouaths of the sol
diers in the field to day Are these things
to be borne? (Never; no, never.) II you
have the spirit Of freemen IN you. bear them
not! tGrsat applause, and cries OF that's
it, that's the talk What is lie WORTH
What are property and personal liberty and
political liberty worth? OF what value are
all these things, if we born of an ancesSFy
of freemen, Blasting, in the very first hours
OF our boyhood, OF more extended liberty
than was eyer vouchsa'ed to any other peo.
pie, are to fail now in this the hour of sore
trial, to demand and to de end them at every
hazard? Freedom of the Press! Is the
man who sits in the White House at Wash.
irgton, and who owes all his power to the
press and the ballot, he is now to play the
tyrant over US! (Nol never, never.) ..
Shall the man who sits at one end OF a
telegraphic wire in the War Department or
the Department OF State, mere clerk it NAV
be, a servant oil servants, sit down and by one
single click Of the instrument, order some
minion of his thousand miles off, TO arrest
Samuel Medary, Judge Ranney, or Judge
Thurman and hurry them to a bastie? (No,
it can't be done, we will never allow 1t y
The Constitution says mo man shall be held
to answer for Crime except on due process OF
law" Our fathers, six hundred years ago,
assembled Upon the plains of Runney Mede
in old England, and rescued from trrant
han1s, not by arms bit by firm resolve the
God given right to be free. Our fathers, in
the time Of James Land ofCharles !, endured
trial and persecution and loss OF life and Of
liberty, rather than submit to oppression and
wrong John Hampden, glorious John
Hampden, the first gentleman of England,
arrested upon an Illegal executive warrent,
went calmly and heroically to the cells OF
prison rather than pay twenty shilliEgs ofan
illegally assessed tax, laid in defiance of the
constitution and laws OF England, and the
rights and privileges Of Englishmen. And
all history is full OF like examples. William
Tell brooked the tyrants frown in his day
and generation, in defense of these same
rights. in the noble republic Of the Swiss; and
that gallant little people, hemmed in among
the Alps, though surrounded on every side
by despots whose legions numbered more
than the whole population Of Switzerland,
have by that same indomftable spirit OF
liberty, maintained their rights, their iber.
ties and their independence to this hour
And are Americans now to offer themselves
up servile sacrifice upon that alter OF arbi
trary power? Sir, have misread the signs
Of the times and the temper of the people, il
there is not already spirit in the land
which is about to speak in thunder tones to
those who stretch forth still the strong arm
Of despotic power. "'Fhus far shalt thou come
and no farther We made you. you are osr
servants" That, sir, was the language which
was taught to apply to men in office, when
was youth, Or in first manhood and a
private citizen, and afterwards when holding
office as the gilt of the people, to hear applied
to me, and bore the title proudly. And |
asked then, as | ask now, no other or better
reward than, "Well done, good and faithful
servant" [Cries OF, "You Shall have it; you
deserve it," But to-day, they who are our
servants, creatures made out of nothing by
the power Of the people, whose little brieI
authority was breathed into their nostrilS by
the people, would now, orsooth, become the
masters of the people; while the organs and
instruments OF the people-the press and
public assemblages-are to be suppressed,
and the Constitution, with its right OF peti
ton, and oI due process of law and trial by
Jury, and the laws all else which makes lie
worth posesSing-are TO be sacrificed now
upon the tyrant's plea that 1t is necessary to
save the Government, the Union. Sir, we
did save the Union for years--yes, we did. -
We were the Union savers" not eighteen
months ago. Then there was not an epithet
in the whole vocabulary of political billings
gate so opprobrious in the eyes OF Republi
can when applied to the Democratic party as
"Union shrekers," or the Union. savers"
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