Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-19

~. ieePegs ior ieBal ana constitutional obi
CATIONS. We are admonished by Washington
-Ihe very Idea of the power and right of the
people 10 establish government, pre-supposee
u ,ne GUY OF every individual to obey the estab.
lished government The primal sin OF dlao.
bedience Is not only the immediate cause ot
this war. but lie spirit has also capped and
weakened the foundations of our munioipal.
state and National authority In every part Of
our land. 1t ls the great underlying cause Of
all our calamities. The spirit of dlsobedience
permeates our social system; Il renders law
poweriess, and strips men of their rights of
due protection to their persons and pfoperty.
Obedience is the basis OF all family, political
and religions organizations. II is the principle
OF cohesion that holds society together, with
out which IL crumbles into atoms u
ihose radical men who brought this war up.
on our country by their passions and follies,
nave now oVerthrown by their violence the par.
y winch gave them influence. Having shaped
tne poiicy OF the Government by such Lepisla-
sse anu Executive measures as they demand
e.. .u, ',1ey now turn with angry reproaches upon
.ho rresiuent whose more moderate counsels
they spurned, and seek to make him resnonsbls
ior their political disasters. We shall not
take advantage of this factious spirit to embar.
rass the Administration. We warn these ipfu-
rla'ea men that such language, at all timea de.
i.n,Vfahzing, is dangerous in times of civil war
hfiInoagh we are politically opposed to Mr.
L,Ilcoln' We insist that he shall be treated with
Ine courtesy due to bis position and to the dig
nifty OF the American people.
WINE thus admonished our people with re-.
gsrd to the duties of obedience, at the same
sime pointed out the admonition of the Faith
et OF our country to those in power. repeat
hls solemn warninge:
w Is important, likewise, that the habits of
tninking in free country should inspire can.
zion in those interested with its administratjon.
to confine themselves within their respective
constitutional spheres; avoiding In the exer.
oise OF the powers Of one department TO en-
croacn upon the other. The spirit of encroscb-
ment tends 10 consolidate the powers of all the
departments in one, and thus to create. what
ever the form OF government, real despotism,
"A Jupt estimate OF that love of power, and
Proneness to abuse it, which predominates in
.ne human nearf, 10 sufficient to satisfy US of
the truth of this position"
The reaults of the late elections viii, ca,,v ma
back to the policy of our fathers. They will
give renewed vigor to the principles of our Cnn-
stitution. Amid all the confusion of this civil
war, its folemnities, its bloodshed, its calami.
Ties, our people have by their ballots re-afirmed
and re-established the Constitution of the United
states, In all its vigor and In all its complete.
ness. The war now takes O new phase. We
mold up to the people of the South not oply the
penalties TOR disobedience, but all the bIeesinps
and oil the advantages of submission TO that
Constitution. Unyielding and exactnplon The
one hand in our demands for obedience. we are
scrupulous and just in giving every right to
those who shall yield to the government made
by our common fathers,
Let not our couDtrymen, let not the world
mistake the meaning of our triumph. Il ia the
beginning of political revolution that will
again place power in the hands OF those who,
until the last two years, were able TO defeat
the enemies of peace, Of the Union, of the
Constitution, This triumph removes the great
obstacle in the way of the restoration of our
Union: IL teaches the loyal men at the South
VINO reared that they were unsafe within lie
hmi's' tnat tne Conservative men of the North
are able to put down fanatical aeitatora and
meddling disturbers without the heIp of a ain ole
vote from the Southern States. The doctrine
that there is law higher than the Constitu,ion
which luslities resistance to the statutes of the
land, or to rightful authority, has been con.
demned. Oar Government has received new
strength That seditious spirit which promnted
Northern Governors to give conditional
obedience to the constitutional demands of Gov.
ernment, has been rebuked. Treasonehla Of.
forts to coerce the Executive into line of no,ic,
opposed to his convictions of duty have been
condemned by the public verdict. The Presi.
dent of the United States have been instructed
to exercise the full measure of his rjgbtful an.
thority to uphold the dignity Of bis Office. to re-
strain other departments within their proper
spheres' and then, too, he has been admonis6ed
not 70 90 beyond his own rightful jurisdiction
he will receive from US that which he has not
mad from those who claim to be his peculiar
supPorters-a cheerful, unconditional obedience
70 MS fightiuI demands, whether they meet our
views of policy or not.
htour annual elections, we shall again sit in
Juugmeht on that policy, and condemn or ap-
prove IL In the mode polated out by the Consti-
tutlon In tho meanwhile he will be saved
from those intrigues which have hindered the
successful progress of the war. Our armies
Will now be permitted to gain victories in the
vicinity of our capital, as they have heretofore
won them in other fields of action. The national
credit will be strengthened by greater economy
and honesty in the conduct of affairs. Il will
also be strengthened because we propose an OBJ
1ect Tor this war that can be attsined--,he res
toration OF our Union. All other schemes
which looked to bloody social revolution will
De abandoned. We can now hope that we are
to be saved from the disgrace Of national bank
ruptcy on the one hand, or the still deeper dis
honor and Generalization of national repudia-
tion on the other.
10 restore our country to It's former condition
we are ready to make every sacrifice, not onIy
OF men and money, but also of passions and
prejudice, for We will not hold our passions and
prejudice to be more sacred than the blood and
Toll OF our fellow citizens in the field of martial