The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-12-17
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he dlslikes, it is only necessary for him
topretend that the act is demanded by
the public safety. The Commercial
does not tell US how the public safety
can be maintained when every mans
individual safety is imperiled by this
despotic power of the President. The
public is but an aggregation of indivi-
duels. We have laws to provide for
the public safety, but the Commercial
believes that the President has the
right to disregard and pay no attention
to,those laws, but should act on his in
diyidual notions Of the exigency Of the
case; as he does by the arbitrary ar
rests The Commercial theory makes
the President more absolute despot
than the Emperor of Russia or the
Emperor of Austria. 1t virtually con-
verts our country into gigantic mon
archy. The Cincinnati Gazette has
the same general views. In an article
yesterday upon the press it says: .
Without considering the justice or njus.
tice OF cases that have arisen, We would ask
the journal tekether. The President as Cops
#san@er in Chief Of the Asmy and Nary has not
tie r'gbtsto order Tie suppression of diSloyal
newspapers on their e1elisSion from the mails II
net, the military authorities had no right to
suppress the Louisville Courier. We have
beeBgand are still, OF the opinion that the au.
thorfty which the war power gives the Gov.
erpment, has been abused, both in the SUD,
preston oil newspapers and the arrest OF in
dly,duals.s 1t is our opinion, ALSO that while
The Government has, in this regard, done
many, things that it should have left undone,
1t has left undone many things that it shonld
have done; but while there NAV be good
good ground or cri ieising its acts, we are
ret able to see how It's right to exercise the
power assumed, in a time of war; can be ques
toned, unless we assume, as the rebels do
that the Government has no constitutional
right to make war upon these who are seek
ing to destroy it, TIE acts of members of
the Cabinet are the acts of the President
and the latter, as Commander in ohief, has
as much right 10 order the suppression of
newspaper giving aid and comfort to the one-
mics Of the Government, as be has to an.
thorize General Rosancrans to XII those who
are in arms against it," sTat aEs.-
The Gazette's doctrine is that the
President, as the Commander-in- Chief
of the Army and Navy, has the right
to suppress every paper in the United
States, for its exclusion from the mails
is a virtual suppression, All that he
has to do under the extensive, liberal
and broad doctrine of the Gazette is
to set up the plea in the act of sup>
preston chat the paper is disloyal, and
then it can be destroyed. lie can not
only do it himself, but he can delegate
the power to all of his agents and Gen>
erals, civil and military. Each one of
them is to be the sole judge of the
4disloyalty," and from his decision
there is no appeal. 'Disloyalty" is
an offense unknown to our laws and
Constitution-there is no statute def
ming it--consequently, the President
can fix his own definition Of disloyalty.
lie ma9Eeclare it to be "disloyar'. I.
act for a newspaper to oppose any
measure Of his ADMINISTRATION, or to
speak kdisrespectfully of himself. Any
thing that he-the Autocrat Of Amer
ica-declares to be "disloyal,' is sufi-
cient for Che suppression of the Offend
ing Journal, in the. Gazette's estima-
tion. Consequently, the whole press
of the country have no rights to exis,
tence a single moment beyond the plea
sure of the President. They have no
constitutional rights or privileges. The
Gazette believes that the President
has as much right to suppress paper
that he may choose to say is ''disloyal'
as he has to authorize General Rosen-
Grams to kill those who are in arms a.
as.aE FF#a a4sr Ia q o. f.g
gainst it. IF he can suppress the pa,
per- without any trial, without any
forms Of law, he can, of course, impris>
on and hang oil those connected with
it. Eyerybody's life, liberty and prop
perty Isl therefore, held at the pleasure
of the President, according to those
great Abolition luminaries, the Cincin-
natl Gazette and Commercial. Ifthere
is war in Alabama, he can suppress
papers in Maine, where there is no war,
and where the civil power is in undis-
turbed operation. He can not only,
according to the Gazette, exercise mar
tial law within the line of armies, but
can do it thousand miles from where
there'is q soldier or military opera
ton going on. He can exercise it on
the citizen in Ohio and in illinois as
we'll as upon the soldier in Tennessee
and, Virginia.. y, 81 'o,g q g,.. N. .soi, NJ. N.
o. As the Commercial finds its authors
,ity for converting the President into
IAN Emperor, whose willis law, from its
desire for the a'public safety" the Ga
zette fndssits aauthorityin the a"war
power of the Constitution. The s'war