Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-08-05
EBENsBURG, PA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1868.

hushed, if | especially rejoice with you in {
the nomination of Mr.. Pugh as your can ;
didate for Lieutenant Governor and Presi-
dent of the. Senate A scholar and a ;
gentlemen, soldier in foreign war, and
always patriot eminent as a lawer,
and distinguished as an orator and a
statesman, l hail his acceptance as an
omen of the return of the better and
more virtuous days of the Republic.
| endorse your noble platform-elegant
IN style, admirable in sentiment. You
present the true issue, and commit your
self to the great mission just now OF the
Democratic party-to restore and make
FIRST the rights and liberties declared
yours by your constitutions. 1t is vain
TO invite the States and people OF the |
South to return TO a Union without |
Constitution, and dishonored and polluted ,
by repeated and most aggravated eXactions |
of tyranic power. 1t is base III your |
selves, and reasonable in your posterlry,
/ to surrender these liberties and rights to
/ the creatures whom your own breath
| created and can destroy. Shall there be
! free speech, free press, peaceable as
semblage Of the people, and free ballot
any longer in Ohio? shall the people here
after, as hitherto, have the right to dis
cuss and condemn the principles and
policy of the party-the mlnlstry-the
men who, for the time, conduct the Gov
ernment-to demand of their public ser
wants areckoning OF their stewardship, and
to place other men and another party IN
power at their supreme will and pleasure!
Shall Order Thirty-eight or the Constitu-
ton be the supreme law OF the land
And shall the citizen any more be ar
rested by an armed soldiery at midnight,
dragged from wife and child and home to
d military prison thence to a mock mill
tarv trial ; thence condemned, and then
banished as a felon for the exercise OF his
rights? This is the issue, and nobly
: have YOU met it. 1t is the very question
= of free, popular Government itself 1t IS
the whole question; upon the enc sue
liberty. on the other dcspotism. The
President, as the recognized head OF his
party. accepts the issue. Whatever he
= Wills. that is LAW Constitutions, State
.. and Federal, are nothing; acts Of leslsla
!, ton nothing; the Judiciary less thai
nothing. In time of war, there Is bu
r. one will supreme-his will but one Law
;, military necessity, and he the sol
h iudge. Military orders supersede tn
-, Constitution, and military commission
- usurp the place of the ordinary courts q
=, Justice in the land. Nor are these mer
\ idle claims. For two years and more
~ bv arms, they have been enforced.
. was the mission of the weak but pre-
:; sumptous Burnside-a name infamot
- forever in the ears Of all lovers of const
70 tutional liberty-to try tho experiment
mt Ohio, aided by a judge whom L nan
4 not. because he has brought foul dlshoh,
" upon the judiciary Of my country.
=, vour hands now, men of Ohio, is the lin
y ;ssue of the experiment The party
- the Administration have accepted It, /
III nledaino support to the President, th
49, 49, have justified his outrages upon hber
- and the Constitution and whoever CIV
e. e. his vote TO the candidates Of that part
81; commits himself to every act OF VIoier
no and wrong on the part OF the ADMIN
10 tration which he upholds; and thus
NO. the law of retaliation, which IS the l'
- &C miobt. would forfeit his own right
D. liberty. personal and political, when
D nrer other men and another party 81
,m- hold the power Much more do the G
: = didates themselves. Suffer them not'
80 entreat Won. to evade the issue and
, in the judgement of the people we
his abide.
ms ml1 And now, finally, let me ask what
- the pretext for all the monstrous acts
;rar claims of arbitrary power which
- I Lova 60 nobly denounced g Miht
had 'a necessity." But if, indeed all these
,n"d n demanded by military necessity, then
,nnh Teve me your liberties are gone, and
hp1a .uno,a amy is perpetual. For if this civil
,J% nj i to terminate only by the subjugatioI
. ~ ~ s,hy,;ssion of the South to force
, M arms, the infant of to-day Will not h'
the see the end of it. No, IN another
c. only can it be brought to a close L
- elino thousand miles and more, thr'
orc nearly one-half of the Confederate oI
st;tn- and soiourning for time at widely
) his ferent points, met not one man, woi
or child who was not resolved to
rather than yield to the pressure OF
Iced even in the most desperate eHtrei
,nnen And whatever may and must be
tr;od carrying fortune of the war, IN all v
rn;nn rcco6nize the hand of Providence
nol;t, ;no visibly to the. ultimate issue o.
- - t,.iaI of the States and peop
tnes America. they are better prepared
thoso everv wav to make good their mex
And purpose than at any PERIOD sihce VI
ow be ginning of the struggle Ahes' '-'''