Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-25
Freedom of Opinion and Oi
speech.


policy OF the present. Administration
and its supporters To- foHtrot 6y physical
force the sentimeps Of The people. This
is precisely what Tyranny and its min
ions hays attempted in vain mall lagesloi
the world Obedience to the Constitution
and Constitutionally enacted laws, this,
and every other lawfully elected Admin
istration has right to require-7but con
yo+may in opinion no government but an
unmitgated tyranny ever has, Or ever will
attempt to enforce.
II was this horrid idea that laid
the Foundation Of 4 the Spanish
lnquisition and perpetrated atrocities
in the moro barbatous ages Of Europe,
that have no parallel in history, save in
Our o,Oa times. 1t was this idea which
took possession of the morbid and fanati
cal intellect Of Philip the Second, and
caused him to deluge the Dutch provinces
in the blood Of their Protestant inhabi-
tants, as they were deluged in the waters
Of the ocean by that heroic people to
drown out their heartless and savage IN
vaders. The Duke of Alva carried il
with him into the Administration of the
government of the Low Countries, and in
his attempts to give it practical effect, has
written the history of the bloodiest, the
most inhuman and eternally infamous
4 tyranny recorded in the annals Of human
4 crime. The unlimited power, prowess
and resources of Spain, in an age when
the wealth of both hemispheres lay scat
tered at her feet, was utterly unavailing
4 after long contest of seventy years, to
control by force the sentiments of the peo-
pie of the United Netherlands. The in
heritor of an Empire which the courage
and craftsmanship of Charles the Fifth
had truly symbolized by the pillars OF
! Hercules, with the legend ''nothing more
beyond" gathered together, time after
!, time, all the destructive energies which
] his vast resources could supply, and his
/ malice and fanaticism could conceive, and
! hurled them with the most intense ieroeity
> against a people whose only oftcnse was
I their religious faith, and whose only dis
loyalty was non-conformity in sentiment
! with their King. Armies whose appetite
d for blood had been whetted upon the un
q resisting natives Of the New World, ant
a who had Gprscticed all the refneneutt O
] cruelty which Spanish malgnity could
A invent, were hurled in succession upon tn,
:. heads of that devoted people. Their cit
# les were burned or razed to the ground
,s their fields were laid waste, their home
+ made deSolate, their churches destroyed
n thoir women violated and children slaught
" cred in cold blood The fagot and tn
e. heRdsman's axe We're used to make NOR
Is conspicuous examples of those whose f
10 deity to their country and to the right
of conscience inspired their hearlless OF
n- pressors with intenser hate. No woI
s. ever tapped blood with more ferocious re-
m ish than did the Duke of Alva gloat owe
a. the slaughter he produced. But it was a
be in vain. From this baptism of fire an
ou blood there at length arose the thrice p'
mn ritied form of nationality that has cha
NJ lenge the admiration of the world,
nd physical force had been able to produ
al conformity of opinion; tyranny won
,se have revelled in bloody triumph over
.he PROSTATE people, and the Dutch Republ
". would never have existed. But the hist
But ry Of that illustrious nation displays t
the cheering truth, that although physic
no. power, welded by blood-thirsty ianNtcisl
,od may cover country with the blaclknC
ing of desolation and re-deliver its teemi
fields and blooming gardens to the embl
Law ces of original barbarism, the spirit of
2ri- brave, Just, and patriotic people Is
to God himself-that it lives in each in,
the yidual, and that like MnToN's angels
N -"Yital in every part
All 10 cannot but by annihilati0n die!N
and The History of Tyranny is but the h
H." tory of the persecution Of mankind
,ro- opinions sake 1t was this spirit of
this tolerance that filled the prisons, and d
syl- piled the block and the stake with Prot