Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-05

cape as 6ost IL can let non-combatants fee
while time Is leIt them--for the North is TO
be deluged in blood, and its fields wasted, and
ia cities bombafded, and its homes burned---
even as the fields, and citieA and homes 81
Virginia have been. II will b. the feYolntipn.
ary declaration Of war agalnst the Statesof
Of the North A4A ~ "
There is one man, above AL coihers living,
who has the power to give q, peaceful and
satisfactory release from nll these IorebOdiRgs
of evil. TO prevent any violent collision, It
needs but to J be assursdly known that, aps
preoiating the potential tights With which he
Is invested, he is determined sternly TO main
tain them Itis not the Emperor Napoleon
the Third-who having waived 10 long the
rested rights Of France in the supply Of cot
ton and commerce TO Frenehmen, seems now
like one who takes mad dog by the ears
that was the way Solomon described the
man who "meddleth with strife that belongeth
not 70 him lit is not Napoleon Ill nor any
foreign potentate For us to invoke their
interference now is felly ard impotence. But
the man who has the power TO settle this
danger Of civil war in the North is the Chief
Magistrate Of four millions of Americans,
and the "Commander-in-Ch Chief Of the military
and naval forces according 10 the ConstitI-
tion of Nep FORK 1t is Horatio Seymour,
"the favorite son" Of the State, and her lately
elected Governor The Militia Of New York
the fighting men of New York--knowing
the Constitution Of the United States, which
is not vet formally abolished, and which they,
therefore, respect aud MISUNDERSTANDING the
Constitution and laws OF their own Empire
State-recoan him and him alone, as thsi,
Commander-in Chief They care nothing
for conscript laws passed in violation Of the
Federal Constitution, by Rump Congress.
| Not at the call of Provost Marshals over ciyi
lians-unknown to United States laws--not al
the call of Thug Kennedy's policemen, but at
the call of their lawful and constitutional
Commander-in-Ch Chief, Seymour, Governor oi
New York, they will show that they are ready
They will show that appreciatng the right re
cognized by the Federal Constitution, to pos
sess and bear arms they know how to use
them, for their homes and their altars .'
Let the Lincoln Administration, as il pur
poses doing, supplant Gen. Wool, by the
substitution of Beastly Butler, or some other
New England tool of theirs, in this, which they
dominate the Military Department Of the
East" What do our State Constitutions and
laws know or care about Federal military
Departments, in aw-abiding States Let
| euerhl Ouclhls lOOh hiIeE Il euerhl COuceTHs
They have not the right and they have mol
the might, to touch militia-man, or a oivi
liam, Of the State of New York ,o.ta.
In that quiet and conciliatorY gentleman
whom the people of New York have chosen
as their Governor, Federal encroachment viii
find determined aud fatal obstacle. He vii
not be noisy He will indulge in no declama
ton. But he knows what belongs to the honor
and to the rights of the free, sovereign, and
independent State of New York, and none o.
its rights, or the rights of the humblest of itt
citizens can be disregarded with impunity.
But we say to the thinking men of the
State, who ought to be the leaders Of the peo
lple-shake off the long apathy that has made
you disgusted with what is called politics 7
The present is time that demands your ener
gies. Leave not our gallant Governor to con
lecture your sentiments, your purposes you
resoIves-but let him knoiU them