The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1863-07-30

'HHd poiluted Dy repeated anu most a9grayA'
ted Cxaetions oftyrannic power 1t Is base
iHyoprselAcs, and reasonable to your pos.
unity, to surrender these liberties and rights
A. The Tcteatmes whom Your own breath
created ana can Destroy, Shall there be
free speech, rcaPrcss; pcaccable assem-
bIages of the people and y free ballot any
longcrin Ohio? Shall The people hereafter,
as hitherto, have the right to discuss and
condemn the principles and policy of the
party-the miniStry--the men, who for the
time conduct the GOvernmcnt-to demand
ofthcir public servants reckoning of their
stewardship, and to place other men and am
other party i'll power at their supreme Will
and pleasure? Shall Order Thirty Eight or
the Constitution be the supreme law of the
.land2 And shall the citizen any more be
arrested by an armed soldiery at. midnight,
dragged from wife aud child and home, to u
military prison; thence to q mock military
trial; thence condemned and then banishcd
as Il tclon for the exercise of his rights?
This is the issue; ard nOhly you have met it.
1t is the YeFy! question Of free, popular gov
crnmentitsclf. 1t is the Whole question;
pom the one side, liberty; on the other dcs-
pctsm. The President, as the recognized
head OF. his party accepts the issue. WHAT.
ever he wills. that is law. Constitutions,
State and Federal, are nothing acts of leg
islation nothing, the Judiciary less than
nothing In time of war, there is but one
willsnprcnie-his will but one law, military
necessity, and he the sole Judge Military
orders supersede the Constitution, and mill
tary commissions usurp the place of the or
binary courts Of justice in the land Nor
ale these mere idle claims. For two years
and more, by arms, they have been enforced
1T was''he mission of the weak but presump
.tuous Burnside, name infamous forever in
she ears of lovers of constitutional liber
ty, to try the experiment in Ohio, aided By a
Judge whom | name not, because he has
brought foul dishohor upon the Judiciary Of
my country. Inyour hands, now, men of
Ohio, is the final issue Of the experiment
he party Of the Administration have ac-
ceptcd it. BY ple1ging support to the
President, they have justified his outragcs
upon hberty and the Constitution; and who
ever gives his vote to the candidates of that
party commits himself to cyery-act of vio-
lcncc and and wrong ON the part Of the Ad-
m'nistraton which he upholds; and Il us, by
the;law of retaliation, whichis the law of
might, Moul! forlci his own night to liberty,
pers and political - whatsoever other
men and another party Shall hold the power
Much more do the candidates themselves
Suffer them not, entrcat you, to evadc the
Issue; and by thsjulsment ofthe people we
will abide. .a!1sHa .A'H5-U r..-i 1Ul I
d And now, finally, lot me ask. what is the
preteXt for all the monstrous acts and
claims orMbitgary power, which you. have
so pobly denounced? Military necessity
But If, indeed all these be demanded by
military necessity then, believe me, uyour
liberties are gone, and tyranny is perpetual
For this civil war is to terminate only by
tn, subjugation or submission of the South
to force aud arms, the infant of to-day will
not i've to'see thc'chd it, No, in a'toth-
er way ondy qeap it be brought to a close.
Travelling a thousand miles and more,
through nearly one-half of the Confederate
States, and sQjournipg for time at wi e.
ly different points, met not one man; wo-
man or child, who was not resolved to per-
ish rather than yield to the press re Of arms
even in the most desperate extremity. And
whatever may and must be the varying for
tune ofthc war, in all which recognize the
hand of Providence pointing visbfv to the
ultimate issue Of this great trial ofthe States
and people of america, they are better pre-
pared now every way to make good their IN
eXorhble purpose, than at any period since
the beginning of the struggle. These may
indeed be unwelcome truths; but they are
addressed only to candid and honest men.
Neither, however, let me add did meet
any one, whatever his opinions Or his sta
ton, political or private, who did not de-
clare his readiness, when the warshnlr hqye
ceased and invading armies been withdrawn
to consider and discuss the question of re-
union, And who shall doubt the Issue of
the, argument? Ireturn, therefore, with my
opinions and convictions as TO war or peace,
and my faith as to ofnal' result, from Sound
wise craftsmanship, not nnl nm
changed, but confirmed and strengthened
And may the God Of heaven and earth 50
rule the hearts and minds of Americans ov-
cry Were, that with Constitutioms1pain
taided, o. Union restored and Liberty hence.
Iprtb made secure, u grander and ilobler
destiny shall yetrbe ours, than chat even
which blessed'our fathers in fhe first two
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