Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-11-11
An Eloauent SentImenf.

Governor Seymour, Of New York. in late
speech at Syracuse, in that State, very elo.
quentIy said
For what are governments constituted
Not in order that they may gain wide spread
dominion, not that they may attain great ma
tional power, not that they may achieve splen-
did triumphs 1t is for purposes more sacred
than all these. The greatest and highest oh.
jects OF good government are that each man
shall be in the enjoyment of his personal lib
erty each home shall be sacred from intru-
sion; each conscience shall be free to worship
God according to its own dictates; each mind
shall be free to exercise its own God-given
function, Cheers The proudest Govern
ment that exists upon the face of the earth is
that OF Great Britain and its proudest states
man, when he would tell of Britain crownng
glory did not speak of its wide spread domin-
ions, upon which the sun never sets, did not
say, as he might have done, that the beat of
its morning drum made continuous strain of
music round the world He did not speak
of martial achievements, Of glorious battle
deeds and Of splendid naval conflicts; but he
said, with swelling breast and kindling eye,
that the poorest mau of Great Britain in his
cottage, might bid defiance to all the forces of
shake the wind might blow through it., storm
might enter it, the rain might enter, but the
King Of England could not enter it. All his
powers did not dare to cross the Threshold OF
that ruined tenement [Great cheering. l.
| see before me persons in different conditions
of life-some rich, some poor You will 90
to houses unlike in many respects; one may be
embellislIed by all that art can bestow or a
lavish expenditure Of wealth can procure; the
other only precious by the love that msets
you thereby all the cherished relations of
life.
What is it that makes the American home
glorious beyond the castles Of other portions
Of the world 1t therefore has been this :
that when you have let down the lock into its
latchet aud have drawn yourself by the fire,
side have assembled around you those whom
| you love, you could look around you and say,
this is my CASTLE no one can enter here un-
hidden, Enthusiastic cheering 1t was
constitutional rights that made your home
glorious, until you were called upon by men
in power to say that this Constitution which
protected you might be trampled upon under
the plea OF military necessity where war did
not even exist--in this great State of ours.
Cries of Shame, shame What is this
Constitution of which men speak so idly p
Study it and find what it means You men
of termany you of Ireland, you Of England,
or any other European country, you know
what written constitution means, though we
may have forgotten its value, wholhad it writ
ten down as deed given to US more pre-
eious than the deeds Of our homes for it in.
wolves the deeds of our homes, and they are
nothing without the Constitutions which says
your property shall not be torn away from you
without compensation and without process of
law Cheers 1t was deed that made
your homes valuable and sacred to you. 1t
said that no man should seize your person ex-
cept by due process Of law; it gave you the
right to worship your God in such way as yoa
pleased it said that you should not be i'm
| prisoned without the protection afforded to
the innocent thus imprisoned, BY the habeas
corpus. You will find that the Constitution
attaches itself to every thing that you value
| in life"