Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-03-26

rightly remember, the order for the fri.
, 10000 Of the 600, 900 volunteer
called for, was dated in Washington cit,
on the I'd Of July, and promulgated tt
tho people of Ohio in Order No. 20 o
the Adjutant General of Ohio, on the 9tl
of July. Consequently, your Excelency
will perceive that ! conld not, in tn,
speeches | made in June, and even in th,
one ] made on the I'd of July, at the
Keys Indignation Meeting, have discour
aged enlistments, as at that time ther,
was no order in existence calling for vol
unteers. Neither could | have known
that draft would take place, az '.he call
for the second 100000 soldiers. upon
which the draft was ordered, was not is
sued in Washington City until the 4tt
of August, and the draft not ordered un
til the 1lth Of August. Consequently
on the 18th Of July, when you ordered
my arrest, could not have threatened
resistance to draft no in existence for
nearly month after dat time.
Perhaps, if your Excellency will re.
fresh your memory, you will discover
that you ordered my arrest, not for dis
couraging enlistments and counseling re-
sistance to draft, but because, in the in
dignation meeting over the arrest Of Mr..
kees, l denounced, in no measured terms,
that act as arbitrary, despotic and un-
constitutional. His arrest, without "pre-
sentiment or indictment by grand jury"
and without "due process of law" and
his transportation out Of the State,
pronounce wilful and fragrant viola
tion of the Constitution, which your Ex-
cellency, as well as the President of the
United States, and those acting under
him, had sworn to support. This, fear,
was the unpardonabe sin for which |
was arrested
Your Excellency is equally mistaken
in your next proposition. Your reporter
says "The Governor referred to the
condition of the border, and the threat
ened invasion of Ohio, at the time he
was advised that DR.. Olds was making
speeches denouncing the Administra.
tion," &C.; $50 he telegraphed to the
Secretary OF War temporarily, until we
could drive back Kirby Smith and the
other scoundrels from the border" DC.
Now, it must be known to your Excel
lency that you asked for my arrest on the
l4th of July, and consequently the cause
of my arrest must have existed at that
date. The order for my arrest from the
War office was dated on the % of
August. Was there any threatened in
vasion Of Ohio at that time? Certainly
not. Neither your Excellency nor "any
other man." at that time, contemplated
sucn an invasion. Kirby Smith had not
then even made his appearance in Ken
tucky /; his battle at Richmond was not
fought until the 30th of August. At
that time l had been in soltory confne.
ment more than two weeks in Fort La
fayette. If your Excellency will turn to
your annual message on the 9th of Jan
nary, you will find that your proclama
tion concerning the threatened invasion
was dated on the I'd of September
Consequently all your twaddle about a
threatened invasion Of Ohio and driving
back Kirby Smith had no more to do
with my arrest and Imprisonment than it
had with the man in the moon. 1t was
all mere clap-trap-all pandering to
the baser feelings of your audience, who
were "hungering and thirsting" to hear
your Excelloncy give it good to DR.. Oils.
Your Excellency in your next propo-
sition, is also guilty of a gross misrepre-
sentation, if may be permitted to give
it SO gentle name.
The GOVERNOR, Tod, says: "That
when the border was cleared, and the
people felt safe, l ordered that DR.. Olds
should be released, and he was.'
Here let me inquire, was not the border
cleared, and Kirby Smith driven back,
even beyond the border Of Kentucky,
long before the October election q? Had
not your Excellency, by proclamation,
ordered the Squirrel-hunters to return
to their homes, and assured the people
OF Ohio that all danger from the threat
ened invasion was passed long prior to
the fall election /? Most certainly Won
had, and if you will turn to your official
orders and kilograms, as published with
your annual message, you will find it so
recorded. And yet l was detained in
prison until near the middle of Decem
Der, more than two full months after all
fear of the threatened invasion had pass-
ed away. How will your Exceliency
reconcile such gross Misrepresentation :?
If your Excellency had informed your
audience that you kept me in prison from
the last of September to the middle of
December, in order to extort from me an
oath not to prosecute your Excelency
for kidnapping and false imprisonment,
you whuld have been much nearer the
truth.
But again, your Excellency says II
looked into the Constitution and found
there, written in letters as bright as gold,
this government can protect itself. He
could not cite the article or section in
which it was found, but it was there sub
If your Excellency, when You said.
this Government has power to protect
itself" meant. as you used to teach Ms
on the stump, that the people are the
Government. then you might we'll ex-
claim that you found it written in the
Constitution Sin letters as bright as gold
'hts government can protect ITSELF"
l will refresh your Excellency's men,
ory by referring You to the articles and
sections, nay more, the very words in
which this precious grant of power is
found.
In article 8 and section 2 is written;
"The trial of all crimes except in
1.