Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-16
NEW sERIES-YoL. 25--No. %.

caa, as ! am an Englshman, while a for
eign troop were landed in my country,I
would never lay down my arms never
never W. May not an American citizen,
in this land Of boosted freedom, say NJ
much, without the imputation Of treason?
There are men in the Republican par
ty, not wanting in ability, but sadly do
iicient in integrity. apd patriotism, and
manliness, who have sought to re-invig-
crate, and establish in this country, Con-
5truttiCe Treason, though 1t had, centuries
ago, been extirpated in England, as
wholly iroconcileable with public liberty,
and personal safety. These bad men
for they are unqualified bad men-say
"1'ho Democratic party declare that o
certain act Of the a ministration is un-
constitutional. This betokens division
Of the Northern people; and division of
the Northern people is calculated to give
aid and comfort to the rebellion" This
is the sort Of treason--the CONSTRUCTIVE
TREAsoS-which Englishmcn are too wise
to recognize or to admit, but which the
Republicans to whom We refer, charge
upon Mr.. Vallandigham, and upon tho
Democratic party. They 10 not pause to
consider the effect Of establishing tie pria-
ciple they maintain; nor DO they consider
how comprehensive it is. for it embraces
themselves within its grasp. When they
ntorH, the rebels that there is division
here, they give them aid and comfort, if
knowledge Of such division can afford
them aid and comfort; and giving infor-
nation Of the division, il construction
be admitted at all, is just as reasonable
as creating the division.
The English statute of Edward Ill,
was designed to put check upon Judges,
/ who, for this constructive treason, were
multiplying conviction-req ring them,
in cases MT defined by tie Statute, ito tar
ry, without going to judgment of the
/ treason, till the cause be showed and de-
c!ared before the king and his parliament,
whether it ought to he judged treason, or
other felony" And because of the de-
sign and effect of this statute, it was high
ly eulogizea by sir Matthew Hale. In
the first year of the reign of Henry ~,
see Blackstone, book iv., p. sc, an act
was passed, reciting, "iat no man kneag
6ow lie ougLt to Jehave himseif, to do, to
speak, or 10 sag, for doubt Of such pains
of treason, and therefore it was accorded,
that in no time to come, any treason be
Judged otherwise than was ordained by
the statute of King Edward the Third"
In other words-that only was to be held
) as treason which was specifically defined
y as such by the law. This is the only rule
0 tina: can prevail in tree country; for we
have all experien ced, under the infamous
r system established by Rcpublicanism
= "that we know not how to behave our
selves to do, to speak, or to say" lest
), we incur the imputation of the highest
= crime which the citizen can commit.
= No mere man is infallible and the wis
n est and purest statesman that lives, may
r err in his Judgment. 1t is not at all GER.
= tain that AIr. Failandig CHA a, oven IN his
4 ID most extreme opinion, will not bejustitied
by the event, and his truthiulness and
sagacity be vindicated. But the mos
e that any man can say-the m ost that any
r man who pauses to inform himself, Oii
5 say, unless he is a scoundrel-is that Mr.
n Valaudigham has been mistaken in some
n of his views. But the probability is tina
: "Time," to which lie has so often appeal
a ed, will confirm the truth Of every opinion
!e which he has maintained concerning this
d most deplordble conhict.-L0gan Gazette