Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-22

NtsfA- " Nt-o o@t|a ~ VIZ eNfS
% y an honest support Had their convic-
hons Deap mine, !, TOO, would donbtiess have
done es fhet did With my Convictions j
ocnld NOT Bull was Representative War
existed-by whose act no malter--not mine.
The President the Senate, the House and the
country, All SAID that there should be war
war Tor the Union union OF consent and
| good Will Our Southern brethren we're TO be
whipped back into love aud fellowship at the
point OF the bayonet Oh mOnstrous delu-
sioni Lean comprehend war 70 compel a
people 70 accept master TO change a form
OF Government TO give up territory to abolish
q domestic restitution IN short, war OF con-
guest ana nblugaton but war Tor Union
Was the Union thus made Was It ever thus
preserved Sir, history will record that after
nearly SIX thousand years OF folly and wicked
ness In every form and administration OF
Goyernment--theocratic, democratic, mon.
arcnic, olIgarchlc, despohc and mixed-lt was
reserved TO American statesmanship, in the
nineteenth century OF the Christian era TO
try the grand experiment on scale the most
costly aud gigantic 10 its proportions, OF ere.
aung love by force and developing iraternal
affection BY var and history will record, too,
on the same page, the utter, disastrous aud
most bloody failure oi the experiment
but TO return: the country was at war and
l Deiopged TO tnat sehool oil politics which
teaches that when we are at war, the Govern
ment-l 40 not mean the Executive alone,
put the Governments entitled TO demand
anu nave, without resistance, such numner OF
men, ana such amount oil money ana supplies
generaiy as may De necessary ior the war,
uhtii u an aPPeai can oe naa 70 lhe people
before tnat trlQundlalone IN The hrst instance,
| must the 0neStiOn oil the continuance OF the
war De iried' ms was Mr.. Calhouns opn-
ION, and he lald It down very broadly and
strongy IN a speech on the Loan Bill IN lo4l.
speaking OF supplies, he SAID
hoid tnat there IS distinction in this
respect between a state oil peace and war In
the lauer, the rlght oil withholding supplies
ougnt ever 10 Dc neld subordinate to the ener-
geuc ana successful prosecution OF the war
20 iurtner' ana regard the Withholding sup
Pilrsi lI' "ltu Vie" oi FORCING tne country INTO
u's"V"o'aoie Peace, us NOT ohIy 10 De What
nnas ,..n oeen caiieu, moral treason, Dut very
"tIe SHORT Oh aelusi treason itseii
EPon tnis Pr'nclPie' slr' ne acted aiterward
IN tne MeAican war speaking oil That war
I'll ro4', ne saiu
livery senator knows that was opposed
70 the war Dut none knows but myself the
ueptn Oh lnat opposiuon. with my concep-
,l .lon ol its character ana consequences 1t was
Impossible ior me 70 vote Tor It,
ana again, IN 1913;
but atter the war was declared, by author
IVY Oh ihe government, acquleseed in what
could not prevent ana winch 1t was lmpossl-
ole ior me 70 arrest; ana then ielt 1t to be
lny uuty 70 limit my ehorts to give such dlrec
uol 10 1ne war as would, as lar as possible,
prevent the evils and dangers with which it |
threatened the country and its institutions
o'r, ADOPT all TINS as my own position and |
my defense though, perhaps, in civil war,
might larry go iprsher IN opposition. could
not with my convctions, vote men and money |
LOT thls war andl would not, as Representa-
tive, vote against them, mean that, without
opposition, the President might take all the |
men and all the money he should demand, |
ana then TO hold him to astriet accountability |
before the people for the results. Not believ-
ing the soldiers responsible for the war or its |
purposes or its consequences | have never
"ilhnela my vote where their separate inter
ests were CONCERNED. But have denounced |
from from tne beglnnlng the usnrpatons AMI the |
~ inraetlons one ana all OF law and Constitu- |
uonr oy tne Fresldent and those under him
thelr repeated aDd persistent arbitrary arrests,
the suspension OF hdbeas corpus, the violation |
oil freedom OF the mails, of the private house, |
OF the press and of speech, and all the other
multiplied wrongs and outrages upon public |
liberty and priSate-right, which have made
this country one of the worst despotisms on
earth for the past twenty months; and will |
continue to rebuke and denounce them to the |
end and the people, thank God have at last
heard and needed, aud rebuked them, too
10 the record and to time | appeal again for |
my Justification.
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