The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-09-23
The Proclamation.


The existence of Republic depends upon
the strict confinement Of all the governing
powers within their proper spheres. This
rule is SIS imperative as the natural laws that
govern the human frame. The heart is the
legislative, the brain. the judicial and the
nervous system, the Executive junction. To
tamper with any of these induces death. We
may call the corpse man, and ~galyapize IL
into the semblanee OF animation, but never
theless 1t will be but a helpless mass oil mat
ter, hurrying to decay. SO we may call our
country Republic; but it is not. The self
agency OF its PEOPLE is gone. Its heart and
brain no more perform their functions. A
military despotism has been established, the
sovereigns have become slaves, and the ExN
ecutive is king in all save the name and the
regalia.
Two monarehies created on this continent
within as many moons! Truly the star Of
empire westward takes its way, and is pro-
gress is like the meteor's flight that spans a
hemisphere before men lose their wonder in
its contemplation. In what are we fresmen
and in what are ne not bondmen? Great
Britain has its Queen aud its hereditary no
bilty; but there at least the judicial fabric
is secure, and Habeas Corpus, like q vestal
| fire, is beyond the hand OF sacrilege. We
have not even the tinseied pomp OF royalty
to please the Imagination with outward sign
! of grandeur A IN, shroon despot. with not
enough OF dignity to repel ridcule, and not
enough of brain to be giddy at the eminencs
he climbs, has foundered iato absolutism,
and holds subict to his caprice people who
alternate between disgust and fear.
We hope that Gov. Seymour will make
rull the Presidents Proclamation, and relieve
the anxiety OF the people by counter-proc
lamation. lie will not surely permit the
State TO be thus summarily transferred to
military control. The, power and duty to
regulate the social fabric within the State,
and TO administer to the requisites oi justice,
! belong to the State alone. The Federal Gov
er1ment has no more right to interfere with
our iudicial process than the Government OF
Japau. Our Courts are independent OF Mr.
Lincoln, and his proclamations, SO lar as they
interfere with the legitimate business OF
those Courts, have no more legal force than
blank parchment. Ifa Federal official 1io-
| laies S, ate law, Mr.. Lincoln's edict should
not protect him more than they protect the
common robber. The Federal Government
was not Instrumental in the creation of Our
Courts, OF our Judges. or Of our code OF law.
| They are beyond its sphere of action; they
are part OF State Sovereignty, aud are inN
tended as much for protection against Fed
cral enctoachment against other crime. The
| President has neither the power to punish
nor TO pardon an offender against State law.
The TACT tba, the State Executive alone has
the privilege OF according clemency to crime,
asserts the exclusion OF the Federal Excu'
tive from the arena of our State judiciary -
1t is, therefore, by usurpation alone that he
NEEDLES With our judicial machinery. 1t is
MIR Seymour's palpable duty not only to
protest against, bat to prevent this interven.
ton Otherwise every mark Of distinction
between The State and Federal jurisdiction
will be etfaced and the woik OF consolidation
will have been consummated by the mere
supinencss OF our S'ate authority.
When Mr. Lincoln asserts that the public
safety requires the suspension OF the writ, he
makes statement that the public judgement
pronounces unqualifcdly false. AS well
might Mr., Opdyke proclaim: Whereas the
sun shines at midnight the privilege OF city
EEIamps shall be suspended. But the talsehood
DHseems insignificant, beside the great injustice
IHhhu 'llS tliA' NV
4 threatens. The emergency demands the i'm
mediate and determined action OF the State
Executive. The intention of the Proclama'
ton must be defeated at every hazlrd. We
mnst not lose our writ OF bsbeas corpus. Ii
must be protected, must be preserved, must
be re. established as right that no Executive
can reach by any stretch Of power. 1t must
be given back tothe people and hereafter held
/ by them in greater veneration, fer nothing
that the spirit OF liberty has achieved has beer
wrung with greater difficulty from the hand
OF power 1t must be won back by remon
STRANGE, by argument, by entreaty, by force, i
necessary, which Heaven forbid! But j
necessary, Heayen forbid that we should feal
or hesitate to struggle for the redemption OF
shat which our E glish ancestry only won
after centuries OF strife. Let not a Republican
people tsmely yield safeguard that NJ
royal hand Of England could tamper with
without kindling revolution in the realm -
The Democratic chief magistrate 0 an inde
pendent Democratic State cannot surreude
the privilege OF habeas Corpns without tres
son to party, principle and people. e.--Ne'
York Msws. .... .
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