The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-03-04

liberties involved in the person of John W likes,
rallied to his defense, and the Chief Justice
of the Common Pleas issued a writ of hdJeas
corpus and said "The King has a right to
know through his Courts what has become of
the body of one John Wilkes" Aud DfcMas-
ters, and Mahoney, and Reeve, and Colonel
Wall they were denied the writ; but had not
they been surrendered, the people of tho Uni
ted States would havo served popular writ of
hd6eds corpus to know what had become of
their leaders. (Cheers.) Let not this expert
ment be tried. l am no friend of the Admin
istration, as you ali know, (cheersl and laugh
ter though it has befriended me much unin-
tentionally 5 but would whisper in their ear in
the accents of friend, "Try not that expcrf@
ment again" cloud cheers Tamper not
with the rights Of $4,000, 900 of free men Ii
You deceived us ones; you can not deceive
US again. Do not pass your monstrous bill
now pending in the House to suspend the writ
of habeas corpus aeverywhere What? Be-
cause there is rebellion in South Carolina
men shall not be free in New Jersey and the
minions of this administration may enter your
house and drag you from your beds to the Bas-
tile Is that the liberty for which the Jersey
Blues fought for in the revolution? Is that
the entertainment to (which Washington and,
his fellow patriots invited his 'countrymen2
Pass not your Conscription Bill, which you
seek to enforce by holding that rod of terror
over We, the people, your masters. We made and
will unmake you., (Gheers9 Inausurate not
a revolution in our own midst Ifshall stand
by the Constitution and the laws of the land
by order-and submit to all things In reason
surrender every minor point to enable this ADJ
mlnlstratlon, it it be so, to carry out further
the experiment of restoring the Union by war;
but not one jot or title of our rights to carry
on an unconstitutional war for the negro =
cloud cheers.) Have they ever read history7
ca voice, "They never. did.") Do they net
know the, inevitable result of the course of
revolution in former years !? Do they not
know that the men who begin them always
perish by them Did they ever read of Dan
ton, or RobesPierre, or the French revolution?
Danton got tired of the radicalism of Robes
pierre, and proclaimed himself conservative,
and Robespierre had him decapitated. Weed
and Seward are. tired of the radiealism of
Greeley and Sumner, but whether they will
decapitate them or not, it is not quite certain;
but speaking politically, if they, wait little
long er, we will take the OBJ out of their hands.
daughter and cheers The people have
borne too much, and they are not prepared for
the experiment any longer, and warn the
men of New York and New Jersey, if they
countenanee this Administration in any fur
ther usurpations, the Northwest will not 90
with them. Loud cheers - !
We propose to go before the people of the
whole Union to try this question by argumen.
and the ballot box, and if you beat US we will
submit to yal1- EillN
and if we beat you, then, by the eternal, you
shall submit. [Great cheers. Why sir, they
owe apology for these monstrous violations of.
the Constitution. Because we stand by the
Constitution, we are denounced in fine fancy
epithets of Butternuts," and "Copperheads," :"
and TRAITORS and "Secessionists. ~ Why is
1t that this party, when defeated in Illinois by
5000 majority, have refused to submit to
the decision of the ballot box They ran
away to escape the bonds of the Constitution
-absquatulated, as it was once called in tho
State5of Ohio, or, in Northern phrase, sle-
daddled. Laughter. The grand old DEM
ocratic party is good scholar. 1t is no Rour-
bon, but learns all the time I believe in
clinging to the laws and the ballot-box to set
tie quarrels in a free Government, but we will
have the liberty of criticising the acts of the
Administration, and will not consent to be
called traitors because we do. Before the ju-
dieial tribunals We are ready to answer. Try
as; put to US the question as even the Roman
Proconsul did in, olden times; put the ques- |
tion, Guilty or not guilty p and we will answer
by the verdict OF an unbought, impartial jury
of our countryHen. Our day is coming, if YOU
allow it to cone under the Constitution, and
NE will try you the same way, but, if the ex-
pertinent IS to be begun in some other method |
unknown to the Constitution and laws, and it |
be reverted back to the old standard. that |
might makes right, then know you that we |
have the might and the right too. TGreat Ap-
Plause. s; ~ r.
He concluded as follows: ia:5,ts sod
We live in extraordinary times. don't
believe that in history SO grand an epic has
ever occurred, where SO many people, SO vast /
a threater, where arises so great expenditures,
80 enormous taxation 50 burdensome, has ever I
been witnessed in any country. On every +
such occasion hitherto, the providence Of Col T
has ordained that men have been found to1-
leal with the necessities of every OCCASION
Has it been SO now Where are our states
nen Not in the person of the President or
his Cabinet. Not in the Senate not in the
douse Where ara your men of might tho
grand of soul! Where are your generals p
We had one, but they banished him. TChears.
t was asked in the Senate the other day.
Fhat victory he ever gained T The answer
Fas, s'What battle did he ever 10 8 z" No {
nan has risen with power in his hand stretch L
ng forth to save this people, It is what we II
rant most now, and it ought to be the PRAYER {
every lover of his country that God, in his
rovidence,i would bring the peop,e through I
he Red Sea to the promised land of peaco.Sog4 1T
Give us the nerve of steel, a.:v asi.li.A II
. The Strength of iron will, s=-..f r. 9
The arm of fearless might,
The strength of will that is ready still lrI
To battle for the right; }eA
Oh give the nerve Of steel as - il5sfEr9 q
And the hand of fearless might, , la
The heart that can love and feel s5s;fI ID Il
And the head that is alwa Us right I ..f / /
Our foemen are now abroad T
And the earth is filed with crimes; !. !.
And be it the prayers of the Omnipotent God u
Oh give US man for the times. 80 49, q p
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Stanza for Tobacco Smokers. Il
A Scotch LADY, who has more reverence for le