The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-18
za KoIEoANEW DUTY.

The Denoeracy of the various States vet
remaining in the Federal Union have nobIy
taken a stand, with the Constitution as their
platform, against the sweeping attacks of the
President and his followers upon the Rights
of the States and the people thereof Espe-
.eialy IN our own State of Ohio, have they
performed their duty in this respect, until
stheT potent voice, peaking through the bal
hotibox, thas proclaimed SO powerfully as to In
hsuresrespect and command obedience, that mo
aHauthorHed or illegal arrests shall hereafter
be made within her borders
But, fellow Democrats of Ohio, our duty
does not stop here Me have a new work to
isperfor m, which is as incumbent upon us, as
heavily binding, as what ,wehaEe already dcne.
If the Federal Government or its officers,
whether high or low, have no right illegally
to arrest citizenssof Ohio, without warrant or
charge and remove them to B~astiles rin Other
States, neither has it or they the right illegal
-y to kidnap nnofending citizens of other
States andaeondne thesn in other and equally
~ ioathsome prison in Ohio.
There are new in the State of Ohio hun
dreds of persons who have been brought from
Virginia and Kentucky, confined in prisons
teenipg with vermin and eth, aid treated
rsserse .than criminals in our Pensteniary,
against whom; there Is not a shadow of charge,
who have bpoken;no law, and done no wrong
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while quietly living mt home, were torn froL1
business, frieads and family, by military usur-
peFs of power. They were taken from their
own States, where the County, State, and Fed
eral Courts are in thegfali exercise of all their
powers, being controlled by loyal men. and
forcibIy broughs.within OR boarders here to
srenasin without trial, or oven Indictment, until
1t shall pIease-their capters to release them.
Who shzfkright this wrong? 1t is not in
the power of their former fellow citizens to
do it. Their State governments, at least in
West Virginia. is too imbecile to effect any
sthihgsif 1t desired, and too corrupt to even
wish to do SO. Kept in place only by the
tforce that DEGREES and makes these arrests, it
would net if it could. lift either hand or voice
in opposition to the illegal and unconstitution
al aeis of ~fs-uphelders- Let any one who de
sire into Western Virginia ard
investigate for himself, not among one c!ass
merely, but among all, and he will find there
As perfect and completes system OF tyranny
ss the world contains. The peqple,canRet aud
dare MT maintain their rights, ,or ,eVen ex-
presstheir views with safety.
This work must be done by others, if done
Mt all. Who is there mora able, or more
bound by duty to do It, than the great and
powerful Chic Deuecracyi Let the press an
aennce, as it.caa Sc we'll and ably do, that the
5us,icesWhch we have demanded and received
for ourselves, must also be extended to others
LET oar orators assert, with their accustomed.
6cldness and eloquence, that it is a wrong to
make and people Bastiles in Ohio with un-l
offending freemen from other States, as it is
to take Ohio citizens from their homes to rot
in dungeons elsewh. re. LetAhe rank and file,
in their public meetings, at their wayside
greetings, aud around their fresides agitate
the idea that a loyal Virginian or Kentuckian
has the same inalienahlo right to personal lib
erty that We have, and let them resolve that
the greatState of Ohio shall no longer con-
tain the prison houses Of aaofending patriots.
Mas ietta Republican.