The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-04-17

tue nqu0n, Will surrender Itself when lt
cuts aloof from the Federal Consultation;
and If they should not, every Intelligent
man who has had much to do with accu.
mutation knows, that property, deprived
Of the support which, 1t derives from the
Federal Constitutional system, can main
tain but feeble and precarious exist.
ence. We must remember that long,
long centuries sgo-in q state Of socie-
ty in one sense rude, but when the manly
virtues of our ancestors gave them his
toric splendor that we can only reflect
tproYidentially happened that the rights
of property and the rights Of persons
were indissolubly blended in one immor-
tai maxim, that was laid, for all times
at the basis Of the civilization of our
race. Whatever may happen in other
civilization, or in other climes, liberty
and property for US must flourish or per-
ish forever. [Great cheering.]
WARFARE UPON THOUGHT AND sPEEcH
SHOULD CEASE.
Ny friends, it is time that the warfare
upon opinion, and thought, and speech
should cease. 1t Is time that we had
ascertained that our national difficulties
can never be cured without the action
of the people. 1t is time that we had
exploded the fallacy that patriotism and
party are incompatible in any conceiVa-
blecircumstances of our country. You,
at any rate, let me hope, reject this dog.
ma as a .delusion; forif all the gloom Of
the present, in all the dark uncertainties
Of the future, I put my hope in the great
Democracy Of the Union. Great ap-
dlause. I see nothing else 10 which
we can look. l see you, it is true, occa'
sionally distracted by the tactics Of youI
opponents, occasionally disturbed by the
indisposition Of friends; but I see you
animated by patriotism which 1 fully
believe will guide you Alright, and which
in spite of all that men may say Of you
commands my respect and confidence. -
[ Applause. Permit me, then, with
such freedom as may be taken by one
who neither has nor seeks any special
place in your organization, to offer you
a word of friendly counsel.
OUR MISSION IS TO SAVE THE ooNsrrTU.
TI0N,
|, What you need, it seems to me, is "a
be fully impressed with belief in your
mission, and in your capacity to GIL it.
That mission is to save the Constitution
of the United States. Cheers. ] By
saving it, ! mean. Of course, that you
are to save it for the whole Union, for
the South and the North, for the East
and the West, with every right which il
protects, completely re.established / can
see no other mode Of saving it.; for it ID
to my mind apparent that war prose.
cuted against the South for the acqui.
sition Of powers over their domestic In
stitutions which the Constitution ex-
pfessly withhold from the Federal Con.
stitution, can result in nothing but the
establishment Of system under which
there can be NO local right Of self.gov.
ernment left for any section or State
This is your mission to prevent. You
cannot prevent it by uniting with those
who protfer support of the war without
the slightest protest against the uucon'
stitutional policy with which it is prose
cuted. In all the late popular proceed
ings looking to the establishment o.
what. are styled Loyal Leagues,
daughter, ] / have not seen one word oi
indignant circumstances against the un-
constitutional measures of the Admins.
tration. You cannot expect, need not
look, for such remonstrance from assem-.
blies largely composed of those who are
the peculiar political, and who are more
or less responsible for its measures. -
Public opinion, if it is to make itself
heard and felt against all violations ol
the Constitution. must make its utteran-
ces through the action and the voice Of
those who have never failed to protest
against the policy that has created for
us so much peril. If that public opin-
ion fails to recognise this necessary chan
mel OF expression-if it yields itself to q
fatal apathy, or will not see how it can
at once save Government and change
an Administration-then all will be lost
and there will remain to US enly the con-
that we have individually done
our duty. .
INDUCE THE EXECUTIVE TO CHANGE Hrs
POLICY. -
You are, then, permit me to add, to
seek by every Constitutional and up.
right method, to obtain the control Of
all the organizations Of Government -
II, in the mean time, you can notdnduce
the present Executive Of the United
States to change his policy, then, re-
membering his position, possess your
souls in patience until you can give him
q Constitutional successor. Let every
thing be prepared with one fxed and
uusel6sh purpose, namely to make every
successive election reverse the doctrine
and dogmas and usurpations which you
know you should condemn. By this
course Of action, instead Of weakening,
you will strengthen your Government;
for you will make It apparent to the
whole world that the present arbitrary
rule is to be succeeded by aperiod whom
the Constitution is once more, 10 all its
beni6cence and all its power, to be "the
supreme law Of the land" Fail to do
this, and the nation, losing heart and
hope, will lose sight Of the methods By
which a Constitutional snccesslon can