Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-19

restore and la Ake tiirs tlA q ,hu lights and lib
eItlss declared yours by your constitutions. II
10 In vain TO invite the States and people Of the
South to return TO Union without Conetitu-
tion, and dishonored and polluted by repeated
and mcss aggravated exactions of tyrannic
power. Il is base in yourselves, and treason
able to Your posterliy, to surrender these liber-
ties and rights to the creatures whom your own
breath created and can destroy. Shall there be
free speech, o free press, peaceabe aseemblages
OK the people and free ballot any longer 10
NSio7i Shah the people hereafter, at hitherto,
baVe the right to discuss and condomn tho prin.
bin!es aud policy OF the party--the ministry
the men who, for the time, conduct the Govern
ment-to demand Of their public servants
reckoning Of their stewardship, and TO place
other men and another party Ia power at their
supreme will and pleasure? Shall Of1er Thirty
Eight or the Constitution DO the anpreme law Of
the land2 Ahashall the cidzsn any more, sbe
arrested by an armed soldiery Rt midnight,
dragged from wife and child aud home, to
a military prison (; thence to D mock military
trial thence condemned aud then banished as
Q felon for the exercise of his rights2 q This 10
the issue, and nobly you baye met it IL is the
very queetion OF free, popular government itself.
It is the whole question upon the one eide,
liberty on the other despotism The Pfesi-
dent as the recognzsd head OF his party. ac-
cepts the issue Whatever no wills, tins 10
law Constitutions, State and Federal, are
nothing acts of legislation nothing the Ju-
dietary less than nothing. 10 tinie OF war,
there 10 but one will supreme--his win but
one Law. military necessity, and hs the sole
Judge. Military orders eupersede the Cons itu
tion, and military commissions usarp the place
Of the ordinary courts of justice in tho hnd -
Nor are these mere idle claims For two yeare
aud more, by arm, !, they have been enforced. -
IL was the miBsion of the week but presuuiptu.
Gus Bntnsi1e- name Infamous forever in the
oars Of ali iovops of constitutional liborty.--to
try the experiment III Ohio--aided by Judge
whom name not, because he has brought foul
dshonor upon the Judiciary OF my country. In
your hands now, men OF Ohio, ig the final iasue
Of tho experiment Tne party of the ADMIN.
istration have accepted it BY pledging cup
poIt to the President, they have justified his
outrages upon liberty and the Constitution; and
who ever gives his vote 20 the candidates OF
that party, commits himseli TO every act of vi.
cleuoe and wrong on the part OF the Admins.
tration which he upholds and thug, by the
Law OF retaliation which is The law of might,
would forfeit hs own right to liberty, personal
and political, whensoever other men aud anoth-
or party shall hold the power Much more do
the candidates themselves. Softer them not,
| entreat you, to esate the issue and by the
Judgment Of the people we will abide.
| Aud now, finally, let me ask, what ia the pre-
tex tor ell the monstrous acts and claims OF ar
bltrary power which you have 80 nobly deoOun,.
ced2 military necessity" But If, indeed, all
these be demanded by military necessity, then,
believe me, your liberties ave gOne aud tyran-
ny 10 perpt tusl. For If this civil war Ia 10 ter.
miDase only by the subj1gation or eubmis-
sion of the South TO fofc1 and arms, the ioia &
OF to-day will not live Co SEQ the cad of L.. No.
In smother way only can 1t be brought to a cuse.
travelling ihousand miles and more, through
nearly one bali of the Confe derate Statea. and
solourning for time at widely different pOinte,
! mes not o1e man, woman or child, who was
not resolved to perish rather than yield 10 The
pressure OF arms even 10 the most deapeiato ex.
tremity, Aud whatever may and must be the
varying fortune OF the war, IN all which rec
ognlzs tho hand OF Provldeuce pointing visibly
70 the nltlmate iesue OF this great trial OF the
Staten and people OF America, they are better
pfepsred now every way TO max good their in.
| exofab.e puipose, than OF auy period since the
beginning oil the struggle These may indeed
be unwelc5me truths; bnt they are Addressed
only to capdld aud holett men, Neither, hos-
ever, let me add, did meet any one, whatever
his Opinions or hs station, political or private,
who did NOT declare his readiness, ,oken he soar
shall haze ceased and inuadins armies been pih-
ergpn, TO Consider and discus the question OF
re-unlon. Aud Hho eball doubt the 10 ue Of
| Che argumenI2 | return, therefore, With nv
opinions and co1rictI01a III 70 war or peace ana
m7 taifh hs to hnat 7tesnits item sound policy
and vice etatesnanBhfp, hoB 0Riy unca abged, !,
but confirmed aud s.reGgteep6a. Ana may the
| God Of Heaven apd Eattn 90 rn!e the be ,rts and
minds OF AmeEicaOs every Shere, lhss with O
Constituted mtihaiaed. > Uliol testored and
Liberty henctlstth maize secure, Il yaldeT and
nobler destins SHAH yet be cii;p ,Ipn tnas even
which blessed oar alAefss il tae frot tSos ages
of the Republic. RS O. lEs ts.ss's TOO 70 81 sa
sol +. g l., VAIL iNDlGHAM.i T