Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-26
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1- From the Cincinnati EnqureF.j
The Commercial on tsCaution0 and the
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b. From the Cincinnati Enqulrer.j
The Commercial on tsCautiono and the
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The Commercial In its last revelation, ex'
presses itself 10 favor Of temperance In the
current political Canvass, and utteFs several
Well-worn commonplaces In support Of its po-
sition Its advice 10 good; none the worse be.
cause il will probably be the frat to disregard
| its own counsel, and launch into that which 10
at once most IN accordance with its habits and
most congenial to its feelings; slang, towit,
and abuse. Nevertheless, We must not contemn
its precepts, which perhaps speak the willing
ness of its spirit, because Of its praotices which
testify to the weakness of its aeah; and this
especially, as its own party 10 the one to which
Its exhortations to good behavior are most ap-
pcable. And We may be permitted to express
hope that the seed which, 10 lucid interval,
Il has essayed to SOW, may spriug up and bear
fruit not only In its own rather aterle soil. but
In the almost equally barren wastes of its CO.
lsborators. Fqp
Perhaps the better way to avoid undue heat
10 the campaign upon which We have entered
would be, for the Commercial and the other
organs Of its party to state truly aud meet fair
ly the main issuenow before the people of Ohio.
This Issue 10 upon the right of the State to
protect Its own citizens from arrests and i'm.
prisonments made without charge Of any offense
known to the law, and by parties whose author
| isy is uDrecognized by the Constitution. Are
such arrests right or wrong7 II they are right,
there must be come sound ethical principle. upon
which an argument may be founded In their
defense; If they are not right what more I'm
pottant service to the people and to mankind
can the Demool attic party perform than by prov.
T. -Lok IL. d,,t, oould "a Cnu, m aP0 al
discharge than by admitting their wrongful
ness2
We see. however, that the Commercial is not
prepared to adopt the issue which its own party
has cast upon the people to decide. Having
made 1t, the diflcultes which Is presents have
become apparent; and now the effort 10, If 1t
K can not be charged, to obscure 1t as much 90
possible. The Democratic party have excepted
Mr.. Vallandighsm as the representative Of an
important right, simply because he is one in
whose person breach of that right has been
90 nmitted. Abuse and Misrepresentation of
him will, therefore, be looked upon as infam-
mstory--as calculated to excite the popular
mind, and produce the very disturbances which
the Commercial processes TO deprecate. The
device of Aattering and oajoling the members
OF the party, while 1t falls upon and viliaes their
representative man, Ia too shallow tacties for
these times, and the Commercial will need On
entirely new base line of operations before II can
hope TO be very sucoessful. Y,aLr rJler..
The Commercial indeed distinctly calls the
saue, to which we alluded above, . false issue,
and charges its fabrication upon Mr.. Pugh.-
"And there are Others" 1t says, "wheedled
away by the false issue that Mr.. Pugh has
taken the lead In pushing into prominence-
which is, that the liberties of the people are In
III nnAn nj n Aal
ceedings of the President, aud that the ques-
ton of personal liberty and Its corollaries must
be discussed and determined before We talk Of
making peace OF war" Does the Commercial,
then, say that the question of making peace or
war is In any respect before the people of Ohio,
to be decided at the next State election2 VIII
tue Commercial be 80 good as tojnform us and
all anxious inqurers, how, and In what manner
We supposed shat the question of peaoeo or war
was decided. We are at war. The national
Administration has the matter In its own hauds.
The State of Ohio can neither make peace nor
war. The right TO declare the one 10 In Cou-
gress, the power to treat for the other is In the
President. What have we, the people of the
State of Ohio to do with either at local eection2
The Commercial must fud better Iretense ioF
an issue than this. lts Wits are wandering.--
Somebody about the concern had better read
the Constitution o. the United States, tie which,
ii properly marked aud faithfully digested, will
lead him to apprehend that the Governor Of
Ohio is not the President of the United Slater;
that the Ohio Legislature is not Congress; and
that there is national Government construct.
ed for the purpose of transscting national
affairs, aud thereof having exclusive jurisdic-
tion
The question of personal liberty" may, in
the opinion of the Commercial, be very unim-
portsnt matter. This is, perhaps, because Il
has not been brought personally home to any
of its unready writer's. 1t is said by great
European author that the negro 10 peculiar In
this, that he does not appreciate the deprivation
Of liberty except in his own individual case.
There are great many white folks Of precisely
the same construction. When they are disturbed,
great principles are trampled upon. There is
dreadful wrong and high indignation, and the
world is invoked to avenge the injury. But
when ether people are arrested and imprisoned,
1t is only matter Of slight personal inconveu-
ience, for which the public would be foolish to al
low itself to be dscomposed. The trick of looking
at things through the big and litsle ends Of the
telescope as best suits its fancy, may agree
with the Commercial; but whether the people of
Ohio will consent to see as IL does, is another
uueetion, f