Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-27


noconce has been absolutely established by
viaue Of his discharge by tho Grand Jury,
shall not be permitted 10 70 out OF that dun
geon unth heshas taken an Unconstitutional
and most execfable oathe-lhe Identical oath
that was tcidered oother nep who have been
imprisonHd who have felt the manacles of
arbitrary power within your limits and else
where. An oath 10 support tha Constitution
No. That would be tolerRbe in itself though
even that, intoerable under the circumstances
forho man oughtto be obiigedto take any oath
unless there is some occasion for itru q Judi
cial investigation, or when be takes uponhim-
self the.daties OF. an Office. The man who is
born citizen Of the United States is assum-
ed, and has been from the beginning Of this
gover hment,ito be under a perpetual oath,
ahdsthe dehocrats ofathe country have al
ways kept that oath. (Cheers) The foreign
er who seeks citizenship takes an express
oath TO support thaE Copsitudomof the Uni
ted States. The man born under the tyran-
ny of Austria or Russia---thers used to be ty-
rannes before we had one of our own
(Laughter) )--lhat man born thus, with all his
ideas formed upon that government comes
here, and yet it never entered into the heads
OF our fathers, from the beginning OF this gov.
erpment down 20 the present day, TO require
OF any man, through the naturalization laws
the taking Of any other oath, but to withdraw
his allegiance to any foreign potentate aud
support the Constitution Of the United States
But our own native born citizens aud foreign
ers who have become citizens, who have ta-
ken that oath, are required, Notwithstanding
their innocence, TO go in and take this oath
and though these i1formers, desplcable as the
vermin are, have failed to invent or devise
any accusation whereby he can be held, he is
required to take that oath, and il he fails TO
do it, he is then TO remain during the pleasure
of the President ofthe United STATES Hiss
esq These are our liberties, iorsooth
Now, all this, infamous and eXecrable as it
is, is enough to make the blood of tire coolest
man who has one single appreciation in his
heart Of freedom, 70 boil Cloud. applause }
Still so long as they leave TO us free assem-
blages, free d.scussibn and free ballot, do
not want to ser, und will not encourage or
countenance, any other mode of getting rid Of
it, ("Thats it aud cheers We are ready
to try these questions in that way, but have
only TO repeat what said little while ago,
that when the attempt is made TO take away
that other right, and Che only fundamentally
peacefully Of reforming and correcting abuses
Tree assembiages, free speech aud free cleo
ltions--that then the hour will have arrived
when it will be the duty OF ireemen to find
some otberaDd efficient mode of defending
their liberties. cloud and protracted cheer
ing, the whole audience rising to their feet -
Our fathers did not inaugutate the Revolution
Of l11G, they did not endure the sutferings
and privatons Of the seven years war to es-
cape from the mild and moderate control OF a
constitutional monarchy like England, to De
at last, in the third generation subjected to a
tyranny equal TO that Of any upon the face OF
the globe Cloud appause.) Now, sir, / re-
peat that it will not, in my judgement, come
| to this | do not believe that this Admin
istration will undertakel to- deprive us Of
that right do not thini; il will venture, for
one moment TO attempt TO prevent, under
any preteXt whatever, the assembling togeth-
er Of the people for the fair liscussion of their
measures and policy / do not believe it,
because it seems to me with ali the folly and
madness that has been manifested in these
high places it seems to me they must fore
see what will inevitably follow Believing
this, aud believing that the best way Of avert
ing the crisis is TO demand inexorably and
resolutely, with the firmness aud dignity OF
trecmen these rights, and letthem know dis
lincty that we do not mean TO surrender
them, | am here tonight to proclaim it Just
as have (Applause) There is nothing
that will encourage or induce this Admins
tration, Tor one moment, to attempt any such
exercise of despotic and arbitrary power
reaching TO assemblages of the people ant
to elections, except, the evidences which
they are now seeking ior-ieeling the public
pulse--for the evidences that the people at,
terrified and ready to surrendcrtho rights
(Voices "Neyet.") There uettr was tyrnn
that dared togo one step, il he were wis,
tyrant, till he saw his people we're ready t,
submit, "a voice, 'fWewill keep our powde
dry "laughter) 1t is my duty therefore
MS q freeman W the exercise Of these rights
10 speak thus TO this administration and to al
/ men of the party in power lido not speak
, in the spirit Of a revolutionisli have alread
diseaimed that desire to see nothing re
, sembng it inaugurated in this country, Go
; knows have read too much in history of tn
! horrors OF revolutions in ages past and i
2 other couhtries to desire Cor one single mC
8 ment to see these scenes repeated in the Ian
. which gave me birth There is no horror thu
s can enter into the imagination OF man, non
b that has ever been enacted upon this glob
} since il first came from the hand Of God, equt
/ 20 that of grand oonynlsiae ocialreyolutio
|, among such people Hwe ace, SO descended
/ of auch tempers and such wills, aud nheri
y ing AL the letocity Of Tie Apglo-Saxon rae,
] do not desire % see IL, but will never cor
3 sent 10 be made Il slave cloud clmers
Z 7. (coNcLpDFp, ToMqRRom)