M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-09-17


ia process unknewn to the laws anC
institutions Of England, aud at a timl
too, when that &C untry wa0 reelin:
nnder the fierce surges Of civil com
motion. And yet we, the American
people, with the best educated mas
SeS the world ever cav in the nine
teenth century-in the full blaze O
modern civilization - and under I
Constitution which clearly GeHasI
the mode by which 0 oisizen shall b
deprived ofhis parGonal liberty, with
out reference 10 time or oiFcamstanc'
-Ms made subject to the dospoti,
will Of ons man, And dragged, in tn,
dead hour OF midnighh TO sails of
distant prison house, for crimeS un
specified, without the privilege o
counsel, and iu the very faee OF open
courts and nnobstruoted laqDs.
--------"can Such things DO
And overcome Us like sammOT sloal,
WithoutOur special wondOr"
Il crimes or disloyal practices have
been committed by Democrats ol
others, lot them be punished, but pun
ished according 10 the Co1,tlitution
snathe ta'os. Fhe Democratic party
as loyal and law abiding citizens, do.
mand this, ard nothing more /; and
they will not willingly submit to any.
thing else. This thing is done, and
only can be done, through a violated
Constitution and by the arbitrary as
umption Of power, unknown to the
executive branch Of the Government,
These times, gentlemen, are testing
our political institutions. Our great.
est statesmen oiother days-.the sb.es,
commentators oi the Constitution
and the grea. mass Of the people sheu
selves-have labored under mos
signal misappNhension 10 regard t.
the working, il not the natura! tend.
ency, of our political institutions, in
periods Of great pressure and excite
nent. No greater has been commit,
ted, rs almost every days experience
uow testilieS. than the fond and cher
ished suppositiOn, thar the great prin,
ciples OF public liberty have been sue.
cessiully suspended and socured
amidst the nicely balanced checks Of
the Constitution. SO far from tho
executive Vffiie bsing too weak and
inefhcie..t, as against the restraints
and checks OF The co odinate branches
OF the Government, as has been cup
posed by somo OF the greatest mon
who have both framed Sla adminisi>
tered 1t, Rodern times, and recent In.
stapceo 0fils exercise, have proved i.
to Do cnc Of tue strongest departments
Of political power known to any gov.
ernm0nt OF limited powers on the !ecc
ofthe earth. With whatever restraint
aud Limitations the exercise Of delegs.
ted power has been GurbedAlhovey Yer
exactly and harnioniously may have
been adjusted the COMPLEX machinery
Of the 0overnment--with interest
weighed against interest, and a sys.
TEN ofchecks ard bslcnses provided
against every supposed possible abuse
oil pcHst@-thefe still exists bsneath
all this splendid apparatus of laws
and regulations, % incident to all hu
nau ias.ltdsiotisJ !hs gigantic energy
OF the passious, which, when aroused
into phreusy, bsush awey lihe cob
webs tue most sagaciops seutriyahsec
to hold its vibratUty point tyhs to she
magnet oil the common veal.
WHet tisit that has brcush. alenl
the terrible crisis w!iisli is dow titjcu
os lhe American people. crushing Out
their national prosperity, LOADING
them down with = burdet Of taxation
uuheard of in modern tunes, and do
luging their fsiiest fields wt.h frater
nal blood 1t is the insane fauatic=
ism Of an Abolition pulpi! on the one
side, and the Internal treason Of th-
political club houses on the other.--
These two Instruments have worked
tcgethet fot tnots ilish thitty years iu
bringing abOd! the great calurni.y
Which is now shaking the cout;tgti,
as with . mighty thrUss Of nh earth
quake! Its tsmarhable fact, .ha,
John Qainsy Adams and John Cs!d
yell Calhoun, the two representative
Iof this excited iactions, thifty one
years ago, first suggested Those twin
ideas Of political heresy, Abolition cl
Slavery BY Congress-, and the seces.
cioh Of States from the Confederacy
Government by lsgilattre ordinance.
1t was in 1881, that John Quincy Ad
ANS first in.erduced into tho Congress
Of the United States, petitions from
tho clergy Of New England, and other
religious enthusiasts, praying for the
abolition OF slavery in the District OF
Columbia; and il was during the next
succeeding year the State or South
Carolina, through the influence OF
John G. Calhoun, passel her ordin.
anca Of nullifieation. From That dau