M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-04-09
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party. But before God and mar, |
this day solennly warn the Republi
can party that it shall obey the laws
also. Il has spent Its last hour Of
lawless violence with iIHpuOity We
know the lessons Of the Declaration
I Of Independence BY heart Certain
flights qre inalisnable. We will not
b. robbed OF them. King GeoFge
tried that. uIlc arrested citizens with.
ont law as they have been arrested
here in Ohio. lie transported them
Ito distant regions as your citizens
have beer transported lie held
them without trial. So has Mr.. Lin.
coin. The violations Of personal
liberty created revolution in 1778;
ana the total abandonment Of similar
outrages can alone prevent like re.
suit in 1868. ..t..s
Do we stand in awe Of those who
would deny us the rights which orr
sires purchased at Bunker Hill and
Yorktown 2 do not, nor do you. -
! Death comes but once to the brave,
while the coward dies a thousand
deaths before his time in fearful an.
ticipation, No extent Of territory, no
Expanded Union, can compensate us
for the loss of civil liberty, and in
support of this assertion | am willing
to endure all that malice can inAict. q
As to the terrible issuos involved
in the prosecution cf the war in which
we are engaged, may have decided
Opinions, and expect always to ex-
! press them. | have always Thought,
and now think, and 80 assert, that it
could have been ayerted if the spirit
of compromise had prevailed 10 Re-
publican councils. Not one blow need
to have been struck. All might have
been peace and Union to-day.
The record ut the Thirty-sixth Con-
gross shows who defeated compromise,
and thus brought war with all ITS train
of horrors. Tha. is onu Of the settled
questions which can not escape hiS.
tory. .t., 1-,.5g... h,
Yon have witnessed tho progress Of
this war. hswas in.hp ended in sixty
days, according to Cabinet authority.
We are now approaching the end Of
the second year. "Watchmen, tell US
OF the night, what signs of promise
are" How does the problem OF u
restoration of the Union by the means
of the sword look to you and to the
world now : never believed, and
90 not now believe, that war wiz ever
restore this Union. have done all
] my duty. This is my Government.
owe it allegiance, and have paid
it. But the ways Of this AdTinisra-
ton have not been my ways. Had
tie power been mine, | woald have
employed far other means to restore
the Union OF these States, ani bind
up the gaping wounds ofmy bleeding
country. This Government was made
by compromise and concessions, which
procured the consent ol the governed,
and by those means alone can it bo
restored il n free Republican iorm.-
These principles have represented
in Congress, and in the IN have been
indcrscd by the people. If they had
prevailed at every period OF our his.
tory, no mourning mothers, no deao-
late wives, no sobbing orphans, ro
bereaved friends, would now fill tho
land.
But, gentlemen, bad as conceive
war to be, at best rs a remedy for our
national distress. yet it becomes inf.
nitcIy worse when it is trpaclIerously
and dishonesty prosecuted. will
not dwell on the manifold violations
of the pnbIic confidence, Of which this
Administration has been guilty in the
conduct OF the war. The country
knows all that By heart. From tho
first blow to the present hour the
abolition of slavery by every means
by confscation, by proclamation, by
Taxation on tho white laboreF, and at
last by the enrolment Of the black
man alongside OF tue white man in
the ranks Of the army, has absorbed
the energy and engrossed the patriot.
ism of tho President and his supper.
ters. Ii the Union was restored to-
Jay by their policy, it would not be
the Union of the fathers. 1t wonid
be Union oI prostratcd Stalee, and a
discordant, mixed population Of free
blacks with tho FREQ white laborers ot
. the country. II would be a Union
also of centralized Federal power.--
The pnrse has been grasped; the
sword has been seized !; the army is to
be filed by fcrci5le coDscription !;
habeas corpus is torn away from the
citizen !; all power was surrendered
by the last Congress to the Executive,
/, unit! his own organs assert that he
has more power than the Gar Of
Russia or tho Emperor o. France
! Gentlemen, this is not the feast TO