M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-07-30

hand OF arbitrary power. But 1t was
much more. 1t was an example OF
courage. worthy of the heroic ages Of
the world and it was a spectacle and
rebuke to the usurping tyrants, who.
having broken up the Union, would
now strike Gown the Constitution,
subvert your present Government, and
establish formal, and proclaimed
despotibIn in its stead. You are the
REsToRERs AND DEFENDERS OF Con.
sTITUToNAL LIBERTY, and by that
proud title history will saluts you.
congratulate you upon your nom.
nations. They whom you have
placed upon your ticket with me, are
gentlemen Of character, ability, integ.
rity, and tried fidelity to the Coustitu-
tiOn, the Union, and to Liberty. Their
moral and political courage "a quality
always rare, and now the most valua.
ble Of public virtues - is beyond
question. Every way, al! these were
nominations fit to be made. And
even jealousy, | am sure. will now be
busheG, if | rejoice with you in the
nomination Of MIR. Pugh as your can
didate for Lieutenant Governor and
President Of the Senate. A scholar
and q gentleman, a soldier in a foreign
war, and always a patriot eminent
as a lawyer, aud distinguished as a
patriot and statesman, hail his
acceptance az an amen Of the return
Of the better and more virtuous days
Of the republic. '." ..I
indorse your noble platform ele.
CANT in style, admirable 10 sentiment.
You present the true issue, and commit
yourself to the great mission just now
Of the Democratic party-to restore
and make sure first the tights and
liberties declared yours in your con
stitutions. 1t is vain to invite the
States and people Of the South to
return to Union without q Constitu
tion, and dishonored and polluted by
repeated and most aggravated exac
tions Of tyranic power. 1t is base in
yourselves, and reasonable to your
posterity, to surrender these liberties
and rights to the creatures whom your
own breath created and can destroy
Shall there be free speech, q free press,
peaceable assemblages of the people,
and a free ballot any longer in Ohio I
Shall the people hereafter, as hitherto,
have the righ! to discuss and condemn
the principles and policy Of the party
the ministry-the men who, for the
time conduct the Government - to
demand Of their public servants a
reckoning of their stewardship, and
to place other men and another party
in power at their supreme will and
pleasure Z Shall Order 3S or the
Constitution be the supreme law of
the land 2 And shall the citizen any
more be arrested by an armed soldiery
at midnight, dragged from wife and
child and home, to a military prison {;
thence to mock military trial !;
thence condemned, and then banished
as felon for the exercise OF this rights9
This is the issue and nobly You have
met it. 1t is the very question oil
free, popular government itself. IL is
the whole question: upon the one
side, liberty ; on the other, ,desp )tisln
The President, as the recognized head
Of his party, accepts the issue. What.
ever he wills, that is law. Constitu-
tions, State and Federal, are nothing {;
acts of Legislation are nothing; the
Judiciary less than nothing. In time
of war, there is out one will supreme
his will; but one law - military
necessity, aud be the sole Judge.
Military orders superseGe the Constl
tuition, and military commissions
usurp the place of the ordinary courts
Of justice in the land. Nor are these
mere idle claims. For two years and
more, by arms, they have been enfor
ced. 1t was the mission OF the weak
bat presumptuous Bulnside--s name
infamous forever in the ears of all
lovers of constitutional liberty-to try
the experiment in Ohio-aided by a
Judge whom name not, because he
has brought foul dishonor upon the
Judiciary Of my country. In your
hands now, men Of Ohio, is the final
issue Of the experiment. The party
Of the Administration have accepted
it. By pledging support to tine Presi-
dent, they have justified his outrages
upon liberty and the Constitution /;
and who ever gives bis vote to the
candidates Of that party, commits
himself to every act Of violence and
wrong on the part Of the Adminstra.
ton which be upholds; and thus, BY
the law Of retaliation, which is the
law Of might, would forfeit his own
right to liberty, personal and political,
whensoever other men and another
party shall hold the power. Much
more do tire candidates themselves.
Suferthem not, entreat you,to evade
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