Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-17

WHEREAS The Declaration OF lndepen-
dence declares all men equal endowed by
their Creator with inalienable rights TO life,
liberty and the fruits of an honest toll and
WAEREAs, The Government Of The United
States was instituted to secure this right;
and
WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United
State declares that no person shall be deprived
of liberty without due process OF law, and also
declares (Article 6, clause 2d,) as follows
"Ths Constitution and the laws OF the Uni
ted States, made in pursuance thereof, shall
be the supreme law Of the land, and judges for
every State shall be bound thereby, anything
in the Constitution and laws Of any State to
the contrary Notwithstanding" and
WHEREAS II has been demonstrated by the
rebellion that Slavery is absolutely incompati-
BILE with the Union, peace and welfare, for
which Congress are to provi le, wherefore be
il enacted &c
Secti first releases all slaves in all Of the
States and Territories of the United States,
and clothes them with the.mmunities OF free
citizens,
Section second makes their re.enslavement
crime punishable by fine and imprisonment
LovEJoY is determined, If he possibly
can, to make the negro his political equal,
or perhaps we had better said, make him
self the equal of the negro. We have no
serious objections to Mr.. LovEJoY putting
himself on an equality with the "free
Americans of African descent" as that is
simply matter of taste which he has the
right to exercise, but we strongly object to
him using his official position to give the
negro all the rights and immunities Of
white men. But the idea of LovEJoY quot
ing from the Constitution of the United
States to sustain him in his infamous prop
osition, is decidedly cool. He ought to
blush for very shame, to open the lids of
that sacred document, trampled upon and
contemned as it has been by himself and
the leaders of his party. He even has the
sublime impudence to refer to that clause
of it which declares ''that no person shall
be deprived of life, liberty orproperty with
out due process of law" How
many hundreds of white men
have by the acts of the present ad-
ministration been deprived of their liber-
ty without "due process of law" Let the
damp, Shiny walls of forts Lafayette,
Warren, McHenry, and hundred other
government bastiles and prisons through
out the country, answer and let the an
sSer strike deep into the guilty hearts OF
the despots who have committed these high
crimes against the Constitution and the
liberty OF the citizen. With these crazy
abolition fanatics the Constitution affords
no protection to white men whom they may
may choose to exercise their tyranny upon
but for the negro it is everything. Not
satisfied with causing the sacrifice of hall
q million men for the sake of the negro
they must now guarantee to him that pro.
lection which, purchased by the blood o.
their revolutionary fathers, they deny and
withhold from white men. Citizens art
arrested by order of this administration
and confined in filthy Dungeons, without
warrant or charges preferred, held fol
weeks and months and then released with
out Strial, or even as much as being in
formed of the cause of their imprlson-
ment, nothstanding the clear and explicit
condemnation by the Constitution of such
procedure. But according to LovEJOY's
Interpretation of the meaning of that in
strument, it has every protection for the
sooty African, but affords none to the white
man; who is so unfortunate as to fall
under the displeasure of King ABRAHAM
or his tools and aminions the blood thai
was poured out on the battle fields OF th'
Revolution and the sacrifices that werC
made, according to LovEJoY and his ilk
were not for the benefit of the descendants
of that proud race, but for the negro anC
his descendants forever, Under the high
or law ideas of the Abolition destruction
lists, the Constitution is nullity, excep
when applicable to cases suited to thei
own peculiar and fAnatical views. In ou
opinion, the day is not far distant wher
they will themselves seek its protection
and be glad to have it administered anC
construed according to the intent ant
meaning of its trainers.
Not 4bo laogt oaH auoonor tha ano,