Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-07-22

kind OF tacit consent, allowed TO return 10 their
homes. We have strohR hcuey that Monaln
will be captul q, and great credit will be due
to che Militia who shall participate 10 his cap
ture; but they will not be one OF ten, perhaps,
ct the whole number called out, and the good
service they may render will be no excuse for
the folly of calling upon thousands and tens of
thousands who could have no oEportunitv To ran.
der any service. A large dabt has been created
by this act of the Governor: but that ia ipsir.
nificant comp ,rsd with the losa incurred bv the
people, ipdividually. Who have been oomnelled
to leave their harvest fields and worksbops at
the very time vhen tbev vere moat needed In
them. .-.s. .l.
9. The defense of eyery part of the State ID
the business and duty Of the ,chole State; and It
was an act Of great Injustice on the part OF
Gov. Ton, to saddle this burthen upon thirty
two Counties in Southern Ohio, leaving fifty.six
counties from which not one man was called
The course he should bave nursued seems 60 us
olea,. The ,t..u,a e.nrss.lv ,sou;,ed him to
call Ara. rn,, IN. vo,,r,oa, conn. nias before
calling upon the o.ber Militia. Tbis be should
bave done He shonld have ordered all those
.u,o. .. - ., n IL. s,.,. ,r,o
so,;va se,vi.e. and annoalea n .h. MANILA IN
f,l nm the ranks of snoh of the companjes as
we're not iull. which wouId have been iustautl,
dane. If that foroe Uas mot likely To be sniff
Client. he should have called for n sufficient
number OF mounted volunteers, in addition, and
no man can doubt that they would have been
forthcoming. 10 ,his way, be might have had
An effective force in the field in the shortest
possible time, at sithe of the expense that he
has now incurred, And without any serious loss
In the neople
2 Tho Cnverror ss,umes to autborizs GER
tain IIo,ed slatss nfic,r. ia appoiot oficsrs for
ob,o Militia Tbis assumot;op cannot be too
s,ronOlv ,ebukea. The Constitution of the
limited s,stes ,xnresslv secutea TO the Militia
when called into active service. even by the Fed.
erA Government, the right to be bficered &C.
cordiug TO the State law Aud the Constitution
of Ohio expressly declares that AN Miitia off
cora. fcs,,s,o st,ff ofierr. excsoted J shall be
slsctsd nv thu Militia. 1lis i, a ,isqt whose
Importance cannot bs oys,.esti, mated, and must
nersr be ,n,yendtred. even when the Militia are
called in,o the service O, the United States.
Rrt hare thew ware called into the State service,
and ;n,o no other. Ths Governor has no power,
e,can, uoon reouisitiop by the President, to
n,scs ,be Militia in the service Of the United
st,tss Nor bas he ATTEMPTED 10 do 90 in this
instance. He bas called them into the service
of ,hs State. ss the Militia of the State. What
n,s,snss of rigbt. then. Ia there for Gov. Top to
autbo,izs a Fedsrsl officer to apuOiu. officers,
tsmuorarv or permanent, for this Militia2 Ex-
cent certain staff officers, the Governor himself
has no more rover t, appoint, or create, an off
Ger of the Militia than he has to appoint or cre-
ate Queen of Great Britain; and how can he
authorize another to do that which he has no
power to do himself7 It will not do to talk Of
the necessity and urgency Of the case. We
have had that plea for usurpaton and despot.
lam ipterpose ed so often of late that its hollow
ness is TOO apra,en. to need pointing out, and
the people are thoroughly sick and disgusted
with II. Everything necessary for the defense
of the State could have been done without any
assumption Of authority in contraveutiou of the
Constitution and the laws, ~
Before closing this article, il is proper to cay,
that nothing but the grossest mismsnagem eut
could have given rise to the necessity for this
.,,on nn,n tho nsonls .of Ohm and esnsc;all,
.boae of the ,outherp part of t. of the losses
,bsv have ipcured. viii any one assert that
n ia anv mors the dutv of the General Govern.