Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-05

Governor SEYMOUR. of New York. in late
said
For what are governments constituted? Not
In order that they may gain wide spread d0mn
ion. not that they my attain great national
power. not that they may achieve splendid tri
umphs. lt Is Tor purposes more sacred than all
these The greatest and highest objects of good
government that each shall he in the
enjo, ment of his personal liberty each home shall
be sacred from intrusion; each conscience shall
be free TO worship God according To its own dc
tates each mind shall be tree to exercise its o sn
God gwen functions. [Cheers The proudest
government that exists upon the face OF the earth
is that OF Great Britain, and its proulest stte--
man, when ne would tell of Britain's GROWING
glory, did not speak Jf its wide spre al dOmlnlOnS,
upon which the never sets. did not say. he
might have done. that the beat of its morning
drum made continuous strain OF music round
the world. He did not speak OF martial achieve
me1ts, of glorious battle deeds and Of splendiu
naval conflicts; but he said with swelling breast
and kindling eye. that the poorest man oil Great
Britain in his cottage might Did def ,nce to all
the forces of the crown IL might be irail; it,
roof might shake; the wind might blow through
IL; storm might enter il; the rain might enter, but
the KING OF England could not enter it. All his
powers did not dare TO cross the threshold of that
ruined tenement. Great cheering see be
fore me persons in different conditions of lie
some rich, some poor. You will go to houses
unlike III many respects; one may be embelIished
by all that art can bestow or Il lavish expenditure
of wealth can procure; the other ouly precious toy
the love that meets you thereby all the cher
isbed relationships of life.
What is il that makes the American home
glorious beyond the castles of other portions vi
ha worllf IL has Lae This that " hen hay
let down The lock into its latchet and have drawn
yourself by the hreside; have assembled around
YOU those whom you love, YOU could look about
YOU and say, This Is my castle; no man can
enter here unhidden." Enthusiastic cheering
1t was constitutional rights mat mide your hume
glorious. until YOU were called upon by men IN
power to say that this Cons tuition which pro
tec;ed YOU might be rrampled ap"n under the
plea OF military necessity, where war did not even
exist. in this great State OF Cries OF
shame. shame
What Is this Constitution Of which men speak
so i,llyg Study il. and fluid what il means You
men OF Germany. you OF Ireland. you of Eng
land, any other European country, you know
what "a written Constitution means. though
may have forgotten its value. who had it written
down as deed given to Us more precious than
the deeds OF our homes, for it involves the deeds
of our homes and they are nothing without the
Constitution, which says that your property shall
not be torn away from you without compensation
anu without process OF law. Cheers II WAS a
deed that made your homes valuable and sacred
10 YOU. Ii said that man should seize YOUR
person except by due process OF law; il gave you
the right Ia worship YOUR God in such Wy you
pleased II said that you should not be imprisoned
without the protection afforded 10 the innocent
thus imprisoned, by the habeas corpus You will
fad that the Constitution attaches itself to every
thing that YOU value in life.