Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-06-10

| vi hiuiSlIlent OF grand
jury, except in cases arising in the land
or naval forces, or in the militia, when in
actual service, in time of war or public
danger, which declares that no citizen
shall '.be deprived of life liberty or prop
erty without due process of law" and.
hnaily, which declares that '' in ali crimi-
nal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy
The right to speedy an impartial trial
| by jury OF the State and district wherein
the crime shall have been committed.
which district shall have been previously
ascertalned by law, and to be informed of
the nature and cause of accusation, to be
confronted with the witnesses against him.
| to have compulsory process for obtaining
witnesses in his favor, and to have the
assistance of counsel for his defence :,
A''d cheredS, If the words uttered by
Mr.. aliandi2ham had been the most Of
tcnsive to which expression could be
given, they would form not the slightest
prctext nor afford the least palliation for
the M nstrious crime which in his person
has been committed against the liberties
of us all Z:
and TheaedS, In fact, and according to
the well established, long dccenlcd and
commcndablc habit in these United States
Of free discussion of political questions,
what he uttered was neither in itself un-
becoming nor was it an abuse of the'free-
dom Of speech, nor would the speaker in
amy manner have been liable to punish
mcnt for it according to the severcst code
administered in the courts of Justice:
-1"d tct0'er, The mcasur of au-
thority must bc subject TO the frcest dis
cussion, for discussion is nothing if not
free, and II men, mouths may be opened
only to praise and hattcr power, and are
to be closed when power is off; led, dis
cusslon Is but Il name, and liberty is i,
shadow:
.i"d ,rd,7tav, This abuse of authority
is justified under the plea of military
eSSty-whch is no Justification, for the
same plea would justify any indgnity
which could be offered us; and as it
served to exile Mr.. Nallandgham would
serve to turn both Houses of Congress out
of doors, TO imprlson the judges, to sus-
pend the Legitimate performance of every
regular function of the State, and resolve
all the authority into the keeping of one
man:
and ,chererS, if military necessity can in
wade the borders of Ohio, and there uproot
the laws of IA State whose soil is pressed
by the foot of no public enemy; whose
people are true and faithful to the Con-
stitution, and whose justice was quietly
and unobstructedly administered till mill
tary power expelled it, the same necessity
may march on, and, coming into Penn
sylvania and other States of the Union,
reduced us to vassalaSe i~finitely more
intolerablc than that against which we
rcvolted when we declared our indcpcnd-
cncc the 18th July, l77G; therefore,
Resolred, |, That the arrest and ban
ishment of Mr. Vallandigham is a violence
to which the people of the United States
will not and ought not to submit.
p That the remedy for it is in the
ballot box. at the coming and now rapid
ly approaching election, when, by the
votes of an outraged people, State authori-
ty will be restored TO the hands of the
Democratic party, who will use their
power, thus quietly and constitutionaily
obtained, to protect State rights, to rebuke
and check Federal usurpation, to secure
the personal immunity of individuals and
commence the reconstruction of the
Union.
5. That as it is, if not our firm belief,
at least our strong suspicion, that the de-
sign of the authorities at Washington, is,
by military aggression to provoke popu-
lar outbreak, and thus to furnish to
themselves an apology for further invasion
of our liberties, and, if possible, to enable
them to cucumber us in the exercise OF
our elective franchise, we eXhort our tel-
low-citizens everywhere to patience and
to that forbearance and noble cllmness
which becomes people who, knowing
their rights, know, also, the means for
their peaceful vindication.
4. That, there being no such punish
ment known to the laws of the United
States as that of exile, it is the sense of
this meeting that it is the right OF Mr.
ValIandigham, and it will be the like
right of any other eitizenupon whom there
should be attempted to be inflicted by
like tyranny like unlawful and infamous
punishment, to return forthwith, notwith
standing his mock sentence, to the State
of which ne is a citizen, and there resume
his place among those who are laborins
for the regeneration OF The Constitution
and the reconstruction of the Union.
s. That in the letter of the Hon Hor:.-
| ito Seymour. of New York, 70 the late