Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-06-07
Mass Meeting at Chicago-ResOlutiOns
! Passed.

Passed. 4.-r
The excitement In Chicago over the suppress
sion of the Times seems to have been very form
liable. The Post publishes four solid col
umns giving an account of the popular dem
onstration there
The Chicago Tribune began to feel very un
easy. The stock holders OF the concern, barrl-
caded the Office with paper bales placed four
deep, and high enough to protect men behind
them. Col. Hanoock's Home Guards, eight
hundred strong, were ordered under arms, with
thirty rounds Of ball cartridges. A secret meet.
ing was held In the Circuit Court room, to pro.
vide for the eafety Of the Tribune, at which
many Democrats were present. We herewith
publish the resolutions adopted by the tremend-
ous assemblage gathered In front Of the Times
office: ...
The twenty thousand loyal citizens of Him
ois, assembled this evening to consult upon
their interests, do resolve,
/. That law is the bulwafk OF liberty; the
abrogation of law is the death OF liberty; tho
Constitution guarantees the freedom of speech
and Of the press and the right Of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Gov.
ernment for the redress OF grievances. An in
fringement of these rights is blow at the
Constitution; an abrogaton of these rights is
the overthrow Of the Constitution. He who
seeks TO abridge or destroy these rights is a
traitor to Law and to liberty. The people of
Illinois will forever demand and insiss upon
these rights. They will obey the laws them
selves and insist upon like obedience by all
men. They will seek redress for grievances
through the forms of law and the tribunals of
justice. They will demand and insist upon the
trial by jury of men not in the military or naval
service, who are charged with crime; they will
demand and insist upon the right to speak and
print their opinions Of men In power, and the
measures of those men; they will demand and
insist upon the judgment of the civil tribunals
upon men or newspapers charged with the ex-
preston of "disloyal and inceudiary senti-
ments." lat ..gIe .ll- ID.
2. The military power is and must remain
to the civil power. Military, like
the law. So far as they act under the law they
must be obeyed. When they exceed the law
their orders and decrees are void
g. General Order No. S4," promulgated by
General Burnside, by which the publication Of
the Chicago Times is declared to be suspended,
Is without warrant of law, and should, as We
have an abiding belief that It will, forthwith be
Iescinded by the President. II the TIMes, or
my other public journal, has exceeded the linn |
ts Of lawful discussion or criticism, the civil |
tribunals, and they alone, are the competent ard |
awful judges Of Its crime. To the courts of
aw IL appeals; let the courts, and the courts |
'lone, decide Its fate.
4. The people Of Illinois are devoted, with |
heir lives and their fortunes, to the glorious
Union Of the States under the Constitution made |
,y our fathers; they will sacrifice life and for
'une, and all but liberty, to preserve the Union;
hey will cordially sustain the authorities in all
honest and lawful efforts to preserve the Union;
out they will not sacrifice their liberties though
life and fortune 20 together. Peaceably, sober. |
y, loyalty they will maintain their liberties, go
ong as they can thus be maintained, but they
will have them ct every hazard by some means.