Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-25

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revolution, and for THAT was it fought2 Itwas
fonght because your fathers and mine rose up
against wicked, perverse, and tyrannical ad-
ministraton Of one King George; and what
did King George do2 Exiled citizens as Lin
coin has done; denied them trial by jury; sus-
pended the writ of habeas corpus, as Lincoln
has done; put men and women in dungeons, As
this Administration has done. King George
did all these things; your fathers said they
would not bear them, and they rose, and wrote
upon the surface Of the earth, at Bunker Hill,
Saratoga, Princeton, Brandywine and York
town. and By writing upon those battle fields in
characters Of blood your right and liberty were
secured in the Constitution of your country. This
is the y it was done. Despotism is not entirely
dead, even il the revolution has been fought.
A'teF the revolution, thero were certain men,
you will remember, who rose up (many OF them
Wiae and good men, will admit,) who were at
the head Of tho Federal parsy--Hamilton and
John Adams; they loved their country, cut they
had not learned the great Lesson Of Pop.
uiar Sovereignty. Nor had they learned the
great lesson of State Equality nor the
geat Lesson Of eelf-government for the
people. The result was, they aaid; eve
are the masters OF tho people this day; 1t Is
better that We have strong head to tho Gov
erlment as Washington, and clothe the Presi-
dent with much power, allow him to control the
afiiru OF the people rather than allow the peo-
pie to manage their own domestic 'affsirs. -
What did they do2 They passed the Law known
as the "Alien Law" u law by which the for
eigner cJuld be sent out of the country ut the
behoof Of the President. Well our President
OF to-day does more than that, because without
any such law he does exactly what the Federal
party authorized the President to do by law
By the authority of law, our President does
badly ahd Wlckedly without any Law at all, and
he 10 therefore 90 much worse than the man who
had the sanction Of law. They then passed
another Law known as the "Sediton Law"
which was law by which, should q gentleman
such as Valsndigham make q speech, as at MI.
Vernon, that spies, and pimps, ana puppies,
could go there aud repori what he said, ana un'
der that law the President could have him "a
ken up, fined and sent to prison. Nov there Is
no such law on tho statute book, and What the
elder Adams did with law, Mr. Lincoln doea
without law, and has had our Candidate for
Governor taken up and exied out of the oaun.
try. AGd Ehy2 Because he was talking to the
people preoiseIy as the Constitution guaranteed
him the right to talk, ["good;"1 talking to the
people the words of truth and soberness, and
just such as you all believe to be the truth 10
the sight of God and man. Loud applause
Now the people like Vallandigham's speech
But the President don't like IL. The voters Of
the country like Mr.. Vsllandigham's speech,
but the parasites of power at Washington
do not like it. Loud cries of "thaps
col The taxpayers OF the land-the bone
and sinew of The country, the cultivators ot
the coil tho true wealth OF the natlon-like Mr..
Vallandigham's speech; but thieves that steaI
|-land.sharks, reaping where they had not soWn
and gathering where they had not streWr-.hey
DO mol like Vallandigham. Loud cheers.
| Bus lhe question Ia this: Shall We stand by the
people or by the party 10 power2 Loud criei
OF "Stand by the peOple"l Now, then, yor
hear these Abolition papers all over the cOun'
try denouncing me ss disloyal; but to whom on
La traitor? to whom am l unfaithlul2 am no
even unlaithful % LincolD; for expect to sticl
to him like his shadow. Loud laughter
say an faithful to, Lincoln, and expect to be
and am faithful to the men that surround him
whose feet are swift to shed the blood OF Demo
crats. ON faithful to men that have stcleI
your public money-thRt have crept in higf
places of power say am faithful TO then
to the best of my ability; and, ''Whip of HoOr
pions" in my hand, mean to lash them. Lout
cheera. That is how am unfaithful. an
faithful in another sense have been, to tn,
beat Of my ability, faithful in the protection o
your personal rights, as we'll as 10 the preserva
tion Of Our Onion. Have your homes been in
vaded by my acts' ["Never!"l Hss you
property been taken to swell the purse OF Welle
or George Morgan, or Of any of the other name
less thousands Of thieves tha! inf 81 the perlieu
of this Admininistration2
have stood by the people, and intend &
atand by them; and 1 intend 10 stand by m
eminent Of this people; and when this peopl
govern no longer, then como kings, and crowns
aud scepters, aud the ravens of office, and tina
Ie not my Government, and L shall never owe
allegiance Tremendous cheering
When IL comes that the sceItsr shall pass from
the hands OF this people-when the hour come
that the Constitution shall be laid aWRy--Whe
the hour comes that you can 10 longer read tn
frat line OF the Constitution saying that thi
people make this GOvernment-When that hon
comes, | want no Other Government, no olhe
country to reside 10, except that silent place,
which we all are Fastening, and where all vii
at last lie down to ease our aching hearts,
i Whenever aud wherever In the wide page @
history a man is found to have arisen, who wa
afraid TO trust the people, that man Was mad
to be the tyrant OF his day. Whenever so
fnd man to day that is trying to change tn
source OF authority, the great river of sovel
eighty from the hands of the many-of th
powerful many--to the few at Wash ngton, thI
man is a traitor. [Cries Of "thars so," on
Cheers That is the dlsloJal man, and | cha
denouuce him. Whenever you find parasiI
that Gomez to you, and iusti6es the enCroach
! ments on the rights and liberties of the peopl
lHupportng grasping spirit of tyranny, tell tha
man, when he talks OF traitors, "thou art th
lman." -t.. -.
Ny fellow citizens, within the past few day
1 witnessed a scene that time can never efas
from my memory. saw the broken pannel
Of the door of the house of yonr candidate 70
Governor, which had been done in the dea
hour of midnight, when it's owner was carrie
away from his sanctuary Of home, which, fIoI
, the earliest dawn of English .laW and liberty
has been styled the invincibie, inyiolable castl
of the citizen. Loud applause.] felt tina
, those blows upon those broken doors had bee
struck at the heart of every American clizsr
["That's go, and that you are oil spfferin
, from 1t, aud shat the wives and mothers {
! America, Ind the children coming into III
world, will suffer for 1t, for they are all inte
ested. When husband and father was take
!, from the shelter Of his home at midnight, fe
that those blows struck upon the homes
Chic, the sound OF them has isaounded throug
. the earth, aud that they had paralyzed libert
q and the sound OF Them had come back aero
: the waters, 70. echoed by the European pres
y lola Eurana kinulv EuSonal rnonaroh tonI Il,