M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-03-05

county, near Montauk, publishing a
paper that was read by few, OF flimited
and local circulation, was arrested at
the depot of the IIudsen River Rail.
road, While on his way to a Demo
cratic State Convention. This swas
followed by other arrests Of similar
10y that Of Judge Flanders,
Of Franklin county, Of Mr. McMasters
Of the Freenlen's Journal, ard many
others; and more recently by that Of
the Rev. Mr.. Benedict, Baptist
minister, whose ofense was the
preaching Of a discourse from a text
taken from Christ's sermon on the
Mount Blessed are the peace max,
ers"-w which the Administration and
its officers deemed revolutionary. Mr..
Chairman. our Government, when it
ordered these arbitrary arrests OF
citizens, took the first step;" the
same as Louis Napoleon did when, in
the night time, he had a proclamation
posted all over the streets Of Paris,
startling and terrifying the people as
they arose in the morning, that all
dangerous persons" should be seized
and confined. 1t is true that the
French President followed this "first
step" by another, which gave him
control Of the military, and by yet
another, which placed the Legislative
Assembly in his power, 80 that he
was enabled at last to carry out his
policy to enslave France, and upon
the Tnins of the "Democratic Repub-
lic," which he had sworn to support,
to found tie Empire, whose mission
is peace"
Now. Mr.. Chairman, we have been
told that revolutions never gp back.
ward" They do not but the people
do, when they quietly suffer their
heritage to be taken away. Have the
citizens of this Republic thus proved
unlaithfnl to themselves 2 They did
Dot resist when their fellow townsmen
were arbitrarily srrested-witAout war
rant, and imprisoned without examin.
alton /; but let those who would en-.
croach upon their rights because Of this
seeming apathy, remember that in
Rome The rope of Lacretia was the
kneIl Of the Tarquin dynasty Why
did not our people resist : Because
they felt there was a remedy open for
them at tho ballot box ! 1t was there,
through its peaceful but potent voice,
that they protested against the invas.
ion of their rights. 1t was there that
they uttered the warning that must
not be disregarded God grant that
the calm, though determined protest
which the voters of the Northern and
Central States have made at the late
elections aga inst these assumptions OF
arbitrary and unlimited power, may be
followed by the action Of the legis!a
tive councils oil their respective States
and that thus the National Govern.
ment, while remitting none OF its en-.
ergies in overcoming armed resistance
to rightiul authority, may at once and
forever cease from making war upon
personal and individual security, and
from issuing proclalnations to abolish
the Constitution. Loud applause.
In speaking on this subject, viz:
that the proclamations which shall
indicate, and the authority assumed
and exercised, are not only palpabe
violations Of the fundamental law, but
if submitted to, would destroy our
under the Constitution,
mean to speak calmly ard deliber-
ately, and use the, same arguments
that | would employ were | before that
august tribunal, the Supreme Court Of
the United States, in u case involving
the validity Of an Executive or Legis.
Iatlve act. | shall denOunce no indi-
yidual, nor impeach the motives Of
any public officer--from the Presi.
dent to the hnlnblest tip staff who
executes these arbitrary decreos.
The Federal Government is not only
one of limited and derivative powers,
but The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited to the States, are reserved
to the States respectively, or to the
people" That is the language Of the
tenth amendment of tue Constitution.
The powers delegated are not to one
person. or to one class of persons or
Officers--but to Trinity. This Trinity
is Legislative, Executive and Judicial
and united, constitute the Government
OF the United States. Each has its
separate functious, and an assumption
by one department. OF the powers o!
the other is usurpation. claim that
the President, in the present unhappy
state of affairs, has attempted to exer
else the whole OF these powers, aud
that such exercise is revolution"
What says the Constitution : "AU
powers herein granted
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