Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-19

he has but to appeal to the doubtless ev-
idence Of every community in the land.
In all Of them you will find the williag
tools of this usurped power, prowling
about, threatening to imprison and hang
every man who refused to swear allegi-
ance to the Chicago platform. hey will
tell you of the "reign of terror" that
swept over the country like the resstless
hurricane over the unbroken plain oi
men, good and true, awed into silence, il
not submission, by brute force of others
seized, at an hour when all but prowling
thieves and midnight assassins were lost
in slumber, and forced from family and
home, not to be lodged in prison as the
ordinary violatcr Of law" to be "pro.
sented with a copy Of tho indictment Of
a grand jury" containing the mature and
causes of the accusations against him to
confront the witnesses face to face and
have compulsory process to procure the
attendance OF witnesses in his behalf, and
be granted a speedy and public trial by
an impartial jury Of the county or district
in which the offense is alleged to have
been committed - but with his limbs
fettored and mouth muzzled, ho is forced
aboard the cars and transported to the
Bastles Of the East, beyond the limits
of the State of his residence and from
the jurisdiction of the laws to which he
might appeal for protection. This did
not satisfy. The last hopo of the free
.man-the writ of ha6eaS corpuS-must
be stricken down every safeguard Of
. 1I,ortu oll,y JnEnl nI ~ -bo,, 1,
for the authority to justify al these enor-
mites, we are told, by some, that the
Constitution confers the right on the
| President, as war power by others,
that it is an inherent prerogatve resting
in the Chief Executive of the nation.--
Sir, T deny the authority of any tribunal
on earth, short OF the people themse Ives,
to suspend the pO,oer of that writ, and
that the privilege of the writ may be sus-
pended alone by the Legislative depart
ment OF government is apparent from the
context of the Constitution itself, from
the history Of the wit, and the judicial
decisions for ages past. However firmly
this right may be secured to the citizen
+ IN our Constitution, the principle rests
e deeper in the foundation of government.
; Ohio is the centre of the Ordinance OF
1887. AT its adoption, this whole region,
with some tIilling exception, was one
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