Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-05-20
THE MOZART HALL DEMOCRACY
SPEAK OUT.

day evening, and adopted series Of reso>
lutions in favor Of peace, and protesting
against the arrest of Hon. Clement l..
Vallandigham.
Ex-Reoorder Smith said, there is not a
despolism on the face Of the earth where u
man at least hes not the right to express
his views IN the cause o! humanity. But
in this country man who has lately oc,
cupied high position As a member Of
Congress, a man OF ability, education, and
tried patriotism, for no cause in the worIa
except that in political meeting he said
to those that were around him that we
were in a war which cannot result bene-
ficially to us; for this his house is torcl0ly
entered by soldiers, and he is carried
away and imprisoned, He is brought be-
fore military tribunal. Is not treason
defined by the statute? Is there and
son that the law should be trampled on
and entirely lisreGarded, as if they wish-
ed to show the people the power they
have, and that they care not for the Con-
stiLution and laws? They commit an act
OF outrage and violence unparalleled in
the history of this or any other civilized
land since the bloody days Of the French
Revolution. Applause. Neither this
| Government or any other can stitle the
voice of the millions of the people, except
they drown it in blood, Applause, -
Have they forgotten how Burke and Chat
| ham in the British Parliament denounced
| the American Revolution These men
were not seized and brought before mil>
itary tribunal for expressing that opinion
1t is true there was peace party.
If ever there was time when we should
call for a cessation OF these experiments
we have been making, tits now. Some o.
these men who are opposed 10 this if they
could but hear the walls the weeping, that
90 up all over this land if they could uu-
derstand, as they will understand by and
| by, that no benefit whatever is to result
from this war if they can understand
that we may 60 on spending millions OF
treasure, entailing upon our children a
debt that will be fearful and if they
could understand that it must result in
some arrangement or other at last, they
would agree with,u and say : "For God S
sake let us sheathe the sword and mako
peace upon some terms or other, and
stop this horrid war, which is curse to
both North aud South" Applause
In response to loud calls, Hon. James
Brooks rose to speak. He said he thought
o crisis had arisen in public affairs in
which it is necessary for every man, as
often as possible, to show himself in pub.
lie in order to rebuke the existing Admin
istration. When a distinguished public
man, whom he knew well, whom many Of
them knew well, whom we all loved and
revered, distinguished for his eloquence
his learning, his high attainments, distin.
guished above all Tor his moral heroism-
physical heroes are abundant, but moral
heroes are few and far between n-when
such a man had been arrested, he had felt
it his duty TO appear here and join in q
general expression of public opinion, Mr.
Vallandingham's arrest. The doors Of his
house had been battered down at 8 o clock
in the morning by a company Of Abolition
soldiers, armed with nluskets, and no vas
arrested, kidnapped from his wife and
house, abducted, carried off to Cincinnati,
and incarcerated there iawlossly, tyranis
cally. wickedly, by the mirious in power.
No outrage on earth can be so great as
that. No king in Europe, not Napoleon
on his throne, or the Car OF Russia even,
dare violate the sacredness Of a private
citizens home, and the principle is so high
and holy in English law that for five huns
dred years the king Of England has not
dared to violate it. A mans house Is AIs
castle The doors of this mans house
have been broken into by lawless sol.
diery in the hour approaching morning.,
when man slumbers most heavily, cruelty
alarming his wife and children.
If such thing were done in England
not only peasant and labOrer, but the aris-
tocrat himself would rise in indignation
to overturn an Administration that dared
be guilty OF such an outrage. Applause. !
Here, aud here alone, has the thing been
attempted, in order to alright and over,
awe the Democracy Of Ohio. Twenty 1--we
years ago, when Napoleon was laying out
the beautiful garden of the Tuileries in
Paris for the qualification Of the French
nation, a miserable but a dirty shanty was
held some two hundred yards from the
palace of the first and august Napoleon
who had six hundred thousand bayonets
under his control, by an humble Freuch~
man, who, on being asked to sell, refused
and the august Napoleon never dared to
! break open the door OF that little hut, so
sacred was this right, even in Fraoe. APP,
plause If we do not resist this now, it
will soon be too late to resist it, If We
do not protest against it from the begin
ming and on every occasion, the monacles
of despotsm will be soon SO enchained
upon us that no human power can bear
them. We should carefully, within the
bounds oflaw, create the system of agita-
ton, continual agitation, which will
arouse the people and awaken them to
resistance Weshould present petitions
as we'll as remonstrances to the President
for the right Of petition is yet left to us,
poor subjects of Abraham Lincoln; we
should petition our Governor if necessary,
TO use his influence with the Governor of
Ohio 10 maintain the principles of the
Magma Charta and haJer, corpus for the
liberation Of our illustrious fellow citizen,
Mr.. Valandigham. Cheers.
Mr.. Brooks said he had received a lets
ter this afternoon from a Brigadier Gen.
eral in Indiana, General Haskell in which
he speaks of an article commenting on a