Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-03-04

stitntion, which your Excellency, 90 we'll a
the President Of the United States and thos'
acting under him, had sworn to support. This
l rear, was the objectionable Sin for which
was arrested,
Your Excellenoy 10 equally mistaken In your
next proposition. Your reporter says: "The
governor referred to the condition OF the Dor.
der' and tho threatened invasion Of Ohio, Of
the time that he was advised that DR.. Olds was
making speeches denouncing the Administra.
ZION" etc; $50 he telegraphed the Secresar ry
of War to remove Dr.. Olds temporarily, until
we could drive back Kirby Smith and the other
ecoundrels from the border" etc. Nov, It
muat be known to your Excelency that you
asked for my arrest on the 18th Of July; con-
sequently the cause Of my arrest must have
exioted at that date. The order for my arrest
from the War Office was dated on the I'd OF
August; was there any threatened invasion Of
Ohio at that timer Certainly not. Neither
your Excellency nor "any other man." at that
time, contemplated any such an invasion.
Kirby Smith had not even then made his 40
pcaiance In Kentucky; his battle at Richmond
was not fought until the 3Oth OF August. At
that time had been more than two waeks in
solitary confinement in Fort Lifayette. II
your EHcellency will turn to your annual mes.
sage on the 9TH OF January, you will find that
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Invasion VAS dated on the 81 Of September.
Consequently all your twaddle about threat
ered invasion of Ohio aud driving back Kirby
Smith had no moro to do with my arrest and
imprisonment than IL had with the man in the
moon. 1t was all mere clap trap-all a pan.
deriDg to the baser feelings of your audience,
who were "huDgering aud thira!iog" TO hear
your Excelency give it good to DE- Olds.
Your Exceleucy, 10 your next proposition, is
also guilty OF gross Misrepresentation, If
may be permitted to give II so gentle a name.
Tho GOVERNOR, Tod, says: THAT when
the border WAS cleared, aud the people felt safe,
| ordered that Dr.. Ol1s should he released, and
he ,oas."
Here let meinquiro, was not the border clear
cd, and Kirby Smith driven back, even beyond
the border Of Kentucky, long before the 0cto-
ber election2 Had not your Excellency, By
proclaim itiOn, ordered the SquirTel-hunters to
return to their homes, and assured the people
Of Ohio that oil danger from the threatened in
vasiOn was passed long prior 20 the fall elecGion7
Most certainly you had, and ii you will turn to
your official orders aud kilograms, as published
with your annual message, you will find it 60
recorded. And yet was detained in prison
until near the mddeof December, more than
two full months after all fear of the threatened
invasion had passed away. How will your Er-
cellency reconcile such gross misrepresenta
tion2 IL your Excelency had informed your
audience that you kept me In prison from tho
last OF September until the middle OF December,
ia order to extort from me an oath to notprose.
cute your Excellency for kidnapping and false
imprisonment, you would have been much nearer
the truth.
Bat again, your Excellency ssys: 81 looked
into the Constitution and found there, written
in letters bs bright as gold, this Government can
protect itself He could not G. to the article and
section in which IL was found, but it was there
Substantially"
Ii your Excellency, when you said "this
Government bas power to protect itself," meant,
as you used to teach US upon the stump, that
the people are the Government, then you might
well exclaim that you found it written in the
Constitution "in letters as bright as gold, this
GoueTRment can protect itself"
| will refresh your Exoeleucy's memory BY
referring you to the articles and sections, nay
more, the very words In which this precious
grant of power Is found
10 article and section 2 il is written:
"The trials of all cTimes except 10 csses of
impeachment, shall be by jury, aud such trial
shall be held in the State where the said crime
shall have been committed F"
In the amendments to the Constitution in
article l, it 10 written:
"The freedom of speech and the press ehall
unt be abridged"
In article it is written:
"The right o, the people to be secure in tn cir
persons, houses, papers and effects, against un-
reasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated
In the fifth article it is written
"No person shall be held to answer for q
capital or otherwise infamous crime. unless
upon presentment or indictment of a Grand
Jury"
In the came article it is still further writ.
ten:
"NOr be deprived of life, liberty or property
without due process of law"
In the 9Th article It is thus written:
"1n oil criminal prosecutions, the accused
shall enjoy the right. to a speedy and public
trial by aD impartial jury of the State and dis
trict wherein the crime shall have been com
mitted; and be informed of the nature and
cause of the accusation, be confronted with
the Witnesses against him, have compuls s0ry
process for obtaining witnessed in hrs favor,
and have tho assistance OF counsel for his de-
| fense,"
In article it ia written:
"Nor shall cruel and unusual punishment be
Inflicted"
These, sir, are some of the articles and sec.
tions in the Constitution in which it is written
Sin letters as bright az gold," that the Govern.
ment, the people being the Government, 'can
protect ITSELF" Will your Exoellency please
remember them7 They are like "apples of gold
in pictures Of fsiluer." Your Excellency has taksn
most solemn aud impressive oath to maintain
and support them; and in that Bible which your
ExcelleDcy refused me while was in solitary
EnJ :A
ters as bright ss gold" "ThOu skah not for
sWear hyset"
EDsON B. OLDS,