Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-27


emancipation, a. be calls Il, mus - carried
ont practically, and ionnd Is ys'ece IN special
message, was fepkattd 10 ~ Annual message,
and that most slicnts tsrn % qeoneeal most
o,iitts lhiHA-otI ensntsd cfnauf1paton was
aise.I IA II Ts.sl aie vain idea of deceiving the
49,, ipensaled emancipation, which be-
ln6 ,ierpre;ed into good old fashioned Eng
is3ii, means Greenback Abolition daughter
and cheers The minority in the Senate and
10 the House, through their pertinacity of pur.
pose, surrounded though they were by bayonets
aud by despotic power on every side, succeed
ed at last in defeating this scheme for the
purchase OF negroes, but nearly alt the other
schemes were contaminated Thus, as |
have said, thu lnrse was placed under the
control of the Executive for two years. You
have surrendered ii--you cannot take it back
again. II has gone into the hands Of men OF
the party of Abotiou-men who basely and
cowardly, for the sake Of appointment when
their terms expire, after the 4th Of March,
have sold out the precious depository which
you put in their keeping. A voiee--"What
can VIC do 2" We will see. U.aughter and
applause) We have the ballot box yet IRE
newed applause,) We can do what we are
doing tonight, and we will do it, (Cheers)
We can vote yet and we mean to vote, and
more than that, we mean that the mandate of
that ballot box shall be carried out at all haz-
ards. ('Good aud loud applause.) We
meet these men fairly under the constitution
and laws of the land, and let us try this ques-
ton before that great tribunal Of the people
As ] have said before, for this is = time for
line upon line ond precept upon precept if
they beat us We will submit, because we mnst
submit to what is constitution and law, out il,
on the other hand, we conquer them, then, by
the Eternal, they must and shall submit
cloud cheers So much Tor the money-tAe
purse.
Aud now, as to that other great weapon of
government--the sword What have your
"misrepresentatives done2 They gave, and
with your consent (''never'') yes they did, and
am sorry it is so my friends CA voice
"The Republicans No, my dear sir. Demo
Gratis did 1t too. ("That is so. y / did not
(Cheers.) III had had my way there never
would have been any necessity for doing any
thing Of the kind-the sword never would
have been drawn ("neyer, and we never would
have had civil war (Applause) The Crit
tenden resolutions would have compromised
aud settled this difficulty (Great applause }
But Congress, in the beginning, with the con-
currenee Of the people, in ht of insanity,
as | think--no disparagement to them-it
was their excessive patriotism that led to it,
but they did give first, or recognized at least,
the giving Of $4,000 men, then Of 81 1000,
then OF 500 000 100000 more and 300, 600
yet in the form of IL draft, making in all of
volunteers some 937 900 men. They went
out to Tho field voluntarily. Your repvesen-
tatiyes guve 10 the President the control OF
that number of men--the power at least to
call for them-and they went, aud your com.
mitleas helped them to go There was no
place where more was accomplished in that
way than in the city Of New York. ('That s
so y 1t was then popular to advocate civil
war; it WAS popular to enlist or procure enlist
ments, and TO address war meetings | am
sorry some gentlemen have not heard that il
is unpopular now. Their habit seems to get
control of their Judgment ("How are you
Prince John 2') AS long as the people said
So though my judgment humbly disapproved
) of it, ! was content to remain silent and SEE
the experiment tried But that was not all
Not only hpyr hose $4,000 enlisted men
and that 500 600 drafted men--indeed,
might say Ihe 237000 men, for the draf
was used oniS 10 compel and procure enlist
} ments--aot utly these, but in the very expr
= ing hours " Congress, which died and wen
3 to its own plarr at II o'clock on the 4th @
u March W SoT srepresentative--for sncl
e they hid er,u.ur mot speaking the voice O
& the p-opis, htSe attempted TO elothe the Pres
e dent with the power of conscripting (hisses
II every man in the United States between tn
D. ages of twenty and forty-6ve-("They wi
+ have nice time of il; they canno, do it,"
% Let me be heard until | am through on tina
IS subject, said the speaker)--- compel him t
1t enter the army and enable the President t
L keep up war which, by that bill itself, h
c. and they confess 10 be against the will of tn
lr people (Applause) The bill is an admii
r, sion upon the record that they cannot,
ID voluntary enlistment, obtain any more so
o, ders to fight in this war. Now, whereas, tn
I'd Constitution Of the United States makes til
Is distinction between the regular army and III
militia Aoi, the country whereas, it torbit
OF States 10 keep regular army, and autho
is izes the United States to do il, but, on III
pa other hand, leaves to the States the cOntr,
D. of the militia, and enables the President
o. Congress only to call out the militia as sucI
n for certain specified purposes aud for IL ce
at tain limited time, reserying to these State
the appointments Of officers and the disciplia
by of this militia until they are mustered int
by the service OF the United State, this bill y,
er undertakes to make a standing army of MOI
er than three millions of the people Of the In
he ted States for three years, or during the wa
or How long will that be "a ynice "Nir
ey years , Thus, so far as it is possible, by q
80 enactment having the form OF law, the Coz
90 gress of the United States has surrendered, a
os- solutely, the entire military power Of ii
ey country to the President Now, il in posse
m sion of the purse and the sword absolute
'ty and unqualiGedly, for two years, there be an
Sc, thing else wanting which describes a dictate
ship ! beg to know what it ISL ("Brans