Daily national Republican., 1863-01-07
special Dispatch.
GOV. y.sEYMoUR,s MEssAaE
THE LEGIsLATuRE.

every personal, every family, ana every sacred
duty and interest are involved.
The truths of our financial and military situ-
alton must not be kept back; there must be no
attempt to put down the free expression Of
public opinion.
AfTrlghted at the ruin they have wrought,
the authors of our calamltles in the North and
South insist that this war was caused by an nm
avoldable contest about slavery. This has
been the subject, not the cause, Of the contro-
versy. We are to look for the causes Of the
war in the prevailing disregard Of tho obllga-
ton Of the laws and the Constitution, in the dis
respect for constituted authorities, and, above
all, in the local prejudlces which have grown
up in the two portions Of the Atlantic States
the two extremes of our country.
There Is no honest statement of our Difficult
ties which does not teach that our people must
reform themselves, as well as the conduct Of
the Government and the policy Of our rulers.
1t is not too late 10 save our country, II we will
enter upon the duty in the right spirit and in
the right way.
when it is the right of our Government to
decade upon measures and policy, II Is our
duty to obey and give ready support to their
decisions. This is vital maxim Of liberty.
This war should have been Averted, but Its
Hood gates were opened, and the Administra-
tOn could not grasp Its dimensions nor CON
/ troll Its sweep. The Government was borne
away with the current, and struggled as hest 1t
could with the resstless tide. Few seemed
able to comprehend the military or financial
problem.
Hence, We are not to sit in harsh Judgment
upon the errors in the conduct of their policy
but, while we are to concede all these excuses
for mistakes, we are not TO adopt errors nor
sanction violations of principle.
The same causes which estimate their faults
in Judgment must make us the more vIgilant
to guard against their influences.
The Governor urges economy and integrity
In the Administration Of affairs, as these are
vital in periods of war. He also says that
meddling and intrgues have thwarted and
paralyzed the vigor of our soldiers and the
skill of their generals within the influence Of
the national capital while our armies gained
victories in the field remote therefrom.
The Governor says that the national Const-
tuition must be held inviolate, and holds that
the rights of the States must he respected as
not the less sacred. A consolidated Govern
ment would destroy the essential home rights
and liberties of the people.
On the subject of arbitrary arrests, he says;
The suppression of journals and the imprison-
mcnt of persons are glarlngy partizan. Con.
scious of these gross abuses, an attempt has
been made TO shield the yiOlaters Of law, and
suppress inquiry into their routines and con.
duct. This attempt will fall unconstitutional
acts will not be shielded by constitutional law.
shall not inquire what rights Slater In re.
brllon have forfeited but deny that rebellion
can support a single right of the citizens of O
loyal State. denounce the doctrine that civil
war in the South takes away from the loyn
North the benefits of one principle of civil lih
| crty. il Ia a high crime to ahduct citizens o
b this State.
II is made my duty by the COnstitutlqf.A SCI
, that the laws are enforced, aud I shall hvesti
r gate every alleged violation OF our statute
= and see that the offenders are brought to jus
tlcr sheriffB and district attorneys are ad
monished that 1t Is their duty to take care tina
no person within their respective counties ar
imprisoned or carried by force beyond thci
limits without due process Of legal authOrlty )
, The governor at some length condemns III
exercise of the power under martial law, as dc
' structve Of the rghtA Of states and of leglsll
ton, and of the Judicial departments of tn
General Government. He declares the Pres
dents emancipation PROCLAMATION as impolItiC
unjust, and unconstitutional, and calculated I
> create many barriers to the restoration of III
Union, and that 1t will be mscOnstrued by th
- world as an abandonment of hope 10 restore /
" "A result TO which New York was unalterahl
opposed and which will be cffectuslly resisted
The Union, he says, will he restored by Il
II Genital and Western States TO the free and slaN
States, who are exempt from the violent pa
y slons which control at the extremes. Those
y the central slave States which rejected the ord
" nance of secession and which were driven {
- by a con:emptuous compromising policy, mu
j be brought back. The restoration of the who
Union will only be the work Of time, with SUI
ne excrtion US can be put forth without needless
as sacrificing the life and treasure Of the North
Id a bloody and calamltous contest.
Sc We must not wear Oul tue lNeh vi ohI -
is dlers nor exhaust the earning of labor by W
Is for uncertain ends, or TO carry out vague the
rles of determination, this means not only d
9 stuction of lives and property South, hut al
q a waste Of blood and treasure In the North.
Ill The execution of armed power must be &
ID companled by q hrm and conclliatory policy
IN as TO restore our Union with the least possil
n. luIEry 10 both sections.
The Governor concludes as follows;
"At this moment the fortunes Of our count
s are influenced by the results of battles. o
ed armies IN the field must be supported; all /
i'd constitutions demands of our General Cover
., mcnt must be promptly responded to- under
circumstances can a division Of the Union
conceded. We will put forth every oXertion
1, power; we will use every policy Of concillatlo
u" Srwill hold out every inducement 10 the p'
er- ole of the South 10 return to their anegian
d coDsistent with honor we will guarantee thI
every right and every consideration demand
Lv tbe Constitution alone, and by that fratel
lie al r,syard which must prevail In comm
connSry; hut we can never voluntarily cOnSi
- to The SrenSIng up of the Union of these Stat
u oy tbs destructIOn of the Constitution"