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

longer deceivediby their lllusOfy and hyps
ocritical cry Of "war for the Union -
"wsr for the Union !" Itis a cheat. 4
mockery. There can be no Union through
war. Union is brotherly love, friendship.
War destroys these, and brings in their
stead, hatred, bitterness, revenge
We warn the people not TO flatter them
selves that their lives and liberties arc safe
and sechrei in the hands Of the men in
power 1t is delusion that will prove
their ruin and the ruin Of the country.
What guarantees for the protection of life
and property have you left when the Con
stitution is gone-trampled under foot by
the men who have sworn to uphold, pro-
tect and be guided by it's provisions
With the States PROSTATE and robbed Of
their rights, and the whole power of the
government usurped by one man,-the
military substituted for the civil law, from
whence is to come your protection and re-
dress for wrongs which may be inflicted !?
Are you willing longer to trust your lives
and your liberties in the hands Of a set of
men who claim to be claw unto them
selves " and set aside and spit upon the
Constitution and laws of the land ? Are
you willing to be governed by military
necessity" which regards no established
law? If so, then you are ready for an
organized despotism, and it will not be
long until you are ground down by its
crushing weight. We tell you plainly
that you have got to crush out the present
tyrannical and despotic Administration,
or it will crush and enslave you. There
is no other alternative. Defeated and dis
appointed in their mad attempts to con
quer and destroy the Southern States, they
are seeking to fix their hold on power by
establishing despotsm over the, States
of the North. All their recent acts look
directly to that end. II you fail to act
now, whilst the freedom of the ballot-box
is vouchsafed to you. and repudiate and
crush ont the hell-bom spirit of Aboli-
ton tyranny and fansticism, you will he
forced tc a stener mode, or lose your lib
critics. We are not an alarmist We ask
you to study the history of the present Ad
ministration and the Abolition Congress
since the commencement of this unnatural
and unnecessary war, and judge for your-
selves if their whole course of action does
not point to the Inauguration of the very
state of affairs we have alluded to. Look
at their operations under the new power
which they claim to have discovered, hith-
erto unknown to the American people,
styled the War Power" the outrages of
which they pretend to justify under the
plea of military necessity 4" the setting
aside the great charter of liberty the writ
of hdbeGS corpus in States not in rebel
lion; the arrest and imprisonment of citi-
zens without trial or charges preferred /,
the suppression or abridgement of the
freedom of the press and Of speech; the
passage of the Infamous conscription bill,
which takes the control of the militia out
of the hands of the State authorities. and
turns them helplessly over into the hands
of the general government, thus destroying
State rights and centralizing all power i'm
the hands Of one man. Is there nothing in
all this to alarm the citizen? And these
are but drops in the vast ocean of wrongs
committed by this Administration against
the people and constitutional Liberty.
Our people have suffered and borne
much, at the hands of this Administration
and its hirelings. Are we to go on in
meekness and cowardly submission to
their tyranny, until we are slaves as abiect
and snbservient as the serfs of Russia
Let the Administration beware how it tri-
fles with the liberties and constitutional
rights of free people. They are not to
be intimidated or frightened by the hire
ling scriblers of subsidized press, when
convinced that they are being robbed of
the rights and protection of freemen. They
are sons of sires who but for 1.-THE of
the despoti'm m that now rules us with iron