Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-05-23

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Freedom Of speech and Of the Press.
Congress shall make no law respecting an
OF religion, or prohiot tns lIeS
exercise thereof; or OF abridging the Ireeoom OF
speech, or OF the Press or OF the nght OF ne
people peaceably to assemble and 70 petition the
redress OF grievances -AA
l, Amendments to Constitution.
To cover up their blatant treason, II
which they give that aid and comfort to
the enemy which 3 cOrrupt and reasonable
heart always gives when its pOssessor Is
too eoWardiy to take up arms and dare the
hazard o Z battle, the cOPperhead organs and
oopperhsad orators, from Va~llandigham,
Cox ard voorhees,, down to the lowest and
Vilest of the crew who wear butternut
b-reastpins, quote the above as q text and
rely upon it for immunity il their rawlings
against the Government. They cannot
distinguish between free speech and SLAM
dsr-between q free Press and a hcentiOus
OF g reasonable one.
Because Congress is prohibited from
making any law "~abridging the freedom OF
Speech or Of the Press" these men, whose
treason shines through the thin cause
which they think cOnceals it as the skin
Of a rotten maekerel flashes in the beams
Of moonlight deem that tsey are protected
in hurling their fslsehOOis and ISLANDERS
against the Government when it is engaged
In Warf for the preservation Ofliberty itself.
Congress- has made no law " abridging the
freedom Of speech or Of the Press !" but
Congress, under the power it has to " sup.
press instruction" and that other power
given that body TO "mske all laws which
shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the power to suppress in
surreeGon, repel invasion, &C., has giver
powerto the President and through him t.
the Generals, to stop the mouths Of traitors
and to suppress treason, whether it b
spoken on the stump, printed on a Wilt
newspaper press, or enforced by the swor'
and nusketOn the field Of battle. To deny
this power to Congress, would deny to tina
body the right, in the District o.
Columbia, where it has sll tbr
power Of 3 State Legislature, to enfOrc'
morality, or an observance Of q ChistisI
Sabbath, because, fOrsOOth, Congress shall
make no Law respecting an establishment
Of religion, or prohibiting a free exercis'
thereof" In the Territories, where Con
grsss has equal power, the DEED Scott de.
eision to the contrary Notwithstanding
Congress would, if these COpperhead doc
trinss were true, rave no right to a5Olisl
Polygsmy, the twin relic with slavery, 0
bErbEIism, because they who hold to it
immoral doctrines claim It q part of thsi
religion. Under the war power, or th
pONer to suppress treason and Insured
ton in our midst, the government ha
the right to put down blatant treason
and we are glad to know it has lone it il
the case Of ~Vsllandigham, and doubles
will also with others Of like guilt.
Years and years ago, when q little band
than whom the world never produced mel
endowed with more of love for man o
Of more patriotic mould, or of pure
or better hearts, more far-seeing tha
their fellows, perceiving the GRASP
ing spirit Of Southern domination
sought with stern and solid arguments
based upon facts, to chow the sin and tn
tendency Of slavery, and the deep design
Of its leaders to reduce the North to a PC
HnosI vAsselage, they were met BY thes
same men who are now such sticklers fO
sheedom Of speech and Of the press" wit
mObs armed with rotten eggs and brick
bats, which were hurled at patriots th
latehets Of whose shoes the mObOorats wer
unworthy to stOop down and %unlOOse, An
then, not satisfied with these exhibition
Of 4indictiTe hate, these mobOcrats, lk
towards as they we're, would steal to tn
stables where the horses Of the snti-slaV
cry orstSrs were kept and wreak thei
petty malice upon the unOfending BEAST
By shaving and otherwise mutilating then
That was the illustration these men tho
gave Of the principle Of free speech. Thei
present professions Of devotion to tha
principle, are all q cloak under whic
they would hide their ~corrupting Treason