The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1863-02-26

age; That was supposed 10 beAthe character
al the men who undertook io deselopt thai
powerful but un~organized sentiment in the
Northern md Westerd States, aud which f.
nally gained . signal triumph.
Where lie your Bastiles nowf Your ar
tAityary arrests, your tramping under fool
The freedomot speech and Of the press, the
violation of the solemn rights secured BY the
Constitution TO the peoplei God grant,
what God alone can grant, good sense
enough to understand the temper of this
people sufficiently not agsin TO attempt 70
inaugurate a reign Of terror, [Great ap.
lhapasl We have submitted as no people
ought ever to have submitted for an hour
TO the taking away of our rights-not for q
moment. Why did the people do sol Not
that they loved liberty less, but the Union
nors; and they were willing to surrender
into the hands Of men who betrayed every
trust confded to them those precious lepa.
'9cies which were Inherited from our fathers.
for three months, on the pledge that the re-.
, bellion would then be crushed out. We
never intended that we were to be crushed
out ourselves. Laughter and applause
Bnt the people can be no longer deceived;
the scales have fallen from their ewes. and
their liberties are being correctly apprecia,
ted by the people as they never we're before.
For two hundred years no Minister Of Great
Britain has dared to temper with the body
OF any Englishman without being punished
When, in 4763, one hundred years ago; the
Minister Of George III.-he who tried the
experiment of conquering thirteen rebel
llous eolonies-that monster laid his atbi-
trary hand upon the person of enc of the
worst men in England, John Wilkes; the
people of England, seeing their libe. ties in
yolved in the person of John Wilkes, rallied
10 his Defense and the Chief Justice Of the
Common Pleas issued arwrit of ha6eas cor.
pms and said THE King has a right to
know through his Court What has become Of
the body OF one John WILKES" And Nc.
Masters, and Mahoney, and Reeve, and Col.
Wall-they were denied the writ; but had
they not been surrendered, the people of the
Fnits& States would have served popular
' Ri of .&a6edS corpus to know what had Ia.
come Of their leaders. o[Cheers. I Let not
This experim snt, be tried. lam no friend Of
the Admihistra non, as you all know, Tcheers
and laughter,] tl'ogghit has bcfriended me
much unintentionah y; but l would whisper
ear in the acce. ITS of q friend, TRY
not that experiment again. Loud oheers.
ramper not With tho fights Of25,ooo,ooO Of
nee men. + You deserved US t'nEcei; you can
not deceive, us again. Do not pass your
Inonstrons bill now pending in the louise to
suspend the writ Of ha6cas corpus eysry.
'7 What! because there is Q rebel.
lion in SouthTC carolina, men shall not be,
Zee in New Jerssy2 and the minionsof this
ADMINISTRATION may enter your house and
drag YOU from your beds to the Bastile1 Is
that thc,liberty for which the Jersey Blues
fought in the Revolution? SIs that the en-.
teftaipment to which Washington and His
fellow ~patsiots invited his corntrymen2 Pass
not your Conscription Bill, which you seek
to enforce by holding that rod of terror over
the people, your, mastIfs. We made and
will iuamaEe you. Cheers. Inaugurate
not a revolution in oar wi midst. / shall
stand, by the Constitution and the laws Of the
,nd-by ordet-ahd submit to all things in
reason; surrender every minor point to ena-
ble this Administration, if it be so, to carry
ant farther the experiment Of restoring the
Unisn by war; but no one jot or little Of our
riohts to carry on an unconstitutional wal
for the negro, k[Loud cheers. Have the.
ever read history IA voice, They nevel
did, Do they not know the inevitable re
sult OF the course Of revolution in torue
AGES? Do thsy not know that che men wb'
begin them always perish BY themf u
they ever read of Danton, or Robespiey IRE.
theFropch re~volutioni Danton got. tired
the radicalism of Robespierre. and a,
L claimed sh;mself 9 conservative and 1ob,
pierre had him decapitated. Weed md
ward are tired of the r~adicalisr. of Greel
aud Sumner, but whether thy will deca,
speaking politically, if obey wait a lit
longer, We viii take the Job out Of tn
hands. lLslghter and cheers.l The p,
pie have borne COO much, and they are n
prepared for tde experiment any longer; a
" lwarn the men Of New York and New j
r 10y, il they e~ountenaaeoi this Administ
ion in any further usurpations, the Nor
81 west will not go withtthem. loud cheers
We propose TO 60 before the people Of |
whole Union TO- try this question by at
yl fnent and the ballot-box, and If you beat
sT we viii submit to your rule under the CO
40 stitution; andif we beat you, then, by
B eternal, you shall submit, IGreat cheer
Why sir, they owe apology for these nj
strous violations Of the Constitution. ]
cause We stand by the Constitution, we,
denounced in fine fancy epithetsof gBntH
nuts" and "Copperhcads,, and traitor
n uc .tt. GTVLva Il. ~ tkat .