The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-09-21
Danger More Fatal Than Dis

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abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860
to be President; hot of a part, but Of tho
Wilde of the United States; but be has
been forcibIyF keptNout of a. part cf the
United States. 1t is injustice and
downright robbery of Abraham Lincoln,
+and= Of the citizens who elect
ed him, to refuse him the full enjoyment
of the authority conferred uron him in
that election. What if, through
battle and suffrage, the President, who
pas eleeied in 1860, should, by his eppo
nentsS, be kept out of the Presidency of
the United States until another eleetien2
What If they should then succeed in elect
ing aoPresiden. in 1861 against the major
ity who elected Abraham lincoln in. 1862
Can that mai ority be expected to ac-
quiasce, without voting and without
bloodshed, in the election Of Jefferson Da.
visSor John C.SBreckinridge,, or Horatio
Seymour? Certa infy not?1-lMr. w. a.
.bSeyward at Auburn. e6
The fact is. In our country personal
h~bertyshas been SO welhsscured that pub
JIG safety has been lostssight of in our
laws and institutions. We are thrown
back one hundred years in civilization,
laws and" everything Else, and will go
straight to anarchy and the devil if some
body won 3 arrest our downward progress.
We, the military, must do it "-IGeneral
ISherman's Letter to Gen. Burbridge.
I, awe, the people of the United States,
to secure the Blessings of Liberty to our
solves and our posrerits, DO ordain and es-
taDlish this Constitution for the United
States ofAmerioa. "-CPreamble to Con-
stitution.
So the United States were founded by
the peoFle-not by,othe military-to Sc
cure the blessings of liberty, aye, person
al liberty ((for the Gar AID the Sultan,
and tie Grand Lama deny no other libcr-
ty to tn cir slaves and to secure public
safety s'se7 4*a"
tI Marat and R~obcspierre founded the
Gommittee of Public Safety. History
has branded their rule the Reign of Ter
I ror. ? aoo1s 1snJIs ee<3
Al The Committee of public safety deliv'
ed France oversto Napoleon and the frs,
Empire.s9H"We, the military" saw the
tyrans come with delight, for 1--WE, the
military think public safety better than
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus
tho vtrialby jury and all the other bless
llugss Of liberty ! as -. H.i
= Mr. Justice Story, a child of the Rev.
1 olutfou,i aud no. obscure actor in the wal
of 1872, held this opinion of " the mil
eaary," and their talents for .'arresting" 8
nations ~"downward progress in c%iviliza
tion,9 laws, aud everything else:' cit is
against sound policy for a free people to
keep up large military establishments AID
standing armies in time of peace, both
from the enormous Expenses With which
they are attended, and the facile means.
(which thsy. afford to ambitious and un-
principled rulers, to subvert the Govern
merit orztrampIe upon the rights of the
/ people Our Constitution has been rear
ed for Immortality, if the work of man
may justly aspir, to such a title. 1t may
p5evertbelcss, perish in an hour by the fol
/ ", or corruption, of negligence or its only
ksepers-not We, the military-the PEG
pie. Republics are erected by the virtue
public spirit and intelligence-not of we
the military-of the citizens. ga t5
We confess we sometim s picture to our
selves the. amazement with which Wash
ington or Jefferson or Madison would read
could they raise from the dead-such
sentiments as those which we have quoted
from Mr.. Secretary o:State Seward and
1Gen. Sherman, The Press seems unable
to read their true Specification, or the
press has greatly deterioratea from those
petty papers, not so large as a good sized
Rpock et-Eapdkerchief, but which did such
tgood service battling for the blessings of
liberty5(God bless the Constitution for
these sweet words!9 as TO win an honera-
BILE place in the Constitution Itself
When we contrast the modern apathy with
our. fathers energy and zeal and courage
J-when o we9hear these attacks upon ouT
fathers Government by men who wear
its livery who spend the treasures it ac-
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eumulated, and who waste our brethern's
blood with a prodigality unparalleled, ex
cepttin the Kingdom of Dahomey or un.
-dcr the car of Jugsernaut-we cannot
help Remembering a noble passage ia one
dOf, Boliugbreke's political essays, which
every. icHizen of this country should gel
,,Eby heart.sdsiiojs sdbiyodz 7.1aijI'as
DIG "Eysry- form of government hath ad
advantages and disadvantages peculiar to it
q Thus, absolute monarchies seemed mos
formed for sudden and vigorous efforts o
power,, either in attacking or defending
Ifwhle,Iin free CONSTITUTIONS the forms o
4 Experiment. must be- necessarily NOR
; complicated and slow; so that in these tn,
same seer, az cannot always, De kept, no
i1Fhes same, dispatch always made, nor tn
,steadiness of measures always pur
bFsued. ;. Must all these forms, instituted !