Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-06-16

in all things, let him submit TO excess or
in nothing. obedient TO the Con
stituiion aud Law; let him demand and have
the full measure Of protection which law and
Constitution secure to him
MEs or ONO: You have already vindicated
your right to hear it is now my duty to assert
my right 70 speak Wherefore, as 10 the sole
ohense for which l was arrested, Imprisoned
ard banished-free speech in criticism and
condemnation Of the Administration an Ad-
ministration Gtly described in resent public
paper BY one Of its early supporters, marked
at nome By disregard OF constitutional rights,
by its violations Of personal liberty and the
liberty Of the press, and, as its orowning shame,
by its abandon ment Of the right of asylum,
right especially dear TO uil free nations
abroad, repeat Il here to-day, and viii again
and yet again, so long as l live, or the Constr
tuition and our present form Of Government
shall surviye. The words then spoken and
the appeal at that time made, and nov en-
forced by one year more Of taxation and debt
and of blood and disaster, entreating the peo-
pie to change the public servants and their
policy, not by force but peaceably, through
the ballot, nov and here reiterate in their
utmost extent, and with all their signiheaney
repeat them, one and all, in no spirit Of
challenge or bravedo, but as earnest sober
solemn truth and warning to the people.
Upon another subject allow me here a
word
A powerful, widely spread and very danger
ous secret, oath-bound combination among
I the friends Of the Administration, known as
the Loyal Union League, exists in e7ery
State, yet the very men who control IL, charge
persistently upon the members OF the Demo
cratic party, that they have organized-es.
pecially ia the North-west-ihe Order Of
knights OF the Golden Circle or some other
secret society, treasonable or "dsloyal 10 its
character, affiliated with the South, and for
the purpose of armed resistance to the au-
| thorities Of the Federal and State Govern
ment. Whether any such ever existed do
not know but the charge that organizations
/ of that sort, or having any such purpose, do
now exist among members Of that party in
Ohio or other non. .slayeholding States, is
totally and positively false. That lawful po
Utica OF party associations have been estab
lished, having as their object, the organizing
and strengthening Of the Democratic. party
and its success in the coming Presidential
election, and designed as a couDter-movement
to the 80 called Union Leagues, and there
fore, secret in their proceedings is very prob
able, and however Objectionable hitherto, and
in ordinary times, recognize to the fullest
extent, not the lawfulness only, but the pro
priety and necessity Of such organizations
for when bad men combine, good men mus
associate" But they are no conspiracy
against the Government, and their members
are not conspirators, but patricia men no
eagued together for the overthrow of tbs
Constitution or the laws, and still less, of LID
erty, but firmly united for the preservation
and support of these objects. There u.s. in
deed, a Conspiracy" very powerful, verl
ancient, and trust that before long | ma
add, strongly consolidated also, upon sount
principles, and destined yet to be trium phan
"a conspiracy known as the Democratic part
: the present object of which is the overthrow
the Administration in November next, not b
force but through the BALLOT BOX, the election
, , of President who shall be true to his oath
l to liberty and the Constitution. This is tn
, sole conspiracy. Of which | know anything
and am proud to be one Of the econspratorr
If any other ex'ss ook 10 unlawful arme
resistance TO the Federal or State Guthoritie
2 any where, in the exercise Of their legal an
!, constitutional rights, | admonish all person
=, concerned, that the act is treason aud th
penalty death. But warn also the men
power, that there is vast multitude, ho
g whom they can not number, bound togethC
j By the strongest and holiest ties, to defend
whatever means the eXigeoeies of the time
shall demand, their natural and constitutions
rights as ireemen, At all hazards, and to Ii
: last extremity.
= Three years have now passed, Men Of Obi
9 and the great issue Constitutional Liberty an
:, Free Popular Goverpment, is still before 20
} 70 you again commit It, confident that
iS this the TINA Of their urpnteaI neril Won wi