Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-04

law, the civil code must be relied on; for no
man, by our organic rules, should be de-
prived of liberty or life without due process
of law. Law, gentlemen, is but the reflex
of order, and order is the principle Of the
universe. 1t Is God Himself. Law Is the
reflex of Divinity; and when established,
the reflex of the duty within us, and pro-
nounced and inscribed upon the statute
book, its sanctity is inviolate; and, when
once it is stricken down, go with it the man,
the child. our institutions, our all.
Connected with that in most intimate rela-
tions is the grand, noble old liberty OF the
press. TApplausel Over that, i'm far EU-
rope, from time immemorial, has been wag-
ed the struggle of freedom; and, as the press
emerged triumphant from the struggle, was
rolled back the tide of war and appeared
the bright sunlight of freedom; but, when
it was arrested, with censorship came des-
pOtism, and with despotism came oppres-
sion. Let, therefore, a free people, jealous
of their rights, guard with great care and
particularly the freedom of the press. The
administration, or the man, who would aim
O violent blow at that institution, should be
marked by the community as little less
guilty than the traitor to the cause Of the
country. .HlI T.t..
/ had been taught in my earlier lessons
W IOOh upOll AuCIlCd dS OuC BlCdO
house of the world, to which all mariners
tossed upon the fierce sea of despotism di-
rected their longing gazes; to which every
tempest tossed vessel upon that raging sea
directed her course tor safety and for aid;
but, at this time, hear fearful note that the
light shall be eXtinguished, and the wan
derer upon the dreary extent Of waters be
left without compass and without guide, to
be drifted at their mercy. Gentlemen, the
asylum of liberty is the American shore
[applausel; the resting place of the outcast
is the American land; and here, subject to
our laws, the innocent and the free, we de-
termine and swear, shall be innocent and
free until, according to law, we pronounce
them guilty and not to be entertained. tAp-
plause.
1t is many years ago that solitary band
found their way through the wilderness,
under an inclement sky, all uncertain of
their future fate, and yet resolute and de-
termined to carve out in this Gods land
and that Lords wilderness home for free
men, and they imprinted their footsteps
there, and raised their notes of thanksgiv-
ing and praise; and the tones of the one
have not vet ceased reverberating from
crag to crag, until distant Nevada has
heard the sound, and the impress of the
other is not yet obliterated. We, their de-
scendants, have received their arms, and
stood up under the panoply of their
strength and their wisdom, and have en-
deavored to commit to memory and heart
the lessons they left, and teach our chill
dren to repeat them afterwards. Among
those lessons, if my memory serves me
right, was this: that America is the land Of
its people. Upon her soil grow none but
popular rights; from her streams can be
reflected none but representative laws; and
around the circumambient air which sur
rounds that happy land, we declare that the
matin trumpet and evening tattoo shall
mingle with none but the songs which pro-
ceed from the children of the American Re-
public. [Applause.]
But what is that which arrests your at
tenton in yonder pacific city? see the
Gallo standard advanced and unfurled to
the breeze, and he who holds it is of the re-
crednt German stock; and he who would
plant his foot there, in the shape of the
despot's track, is he whom our free Germans
here have contended against, and his prin-
ciples, abroad and at home; and the institu-
tions he would establish upon the land, they
havesworn, and we have sworn, to resist.
The Monroe doctrine shall receive no vio-
lation. Loud Applluse.]
General CochrIne closed with few words
in reference to the business of the Conven-
tiOn.