Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-08-05
Vnsf and LOoae.

contains two articles, one Of which in
si.ts on military necessity, as a legitimate
exercise OF power in time Of war, and the
other is a very indignant protest against it.
Since the time Of Mr. .Facing-both ways,
who looked one way and rowed another
the achievement OF the Gazette has not
been surpassed Here are two parallel
columns, insisting upon Numerically op- /
posito conclusions, each giving the lie
direct to the other. This beats the Com
mereiol hollow. The latter sheet frequent |
" contradicts on one day what it hafi said
before but it is entirely too shrewd to
to dispute with itselfin contiguous col
umus of the same issue
But we know how to reconcile these
Earring disquisitions and SO will the pub
lie when they remember that since the
days Of the farmer in the fable, very much
depends upon whose OK is gored. The
idea Of the Gazette is. that Democrats
should submit 10 the most arbitrary acts
on the ground of military necessity but
that Black Republicans shouldin all cases
have the benefit of the law There is
where "Old Truepenny" is, exactly,
In the first article the Democracy are
scornfully and Indignantly arraigned for
complaining of arbitrary arrests. Says
the Gazette, 'they callously ignore the
terrible fact of war, and talk of measures
of national and individual preservation,
as if this we're a time of profound peace,
and there were no question of Importance
but the safeguards to the personal liberty
Of some citizen"
The GoEetts proceeds to say that Demo-
crats even 40 further than that, and "deny
. that there is any such thing as military ne
8 cessity, and they affect to regard the su-
d preme law of the public safety as only the
+ plea of tyrants, and they talk of the arbi-
= trary arrests and arbitrary acts of the Ex-
It ecutive, as if the very terms were con-
demuation."
The second article is complaint a,
=, gainst Marshal General Fay, for the con-
3 struction he sees fit to put on the Con
e scription Law. The Gazette now "cal
10 lously ignores the terrible fact of war,
and "denies that there is any such thing
l' as military necessity" 1t is now in search
of law--that rule of action prescribed by
'S the supreme power in the State, command
. ing what is right and prohibiting what i
wrong-and will not be content until
ye has found it, and seen its enforcement
lis Gen. FRY-arbitrarily, and by virtue O
ng military necessity. holds that the 10
days men are liable to draft, but may b
na exempted by enlisting for one year. 1t
u' in the following terms that the G0zet
y ~ ignores the terrible fact of war;" an
81 "denies that there is any such thing a
he military necessity -
es- But these 100 days men we're lawful
subject to the draft, or they we're not
they we're, by the law, subject to the draft, b
Ia what law does ProvostGeneral Fry offer
,ut compromise with them on a years servie
snt when the draf; was for three years Gene
lar ous as Gen. Fry's proposition is, we think
=, will have to offer more OF require less. Z
IN must make his dish either fish or flesh tt
men were subject TO three years draft,
se they we're exempt from it. If subject he b
he no right to discharge them. If not suhje
- be has no basis for proposing a compromi
0'e With them
''a' Could anything be more ''callous'' thu
that? Could 1.-THE existence of such
aos thing as military necessity" be more e
ork plicitly denied
All Republicans, who are not foo
Of. must know that their safety, as well
an. that of the Democracy, consists in t
let observance and enforcement Of law, a
eiY- in the utter annihiation of the tyran
nan plea Of necessity" Those who ha
not brains enough to know it otherwi
., viii be taught it in the school kept by {
nj; perience for the special instruction of foe