Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-03-18
The DuIy OF tho Hour.

peace or safety but for the strong and the
united.
This is no fault OF the Democracy. We
act everywhere on the defensive; thankful
if we are not disturbed, but bent on des-
perate resistance to violence or outrage
Ifruin overtakes this once prosperous land
we shall not be to blame.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN has determined to
rule the people without their consent. No
man in either party dare aspire to be the
next President Competition for that Office
is disloyal. Hence that venerable Aboli-
ZIONIST and father OF miseegenatiou, SAL
MON P. CHASE, has been ruled out. AL
though the choice Of probably two-thirds
Of his own party, he has been forced pub
licy and peni;ently to decline the danger
Gus rivalry. The ous-tenth principle is
to govern North as well as South. We
may have the sham of an election, but
that will be all There will be no more
expressions of the will of the people. The
will Of the people has given place to the
will OF one man.
This is a sad and solemn truth. The
result of pretended elections in Kentucky
and Maryland; the result in Ohio under the
com bined agency offraudand open violence;
and the adoption of the one-tenth princi-
pie, indicate the utter extinction OF the
elective franchise No man In either party
regards the ballOt-box as the governing
power. The loyal league smiles while the
\ farce Of voting progresses, and the patriots
heart saddeus and sickens unto death. The
9 bsllot-box is gone. What next
The next step in the Internal programme
is to pggravate beyond endurance the con-
: dition of the country. Mr.. LINooLN'S best
a card is played when the cOnQtTy is most
: desperate. When treasury notes are worth
: but the paper they cover. he will be a
: happy man. The longer the war is spun
out, the more he is delighted The mote
brave young blood that is wasted upon
q fruitless fields, the tighter he holds us in
= his iron grasp. The more confusion, the
Y more riots, mobs and general outbreaks,
e the better for him. History has taught
= one principle of action in the human race
;. that people, loving life and possessed
of property, after years of insecurity and
dangerous anarchy, rush with apparent de-
light into the most arbitrary and grinding
- despotsm. 1t was so in France after theil
terrible revolution. 1t is so now in Mexico
:, And it will be so in the United States. -
~ Hence it is that not an officer or man ha;
" as yet been punished, to our knowledge
for disturbances Of the public peace, nc
:, matter under what circumstances they
- have occurred. Hence it is that Governor
BRoUoH sits smiling in his seat at Colum
" bus, while all around and about him out
rage upon outrage is committed, and th'
a. country quakes and heaves under the ter
e- rible excitement and suspense.
III We must all learn one truth-there il
no hope for the people but in themselves
of There is no safety, no security. no peace
he no happiness. unless they secure it 70
v. themselves. The times are changed. W.
is will never see the times we have SEEM
ID They have gone. All the peaceful, pros
pero1s hours we have spent are delightful
memories Of Democratic rule. We shsl
never see them again under any eircum
:, stances. As we'll might the matron o
!. fifty hope once again to be in her teens
!. blooming with youth and surrounded wit
q lovers. We must accommodate ourselVe
:, to ths new state Of affairs. 1t iS no longe
useful or profitable to sigh over the past
l. Our once smiling neighbOr now lowers a
he us as an enemy. Too timid to be Violen
bo himself, he wastes his poison in the hiss
81 ing on Of others. This is desperate con
NJ dition. 1t is not one of our choosing. Bu
being driven to it, we shall act like msr
or and if there is no Government At Colum
NJ bus or Washington to protect MS, we ca
!, and must fall back upon the self-tGugh
principle Of self.pIeservatiOn. We hav
81 had the experience Of three years now
is and find that we have no protection. W
T. must protect ourselves,