Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-07-02

public speaker ever since. IL is dead
From the first il was against the Consti
tuition and laws, and without validity all
proceedings under it were and are utterly
null and void and Of no effect. The in.
dignant voice Of condemnation long since
went forth from the vast majority Of the
people and presses of America, and from
all flee countries in Europe with entire
uDanimity. And more recently, too, the
platform of an earnest, numerous and |
most formidable convention of the sincere |
Republicans, and still further, the en-
phatic letter OF acceptance by the candi
date of that convention, Gen. John G.
Fremont, the first candidate also of the
Republican party for the Presidency eight
years ago, upon the rallying cry of Free
Speech and Free Press, given renewed
hope that at last the reign of arbitrary
power is about to be brought to an end in
the United States. 1t is neither just nor
fit, therefore, that the wrongs inflicted un.
der "Order Thirty. eight" and the other
edcts and acts of such power, should any
longer be endurcd-certainly not by me
alone. But every ordinary means OF re
dress has first been exhausted yet either
by the direct agency of the Administration
and its subordinates, or through its infu-
ence or intimidation, or because of want
of jurisdiction in the civil courts to meet
case which no American ever in former
times conceived to be possible here, all
have failed. Counsel applies in my be-
half to an unjust judge for the writ of
habeas corpus. 1t was denied and now
the privilege of that writ is suspended by
act OF Congress and Executive order in
every State. The Democratic Convention
OF Ohio, ono year ago, by resolution for
merly presented through committee Of
your best and ablest men, u person a,
Washington, demanded of the President,
in behalf of very large II inority Of the
people, a revocation of the edict of ban
banisbment. Pretending that the public
safety then required it, he refused say.
ing, at the same time, that "it would af
ford him pleasure to comply as soon as h
could by any means be made to belev,
. that the public safety would not suffer b,
r it," One year has elapsed, yet this hol
f low pretense is still tscitly asserted an,
7 to-day I am here to prove it uufounded il
= fact.
,, Iappeal l to. the Supreme Court of tn
United States; and because Congress hat
never confessed jurisdiction in behalf of
citizen tried by tribunal unknown 70
such purpose, to the laws, and expressly
by the Constitution, it was poweress t.
redress the wrong. The time has, there
fore, arrived, when it becomes me as cit
izen of Ohio and Of the United States t
demand, and, by my own act, to vindicat
the rights, liberties and privileges which
: | never forfeited, but of which for so man,
months have been deprived. Where
fore, men Of Ohio, am against in you
midst 10 day. | owe duties to the State
. and am here to discharge them; wifi
L and child at home, and would enjoy al
the pleasures which are implied in thos
cherished words. But l am here for peace
not turbulence for quiet, not convulsions
for order and law, not anarchy. Let NJ
man of the Democratic party begin an,
act of violence or disorder but let non,
shrink from any responsibility, howeve
urgent, if forced upon him. Careful o
: the rights OF others, let him see to it tina
he fully aud fearlessly exacts his own.
Subjectto to rightlul authority in all things
let him submit to excess or usurpatioI
l in nothing Obedience to the Constitu
ton and laws, let him demand and hav,
the full measure of protection which Law
and Constitution secure to him.
MEN OF ONO: You have already vim
dicated your right to hea', it is now m,
duty to assert my right to spfak. Where
fore, as to the sole otfense for which | wal
arrested, Imprisoned aud bani.hed FIRE,
speech-in criticism and condemnation O
the Administration; an Administration
f'Iy described in recent public papel
by one of its early supporters, "markec
f al home by disregard of constitutions
rights, by its violations of personal liberty
f and the liberty of the press, and, as it
, Growing shame, by its abandonment of the
} right Of asylum, right especially dear te
all free nations abroad" Irepeat it here
: to-day, and will again, and yet again, Sc
. long as live, or our Constitution and
3 present form of government shall survive
The words then spoken and the appeal
that tims mada and pnu IN forcoJ h., nm,