Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-10-12


Maryland now. if that convention of trail
tors had carried her into the Southern
Confederacy? But for those arrests all
over Maryland, we would have witnessed
such scenes as in Baltimore, when the
loyal soldiers of the Republic were muir
dered by mob. Was that time for the
Sheriff and his posse? Was that time
for the habsaS corpus and trial by jury?
All was confusion, aud the whole nation
hailed Butler and his soldiers as deliver
ers.
When a nation is in a state of war, no
matter what may be its form OF govern
;n-nL it is the Executive power, whether
lodged in a King or President, that is
called into action. The Legislature and
the Judiciary, do not do the fighting
We do not carry on war by statutes, de-
bates, or judicial decisions War requires
action, prompt and continued action, and
guiding will, ready ON the instant for
any emergency. If you look into our
form of government, you will see that 1t
is on the President that the power and
responsibility are cast to carry on the
war He can not declare war or make
peace. 1t requires the Intervention of
Congress to begin it or to end it; but
while it exists, it is the President who
must act. He commands our armies and
navies, and he directs their movements.
Without his authority nothing can be
done.
Now, my friends, this nation is not
only engaged in war but in a war against
rebellion. 1t is war waged by US for
self-preservation. 1t is not the common
form of a rebellion, which aims only TO
change the dominant power while the ma
ton is preserved, but its aim is to destroy
the nation itself Allsl what blood, what
treasure, what sorrow, what lamentation,
have followed that crime against human
ity, civilization and civil liberty, which
was committe in Charleston Harbor on
the 18th of April. 1861. 1t could have
been committed no where else through
out the South but just there. The NOR
tai instruments could have been found
nowhere else. Those disaffected spirit.
had been trained and prepared for it long
before. Twenty eight years before they
had, under the pretense of an uncoustitu
tional tariff, passed an ordinance of secess
ion in the very words of their ordinance
of December. 1850. What then saved the
country? 1t was President 1t was ex.
tecutive power in hands that would have
welded it with terrible retreibution.
Think you that jackson would have
hesitated about arrests if these traitors
had then fired upon our flag? No, my
friends, he would have seized them all
with grasp of iron, and instead of allow
ing them the heJeas corpus, he would have
arrested any judge who dared to issue it
as he did in New Orleans, in 1885. Nov
again, if this nation is TO be saved. it car
only be saved under the auspices of the
| Executive. IL Is inc wal pO"SA W."
must save US. In the plain and express
i've words of our President, I'VE mus
keep pegging away"
Blow must follow blow, harder an,
harder without cessation, until the ira
tors cry, ''hold, enough"
1t is no time for treaties or armistice'
Our antagonist reels with the hard hit
he has received at Mobile and Atlanta
and is gasping for breath under the clos
hug of Grant at Petersburg.
1t is Just at this juncture that a cry fC
peace and cessation of war comes TO I
, from Chicago. That convention propose
to save the nation by means of an armi
5 tice and convention of all the States
| Stop fighting, say they, and let us II
> talking. We have tried for four years
D whip these rebels in, and they won't com
? now let US see if we can't coax them Il
q Let us consider their plan. A chang
r of administration is the first thing. 1t
S their party which is to bring about tn
l.. glorious consummation. The next thin
Y is au immediate armistice;" But as the
1 President, if elected, could not prope
an armistice before the 4th of March,
II will not be exactly immediate. The
, must, therefore, be first of all a delay
:. four months before their plan can 60 i
! to operation. But we will suppose tn
time to have elapsed and that McClell'
q is in the Executive chair, what then IS
f to do according to the PLATFORM He mu
. propose an immediate armistice. And
= whom? To that other President, who
; now in Richmond; where he will be
. the 4th of March, is more than | can So
6 but wherever he is, our President mu
enter into formal negotiations with hi
They must negotiate as equals with hi
with all the forms and all the courtes
If of diplomatic intercourse.
D. Fellow citizens. this is recognition
,r The moment that our Government
E. ters into diplomatic intercourse with t
Confederacy, the moment we cease
. coerce the rebellious citizens and bei
"A to deal with the political power that
# has set up, the moment you send and
:, ceive ambassadors or commissioners, fr'
70 that moment you give to the rebels
in character of an established governme
st Year after year Davis and his diploma
agents have been knocking for admlss
he at every Court in Europe. The ans'
[r. has been, we can't admit you, we ca
an recognize you, we can't enter into cG
N. mercial relations or diplomatic int
er, course with you; the nation to which
ed owed allegiance treats you as rebels
,ar refuse you all diplomatic intercourse.
re- The moment it is announced at Lon'
ry or Paris that the United States
to opened diplomatic intercourse with
Il Sl,Iall and Mason