Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-07
09io Statesman,
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FRIDAY MORNING,
The Great Criminal Case.

The People Of the United Supreme Court OF thG
States, Ballot BOX, Oct: and
TIL. Abolition Party. TSyi DynSi tS'R;i issi Ammo
Indictment drawn up and presented by
the working men of New York, represent
ing the "t0iling millions" of the United
States of America. 1t is charged against
tile defendant in this case (the Abolition
party) that oo
900 human beings, the great majority OF
whom were working men-producers, con-
tributors to the wealth of the nation.
1t has arrayed brother against brother,
and pitted the father against the son III
mortal combat.
1t has deluged the land in blood-whiten-
ed the fields Of the South with the bones OF
the slain.
1t has brought grief and sadness to near
ly every freside. .... ..
1t has opened up broad avenues for spec
ulation of the public finances.
1t has deranged the currency of the coun-
1t has enlarged beyond all necessity the
It has taxed the present generation be-
yond all precedent, and entailed burthens
that will fall with crushing weight upon
unborn millions. ....
1t has taken from industrial and produc-
tive pursuits over two millions of men.
1t has shielded the rich from the clutches
of repeated ''drafts," by the payment of
sums Ito them petty and insignificant) to
the Government; while it has compelled
the toiling masses to enlist for the plain
reason that their actual necessities requir-
ed it for the immediate support of their fam
lilies.
1t has given shinplasters, green paper,
and petty postage stamps for the common
currency of the country.
1t has created flunc;uating and uncer-
tain standard of value.
1t has used the peoples money without
legal authority, in useless and vain attempts
to better the condition of the negro, at the
expense of the white race.
1t has inaugurated schemes to thwart the
plans of the Almighty in commingling the
races.
1t has allowed defaulters and defrauding
contractors, paymasters, public officers or
even private individuals, to swindle the
people out of millions of dollars, and has
dared to send some of them on foreign
missions as a reward for their rascality.
1t has ignored well-eStablished laws OF
Congress.
1t has dsregarded the Constitution under
the plea of military necessity"
1t has taken the edcts of the President as
laws of the land, which laws they contra
vened.
IL has Unidentified public officers from
suits at law for damages on account OF out
RACES upon the rights of the citizens.
It has arrested good and true men and
patriotic citizens without legal authority;
dragged them from their homes, friends and
families; sent them beyond the limits of the
State in which they resided; incarcerated
them in bastiles, and falsely denounced
them as traitors.
1t has trampled down the great bulwarks
of civil liberty, the freedom OF speech ana oi
the press.
It has abolished the writ of hdbeas corpus,
n right which no other enlightened Govern
ment under heaven would seek ever to
abridge.
1t has set aside our system of trial by
iury, and substituted arbitrary power for
the laws Of the land.
1t has declared military control where
the civil tribunals were in the faithful dis
charge of their legitimate duties.
It has created unnecessary departments
in the General Government, thus causing
more expenses, increased taxes aud heavier
burthens for the people.
1t has organized new States from the
mere fragments of the original; admitted
members from these so-called states to seats
as members of Congress.
1t has sent spies and informers through
the principal cities and towns, to listen to
and report the murmurings of the people
touching the manner in which the Admin
istration is conducting the affairs OF the
country.
1t has regarded opposition to the Admin
istration as opposition to the Constitution
and Government, than which there can be
nothing more false.
1t has inaugurated a system by which
one-tenth of the citizens of State, instead
of majority, may form State Govern
ment.
1t has prohibited the circulation of news
papers in the United States mails, because
they criticised and opposed the acts OF the
Administration it has actually suspended
their publication, and placed censorship
over the press and telegraph.
1t has published falsehoods and suppress
ed the truth.
1t has multiplied, to an indefinite extent,
the number of subordinate officials, simply
to appease the persistent appeals OF mere
demagogues and political paupers.
1t has dlsregarded the reserved rights o1
the States.
II has provoked a spirit of mob-law,
which has developed itself in the principal
cities i'm the destruction of life and property
It has DESTROYED immense amounts OF
public and private property; imposed on
industry burdens too grievous to be borne
enriched the few at the expense of the
MANY: oyertlowed our hospitals with disa-
bled men, and crowded our streets with
lifelong cripples:
1t has infamed all the baser passions OF
the human heart.
II has established ''National Banks" in
every nook and corner of the land, a system
of finance universally repudiated by the
people. b5.. ....8of.f st
Ii has allowed military officials to inter
rupt our system of election by ballot.
It has intermeddled with the religious in
stitutions of the country. F4ltHe.
It has attempted to disgrace representa-
tives of the people in Congress for daring
to express their honest sentiments In regard
to the war and its consequences.
It has scoffed at every proposition sub
mitted to Congress for an honorable settle
ment Of our national troubles, and stigma
tized all peace propositions as "dishonor-
able"
- It has declined to restore the Union un-
less the Southern States will abandon slav-
ery, thus making the will of the President,
instead Of the Constitution, the law of the
land. sb9e sslh7 ly efir
~ In a word, having filed half q million Of
graves and filled the country with millions
OF widows and orphans, it now refuses tc
make peace or restore the Union until white
men and negroes are reduced to a common
leyel-until our heretofore proud white re-
public shall become disgusting mass o.
mongrels and hybrids. Philadt lphia Age.