Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-11-22
''SOns Of Liberiy''-The Ohio
Statesman.

Statesman.
The Ohio Statesman, of yesterday, con.
tains some weliiimed remarks about the Mil
itary Comm issiou aud so-called "Tre, sou Tri
ais" so long in ptogress at Indianapolis Il
also very properly condemns the wicked aud
reasonable conduct Of men who, for the sake
of money or notoyiety, or because naturally
bad men, made themselves members of the
"Sons Of Liberty so-called, for mischief ltI
denounccs Justly, too, the spies and detec
lives, who, Ike SnDGgR, went in by order OF
the 'Goyernment, to incite men TO treason and
revoluton; and 1t afh, ms, what is most plain
y true, that the Democratic patty is in no
way responsible for the acls and conduct OF.
such men Bat when the Statesman asserts
that the Society Of Sons of Liberty was
instituted for an unlawful purpose,
and that there were few IN 1t
except mischievous and wicked leaders, It
asserts that which the very evidence made
public disproves. The published principles
and obligations Of the Society, show that its
only objects were political success through
the ballot-box, and protection to Democrats
in the enjoyment Of their constitutional and
lawful rights at home agaiast mobs and milf
tary power We speak only Of the 90 called
"Sons Of Liberty" n society which is shown
10 have had no existence until last spring, but
which embraced in its membership vast
multitude of men who were as honest men,
and true Democrats, and real patriots and as
ulnyar too, as any other men. Aud neither
the Society nor these men are responsible Tor
the designs or acts of other members who in
violation Of It's true scope and purposes, tried
| to use it 10 certain localities, as means to
carry out their own wicked and reasonable
/ ends any more than the Democratic party is
Irresponsible because they were also members
Of it, and used their political position to aid
them Even H. II. Dom was a
| Delegate to the Chicago Conventions
and sat in it from the beginning to the close,
at the very time, that he aud othere are said
to have been meditating the monstrous and
reasonable design OF liberating the rebel
prisonersa at camp Douglass desgnsas con
trary TO the objects OF the "Sons of Liberty,
as to the aim and purposes of the Democratic
party. But was Governor SEYMOUR, or ex.
Senator ALLEN or Judge THURMAN or Mr..
! lVArIANDlGnAM, non oil whom had the slightest
knowledge or suspicion of anything wrong,
responsible because they sat in the same Con
yention, the sitting Of which was to be the
time and the cover for tins reasonable enter
prise2 One Of the Cover nmeut witnesses tes
tfes that he was present at two or more meet
ings or caucuses during the Convention, o'
men said to belong to the Society, and ye'
not word was said any more than in the Con
vention itself about any of these traltorou'
projects But the real evil, oa is now evident
was that the Government sent spies anc
detectives ITO the Society who joining with
weak and foolish men and with wiehed and
traitorous men, open to bribes
/ having raised up succession o.
, plots and conspiracies to introduce arms
seize arseuals liberate rebel prisoners, and
do other like treasonable things.
Gen. CAuRlNGToN, in an official report tC
Governor MoRroN on the 2Sth of June, 1864
himself declares the objects of the Society oil
Order, in these words;