Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-10-25
reformation wanted.

of them, which is not practised by the
Lincoln Government here II there is
any such we would he glad to be advised
of it. II there DO any phase Of tyranny
ANY exercise of despotic rule-any mode
of crushing out the lives, and liberty, and
property of mankind, known and practis
ed by the most absolute, most cruel and
heRrtless of European or Asiatic Monarehs'
which is not in vigorous and active exer-
else in this country. our reading has failed
to impart to us the particular information.
All over the land, are placed the sub
orlinates of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, with au-
thority from their master, to do the bloody
work of the executioner and if they fail
promptly to make record Of horror, it is
because they shrink from the appalling
deeds expected of them. and not from the
humanity Of the usurper from whom they
derive their power. BURNsIDR, at Gin
cnnAti, was efficient; and as ABRAHAM
LINCOLN read the daily catalogue of execu'
tions "ordered" at Johnson's Island, he
must have gloaied with grim delight at
the realty and unappalled zeal with which
his wishes were obeyed. PAINE, in Ken
tucky, sigualized his rule with an atrOeity
exceeding that of BURNsIDE, il such a
thing were possible There was no deed
of blood, or rapine, OF cruelty, which he
did not commit But until the less harden
ed Of LINcoLN's followers, protested iH
the name Of humanity against his crimes,
he was permitted to perpetrate them daily
and when removed at last, it was with the
greeting "well done good and faithful ser
want" from the despot who clothed him
with the horrid power which he welded.
HovEY, in Indiana bids fair, in process
of time, to rival Burnside and PAINE.
And if 'RosEcRAss has not been so bad as
either of them, it is because he is not a
monster and just in SO far as he has failed
in the work of bloodshed and oppression,
he has fallen short Of what was expected
OF him, and incurred to that extent, the
displeSsure of "the Government"
Again, we ask, what of crime, or cruelty,
or despotism charaetarizes the Govern
ments of the Old World, that is not equal
ly a mark of ours
Conscription-which agonizes the pub.
lio mind beyond all other exercises of
despOtic power--is now repeated three or
four times year, mot to repel an invader
or fight foreign foe, but to slaughter
American citizens, and desolate American
States.
Arrests, without warrant, for offences un
known to the law, and trials without Jury,
Aro of daily occurrence, and crnel and un-
usual punishments inflicted, and carried
into execution by the force of the bayOnet,
The whole land swarms with detectives
spies and informers, whose business it is
to Seduce men into pretended offenses, that
they may be arrested and handed over tG
the merciless rulers of the country, fol
imprisonment, exile, or death.
The substance of the people is being
wasted. not only by taxation in every con,
ceivable shape, but by the terror of tn,
conseIiptiOn-men readily paying th'
most exorbitant sums which the Govern
ment can ask, even to making themselves
bankrupt, rather than enter the ranks o.
the army. Es
Now we ask of the people if it is posi-
BILE to conceive of worse Governmsn
than this Black Republican usurpation hal
imposed upon them?
1t sweeps away life, liberty, property
sAd IS leaving bereavement, bankruptcy
desolation, and utter ruin behind it in it
progress
i This is the Government" which yoI
are asked 10 sustain
This is the Government which th
dozen speakers announced to canvas
Montgomery county, win ask you to sup
port
1t is for opposing this rule Of opprss
sion, usurpaion, crime, aud bloodshed
that Democrats are called copperhead
and traitors
The Cincinnati GdEstts announce
schsnck's majority, officially, ct I,4l1, Tn