Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-07-12
Srmi- Wpeklq 9tnnharG,
From the Cincinnati Commercial
VaIIandisham's Speech.


Hen of Ohio To-day am again in your midst and
upon the soil my native State To day am once more
within the district which for ten years extended 10 me
the highest confidence and three times honored me as It's
representative in the Congress of the United States
was accused Of crime against the Constitution or laws
and guilty of none But whenever and wherever tn9s
charged upon due process of law now here ready
to answer before any civil court of competent usdc
ton q jury of my countrymen aud meantime to give
Ors may ajax and you the hundred and eghysx thou
sand Democrats of Ohio ufsr as my sureies. Never
for hour have remained In exile because recognized
any obligation OF obedience to the unconstitutional ana
arbitrary edct Neither did personal fear ever restrain
me- And to-day return of my own act and Pleasure
because it is my constitutional and legal right to return
Only BY an exertien of arbitrary power itself against
Constitution and law, and consBmmated by military FORCE
abducted from my home and forced to Punishment.
The assertion insinuation Of the President that was
arrested because aboring with effect to prevent
the raising troops and To encourage deserons from the
army and responsible for acts OF resistance
draft aud to the arrest of desertes causing sssas
sination, manning and MURDER that at any time, IN
any way have dsObeyed failed to counsel obedience
to lawful authority, even to the sembsnee OF law Is
absolutely false appeal for the proof in every speech
ever upon these questions and to the very record
of the Mock Military Commission BY the trial aud SEN
tenee OF which | outraged No. the sole offence
then LAID charge was words OF criticism Of the pup
lie policy of the administration, addressed to an open ana
public political meeting of my feoTctzens OF OHIO,
lawfully and peaceably assembled And to-day, my only
"erme that the way which they call treason, wor-
ship the Consultation Of my fathers But Tor now more
than one wear pubic has been arrested, and no
newspaper suppressed within The State, adherng still to
the Uuon for the expression of political opinion; while
hundreds public assembly and through the have
with aafce6se and vtofencs which never udnged,
criticised and condemned the aOtS and policy OF the Al
nnislratiou, and denouhced the maintaining even
sue proprey and necessity of The recognition Of Southern
IndUrsed by nearly two hundred thousand freemen of
the party Of my native State, at the late cleo
tion and still with the sympathy and support OF millions
more do any longer, to be the only man OF
that party who to be the victim OF arbitrary power
If Abraham Lincoln seeks my life let him declare but
he shall not restrain me Of my personal hoery e1cePt
upon due process OF law. The unconstitutional aud
nionstrous Order Thirty Eight under which alone,
was arrested thirteen ago. de6ed and spit
upon by your State Convention Of 1885, by the gallant
esntlenau who bure The standard your candidate fpr
I4oyenor and by every Denucratic press and
public speaker Il is dead. From the first 1t
was against Constitution and Aws aud without valid
ity; and all proceedings were sut utterly are null and
VOID and of effect The iudgA liant voice Of cjndem
nation forth from the of the
people and press of America and sm all free COUNTRIES
In Europe with unauimIty. Aud more recently
too, the platform Of an earnest numerous and most
formidable of the sincere Republicans and still
further the emphatic letter OF the acceptance by the can
date of that Convention, John e. Fremuntthe first
ddaIe also, of the Republican party for The Presidency
eight wears ago upon I6e rayng cry tree speech aud
free press-gve renewed hope mat last: the reign of
arbitrary power is s6'u TO be brought TO an end IN the
United States.
IL is neIther just it, therefore, that the rongs in
fcted under Order Thirty Eight and other edIcs and
Of such power should any longer be enduredcer-
tauly not bV me alone But every ordinary means of re-
dress has first been exhausted yet either by the direct
agency OF the administration and It's subOrdinateS be-
Of want OF jurisdiction in the civil courts to meet
which American in former times conceived to
be possible here all have failed Counsel applied my
behalf unjust judge for writ Of habtIS corpus 1t
denied aud now The privilege of the writ suspend
ed by act Of Congress aud Executive Order in State
The Democratic Convention of Ohio, year ago, by
resolution formally presented through committee OF
your best aud Hbest men, person at Washington, de-
manded of the President in beha of very large majJr
ty OF the people, revocation OI the edc of punishment
Pretending that the pubnc safety then required IL, he
fused saying at the same time that it would Afford him
IS
made TO beeve that the public safety would not suffer
by it.
One year has elapsed; yet this hollow preeuce is still
facility asserted and to-day am here prove unfOund
ed IN fact appealed TO the supreme Court of the Uni
ted States and because Congress had conferred
risdcton IN behalf Of citizen tried by tribunal un
known for such purposes the laws and expressly for
hidden by The Constitution it were poweress to redress
the wrong The time has therefore arrived when it be-
comes citizen of Ohio and of the United States
to demand, and by my act to vudcae, the rights
liberties and privileges which never forfeited but of
which for many mouths have been deprived. Where
FORE men of OhIo am again in your midst to-day.
owe duties TO the State and am here to discharge them
have rights citizen, and am here to them;
wife and child and home aud would enjoy all the pleas
which implied those cherished words. But
here for and not turbulance for quiet for
eonvuson for order and law not anarchy. Let no man
Of the Democratic party begin any of violence dis
orderj but let none shrink from any responsibility how
ever urgent if forced upon him. Careful of the rights of
Others let him to IL that he fully and f1srlessy
his own Subject to righfu authority in all things let
him submit usurpatI0n in nothing Obedent
10 Constitution and law him demand and have the full
of the protection which law Constitution
cure to HIM.
Men OF ohioi you have already indicated your right
to hear it is my duty my right SPEAK
Wherefore TO the sole offence for which arrested
imprisoned and banished-ee speech in criticism and
condemnation Of the admnistratiOn-an administration
hy described in recent public paper by of its early
supporters rs marked at home by its disregard of
stliutona rights by It's violations of personal liberty and
the liberty OF the press and its browning shame by
Is abandonment of the right Of asylum right especially
dear to- all free nations abroad. repeat II here day,
and vets lon I 81 Hor-
stitutlon and our form of government shall
we The words then spoken and the appeal that time
made and now enforced BY of taxation aud
debt and OF blood and dis ser entrsatng the people to
change the public servants aud their policy, and not by
free, but peaceaby through the bllIot now and here
relterste In their utmost and with all their sgn
csncy repeat thern aud ALL spirit of chal-
enge or brayado but as earnest, SOBER solemn ruth and
warning to the people