Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-06-23

to rise in his place and say that this Govern
mcnt has been administered during the last
three years in mode even tending towards
the accomplishment Of these grand results?
Has the establishment Of Justice been main
taincd? The sword has been thrown into
the scale Of justice, and there is not this
hour court between the two oceans left
free to decide the laws as they have uni
lorinly been decided in England aud Amer
lea for the last two hundred years. The
very foundations Of civilized jurisprudence
have been torn away, and the whole edificc
is in ruins. The Wdgna G,ara is erased :;
the haJeos corpus is dead; the very soul and
spirit of liberty is extingui.hed in the 70
rum Of the judiciary. To this sacred sane
tuary, more than to any Other department
of the Government, the blessings of liberty
were entrusted. But has the present ad
mlnlstratlon made them secure? IT is re-
quired to do so by the terms of the Consti-
tuition. Let each mind srsG its own answer
Not one right constitutes the freedom and
safety of the citizen but what has been wick
cdly and wantonly violated. Prisons filed
without Indictment and without warrant /:
long aud bitter punishment inflicted without
| trial or conviction; the whole jury system
abolished by stroke Of the pen in the hand
Of the Executive, or his subordinatcs in
{ NlIillt, HD NlllltSHc- DiOuHIlI ~ tilt lace Ot
| the accused; no counsel permitted to appear
| in his behalf; his house broken open and
/ his papers searched i'll the midst Of his pal
| lid and terrified wife and children; such are
some Of the evidences which exist on every
| hand that our free institutions are hasten
! ing to their overthrow. And not content
with breaking down all the ancient safe
! guards Of liberty, new and malignant meas
urcs of legislation have been continually
devised by a slavish Congress by which to
more cflcctually reach, and torture, and
grind the citizen. The most innocent con-
duct, a harmless word simple look has
i been enacted into guilt. The hired hounds
OF arbitrary power find conspiracy and
crime in the friendly greetings of ncighbors
on their farms. Speaking Of the period of
1875 in England, that great modern phi
losophcr, Henry Thomas Buckle, in his
History Of Civilization, uses the following
language, which | adopt as faithfully des-
criptive Of the conduct Of the party now in
power, and Of the times in which we live:
"Nothing. however, could stop the Govern
cure of majority in both houses of Parliament,
were a,iI 10 carry .nCf measures IN utlii'nce pI
| thc people, VINO opposed them ~ every mode
| short OF actual violence. And rs the object OF
these new laws was to check the spirit OF lnqui-
ry and prevent reforms which the progress of
! society rendered Indispensable, there were also
| brought into play other means subserviont to
/ TN" same end. II is no eNaS@"iation to say That
tor som" years England was ruled by "a system
| of absolute terror. The ministers of the day,
turning u struggle of party into Il war of pro-
scriptOn, flied the prisons with their political
| opponents, and allowed them when in continc-
ment TO he treated with shameful severity, If
Il man was known to he II rciormer he was con-
stantly in danger of being arrested and if he
escaped that, he was watched at every turn and
his private letters We're opened as they passed
through the postotiice. In such eases no scru-
ri pics were allowed. Even the. confluence OF do
meStic life was violated No opponent OF GOV
ernment was safe under hi, own roof against til,
Q tales of enNcS-droppcrS and til" gossip OF scrv
ants. Discord was introduced into the bosom
of huniiics, and schisIns caused between parent
Strrnuous attempts made To- silence tie pfSSs s%
l but the book sellers We're SO constantly prose
e. cutcd that they did not dare to publish worl
if its author were obnoxious to the court. In
decd, whoever opposed the H"yrrnmgnt wa
proclaimed an enemy TO his country. Politica
= associations and public meetings were strictly
forbidden. Every popular leader was IN person
nj danger, and every, popular assemblage wa.
dispersed, either by threats or by military exc
cution., That hateful machinery funiiarto III,
worst days Of tn" seventeenth century, was pul
into motion. spies were paid witnesses were
subOrncd; iuricS We're packed. The cniltc-hou-
issaricS OF the Government, who reported the
most hasty expressions of common CONVERSE
ton, If by. these means no sort of evidence
which was uuSpaifinglN used. For, the hdbc0S
had the power of imprisonng without inquiry
ana without limitation any person offensive To
the ministry, but of whose crime no proof was
attempted to be brought"
Sir, why are you, why am [ out of the
= vaults Of II dungeon, and standing on this
!, floor to-day? Not because we are guilty OF
no offence; not because the broad shield OF
, the law interposes its protection, but sim
= ply because the Executive has not yet seen
, fit in the exercise Of his absolute and un,
restrained will to lay Us in irons. This i,
| the ultimate climax of dcspotic power
Each one of the twenty millions of people
within the control Of the United State
, holds his or her tenure to personal liberty
the right to walk the green earth, t
breathe the air. and to look at the sun
4 not by virtue Of free Constitution, bu
dependent upon the clemcncy and pleasure
of one man. May | not be arrested to
/ night? May not you or any one else to
l morrow? Has it not been done in NOR,
, than thousand instances, and have no
the courts and the laws been powerleSs t
. save? While | am now speaking, may no
somo ninion who lcks the hand of power
and whom it would honor to call Il slave, be
preparing notes from which to testify
, against me before a military commission
Have we in the West forgotten Burnside
and the intamy of his reign in our midst
viii the inhabitants Of the Western Cir
cult in England ever forget the monster
Jcllrics and the murder Of Alice Lislc
| Will some poor, crawling, despised syco-
plant and tool Of executive despotsm dare
, to say that shall not pronounce the name
of Nallandigham? The scandal and stigma
| Of his condemnation and banishmcnt have
filed the civilized world; and the Lcthcal
! and oblivious waves Of Il thousand year,
| will not wash away the shame and rcproacl
=, Of that miserable scene from the American
\ name. Some members on the other side
+ of this chamber have attacked with fierce
f clamor the great American statesman anC
{ Christian gentleman who suffers his exile il
the cause Of liberty on n foreign soil s.
the basest cur that ever kenncled may bay
= at the bidding OF his master, the Gagged liol
t in the distance. Protract this iniquity, th
> crime, as long as you will, however, tn,
Judgment of history will at last overwheln
: you with an insufrerable odium, as certainly
f as the streams of truth emanate from be
f meath the great white throne of God. ''Es
f tablish iusticc' Secure the blessings o
| liberty" Oh bitter mockery Justc,
t has been dethroned and the blessings o
/ liberty annihilated. There is not one square
mile of free soil in the American Republic
; 1t is slave territory from the Aroostook t,
f. the Columbia. Every man in all that vas
q expansc may be reduced in an instant t.
hopeless bondage, and every home may b,
broken open and pilaged, every dollars
t worth of property may be swept into tina
g yawning and bottomless gulf-the Nationa
+ Treasury; and all under the sanction of tn,
| principles and practices daily exempliiied b,
G the administration which now hurls us OF