Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-09
NUMBER ,62. ,rA.
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people, q And hel held the same tosition
upon notification. New, Mr.. Chase, when
Governor OF Ohio, in the Oberlin rescue
cases. when thdy Supreme Court OF the
United States and every department of the
Federal Government had pronounced the
fugitive slave Jaw unconstitutional, declar-
ed, not that If the people Of Ohio, in solemn
Convention and in Legislature assembled,
should declare the law constitutional and
void, ,but If the Supreme Court i6f'Ohio
merely, or a majority Of fsthem, should so
declare, he,1 49, Governor would maintain
itagainst the Federal Government with all
the armed forces of the State. Wolcott,
the Attorney General, made a notification
argument, which is in our. Supreme Court
Ieports-and in his official report to the
Legislature he takes the same ground; and
two out of the five,Judges went for nullifi-
cation. Yet Chase was taken into Lin
coins Cabinet, made Chief Justice of the
United States, and Is a candidate for the
Presidency. WOlcott was, made Assistant
Secretary of War. Brinkerhoof, one OF the
nullifying Judges, was reelected to the
office of Supreme Judge, and is now again
a candidate for the same position, having
lately been nominated'by-t them by acclama-
ton. These are thermenr who encouraged
the South to undertake tobuild up South
ern Contederacy. Ought they not to be
charitable now? -
Thus was compromise prevented, and
soon war came. PoWerless to prevent it,
and as an Individual and christian, in. duty
bound to obey "theapowefs that be-" with
my pen, attembt5d to- can tile attention
of the country tosIfUche's conquest and pac-
'ification of La Vendee, as tbeirT mOdelyif
war kept on-a policy that, when thetwar
there was overland the people, friends
needing army to keep them insubjeetion,
but left them readyto take up arms for the
country. Shermans seonventionwith John
ston would have furnished the historical par
allel of this. ~ o. .....s -,
In September, 1851, IN another speech,
which-wasH published-whens Resistance at
the South had. been derided by the party in
power, wiien II had beer said It would not
last sixty days, when President Lincoln had
undertaken TO diSperse thenf by reading
the riot act, Dstated my Belief that the war
would beG aTloBg andmbiDody oDe-ot a
sGaleQf the greatest magnituder; but that
the North, with its superior numbers and
mechanical facilities. would defeat the
South 1 warned against all violations of
the Constitution and usuTpations of power,
as tending to destroy the Union and leave
it as we find it tto-day, under military gov
eminent. This was the danger that the
whole Democracy strove against, and be-
Il CiuSc tuoJ Nlll, Uiity WtIci. .H1dlclOuSlNu ue-
nounced as being against the country and
our, soldiers, when neither in congress nor
any State, has anything that has been asked
been denied, notwithstanding such usurpa-
tions and violations OF the Constitution. But
now, to-day, when the war is over, and the
slaves freed in fact, according to their own
admission, which was more than this party
professed at the start-my position and the
position OF the Democracy is, that the war
ought to cease withthe close of the rebel
lion, leaving the Federal Constitution, the
rights Of the States and the people Inim-
paired. This was the policy upon which
armies we're raised. and elections carried
BY this party; all its platforms, Congress
ional acts, and ,proclamations In 1861, pro-
fessedno more. What more ought any
body to askp fl'.. aJl HaE
To our opponents would say, let not
this people become afraid Of themselves.
Fear Is more dangerous to a country than
courage. 1t made Caesar overthrow Rome,
and RObespierre commit his crimes. While
the courts should remain open to every cit
izen who has been injured civilly or crimi-
nally by another, with the Democracy in
power no general system of persecution
will be tolerated, r. The laws will be admin
istered for all. We wish equality OF, the
burdens and benefits OF government, an
equal chance for all in the pursuit. of pros
perity and happiness. sWe want ''liberty
guarded by law" personal security, hdbeGs
corpus, trial by jury, the Constitution of the
country. We want the entrance upon the
field of freedom of thought resulting, in
free speech and a free pressLto be as broad
as the wide open gateways of the east,
through which the sun peurs his morning
light in upon the world. g., -,,i. -