Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-02-10

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The Revolution.
We have sometimes thought that the
people at large do not comprehend or APP
prcciate the magnitude and radical nature
Of the Revolution, in whose dizzying
whirls we are all involved. Many seem
to regard it as wholly restricted to the re-
bellious States. and fully defined when
designated as an attempt on'the part OF
those States to sever their allegiance to the
Federal Government. II this were all,
we might endure its continuance with far
more Of patience, and submit without in
dignation TO hollow and hypocritical offers
Of peace, cumingly and carefully devised
to defeat the very end which they osten
taliously avow. But this is not ALL In
deed, it is the least part of the change
which is being wrought, amid the excite
ment and violence of the time, in all that
concerns the people MS citizens Of once
free and prosperous Government The
Capitalization Of all the powers of Govern
ment in the Federal authorities, and more
especially in the Federal Executive, is one
OF the most mnmeutous of these changes.
1t wipes out, in all matters really vital to
the liberties of the people, the Legislative
and Judicial authority Of the States And
this, like other incidents of the revolution,
to which we shall alIude, is doubtless per-
manent for people who endure for four
long yeals an unconstitutional conscrip-
ton. without demanding an enactment in
conformity with law, and who submit, for
the same space of time, to usurped excr-
ton of the power to suspend the HaJeas
Corpus, will be incapable, when the war
shall have ended, leaving them spiriiless
and exhausted, Of the effort Indispensable
to recover their lost rights.
But this is not all. lIencerorth, and for
many years to come, we ale to be martial
people. The sword now drawn against
the South, will hardly have been returned
to the scabbard, before we shall have A
conflict with England, or France, or both.
Our immense armament, our great and
valiant army, under the lead of skilled and
ambitious captains, and the i'll feeling
which is being carefully nurtured between
tho Federal Government and the great
powers named, point almost infallibly to
future conflict, This will make conscrip-
tion annual. The flower of our youtl,
will henoelouh be called from field and
shop, for tenn of service in the ranks.
But more disastrous to the personal
happiness Of the masses of the people than
any thing we have alluded to, is the OPP
pressive taxation which is hereafter to
grind the labor of the country, and exact
much the greater portion of its earnings
for the support of the Federal Govern
ment.
With heavy taxation viii come inability
to educate the whole people, which has
been distinguishing characteristic of this
country. For even if schools were provi-
ded, and tuition paid, parents will be un.
able to spare the labor of their chidlen
while in attendance at school.
We entered the vortex of the revolution
as sovereign states, inhabited by a free, in
dependent, happy andprosporous people
We shall come out of it, in effect, con-
solidated Government, mainly controlled
by an aristocracy, the masses of our poo-
pie impoverished and enslaved. This is
what we mean when we say the people at
barge do not comprehend the extent and
magnitude Of the revolution.