Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-09
NUMBER l64..'

erence TO the conduct Of Andrew jackson
at New Orleans. The difference between
the two cases Is striking. ~
Lincoln suspended the writ Jackson
only disobeyed IL. Lincoln snspendeditin
regions Of territory where there was no
Jackson disobeyed II after martial law had
been declared In the city Of New Orleane,
and when, therefore, the operatIons Of the
| civil courts were temporariiy suspended,
Lincoln boasted of his act and claimed II 10
! be legal. Jackson admitted the nlegalIty
Of bis act, and submitted to the judgment
of the court which imposed a price Of
one thousand dollars for his disobedlence
OF the writ: Lincoln was regardless Of the
! liberties Of the people, jackson was so-
licltous lest he should seem TO violate the
rights Of the citizen. Shame upon that man
who would insult the memory Of Andrew
jackson, the Democrat, by citing his con-
duct at New Orleans as precedent for the
outrageous violations of personal liberty
| by Abraham Lincoln. ~ 49, sl'it
Need refer to the history Of the events
that followed the suspension of the writ Of
the hd6eds corpus by the President, q history
made by Abraham Lincoln and his party,
and, thank God, not by the Democratic
party. 'Unoffending citizens were thrown
into prison, and, after long confinement,
were released without having been Inform
ed of the charges that had been preferred
against them. The quiet of peaceful homes
was disturbed by midnight visits Of armed
troops, ordered TO make unlawful arrests. ~.
Doors were broken down, rooms illegally.
searched, and from the presence Of terri
fled and trembling families, Americana
without crime were dragged to dungeons
filled with vilest criminals. Military COM
missions "organized to convict" these help
less victims, did not long delay TO an
nounce their predetermined judgment;
and to-day can be found in the pris-
0ns of your land some OF our purest men
(whose only offense is that Of being Dem-l
ocrat), doomed TO a life of confinement with
the basest of felons. Six years ago and the
recital even of these enormitles would have
inspired such feelings in Americans as led
our fathers into the war of the revolution.
But no sooner had Abraham Lincoln been
inaugurated President, and war been COM
menced, than the American people seemed
to forget all their traditions and the whole
history of their race. In the reign of
Charles the III, the arbitrary arrest Of O.
single obscure individual reused English
men to madness that nearly lost the King
his throne, and was only appeased by the
granting of new guarantees to liberty; but
in the midst of the nineteenth century the,
citizens of Republic submitted, with
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rights as infamous as any that history re-
cords. Nay, more; the party in the majority,
claiming all the intellect and patriotism Of
the country, have openly advocated and
approved the illegal conduct of the,
Administration, and many have COM
planned that the President was not suf-
fciently severe. Let such men read
their fate in history! Though for time
they may hold offices and obtain position,
yet the people rising in the majesty of their
power will repudiate them as unfaithfull
| servants, and eonsign them to that ObIoquy1
from which no enemy of human rights can
escape. With what pride and satisfaction
can the honest Democrat point to the record
of his party during these troublous timesp
While the Abolitionists delight to be called
the successful prosecutors of war, the Dem~
Ocrats are satisfied to be known as the faith-i
full defenders of the rights of man. Let IN
those who delight in bloodshed point tothe
greatness of our armies and 20 the conflicts
in which they have been engaged. Let
them rejoice over the victories that have
been gained. would not attempt TO plucka
one leaf from the blood-stained laurels they
have won. Let them glory In the results Of
the struggle, and call it,, If they can, q re-.
stored Union. For my part / deem IL the
greater honor to have been an humble
member of the Democratic party, which
never proved taithless to the interests Of the
people, nor to the traditions of the Anglo
Saxon race, but in the face Of dungeons and
prisons, and dangers innumerable, steadily
maintained the right of personal liberty
and its greatest guarantee, the writ of
habeds corpus. 'r. ia us di nw0b
TO- The Memory of Goeernors MediH and kedarv
and Other D,pdrted WORTHLESS Of the Democratic
Pdny--Drank standing, aad Ia silence, without
response. Il. riI faIgt .Fri..I Hfi ., s0,- 2
II, La6or-The sole producer Of wealth; the
great promoe or Of health virtue and happiness. Ci
Responded to as follows, by sTw Vl., 7e1s
Il. b. Eshelman. ,Sl4
1t is true, Mr.. President, that Labor Is the
''sole producer of wealth; the great promo
ter of health, virtue and happiness - and It
is likewise true that it Is divinely ordained.
On the morning of the sixth day Of cree-
tion, the Almighty, after having surveyed
his grand work up to that time-after look-Ia
ing upon the ornament, in which He had
set great lights, one to ilIumine the day.
and the other to illumlne che night, aud
gemmed it with stars; then glancing into
the waters, which were animate with eve
ry description Of fish; then taking q view
of the earth, which gave promise Of a pro-
life yield of the cereals, flowers and shrubs,
and trees, and whereon roamed cattle and
beasts, and crawled all manner OF creeping
things--all created ont of form without
substance and void, which work He was
happy to pronounce good-there, yet was a.
deficiency in the stupendols work Of crea-,
tion-there was wanting power to subdue
these elements and to dress and to keep the
MVri9 Ia proper vyndtrtoiI, Eud " 81 is snd
He created man, in his own intellectual
imaginable and female he created them.
IL was labor that created the world-rlabor
by Divinity Himself-and It Is labor, N, !.
pursuance of the Divine plan, that has put
the earth the, waters and the air under
tribute to man. Labor fnrroWs the son, :,
plants the seed aud In due time hafYests 1t; 4
labor, disemb0wels the earth, and brings
thence its hidden treasures; labor digs Il
washes, retines and Furnishes the gold and 4
sets the diamond;l labor, from crude mater
rial, makes all that gives comfort 20 the,
body, aud pleasure ID ne eye TO look upoho :
-from the humblest garments 10 the cOsk,S \
lest of silks and slaces; labor alike CON-
structs and furnishes the, e,nnpretendihRso
ship and the bpalatial steamer, and with,
them nagigatesn the fathomless ,.ooeans.
Labor cuts great canals, tunnels nOia-is
tains, aud ribs the earth with railroads, and n
drives over them laundering trains, laden, n
with human beings and the products Of the y
labor ofthe world; labor makes the lightros
ming 0bedient to carry messages to remofa 4
places with the, velocity Of light; labor, q
causes the waste places to bloom as :
the rOse.5l It lis labor that writes and
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