The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-10-12

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the protection of the American flag Great
Cheers. What had they donel They had
destroyed all their political organizations /;
they had ovcrthrown all civil government,
so far as the United States was concerned.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RIGHTS AND oBLiGA.
TIoNs.
But one may say, don't understand how
they could forfeit all their rights and not
get rid OF all their obligation $. 1t is per.
lectly plain. All the governments of the
country, either State OF National, cannot
alter, without his consent, the rights of a
single citizen of the United States under
the Government, because these rights are
guaranteed 10y the Constitution. II he con.
sents, they may or he may forfeit them.
A familiar example will iliustra'e
A man to-day walks your city with the right
to life liberty aud property, the care of his
| wife. the love of his children, the friends OF
his home BY single murderous blow
against his fellow man he forfeits liberty,
wife, chillren-life itself, Does he get rid,
| by that act, of single obligation TO the
| Government Must he not obey all the
laws as before2 Certainly. So these men
at the South, by their treason have forfeit
ed their right to property, liberty and lie,
but they have not got rid Of any obligations
under the Government. Cheers
Now, If at this point, there is any person
who insists, that at that hour, When McClel-
Ian retreated from Richmond, all the South
crn States had all their rights under the
Government as sovereign States, aud each
man of them had all his rights as citizen ;
if there is any man hero who says that
while Jubal Early's cannon were threaten.
ing the capital in 1864 any of Jubal Early 8
soldiers or officers had the right to go to
@ ,ngress and claim seats, or to vote for Ju-
b 4, Early TO go to that Congress let me
a lvise him to take his hat aud go home
All that shall say to him hereafter, can do
him no good. Applause But if you
agree with me, that those States were NO
longer sovereign States. and the people had
no rights in this Government which they
had not forfeited, then let us so on.
NATURE OF STATE.
They say State never dies. What is O
State? 1t is a political organization of GER
tan communities under one Constitution
Suppose that in given State all the inhab
itants should die, what becomes of the
State then? Laughter. Suppose all the
inhabitants should emigrate, what becomes
of the State? The land is there-tho peo
pie have gone. Suppose all the inhabitants
become public alien enemies, what becomes
of the State as part of the Governing pow
err 1t is said that a State can never die
because they say there is no right in a State
to secede. agree. But the question o
right and the question of fact are tw,
things. Suppose that when you came her,
you had found on the sidewalk the corps,
of man, with the blood pouring from hii
throat with razar in his hand, and lilt
just extinguished. You would say here i,
a man dead. He has committed suicide
No, says a Democrat standing by, he is no
dead he has no right to kill himself don
yon see it's very clear he is not dead
Laughter. lie has no right to cummi
suicide; the Constitution is against il
Great laughter. so with the States.
agree that they had no right to do any o
thcss things; but having done them, wha
is the effect?
Having shown that those States and the
rebel people had no rights in the Union, {
beg your pardon, they had one right whicl
they could not forfeit; one which wa
guaranteed to them by the Constitution ant
the laws a right inalienahle, iudefeasible
and that was the right to be hanged.
Great cheers. When, by the success o
our arms, those people were captured wha
.
all their rights. Their armed organization
was surrendered by Lee and Johnston, ant
their civil organization, what there was Lei
of it, was travelling down South in the per
son of jeff. Davis, who was also. captured
Nothing was left of any rights except tn
one last mentioned.
WHAT THE REBELS GAINED BY sURRENDERINC
Now it is said by some, with want O
logic which never have been able to uu
derstand, that when these men laid dow
their arms they acquired all the old right
: they ever had under the old Government
Whoever heard that, in giving up every
thing, you have everything given you tina
you have not? Laughter. They surren
dered everything, and yet, by that surren
der, they got everything. is the argumen
urged upon us by our opponents. Wha
did they become by that surrender? The
were armed enemies in a hostile attitude
BY that surrender they became disarmeo
public enemies and paroled prisoners o
war, with the right TO 90 home and liv,
quietly, under the terms of their surrender
so long as they behaved themselves. Wa
anything more accorded to them ? Let III
see.
When in North Carolina Cen Johnston
land give his title by way of designation
SO that there may be no mistake between
the two Johnsonsl, laughter offered t,
surrender his army to Sherman, Genera
Sherman and he drew up articles of conven
tion which said that if Johnston would sur
render the remainder of the rebel forces
and lay down their arms, then the rebels
on returning to their homes, should be re
instated in all their rights, political anC
otherwise These terms were CAREFUL,
drawn by Breckenridge, submitted to Rea
gan of the Confederate Cabinet, and agreeC
to by General Sherman, who was iucautiou
enough to be taken in tho trap. But tht
moment these terms were published to ia,
country, with the indignant comments o
the Secretary of War and you remember
that one of those comments was that thel
surrendered all that we had been iightinl
for, and gave the rebels political rights
therefore they were not approved. Order
were sent down by President Johnson, anC
all the people said, amen, that the Constitu
ton should 10 set aside aud new terms
such as Grant had given Lee, should be re
quired.
WHEN DID THE REBELS RECEIVE THEIR FOR
FEITED RIGHTsY
Here il was, | say that they wished {,
get back their political rights but it wal
determined they should not have them
And now the question arises, when did the,
get them back? What were those State
in the intendment of the law They wer'
armed public enemies they became dis
armed public enemies, and went home
Therein, then, in the intendment of the law
the ten States became simply ten camps o