The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-03-14

made speech in which this idea Is em-
bodied with every establishment of sour
rility. This severe and exacting patriot
said. In 1856:
have said, and say again, that In pro-
portion TO the growth of disunionism will
be the growth of Republicanism. The
Union Is lie. The American Union is an
imposture and covenant with death, and
an agreement with hell. am for its over
throw. Up with the flag of disunion that
we may have a free and glorious Union Of
our own.
As late as 1868 Mr.. GARRISON declared in
his newspaper the Liberdtor.
No act of ours do we regard with more
conscientious approval. or higher sdtisfdo-
tion--none do we submit more confidently
TO the tribunal of Heaven and the verdict
of mankind, than when several years ago,
on the Fourth of July, in the presence Of a
great assembly, zee committed 10 the flames
The Constitution Of the United States
Mr.. HORACE GREELEY is also among the
glorious company of patriots who have
been shocked ut the reasonable utterances
of the President. Long ago Mr.. GREELEY
said
an nations have their superstltions, and
that of our people is the Constitution.
Again, after the secession of the South
ern States had taken place, on the ID OF
March, 1861, Mr.. GREELEY, in his editorial
capacity, wrote thus;
We have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist, that the great principal EN-
bodied by jefferson in the Declaration of
Independence that governments derive
their just powers from the consent of the
governed. is sound and just; and that. If
the slave States, the cotton States, or the
Gulf States only, choose to form an inde-
pendent nation, they hare moral right 10
d. sol
BY way Of suggestive comment on the
present course Of the Tribune, we make
one more extract, which bears on the duty
of implicit obedience to the Executive:
To doubt the infalibility of the royal or
judgment of the President Is to
doubt the greatness and glory of the coun-
try, and the smallest dissdtistdction becomes
q kind Of petty treason.
The dead duck of the Philadelphia
Press on whom we have high authority
for saying 1t Is improper to waste ammuni-
tom held the same slavish doctrine, and
avowed 1t when Mr., LINCOLN issued his
celebrated proclamation. These are his
words:
This question of enforcing the Presi-
dents Emancipation Proclamation is rap
idly approaching that point at which it will
be the test Of popular loyalty
We shall not spoil these extracts by
making any superhuous comments on
them.
The people can form, from n perusal of
them, o perfectly fair estimate of the char
acter OF the men who are seeking to ruin
the country by perpetuating disunion, and
to ruin the President because he has set
his heel on their mad and wicked schemes.
Our next extract is from speech made by
ANDREw JOHNSON during the war but be-
fore his nomination as Vice President,
which will attest our assertion that his
views of the radical traitors" have always
been just what they are now
There are two parties in existence who
want dissolution. slavery and a Southern
Is the hobby. Sumner wants
TO break UP the government and so do the
Abolitionists generally. They hold that if
Secessionists argue that If the Union CON
tinues, slavery is lost. Abolitionists want
no compromise. but they regard peaceable
rs humbug. The two occupy
the same ground. Why abolition. Is dis
solution, dissolution is secession one is the
other Both are striving TO accomplish the
same object.
Compare these statements, uttered years
ago, with an extract with which we con-
clude, from the speech of Mr.. JOHNSON to
the Baltimore Committee, and his claim to
consistency in denouncing disunionists of
every section and every party will hardly
be questioned
Before the recent rebellion there were
one set of gentlemen who were trying TO
dissolve and break up the Government for
the purpose of preserving the institution of
slavery, and another set of gentlemen were
willing to break up the Government for
the purpose of destroying slavery, and they
so avowed.
Though these respective parties sue
ceeded in the object they wished to accom-
plish. they agreed in one thing, and that
was the destruction of the Government;
and 50 far as that point is concerned, the
one was as culpable as the other.
The blow was first struck at the Southern
end of the line. IL being struck there, the
spirit which was making war on the prin-
ciples of the Government must have some
thing to vent itself upon. and it Joined with
those who were for the Union against those
who were for rebellion. But now, when
is put down, II we find an attempt
10 change the character of the Government,
we must equally resist IT, The attempt
now is to consolidate, TO concentrate abso-
ute power here. II is destructive of the
.he same spirit which attempted to break
lp the Government. | stand opposed to
both