The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-08-15

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approval. unless passed by two. thirds
OF each branch Of the Congress and
yet by disffanchising twelve States,
fragmentary and Unconstitutional
body, self.styled Congress, nulll fes
the veto and enncts whate7cr 1t secs
,ft TO cali bv the name Of laws. 1t
provides for a Supreme Court of the
last resort, and yet the will Of Briga-
'dier General ID made paramount to it's
solemn and most thorouahly consid-
cred deeissio .. 1t declares that the
right Of trial by jury shah be III invio-
late, and yet men, woman too, have
been sent 10 the NcaffUld aud TO dcath,
by sentence Of Military Commissions ;
and that, too, when the civil courts
were open and peace prevailed
I ltdeclares that no p fson shall be de-
priscd Of life, liberty or property,
without do proceEs OF any Kind, with
out even the sehtence of a Military
Commission f'organiEed TO conyic'.'
Thousands OF Amer lean citizens. h-
males as well hs males, have been plum
dered and imprisoned, and some Of
them slain by the Government or its
agents and this, too, where tho courts
were IN the unobstrutted exercise OF
their funetfons! ~ 7ho' 90 .dH D2h".
1t forbids tho making Of any INV
prohibiting the free exercise Of religion;
and yet pieaeherS have been silcnced
and even imprisoned FOR teaching
| Chrlst's sermon on the Mount q"
guarantees freedom ofspecch, and
Of press and Set biniishmcnt, or-im.
prisonment. or both, have Followed the
.cxcrcise ofthis fight; iwliilc press after
press has been silenecd by the ordors
Of Government or the instigatod vic.
leuce of mobs f'- o' -'.i.1i 'I".
/ IEuetd IL IA bnt truth Ia assert that
ttler6 ia scarcely a provision Of the
Constitution, tLat has nos, within the
last six years, beet shWiuclossly and
fnecdlessly trannAed uhdCr foot. and
tthat is not at this day.yo more shame
lessly and more needIeSsly violated
bIi Ii face 6f these facts, it'is apparent
that no Constitution can, OF itself pro.
ltect the people. ID L''7'' lh'i'l,yI
y To produce that eTeci, IL must have
lthc cCnstNnt affection and support Of
Ethc masscs and Just il the proporti IN
that this affection and support are
necessary to its efficacy, just in Tire
same proportion is the nieritoeOboy;ng
aud teaching obcdianec 10 its COM
msnda. and tn crime OF violating It's
provisions and weakening IT'S hold upon
the popular mind.
Aud here, my friends, we find n
/ troud line of distinction between the
Democratic and Radical particR The
Democratic party is aud ever has been
y Cons,Itution loving party AMI 80
was the Old Wing party until The mass
Of IL become dsorganiEcd by the poison
OF Aboitionisin, andit became changed
from a great National aud Union pre-
serving party ,Dt0a grca; sectional
and Union destroying organization =
But the Radical party, or at least its
leaders, have no respect for anything
hut their own ungoverncd will, and
their own insntiato lust for power and
plumber. From the day that that
miserable fiction, whose Oraclcs had
for twenty odd years denounced tho
Constitution as "a covenant with death
mud league with he'll p and who hnG
strained every nerte TO BRING about n
dissolution OF tho Union-from the
moment, say, that these enemies oi
our Government obtained the ascen
dency and imposed their win upon our
rulers, this country has seen little else
than woe. ' ''" '''
1t Was owing to the Vaccinations
war were not peareabIy averted il
was to their maehinauons that we owe
the pr0longaIion of the war two years
; longer than IL would otherwise hay,
Ilasted il is owing 10 them that th,
Union was not completely restored Al
soon "a peace was achieved and thly
B nre the men who, with diubolical in
r genuity, add, every day, solno nov
clement Of discord 20 aggravute ou
. unset led and dangerous condition
q and to menace us with a future of an.
arehy or despCtism. q
g THEY overwhelmed with abuse AM
Z ridicule every man, who, before tn
!. war, eought to preserve tho Union b,
peaceful means they hunted down, u
: TAR ms they were able, every general q
y the war, however mcritorious, who re
n fused TO become thcir servil partisan
! they deprived McCleilGn Of his com
mand beca use after South Moutain an
: Antietum. 1t was plain that peace coul
speedily beuobtal1cd ON tb6 basis c
n the Consultation 1and Umono of on
o fathers, and hccauso howasIn favor
d thus obtaining ltI they converted tn
10 war from what tho President an
!. Cnnpresa ut the Gutset declared tito B