Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-27


and UucOnditional Union men held rous-t
ing meeting here Tonight, the largest and
most enthusiastic that we have held for
years. Colonel 8. B. Summer presided, and
opened the meeting with a speech. The
spirit awakened is most thoughtful yet
earnest, and the victory of the Conserva-
tiyes in the apprOachiDg ltlectionI Is looked
upon as certain, The address. of Mr.. Cox
was delivered in, that orator happiest vein,
and whether In the mastery argument with
which he canterfzed the infamous yShermas
.bflI,o the trehchaHt wit with Which Ire
fiayed the tgooly horse, his remarks were
enthusiastically greeted, and will be DroA
duetiye ef1R good result, which will be seen
on the day OF election. The7 following is
the e ,S>.ia ~ ~ -. H. :, ~; -
szaruu-szsRFsE0Hso or HONS. 9. cox.
Mr.. Cox said: Nearly year ago ad-
dressed the people of COnnecticuk The
same gentlemen, General EHawley and Mr.
English, led their respective parties. The
same principles are before you agaiu. At that
time the President was placing his vetoes
by the side of the CONSTITUTIONS [eheers r
and Congress had begun its insidious en-,
croachments upon that Instrument. / Hiss
es.1 The worms were boring away at the
rampant; but since, the waters have rushed
in, and we have no dry land upon which to
place the ark of our political covenant. The
Freedmen's Bureau and the Civil Rights
bill were passed over his head, and a pre-
eedenEIcrept into the State, which followed.
leaves no vestige of republican freedom in
the federal system. / took the liberty then
TO draw FROM the early history of Connec-
ticut, some lessons for our guidance. These
lessons were unheeded, and General Hawley
became your Governor. If now you eau
reverse this aetion-Is. 1--WE will ]-you may
yet rescue something from the dsluge,
You may! at last send out the dove, if
peradveiture, it may bring back an olive
branch. Loud cheers.l IT, therefore the
lessons drawn from your own history were
pertinent last year, how much more so are
they this year 2 These lessons taught the
necessity of union for foreign defense, do
mestic prosperity, and State equality they
taught "a jealousy of Congress. with it's
power of purse and sword. Oliver Els
worth told you on the 9TH of JANUARY. 1888.
in commencing the Fe.ieral Constitution,
that it defined the extent of the powers OF
the Federal Government. and if the Gener-
al Legislature should at any one time over
leap their limits, the diclal department is
constitutional oh, ek that there is no
power to coeEce s.; te in thIir political
capacity, but only dear tqHent individuals,
and that to protect the citiz in tbs right,
we must lift up the standard of freedom, es-
tablishi a National Government to be en-
forced by the equal decisions of law and
the peaceable arm OF the magistrate. 7 ct
allythese lessons have been set at naught
during the past. year. The power of the
Union is belittled by q aCongress-f Misses l--e
with seventeen States absent, ten of which
to-day are in . state OF paralysis "A Com
Rress, of whose pewer, your early states;
men were jealous, have ssquandered your
purse and drawn the sword to corrupt and
destroy the equality and perfection of the
system. The judicial department., which
was to check this, Overlapping power, has
been condemned and hampered. The poW-
In fho FoAo f0
delinquent individuals is being used to
coerce States into the AfrScanization OF
suffrage and society. and into the denial of
their own rights. The citizen is left no
standard of Justice except the will of a
Brigadier General and his military COM
fnissioners, and the equal decisions of the
law and the peaceable arm of the ma gistrate
are supplanted by the whims of a Radical
Congress, who omit no occasion to
knock away the stately pillars of our mag
Aiticent bridge. and rulers and ruled are
threatened with the anarchy which whirls
and boils below. God 7ltelp,a nation thus
recreant to its better teachingsi lCheers.l |
Before argning any, question connected
with this issue, l must insist upon two
things: First, the sanctity of the oath OF
allegiance to the Constitution; and second,
the paramount obligations of that Consti-
tuition. have no controversy with man
who either defends perjury or breach of
General Hawley or his friends, General Ho-
gan, or the illustrious Snowman FLoud
laughter acknowledge tn, ir obligation to
keep their Oaths to the Constitution as SUI
preme, that moment, as shall show you,
we have the argument There must be in
every State a superior power, acknowledged
to be the shining center and fountain OF
authority. 1t Is to the States and to the
people and to society for which govern
ment Is, but the agent what the sun is to the
worlds which spin about it; what God is in
the moral universe OF sollls--that sacred
something to which all eyes turn and all
prayers are offered, and from whom all
providences emauate; the force whi n
draws, illumines and sustains. IN this
country That power is the written Consti-
tuition. TCheers.l In its sphere, it is SUI
pFeme. Congress-, President and Judges
are but its creatures. Is it answered that
Congress has not usurped the powers re-
served to the States or cOnfided to other
departments? i answer, they have en-
deayored to compound all the powers of
government into one head-and that head.
themselves. Is Yes, yes, and cheers. They
have assumed the supreme authority of an
English Parliament, which Is in truth the
source of all organic laws-unlimited by
any written constitution. They forget that
in this country there has been established
a system of well defined and written checks
on the legislative will, and that our liber-
ties are not held by the permission of Con-
gressmen, but are set as jewels in the cor
onet of constitutional freedem! Connect
lieut., by. her Constitution Of January IA.
1889, approved by a general vote of her
people, illustrated more brightly her at
tachment to true freedom than when Cap
tain Wadsworth hid the charter in the oa *.
by giving to the world the first example OF
q written constitution, organizing a Gov
ernment and defining its powers. In this
hY.inr oH6ah hocn chn6 6OEro RI
all the odium of her Blue Laws. 1t pro
Vided for three departments of the govern
ment--EXeeutive. Legislative. and Judi.
cial-and took care they should not be con-
founded. Yet we have this Radical Con-
gress, not only striving to aggrandize the
executive by making it the source of ap-
pointment of five military prO-cOnsuls who
are to repeal fundamental law, but who
are to enact law-martial law, which is the
will of the commander, but Increasing
their own authority by destroying ten eX
listing Governments with all their prOVis-
ions of civil liberty. The spectacle is mos
striking. A Congress in its passionate
hates seeks to invest a President they dis.
like with extraordinary powers, and threat.
en- impeachment-['' Let them try it on.'
Cheersl-if he hesitateS, with view to com
pelhim to throttle ten States with the militia
ry arm he cannot control; and the President
resists with courageous will this extension
OF MS OWN DOW0T.A 'tGT6b C066 U0Dluu IQ6 J
-Gcheers ]-he says to the temptation; g
viii stand by the Constitution. God help
ing, come cross or crown, come veal or woe
come impeachment or exaltation, stant
by the Constitution as it is written, and a
have sworn.' Loud cheers.l Again, tin
Supreme Court has decided, in the MilligaI
case. that martial law only appertains Il
war: that military commissions are no
tribunals for citizens, but for soldiers; ant
that to set up such tribunals is not only
fiagrant violation of the elder rights OF tn
English Constitution, copied into our own