Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-03

An Abolition Editor ON estate
| Rights s'-His Challenge and our
Acceptance. ~
The Morning Journal lacks not boldness.
If it does discretion, On Thursday we gave
one of the Resolutions of the Chicago Con-
vention which nominated LINCOLN and
4 HAMLIN, as follows:
1 i"That the maintenance inviolate of the
i rights of the States, and especially the right
/ OF each State to order and control its own
domestic c.instituti0hs- according to Its ewn.
Judgment exclusively, is essential to that
oalanee.of powers on which the perfeetion
and senduranee of our political fabric de-
pebds; landSwe denounced helawless ina
vasion by armed force of the soil of any
State or Territory, no matter under what
pretext, as among the gravest of crimes"
Commenting upon this we said:7Gs
Upon the solemn pledge, that the rights
OF the States and especially the fright Of
each State to order and control its own do
mestic institutions according to its own
iqdgmentn Lincoln and Hamlin We're elect
ed to power.
| The Journal ofISaturday, with an arro-
gance worthy of the arch-fend himself,
thus repliessaA uNR aERH no avRT
| "Nell, do you kno " of any Republican,
to-day, who disapproves of that dec1ara-
ton? or can you point out one of the par
conflict with it? If you do, or can, name
the man and specify the acE21Iu T9mtul
| We name as the man, President LINCOLN
composing the majority IN Congress, and
the party of which the Journal Is the CEN
trail organ. ,SgGIAeOi1 73miAl
I When the States formed the Union, and
i adopted the Constitution, they parted With
4 certain well defined powers, which they
gave to Congress and to other Departments
Of the General Government. lAA other
4 powers were reserved to the States respect
lively and to the people. Since the advent
to power of the, so-called, Republican party,
there is scarce single power reserved by
the States, but has been usurped by Con-
gress, and some of them, especially named
as belonging to the States, land which can
not be parted with without destruction
OF the reserved rights of the States and the
people residing therein,) have been set at
| naught by Congress, and the Editor of the
Journal iustifies the outrage. For instance: !:
The legislative power of the General
Government is vested in Congress of the
United States, which shall consist of a
Senate and House of Representatives."
' The House of Representatives shall be
composed of members chosen every second
year by the people of the several States"
"The Senate of the United States shall be
composed Of two Senators from each State,
chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six
years.. and each, Senator, shall, have one
voter u IL ~ 1 IL 4 CClIA - 3
The present Congress denies the right of
ten States to elect Representatives, and the
Legislatures Of these States to elect each
two Senators, and this half made up body
the Journal calls Congress of the United
States. ,EOITgIa1szI Ta3TJ 30
AS the sheet anchor of the rights of
the States, In ceding certain well defined
power to Congress- the States stipulated
that not even by an amendment to the
Constitution, even if it were agreed to by
every State except the smallest could
any State be deprived of its I" equal suffrage
in the Senate and yet this strongest of the
safeguards-made unalterable like the laws
of the Medes and Persians-is openly VIC
lated by the present Radical majority in
Congress, and North and South Carolina,
Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas,
F1oridasLouisiana,G Georgia and Virginia,
are each deprived of their proper represent
tatien and voice in the Senate. And yet
the Journal asksus to specify the act of the
Republican party in derogation of the de-
cIarationr of the Chicago Convention,
pledging the party te" maintain inviolate
the rights of the States" or to "name the
meni',a who, aided in the outrages ?EaHsz 81 e
When the, Constitution, of the United
States was. formed, fears were entertained
of consolidated government, in which. the
powersst that Irightfully belonged to the
States and tte people, would be usurped By
Congress or by the President The Censti-
tuition was ratified. but the States all, or
nearly all, demanded new guarantees, and
certain amendments, ten in number, were
proposed to that instrument and adopted,
in order to protect the rights of the States.
Without single solitary exception to take
evenRportion of the curse from lit, eue,y
single one of these ten amendments to the Con-
stitution haze been uioldted, in letter and in
spirit By This party. calling itself Republic dur
ing the last sic gears + We put this assertion
in Iralic letter to make it the more sem-
phaaic.A = @E4 sAAss ~ SAs-a-s- s--- -
We give these amendments in the order
in which they were adopted, and we advise
the editor of the Journal to read them:
.sARr. i. Congressshall make no law re-
speeting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the, free exercise thereof; or
abfldging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to fetition the Govern
ment for redress of grievances" s-sls 4
Although the present Abolition party,
before they assumed power. were noted for
their clamor for ''free speech" and free
press" yet almost as soon as its chosen men
commenced ruling the Republic, they not
only abridged the freedom of speech"
but incarcerated men in noisome and dis
tant prisons, for daring to exercise it. So
far, indeed, did they carry their violation
of the free speech part of the Constitution,
that Mr.. LINCOLN, In the case of VALLAN-
DIGHAM, took the still bolder ground that
men were to be punished for not thinking
right, as well as for speaking their thoughts.
IaARr. 2. A well regulated Militia, be-
ing necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed." o 80 'sSH
So far from the rights of the people to
bear arms not being infringed, dwelling
after dwelling was broken open by men
having authority. except that of some
tool of the party in power, commanding
better men than himself, who claimed their
power on the despotic plea of military
necessity '-A"
"ARF. 3, No Soldier eshalL in, time of
paaoa he nrortered i'm anU h0usa without