Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-09
VOL. XXXIV., ,Az1A'Co

elections from the Hoffman House, though
he did not succeed SO well as anapostle from
the City Hall. Laughter.] Boston honors
the President, it seems. Not because she
cares to make display for johnson or the
Executive, Tennessee or the Union. but be-
cause.-the display honors Boston. ["That's
so," and applause.l A Boston clergyman,
in accord with this idea, recently prayed:
81 thank Thee, OTGod, that Thou did'st
permit us to be born in Boston-[laugh
and, therefore, that it is not necessary TO
be born again." Great laughter.l This
is the spirit. Believe you can, say you can,
and you will. Hume says that the Tenth
Legion of Cesar believed they were the
best, troops, and this belief made them sol
The voice of the Greek tragedian sounded
through the mask more awful than it really
was. The buskin gave to common figure
the height of a Demigod. The modern
Athens has her masks and buskins; but
alack where-ohl where are her Web>ters
and Choates? Her words are not so Christ
like and comforting, nor her morals so i'm
maculate, that she should be the teacher
and constructor of States. Her greenbacks
count for no more than yours. If New
York had one tithe of her assurance,
without her malice, what nucleus
this city and temple of Democracy
would become / The slumbering giant,
with her immense wealth and her toiling
dus, shake the island and move conti-
nentswith his tread. fGheeIs.] Is not your
city the seat of commerce, the, entrepOt of
trade, the portal of immigration? Here
wealth and liberality reigns Here the arts
flourish most. Here the questions grow
ing out of the corruption of the currency,
the exchanges of the world, the economies
of politics, the freedom of cities, the rights
of personal liberty, and the grandeur of all
these elements enshrined in a fraternal
union-should be best taught by coura-
geous press and golden lip! Here should
be taught the meaning of your motto,
'Civil Liberty, the Glory of Mani" [Ap-
plause.l AS municipal liberty has ever
been the mother of personal and CONNER
cial freedom, and as this municipal liberty
is Iinenaced wherever distant legislatures
regulate these hearth-stone rights by mill
tary power or legislative commissions,
the first fetter to be unclasped from New
York is the subservency of herself
to Albany and Dunkirk. [Applause.l
This accomplished, she will then be
stronger to break the bonds of the ten
States in a similar condition. The next
blow should be for the gold and silver cur
rency of nature and the Constitution, as
against the depraved paper money issued
for irredemptiOn which has denounced the
nation. [Cheers.l The next blow should
enfranchise industry from the thrall of the
iron DdTOTS anu COLGOu lOTuS, Iuc Uduh llU-
nopolists and untaxed bondholders, the
highway and byway robbers of labor, and
give to commerce its former interchanges
and to agriculture its natural right to buy
and sell where interest dictates. [Great
cheering. These be our watchwords:
personal, commercial, industrial. munich
pal, and constitutional freedoml' [Cheers.
The day has gone by when the personal
liberty of the citizen in the North is me-
nacedsby the federal provost. Russia sold
us Siberia alittle too late for any infamous
renowh. We have other objects now for
craftsmanship. A great war has made des-
olation and Radicals call it a new order
nouats seculo'1ta1e- adscitur ordo. They made
silence and sorrow-signs of death-all
through the lard, and call it peace, but it is
the peace of terror; or again, they call it
Gods providence, when it is the organiza-
tion of hell; [applausel or again, progress
sive government, when it is as old as the
despotisms of the Orient. They gave us
debt which drawing on posterity to pay,
they, as is usual with such deferred debts,
squandered in riotous prodigality. They
gave us credit which goes begging
through Europe at over 8 per cent, when
even England borrows for and Russia for
per. cent They have disenchanted US of
the belief that Republican paths were usu-
ally the paths of prosperity and peace.
Leaving the track of experience, they have
endeavOred to consolidate power in Con-
gress, aud perpetuate it in aparty, to the
dishonor of all our traditions, history,
and constitutions Instead of repair
ing the. breaches in our system made
by the war, they have widened
them by questions which engender strife.
Blisters aud pOisons are administered in
stead of anodynes and sedatiyes. Erecting
as law that which is martial law, or the ex-
tinction of all law save the will of yhe COM
mander, they have cheated the people out
of their liberties by one pretense or anoth-
er, until the moral sense of the nation is
and the enginery of the State par
alyzed. Their mailed hand throttles near
ly one-half of the nation. lCheers.l They
are endeavoring to make people take, if
not love, a system under which they are at
once loaded with odium and taxes. They
threaten to divide estates, to reward a semi
barbarous race for their ignorant suffrages,
registered at the point of the bayonet.-
Not only do they assume to give vigor to
their acts by constructions of the Consti-
tutiOn,5 but when that instrument is an
obstruction, they trample on its provIs-
ons, They both poison and stab. The eX-
press reservation of powers to the States
and the people, as well in matters of suf-
frage as in the very existence of the States,
is blotted out of their editions of the Con-
stitution. The very names of States are
destroyed, and military districts substitu-
ted. No page in history, nothing on this
star for three thousand years can match
this act of giving unbridled power to the
military arm over an area equal to the half
of Europe, displacing Judicial tribunals and
State Governments, a bill of attainder, and
of pains and penalties which crimsons the
cheek with shame at its enormitv and at
the abjeetness of our submission to its
yoke. lApplause.] The rights of the State,
to jury trial in the vicinage, to habeas ccr-
pals, to freedom from er post fdcto laws, to
security for property, person, life and lib
erty-all reserved to the States in their own
bounds and Constitutions, are swept away
by the reconstruction bill. The President
gave the right reasons for its veto. 1t was
a grant of unlimited power to the
military; and if the Attorney GEN.
eral has in the interest of the cit
zen and of liberty seemed to interpret the
law as if some power was reserved, it is
certain Congress intended to make the bill
as vindictive, ,proscriptive, tyrannical and
dilatory as possible. This act was passed
in a passion, as 5Mirabeau' said of hasty
will making : alb irdto, db in,beciIle. a terrific
a delirdnte. Mr.. Stanbery's opinion must
be repealed by the Congress which meets
to-day, lest his mitigating interpretations
prevail, the nation be organized, and ten
States vote for the President in 1881 A
venerable statesman, in surveying these
acts of atrocity. told the Supreme Court
that he had travelled through Egypt, Syria,
Turkey, and Russia, and that he found no
such despotism as that which was establish
ed hy these acts. These countries all had
courts of some description, and allowed
hearing and an opportunity for defence.
The sword was not the only arbiter but
here an act of Congress sweeps ten States
out of existence, and subjects every one of
their ten millions OF people, of all ages,
sexes, and colors to the despOtic will of
military commanders. We shrink from
such legislation as from moral epidemic,
with horror and dismay.
What spectacle for this era! Ten States
discroWned, at time when Francis Jo-