Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1868-11-05


tected by the just public sentiment
which surround u.here, safeguard
to the humblesC citizen, the breezes
j from tie South come up Vapored
with the blood Of our murdered
friends. Nay, this very hour and
moment, while we stand here exer-
cising the prerogatives of citizens
in open assembly, perchance yon
telegraph wires are hummng the
intelligence of some fresh murder
In the South for the crime of free
speech-Of some American citizen
smitten down for Lis opinions by
Democratic hands Tonight the
drapery of mourning is thrown
around another Southern house
hold, loyal to the nation. To-mor.
row you will read the news of the
crime with expressions Of indigna.
ton on the coming morrow you
will have forgotten it with the in
telligence Of a warmer victim
Kinds and Brooks and Hill and
Eope and Chase--men prominent
by position and talent, fell a week
ago for their fidelity to the nation.
Their murdeters have gone unpun-
ished, and there are fresher graves
in the South-g graves of men upon
whose loyal breasts the clods were
turned only yesterday - graves
whose earth is not yet settled by
the first rain. How recently the
earth opened to receive the great
heart Of Randolph a Senator of
South Carolina--a friend Of his
country--and, f'llow Citizens, tho
the blood of another race and peo-
pie ran in his veins, / am proud to
say it, my friend. Three assassins
slew him, and escaped to vote for
Seymour and Blair. But | need not
recite to you the details of these
crimes. Their evidences are now
written in characters as vivid as the
blood that flows from them. How
long shall they continue? ! have
SAID it already, that they are the
result Of the teaching of that
party which assumes that the la
ton cannot protect the citizen.
For seventy years this Govern
ment has been rotten with the
tights of States. For seventy years
lit has been poweress to enforce the
fundamental guarantees ofits Con
stitution. 1t has been without the
inhering quality of all government
supremacy over the governed.
Under the shadow of flag which
has assumed the protection of all
men, there has been protection for
no man. In accordance with the
theory of the supremacy of States,
crimes of whatever nature against
tie citizen have had impunity, in
the face Of the just public sentiment
of the nation. In accordance with
this theory the South is drenched
with blood to day, and assassins
90 unpublished. Andrew johnson
waits for the action Of States and
commits perjury each day by refus-
ing to arrest stmurderers in the name
Of the American people. So long
as respect is yielded in this nation
to anything less than the absolute
authority Of the whole people, the
crimes Of to day in the South must
continue Well is it understood
by those who commit these crimes
for opinions sake, that supremacy
to States is impunity to murderers
citizens. If one thing were
gained by the war, it was not the
abolition of slavery, but the idea of
nationality in the Government and
that went behind slavery. If we
preserve any of the results of the
sacrifice Of three hundred thousand
lives, it will be by chcrishing this
idea, The measure of q nations
greatness is the protection of the
citizen.
The citizen owes absolute, undi-
vided allegiance to the enation. The
whole power Of the nation, its ar
mics and its navy, should be given
'or the security Of the citizen, -
Unless these things are recognized
rs the A b C Of our political creed,
his nation has not been saved the
var has done for us nothing. Itis
he glory of England that for the
of her humblest citizen
he stretches forth her mighty arm
nto her remotest provinces to
rrest the enemy that does him
grOng, Until Texas swamps have Z
'ecome as insecure to the murderer
4 an American citizen as Ayssini.
n forests TO the barbarian who In.
AIDES the liberty ofan Englishman,
he crime OF assassination will run =
lot in the States of the South, If a
Republic with States cannot pro
sct human life, let MS blotout State a..
mes and declare for the Republic. y
( the Republic cannot give to men /
fundamental guarantees for their
ghts, then the Republic is a fail.
re, Better that this nation we're
ibmerged under the waves OF the
cean than that there should float Il
ooyc it flag under whose mockery
protection the life of no citizen 81
secure.
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Commissioner Focte, of the Pat r