The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-03-10

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large bodies of armed troops among
us; protected them, by mock trial,
| from punishment for any murders
| which they should commit on the in
| habitants, imposed taxes upon us
/ without our consent, deprived US in
many cases of trial by jury, taken
away our charters, excited domestic
1nsurrectiOn among us, abolished our
most valuable laws, altered funda
mentally the forms of our government
suspended our own Legislatures. and
declared themselves invested with
power to legislate for us in all cases
| whatsoever, This catalogue of crimes,
long AS it is, is not complete. The
| Constitution vests the Judicial power
| of the United States in one
| supreme Court, whose jurisdiction
| shall extend to all cases arising under
| the Constitution and laws of the Uni
ted States. Encouraged by this prom
ise of a refuge fIOm tS ranny, citizen
| OF the United States, who, by the or
| der of a military commander, given
und r the sanction of a cruel and de-
| liherate edict of Congress, had been
| denied the constitutional rights of
| liberty of conscience, freedom of the
press, and ofspeech, personal freedom
/ from military arrest, upon being held
to answer for crimes only upon pre-
| sentiment of an Indictment, of trial
| by jury, of the writ of habeas corpus
and the protection of civil and con-
| stitutional government. A citizen
| thus deeply wronged appeals to the
| Supreme Court for the protection
guaranteed him by the organic law
of the land At once fierce and ex-
cited majority, by the ruthless hand
of legislative power. stripped the er-
mine from the judges, transferred the
| sword of justice to the General, and
| remanded the oppressed citizen to a
| degradation and bondage worse than
death. 1t will also be recorded as
one Of the marVels of the times that d
garty, claiming for itself monopoly
| of consistency and patriotism, and
boastiDg of its unlimited sway, en-
| deavOred by costly and deliberate
| trial, to impeach one who defended
| the Constitution and the UuiOn, not
| only through the war of the rebellion,
| but during the whole term of Office as
| Chief Magistrate; but at the same
| time they could find no warrant or
means at their command to bring TO
! trial even the Chief of the Rebellion.
| Indeed, the remarkable failcres in this
| case were so often repeated that for
| prOprietieS sake, if for no other rea-
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| tend to him an unconditional pardon.
What more plainly than this illus
| trates the eXtremities of party man.
agement and inconsistency on the one
hand, and of faction, vindictiveness
and Intolerance on the other? Patri-
| otism will hardly ybeenc0uraged when
In such record, it sees that its instant
reward may be most Viruient party
abuse and obloquy, if not attemted
| disgrace. Instead of seeking to make
treason OdiOus, 1t would, in truth,
seem to have been their purpose rath-
er to make the defence of the Consti-
tuition and Union crime. and to pun
ish fidelity to an oath of Office, if coun-
ter to party dictatiOn, by all the
means at their commani, Happily
for the peace of the country the war
has determined against the assumed
power of States to withdraw at plea
sure from the Union The Institution
OF slavery also found its destruction
| in a rebellion commenced in its inter-
i est. 1t should be borne in mind, how
ever that the war neither impaired
nor destroyed the Constitution, but on
the contrary preserved lis existence
and made apparent its real power and
enduring strength. All the rights
granted to the States or reserved to
the people are therefore intact
Among those right is that of che peo
pie of each State to declare the quail
fiCaltion of their own State electurs. 1t
is now assumed that Congress can
control this vital right, which can
never be taken away without impair
ing the fundamental principal of Gov:
ernment itself. 1t is necessary to the
existence of the States as well as to
the protection of the liberties of the
people for the right; to select the elec
tors in whom the political dover ol
the Stale shall be lodged, involves the
right of the State to govern itself
When deprived of this prerogative
, the States will have no power worth
retalniug; all will be gone. and they
will be subjected to the arbitrary viii
J OF Congress, and then the Govern
} ment will be centralized, ifnot by th'
: passage of laws, then by the adoption
through partisan influence, of al
/ amendment directly in conflict will
: the original design of the COnstitu
/ tion. This proves how necessary 1t i
: that the people should require the ad
| ministration of these great depart
j ments of the Government to be strict
f ly within the limits of the COnstitu
/ ton. Their boundaries have been aC
l curately defined, and neither SHOULD
9 be allowed to treSSpaSS on the other
/ nor above all, to encroach LpOn tn
reserved rights of the people and tn
s States. The troubles of the past fou
r years will prove to the nation bless
: Ings, ii they produce so desirable rE
e suit. Upon those who became youn
= men amid the sound of cannon an
d the din of arms. and who quietly n
IF turned to the farms, the factories, an
Is the schools of the land. will principa
r Iy deVoIve the solemn duty of perpe
l. uating the Union of the States in d.
70 fense of which hundreds o. Thousand
= of their comrades expired, and hui
re- dredS of millions of national oblig;
lr tiOns were incurred. A manly pc
9s pie will not neglect the trrinIng nece
Of sary to resist aggression, but the
d should be jealous lest the Civil
le made subordinate to the Military ell
ii ment; we need to encourage in ever
ir legitimate way a study of the COnst
id tGiion, for which the war was wage
in a knowledge of and reverence f
whose wise checks by these so soon
s. occupy the places filled by theis ser
K ors will be the only hope of preser
rs ing the Republic. The young men
ly the nation, not yet under the contr
it of party must resist the tendency
e. to Capitalization, ond OutgroWth
MT the great rebelllon, ana De 12mlll
We with the fact that the country cOnsis
or of United States and that, when t
of States surrendered certain great rigt
in for the sake of more perfect uniO
ed they retained rightsas valuable a
be important as they relinquished for t
y; common veal. This sound old dc
rt- trine, far different from the teachin
ur that led to the attempt to secede, a
W. the kindred theory that the Sta
las were taken out of the Union by
he rash acts of eonspirators that happen
I'll to dwell within their borders, must
Is. received and advocated with all
on enthusiasm of early manhood, or
on people will be ruled by the corrI
ch combinations of the commercial c
sil- cIes, which, pIethOric from veal
an annually migrate to the Capitol of
ith nation to purchase special legislati'
of It'll the representatives of the peol
or in Congress more fully exhibited
ws diverse views and interests Of
0ca | x1yboIa nation laws cease to be ma