The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-21

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has been well received oy them. Still 1t
may be proper constantly and strongly
to impress upon the Army that they are
mere agents of the Civil polUer that out OF
camp they have no more aulhority than
other citiz ns that offenses against the
laws are to be examined, not hv mill
tary officer, but by magistrate that
they are not Exempt from arrests and in
dictments for violating the laws"
What does General Washington, in
defining the essential principles of a free
government, say of the man who aspires
to be his successor in the chair Of State Z
What does he say of imes A. Garfield,
who denounced General Hancock on the
floor of Congress for repeating the very
words which he addressed to the Army
of the United States, and which were to
be observed as long as the American
Government should last, but that Gar
field was committing treason against
that fir government General Garfield
demanded the removal of General Han
cock for obeying orders similar to those
of Washington, declaring that he had
been sent down to Louisiana with orders
to deal out justice as a military officer ac'
Gording to tue radical theory, that the
ciiI should be at all times subordinate to
the military law. Garfield declared that
the dispensation of justiCe belongs to a
military, and not to civil officer, as
Washington had said.
General Hancock followed the exam
pie and obsyed the orders OF Washing
ton. Whose example and whose orders
did James A. CART I'D obeyP Answer
The example and orders of George the
Third. In 1772 Thomas ] ffsrson wrote
petition to his Maj sty George the
Third, which contained the following
among other grievances enumerated:
ITO render these proceedings sill
more criminal against our laws, instead
of subjeCting the military to the civil
power, his Majesty has expressly made
the ClviI subordinate to the military
But can his Majesty thus put down all
law under his feetP Can he erect pow
er superior to that which erected itself?
He has done it by force, but let him re-
member that force cannot give, right.
Let not the name of George the Tnlrd
be blot on tue page of history. No
longer persevere in sacrificing the rights
Of one part of the empire to the inordi-
nate desires of another. The God who
gave us life gave US liberty at th9 same
time. The hand of force may destroy,
but cannot disjain them"
IfGeneral Garfield is elected President
the ideas of George the Third resume
their reign over the american people, as
they were before Washington conquered
the armies sent to enslave them.
In the British Parliament there were
men who opposed the arbitrary acts of
their sovereign. Lord GlenVille refused
to take part in the schemes to subvert
the charters of the colonies and control
their domestic government. He also de-
sired to keep the army subordinate to
the law, and not place the military above
the civil power. But his voice was not
needed. The American continent was
divided into a Northern and Southern
District, each with its brigadier, besides
commander in.chief, and on the morn
ing Of Wednesday, the b of February,
1865, the Secretary of War, who had
taken the Kings pleasure on the sub
iect, made known his intention that the
orders of his Commander.in chief, and
under him of the brigadier generals
commanding, should be- su upreme in all
military matters, aud be obeyed by the
troops as such in all the civil govern
ments in the ColoEi5s. la the absence,
and only in the absence of the generals
and brigadiers, could the civil govern
ment exercise authority. These instruc.
tions concentrated undef Ied power in
the hands of the Commander.in chief
Such was the sad conditioR of the Amer
iCan Colonies; the King, the Ministry,
the Crown officers III the Colonies all
conspiring against her liberties Now
can there be any doubt that General Gar.
field and his party are acting in the very
spirit Of the British Tories, who brought
on the Revolutionary WARP Have they
not brought back the principles of the
British Sovereign and the British Par
Lament Of the last century, II will
cram the stamps down the throats of the
rebels with the end of my sword" cried
a major of artillery. General Garfsld,
after he had flushed his Military Re-
construction Balm Congress, says The
DILL is a measure which has its hands on
the throat of the rebel governments and
took the very breath ont of them, and
points the bayonet at tie heart Of every
rebel in the South" WHAT for2 To COM
pei them at the point of the bayonet to
submit to military dictatorship in viola
tlon of law.