Year: 1867

poisoned challce may De returned to their
own lips. - 1 sH


The issue has to be met whether Con-
gress, under the forms of law, can UsURP to
itself all the other powers of the co-ordi
nate branches of the Government. If the
attempt succeeds, everything hereafter will
be regulated in this country by the argu-
ment of force instead of law, and military
chieftaius will, in Mexican fashion, issue
pronunciamentos in the name of "God and
Liberty" declaring the will of the people
to override everything which stands in
the way OF the edicts of arbitrary power.


Are American citizens prepared tamely
to submit to this sort of government?
The war for the Union decided decisively
there could be no separation of the destiny
of the Anglo-Saxon race on this continent,
and history may raise the question whether
if jackson had been President, he would
not have saved much blood and treasure by
the summary seizure and execution of the
secession leaders at the Capitol before an
opportunity was given them to carry their
reasonable projects into effect.


Congress has no more right to upturn our
constitutional form of Government, than
the States, and the overt act when COM
mitted is the Inauguration of a revolution,
which leaves those opposed to it, free, to
resist by the most available means. Con-
stitutions are framed for the protection of
minorities and when they cease practically
to do so, the other party must be taught by
bitter experience brought home to them,
that there is point beyond which "for-
bearance ceases to be a virtue" 1t may
be very pleasant tor orators of the Wade
stripe to denounce 100000 of their fellow
citizens as traitors having no rights that
he is bound to respect, but the practical ap-
plication of such theory to political diff
ferences of opinion as to the mode of adj
ministering our common Government
might have very serious consequences.
The Military despotism now existing in
the South will for party purposes be ex-
tended all over the country, before the
next Presidential election, unless the Radi-
cal leaders are given clearly to understand
that force will be met by force, and that a
revolutionary overthrow by them of the
Executive and Judicial departments of the
Government and the Inauguration OF a
bogus President will release every one of
the two millions ofvoters in the North and
West opposed to their schemes, from the
payment of any taxes to support such a
UsURPATIoN, and they may find the task of
collecting the revenue under such circum-
stances as difficult as the Stuarts did ship
money. 1t is evident that the people OF
the late Rebel States regard this as ques-
tion to be settled amongst the people OF the
adhering States, and if they tamely SUBJ
NIT to the subversion of all Constitutional
government amongst themselves. then they
deserve to be made slaves. ......


:. Men of Ohio, grid yourselves for the ap-
preaching struggle; organize in every
possible form to meet the coming issue.
You have reason and argument on your
side, and candidates who possess brains.
Let your opponents know you are not to be
put down by force. and you will find many
who have not heretofore acted together
politically, joing hands to resist the black
surge of Revolution which now threatens
to overwhelm our country.


AN OHIO REPUBLICAN FROM THE START
OPPOSED TO NEGRO SUFFRAGE. 4s


NEWPORT, r. L, August 3Ist, 1867.