Weekly Standard (Newspaper) - April 6, 1864, Raleigh, North Carolina V and BROWN'S from the Message of Gov. lo the Legislature of in extra March 1864. THK Tne late action of the Congress of the to States upon the subject of the currency has further legislation necessary in thia State ipon that It cannot be denied that this ict has seriously embarrassed the financial system if this and has shaken the confidence oi our in either the justice of the late Congress or hts competency to manage our financial Probably the history of the past furnishes few more instances of unsound policy combined bad The government issues Treasury note lor and binds itself two years after ti treaty of peace between the Confederate States and Ihe United to pay the bearer that sum and stipulates upon the face of the it is able in Confederate stocks or and re- in payment of all public dues except export The Congress while tho war is still passes a statute this shall be funded in about forty days or one third of it shall be and that a tax often per cent a month shall be paid for it after that time by the and it shall no longer be receivable in payment of and if it is not funded by the 1st of the whole debt is Did the holder take the note with any such Was this the and is this the way the is to keep its faith If we get rid of the old issues in this what guaranty do we give for better in the redemption of the next many of the notes have the express promise on their that they shall be in eight per cent When The plain import and BO understood by all at the of their that it may be done at any the day fixed on the face of the note for its With what semblance of does the government before that time compel the holder to receive a four per or lose the whole debt and what better is this repudiation V When was it ever before attempted by any to compel the funding of almost the entire paper currency of a amounting to seven or eight hundred mil lions of in forty days This is certainly a new chapter in The country imposition of a and all patriotic citizens were prepared to pay it fully at any reasonable but repudiation and bad faith were not and the authors of it can not be held The expiring Congress took the precaution to discuss this measure in secret so that the individual ace of the representative could not roach his and none could be annoyed during its consideration by the murmurs of public probation being echoed back into tho Legislative And to make they fixed the day for tbe assembling of their successors at a time too late to remedy the evil or afford quate redress for the These secret sessions of Congress a- blighting curse to the They are used as a convenient mode of up from tho people or expressions of their representatives as will not bear investigation in tho light of day Al most every act of of or of bud has been brought forth and in secret If I mistake not the British Parliament never discussed a single measure in cret session during thc whole period of the Crimean But if it is to discuss a few tant such as may relate to the movement of in secret it Hoes not follow that discussions of questions pertaining to the the suspension of the writ of and the should all be conducted m cret The people should require ail satti measures to be discussed with open and the press the liberty of i courting aul criticising thc acts of our public In way the reflection of the popular will back n the would generally cause the unsound measures as those which are fastened upon the country in defiance of tho ill of the But dismissing the past and looking to the e inquiry presented for our consideration is how all the State authorities act in the management of e finances of the State As notes constitute the currency of the the State has been obliged to pay em and she must do as long they remain the only circulating The resent Legislature bas very wisely adopted the in the present depreciated condition of the of collecting by taxation a sufficient sum to pay the current appropriations of he State instead of adding them to debt of the State to be paid in future upon the old If the Slate issues her own bonds and uts them upon the or if she issues her own notes a future day in her she adds the amount so issued to her anent and defeats the policy djf as she as her own bonds or would be and could not bo redeemed with the Confederate notes when received into her If the State receives in payment of taxes the Confederate treasury they will be re- in amount one-third by act of Congress after rst of April and the State receiving them at ar pays a Confederate tax of per upon all that pass through her This of cannot be submitted The repudiation policy of seems to have left us but one and that is o receive and out only such issues of irate as under the act of Congress pass at the deduction of 88 on any other per ut as we are obliged have funds before the time hen the new issues of Confederate notes can go ito the question how shall c supply the treasury in the meantime In my the proper plan will be to issue State payable on the 25th day of er next at the and each of the more im- cities of this State in Confederate treasury of issue as may be made first April to be used as a This nables the State to anticipate the new and MJ them in advance of their circulation by rate The new Georgia treasury notes f this be just as good as the new issue f Confederate because payable in and rould be as current in payment of The act hould provide that all taxes hereafter the State this shall be payable in the Confederate notes of this new and that they shall e deposited in the when to re- eem the State notes payable in The act hould also provide that the State be ro- and the Confederate notes received in place f them within three months after they are or hat the State will no longer be liable for their This would pi eve it holders laying hern md to bring them in for when according to the terms of tho con- As the Slite tax is not due till next here will be an abundant supply of tho new Con federate in cii dilation by that to obviate ill difficulty in obtaining them by our people to pay he I recommend the passage of a joint the Governor to have funded in the six provided for by tho net of 11 may remain in the troa ury or may be in the bands of any of thc ml agents of the after the day of and to sell and dispose of such bonds at their value in which can be made We in payments to be made by the treasury nnd o credit the Treasurer with losses that may by reason of the failure of the bonds to brine far in the NKW MILITIA AND CONSCRIPTION Since your adjournment in December nt and Inspector under bas ne all in his power to press forward the m of the Militia of the in conformity to tho ct passed for that purpose nnd I the re to that the enrollments are generally except in a few where proximity k the enemy has prevented and the ans will soon be At this stage in our we are met With thrown m our way by tho late which subjects those between 17 1 50 to enrollment for Confederate act of Congress proposes to take the was done on a former occasion entire military who belong to active it VOL. 9. nnd to leave her without a force in ent counties sufficient to execute her laws or press servile Our Supreme Court has ruled that the ate government has the power to raise armies by but it has not decided that it also has the power to enroll the whole population of the State who remain at so as to place the whole people under the military control of the ate and thereby take from the States all command 6ver their own to execute their own laws; and place the internal police lations of the States in the hands of the luis one thing to and and quite different to put the whole population at home under military and compel every man to a military detail upon such terms as the tral government may and to carry a ry pass in- pocket while he cultivates his or attends to other necessary avocations at Neither a planter nor an overseer engaged upon the nor a blacksmith making agricultural im- nor a miller grinding for the people at belongs of constitutes any part ot the ar- mies of the and there is not the shad ow of Constitutional power vesled in the ate government for and putting these classes and others engaged in home pursuits under military they remain at home to dis- charge these If conscription were as a means of raising armies by the erate it not he constitutional to conscribe those not actually and not to be employed in the and the Constitutional er to could never carry with it the power in Congress to the whole who are not needed for the but are left at homo because more useful and place them under military and compel them to get military details to plough their shoe their farm or go to Conscription carried to this extent is the essence of military placing all civil rights in a state of subordination to military nnd ting the personal freedom of each individual io il life at the will of ihe chief of tho military But it may be paid that conscription may act upon one class as legally as and that all classes are equally subject to it. This is undoubtedly If the government has a right to conscribe nt it bas a fight to conscribe persons of all till it has raised enough to supply its But it htis no right to go farther and conscribe by its own consent at homo to make If it considers supplies somebody must make and those who do being no pait ol the should be exempt from conscription and the annoyance of military while engaged iu civil not military If all between 17 nnd 50 are to be enrolled and placed in constant military wo must con quer tbe enemy while we are consuming our crop of or wo are as it will be impossible for the old men over 50, and Ihe boys under 17, to make supplies enough to feed our armies and people another I think every man in the who knows thing about our agricultural interests and resources admit on the other it is not the intention to put those between 17 and 18, and between 45 and 50, into service as but to at to produce and occasionally to do police duties within the which properly be- long to the militia of a or in. other if it is the intention simply to take the control of them from the so as to deprive her of all and leave her without sufficient force to ex ecute her own or suppress maurite and place the whole militia of the not needed for constant service in the Confederate under the control of the President while engaged in their civil the act is tional and and ought not to be If the act is executed in it deprives her of her whole active as Congress Ins so shaped it as to include the identical persons braced in the act passed at your lute and to transfer the control of them all from tnc State to the Confederate The State has already enrolled these persons under the solemn act of her Legislature for her own and ifc is a question for you to whether the necessities of the sovereignty and and justice to those who arc to be affected by the do not forbid that sho should permit her organization to be broken and her means of self preservation to be taken out of her If this is what will be our I prefer to answer by adopting the language of ihe present able and patriotic Governor of sovereign Stale without a and without the of of all her and with only the form and pageantry of indeed be nothing more than wretched to which I should grieve to see our proud old commonwealth I may bo reminded that tha enemy has three times as many white able to boat as we and that it is necessary to take all between the ages above or we cannot as men in the field as If the result depend upon qur ability to do we must necessarily fortunately for this is not the While they hivo the ad- vantage in we have other if properly they can never over- We are the invaded in the struggling for all we and for all that we ex- our posterity to This gives us great moral advantage over a more powerful as tho are in the and are fighting for conquest and We have the inner shorter of while they have the longer and much more difficult For in- if we desire to reinforce Dal from Savannah and or to reinforce cither of those from we can do so by throwing troops rapidly over a short lino from one point to the If the enemy wishes to reinforce Charleston or from Washington or New he throw his troops a almost upon the circumference of a we meet them with our by throwing thorn across the diameter of a This m our is as great as four to and enables if our troops are properly handle 1, .to repel their with little more than one fourth their In consideration of and numerous other which an invaded united and determined to be always it is not wise policy to undertake to keep in the field as Urge a number as the enemy It is of those in in a country in a war which calls for all tho at to consider well what proportion of tho whole population can safely be kept under In our present surrounded by the mid our ports so that we can place but little dependence upon foreign we are ob- liged to keep a sufficient number of men in the to supplies for our troops under and their families at or we must ultimately The policy which would compel all our men to go to the military and leave our farms and our workshops would be the most fatal and unwise that be In case the enemy need only avoid and continue the till we consume the supplies now on and we would be completely their is a certain proportion of a people in our condition who can remain under and the balance of the population at home can support So long as that proportion has not been more may be safely but when it is N. 0., APRIL 6, 1864, WHOLE NUMBER 1512, every man taken from the field of and placed as a consumer in the military makes us that much we go far beyond the failure and ruin -are as the army must soon -an it caq no longer be supplied with the necessaries of There is son to that in authority have not made safe calculations upon this and that they do not fully appreciate the incalculable importance of the agricultural interests in this We are able to keep constantly under arms two hundred thousand effective and to support and maintain that force by our own resources and for twenty years to No power nor State can ever be conquered so long as it can maintain that number of good If the my should bring a million against let us ber that there is such a thing as whipping the fight without fighting and avoiding pitched battles and let ua give this vast force time to molt away under the heat of summer and the snows of as did army in nnd Napoleon's hi and the enemy's resources and strength will exhaust when so prodigally much more rapidly than ours when properly In properly economizing our strength and husbanding our lies our best hope of Instead of making constant new drafts upon the agricultural and mechanical labor of the for recruits for the to swell our be yond our present muster which must prove if our provisions I respectfully sub- mit that it would be wiser to put the into the and leave enough at home to port In other coin pel the thousands of young officers in gold lace and who are constantly seen crowding our railroads and many of Whom can seldom be found at their posts and the thousands of straggling soldiers who arc absent without by the favoritism of whose names are on the pay and who ure not producers at to remain at their pre- sent places in the This is justice alike to the to the to the gallant officers who stand firmly at the post of and tho lant soldiers who seldom or never get but ate always in the thickest of the When they are enduring and suffering so why should the favorites of power and those of their comrades who seek to avoid duty and be cod or tolerated at while their names stand upon the muster rolls If all who are able for and who are now no in drawing from the govern aic compelled to do their duty there be no need of compelling men over 45 to leave their or of disbanding Uie State militia to place more men under the President's THE But it may be said that an maintain the i of the State will conflict with the Confederate I am aware that there arc those who from motives necessary to be heio are ever ready to raise theory of and to and condemn the action of in every case where her constituted twenties the encroachments of the central and seek to maintain her dignity sovereignty as a arid the constitutional rights and liberties of her Those who aio to State sovereignty and desire to consols late nil power In the hands of the Confederate hoping to promote their undertaking by operating upon the fears of the after each new aggression upon the con- rights of the fill the newspaper presses with the cry of and warn the ple to beware of those who seek to maintain their constitutional as agitators or partizans who may embarrass the Confederate in the prosecution of tho Let not the people be deceived by this false or It is the same cry of conflict which the Lincoln government raised against all who defended the rights of the Southern States against its it is tho cry which the usurpers of power have ever raised against those who rebuke their ments and refuse yield their When did Georgia embarrass the Confederate in any matter pertaining to the prosecution of the war When did she fail to more than her full quota of when she was ed upon as a State by the proper Confederate ty And when did her gallant sons ever quail be- the or fail nobly to her I cter upon the battlefield J She cannot only repel the attacks of his enemies HI the field of deadly but she can as repel the assaults of those ready to bend the Knee to power for position and set up to criticise her and she can con- n challenge them to point to a single instance which she has failed to fill for troops her through the regular constitutional To the very last requisition made she re- l ponded with over double the number She stands ready at all times to do her whole ly lo the cause and to the but while he does I she will never cease to require that er constitutional rights be respected and the tes of her people While she deprecates i II conflict with the Confederate if to 1 those be tue conflict will never end lill the object is buttle once by sire to Though baffled oft ever be emblazoned in letters of living light upon er proud until State sovereignty and con- as well as Confederate i are firmly SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS I cannot withhold the expression of the deep I feel at the late action of Congress in at- to suspend the privilege of the writ of 1 and to confer upon the President expressly denied to him by the Constitution f the Confederate Under pretext of a no- which our whole people know does not exist i this whatever may have been the ur Congress with the assent and request of the has struck a fell blow at the liberties of le people ol these Tne Constitution ot the Confederate States de- ares Tho privilege of the writ of habeas shall not be unless when in cases or invasion the public safety muy re i The power to suspend the habeas corpus all is not from and direct but from implication and an implication t in never be raised in opposition to an express re- In case of any conflict between the i i implied power must always yield to express re- upon its The power to suspend ic privilege of the writ of habeas corpus derived by must therefore be always limited by the declaration in the Constitution Tha right of the people to be secure in their j and against c searches and shall not be viola t warrants shall issue but upon probable by oath or and particularly i; scribing the place to be and the persons f things to be ard the further declaration t tat person shall be deprived of liberty or j without due process of And In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall j the right of a and public trial by an n partial jury of the State or District were the crime I sail have been which district shall have previously ascertained by and to be in- of the nature and cause of the accusation i be confronted with thc witnesses against him to ive process for obtaining witnesses in is and to have the assistance of counsel for ts Thus it is an express guaranty of thc ori that tho of the people shall be warrants shall but upon X bable cause supported by oath or particularly describing persons to person shall be deprived of process of and that in criminal the accused enjoy the right of a speedy and public by an impartial The Constitution also defines the of the which are limited to those among which there is not ene authorizing him to warrants or order arrests of persons not in actual military of to sit as a judge in any to try any person for criminal or to appoint any court or tribunal to not provided for in the Constitution as si part of the Ihe power to issue warrants and try persons under accusations are judicial which under the Constitution exclusively to the ciary arid not to the His power to der arrests as is strictly a tary and is confined arrest of persons subject to military the arrest of tons in the army or navy of tho Confederate or in the when in the actual service of the Confederate and does not extend to any persons in civil they be followers of the camp or within the lines oT the This is clear from that provision of the Constitution which de- clares person shall be held to answer for a or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand except in cases ing m the land or naval f or in the militia when in service in tune of war or public But even the of the President as Commander in is not as his ers and duties in of persons in the land or naval or in the militia when in actual are clearly defined by the rules and articles of war prescribed by Any warrant sued by the or any arrest made by or under his of any person in civil life and not subject to military is illegal plain violation of the as it is ble for Congress by to confer upon the President the right to exercise powers of ex- pressly forbidden to him by the Any effort on the part of ess to do is but an attempt to revive the odious practice of ordering political or issuing letters fa cachet by royal prerogative so long since renounced by our English ancestors and the denial of the right of the judiciary to investigate such and the provision for creating a court appointed by the Ex- and changeable at his to take tion of the are in of the groat ciples of Alagna the Dill of bean corpus and the Constitution of the erate upon which both English and cal purposes by the until it was finally ished by act of of 16th Chai lus Ibo which went into operation on the of August 1641. This act has ever since been as one of tho great bulwarks of English liberty and as it was passed by the English Parliament to secure our English ancestors against the very same of arbitrary which the late act of Congress is intended to authorize the President to 1 append a copy of it to this with the same and which are used in the printed the book from which it is It will be seen that the 6ourt of 4k which was the instrument in the hands of the lish King for investigating his illegal arrests and carrying out his arbitrary was much more on account of the learning and ability of. its than the Confederate Star-Chamber or court of which the act of Congress gives the President power to to appoint to investigate his illegal I am aware of no instance in which the British King has ordered the arrest of any person in civil in any other than by judicial issued by tho established the realm or in which he has or attempted to suspend the privileges of the writ of sinro ihe of Rights and ucfc of settlement parsed iu To attempt this in 1864, would cost the reigning Queen no less price than her The only suspension of the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus known to our arid compatible with the provisions already goes to the simple extent of preventing the release under it of persons whose arrests have been ordered under constitutional warrants from judicial To this extent the Constitution allows the suspension in case of in order that the accused may be and safely held for but Congress has no right under pretext of ing to authorize tho President to make illegal arrests prohibited by the and when Congress bas attempted to confer such ers on the if he should such it would be the imperative duty of the who have solemnly sworn to support tho to disregard unconstitutional and grant relief to persons gally imprisoned and it would be the duty of tbe Legislative and Executive departments of the States to sustain and protect the judiciary in the discharge of this By an examination of the act of Congress now under it will be seen that it is not an act to suspend the privilege of the writ of corpus in case of warrants issued by judicial ity but the of the act seems to be to authorize the President to issue warrants ported by neither oath nor affirmation and to make arrests of persons not in military upon charges of a nature for in the judicial tribunals and to prevent the Courts 1rom inquiring into such or granting against such illegal usurpations of which are in and palpable violation of the The act enumerates more twenty different causes of of which are cognizable only in the judicial tribunals established Ivy the and for which no warrants can. legally issue for the arrest of persons in civil lift by any power except the and then on probable cause supported by oath or particularly describing the persons to ba as treasonable efforts or v tions to subvert the government of tho to resist the lawful ty of Confederate giving 4tj onomy and to innr a servile in- the burning of or and other offences against the laws of toe Confederate And as if to pla the usurpation of power beyond doubt or the act expressly declares that the shr jl apply only to tha case of persona arrested or detain by the the Secretary of or the General officer manding the military by authority and under tbe c of the in the cases enumerated io the mast of which are exclusively of judicial and in which cases the President has the shadow of tional authority to issu 3 order but is actually prohibi by the Constitution from doing so. is not an act to suspend the privilege of the writ of 'a in the manner by implication by the an act to the President to illegal and jonal in cases which the Constitution gj ves t0 the judiciary and denies to the to prohibit all judicial interference for the relief the when tyrannized over illegal arres under letters da cachet issued by T J auf Instead the legality of the arrest being y ed m j tribunals appointed by the it id to examined in the Confederate Sla that by officers by J Why say that the President per officers to the legality of arrests ordered by him f Why not tbe whose constitutional right and duty it to de ijj We are witnessing with too much ind as sumptions of power by the Confederate in ordinary would arouse the whole country to indignant rebuke and stern History teaches us that submission to one ment upon constitutional liberty is always followed by and we should not forget that tant yielded to those in without re- buke or are never recovered by the people without ff this act is acquiesced the the Secretary of and the commander of the Trans- under the control of the each has the power conferred by Con- to imprison whomsoever he and it is only necessary to allege that it on count of or of to resist the lawful authority of the Confederate or for giving aid and comfort to the or other of the causes of arrest enumerated in the and have a subaltern to file bis affi davit after tho if a writ of Ka- beat corpus is sued and no court dare inquire into the cause of the The statute makes the President and not the courts the judge of the sufficiency of the cause for his own Either of you or any other citizen of at moment Vallandigham was in be dragged from your homes at midnight by armed and imprisoned at the will of the upon ihe pretext have been guilty of some offence of the character above and no court to our judiciary can inquire into the or grant When such bold strides towards military despo and absolute authority are taken by those in whom we have and who have been placed in high official to and protect con- personal it iu the duty of every patriotic citizen to sound tlw and of the State Legislature to say in thunder tones to those who assume to n ua by absolute that there is a point beyond which freemen will not encroachments to The Legislatures of the respective Stakes are looked to as the guardians of the rights of those whom they ref and it is their duty to meet such enactments upon tho liberties of the people and express their unqualified and to instruct their Senators and request their Representatives to repeal this most monstrous or a mist by permit ting it to remain on the statute they to the injury of those who have honored them with their in this trying period of our histo ry. I recommend that thu Legislature of this Stute take prompt action upon this subj and stamp the act with the seal of their indignant rob Can the President no longer trust the judiciary the exercise of tho rej upon it by the and In what instance the grave and Judges proved disloyal or untrue to our When have they government by-turning loose skulkers or Have they every given tha thu of their doubts in sustaining its though they might thereby to encroach upon the rights of the and for a time deny substantial justice to the people f Then why this implied censure upon them What justification exists now for this most strous which did not exist during the first or second year of the unless it be the that those in power hare found the people ready to submit to every encroachment rather than an issue with the while we are at war with the and been emboldened to take the step which is intended to the President as absolute in his power of arrest ami imprisonment as the Czir of nil the sias reception would members of Con- gress from the different States have met in 1861, hid they returned to their constituents nnd ed them that they had suspended the habeas given tbe President the power to imprison the people of these States with no restraint upon his sovereign will Why is liberty less sacred now it was in 1831 And what will we have gained when we have achieved our Independence of the Northern if in our to do we have permitted our form of government to be and have lost Constitutional liberty home T hope of the country now rests in the new Congress soon to They must maintain liberties against and wipe tuis and such from the statute or the sun of liberty wiU soon act in darkness and Let the constituted authorities of each send up to their when they assemble in an unqualified demand for prompt re- or a return of the commissions they hold their respective Brown here discusses at Cause of tbe How and Who Re- in tho course 6C which the enemy soundly foe his and the federals assured Abac if they the dupes of ham wnd the radical they will be involved vn tho end iu one general liOW BE Iii of it may be asked how is this war to terminate f It is possible to say when it may but it is to say how it will We do not seek to the Northern and if we are true to our they never conquer We do not segk to take from them the right of self or to govern them without their And they have not force enough to govern ua uut our or to deprive us of the right to govern The blood of hundreds of thou sands may yet be and the war will not still be terminated by force of Negotiation wiJl nally terminate it. The pen of the more potent than the sword of the must do the latter has failed to I may be how negotiations are com- mence when President Lincoln 10 receive commissioners sent by and to hoar no proposition for I f er iy my it is our duty to keep it the Northern people and the civilized are ready to negotiate for peace pie and govern merit of the pared to the great Ltt it again and again to the that all we ask that they recognise principle upon which their own ment sovereignty of the and let oar own hold our own government to a strict account Wur encroachment upon thit vital Herein Uea the notation of all those If there any or any of of any one ol the of Confederacy upon the subject of lent or future let oil armed force be and let that sovereign will be fairly ed at the ballot box by the voters of the let all parties abide by the Let each SlAte hare freely tho to determine its own in its own This is all that we have been struggling for from the be- It is a tbat secures in- estimable to and formidable to tyrants Let both governments adopt thia mode of which wan bequeathed to them by the great the ind which has since been adapted by the Emperor tho only just mode for the government of or even and the will soon achieve wiat the sword cannot peace to the and uphold the great doctrines of State sovereignty and constitutional If it iR of strife whether Kentucky or or any other shall her lot with the States or Confederate is no mode of settling it HO BO little and with so satisfaction to her own as to withdraw all military force from her and leave the not to the but to the lot If she should decide for herself to abolish slavery and go with the tho Confederate government can have no just cause of for that government had its origin in the doctrine that all its just are derived from the consent of the and we have no right to insist on a State t of the of our com mon ancestry the ri tho sovereignty it is Hie duty of each important victory ach glorious armies on the proposition to tho peace on these is declined constantly in and the jud after our and to make a government for thig if the we wiu hold them up own ft they refuse to receive the who bear the It and let the con- A ground to hope that the time be far distant when a returning sense of and a for self protection at will prompt the people of 'the States to hurl from power those who deny the fundamental principle upon which their own liberties and who can never be satiated with governing a sovereign State against her But if sho should decide to retain her institutions and go with the as we not she the question is submitted to her people at tho the government must or it must repudiate and trample upon the very essential principles on which it was and which wore carried out in practice by the the for the half century of its What Southern man can object to mode of It is ail that South or claimed when they from the It is all that either has at any time and all that either ever can justly And what friend of Southern independence the re- sult f What bus the Abolition done to the people ol any Southern State to desire to reverse her and return ingloriously to its Are we aft aid the people of nny ceded will desire to place the State back the Abolition under the it has devastated their tit laid waste their burned their and degraded their There is no reason tor such Uut I may be told that Mr. Lincoln has ed principle in is idle ngain to lender a settlement upon these is. no reason why we should withhold tue repeated re- of the it be made again and till the mass of the Norths n people under- stand and Mr Lincoln cannot continue to stand before them thc stained with the blood of their their and their and when a proposition so fair is constantly of new victims shall still con- to to gratify his abolition satisfy his and serve his ambition to ern these upon tho decision of of the people in his against the other nine Let the Northern and Southern mind be brought to contemplate this subject in all its and ex vm the Northern with nothing loss than thc tion of the and the confiscation of our like extremes on the Southern whose morbid sensibilities are shocked at the tion of or the renewal of an by us for a settlement upon any 1 cannot doubt that the thinking on both Fides of the who arg devoted to the great principles of self government and State including the veterans of tho will finally settle down upon this as the true solution of the great problem which now embarrasses so many millions of and will find the higher truth between the two upon the sober second the public sentiment North sustains the policy of Mr. when he tbe power of the to place the great doctrines of the Declaration of and the Constitution of his un- der his and proclaims his purpose .to govern these States by military when he shall have obtained the consent of of the how can tho tame public sentiment condemn at the head of his vast armies he shall proclaim of the and submit the question to tho vote of the Northern and when he has as he could the of in his he shall insist on hia right to govern them as their legitimate If he right in principle in Ihe one he would unquestionably be right in the If he may rightfully continue the war against the South to sustain the why nuy ho not as rightfully turn hiti armies the North to the other But tbe timid among us may how arc we to meet and repel his if Mr. Lincoln shall con- to these terms us he claims not only the right lo govern but he claims the right to take from UH all that we The answer is Let every man do his duty and let us as a people place our trust in we shall certainly repel his and our and iT true to and terity maintain our liberty of our is a great but no the preservation ol constitutional The good man cannot md tha late of Mr. being struck with the re- between an similar issued ral thousand years king of. That wicked king others the right of and vaunting ana putting his trust chariots and he and Samaria with an overwhelming king of with a resisted Into the the Syrian king this Thou shalt deliver me thv silver and and thy ren v to my servants unto about this they shall search thy and thc of thy nnd it shall that in thine thoy Israel consulted the arer receiving tins message arid thing I may not enraged at this and confident of his sont back and do so to and more if tho dust of Samaria for for all thc people that follow The king of Israel an- and THi let not him Unt boast that it The result Uut tbe small band of by attacked the Syrian und routed them with great and upon a cond trial of the Syrian armies de- their king made Mr. following the example of this wicked ami relying upon hw and to sustain a course equally proclaims to us that all we have is and ho will send his whoso are over with arms in their bands to tako and threatens if we let oot tlut girdeth on his b himself ho that it The race is to the nor the to the is the he putteth down one teth up ho its c not the next the world may be reas sured from month to that we not re- sponsible for the continuance of this devastation and with will JOSEPH S. i.
