1 Wednesday! Jure. 166& 0. 4. IMBRIE, Editor &'/Proprietor. Tg]ti>lS~ Ux * Collas and F/rnCtiu fjnnun, W JkDTASCS; otfccrwUe Two Dot- w jU be charged. No paper diacentiDned ißMtipi ara MUlcd. V and commiinieatioaa, bj nail hat*j|> r °®P t attention. V i | i KEW-YORK tribune ! I ; ■ 1863. himself., and hiaproperty,' byiaaking not only(the' act bf taking away asin, but ovefi that state of mind which would tempt to such an act. Who j: oyer; made human beings slaves-, op! ! HI; held them as slaves, without coveting ■■iWo quote again from the Bishop them ? Why do they take from tbem “Wo come next to the proof thntSla- ®®j r ■tune;- I '.their liberty, very was sanctioned by the Deity in their right of self-presoi ration and the case x of Abraham, whose three >mpyovemont, their right to at-qtrire hundred eighteen bond-servantoji pO worship accordifiy 16 borri in his own house (Gen. 14 c 14 v);j.conscience to search the scriptuhjs, to are mentioned along with those bought j .with jtbeir familied, and ihcjr .with his own money-, as proper sub- 1 to their own bodies ? Answer: jects for circumcision (Gen.lTc 12v.) ] "’ey cove*, then all.. Why do they His {wife Sarah had also an Egyptian ! them if they do not desire them ? . eluve named Hager who fled-from .s'e- i They seize and bold-them, 'simply-be- I Air-gVegatc.. 1 .....„21C,3T0 I j verify! Arjd Vt ho Angel of the Lord” I eunse lhey liad rather tlio lee, simple a tooxnal' of !News and [commanded the! fugitive to retm n to i proprietorship of- their bodies and 'J ■, j ! U .r,.ti!re, T»e Tribune has politi-! her rnistrels and silhmit herself * (Gen.! m J nt * 3 fhorahclves than,that the right ■ Convictions Which are well charac- j 14. 9.) irpliilanthropia ta of age wbo-j Tj“ should hold.it. They cor et i v thcslnsrlo wol d j profess to believe the Bible had beqn them, for purposes of gain, eonyeni j* vilepiibUcart Tn its hcarty’adhewon j willing to, take the counsel of that an- ®n.Cf. jlicrsonal case; lus,f of dominion, , ‘ Vac I'rcat t: uth -itat “God has! gel for their guide, it would, have pro* °* Sensual gratification, qf pride and b!ood allmations-of men”! served peace and . Welfare -Of -the- omental'®'*- J They . break the .Tenth -I’icbei'lican m ;U .assertion! of the] Union ■ by daj’ atid by bight, duiil and inalienable rights of all! Will (the reader please turn! to and* 11 , pluck do(vn upon their heads the nci' l-> ‘-life-, liberty. and the {pursuit |read . these passages (Gen. 14, 14):. P'hgueswrittenin the Book. • of *' baiminess*’—Republican -in its | “And when Abram heard thutjhis bro- i tll,s text proves Ijiat servants i«Vflyhere >v6 should expect to find, upim nr by ti.rir American conntqii- men. Until we can determine what! anywhere, the conjunction of things part the overt ii rev and .ruin of tine is referred to, the text is not v proof to i that belong j together. Further, an. Model Republic. —Republican! [in its sustain the proposition, “negrO alave-lexamination pf all the places in which hope and miat; its ifaith and| ‘effort, ry is right.’’ i servants are; included among beasts, i!i at this,’ atrocious..-. Rebellion must r * “He that is eight days old #hall be ! chattel*, "Ac., 1 , will shew that where re.iilt in live signal overthrow of its j circumcised among you; every, male : there ** R n inventory of mere proper jiinifers. and ihc Cfin establishment child in. your generations, he that is W* aafVUMts hre not included, or if in •Aequal righisand equal laws through- born in the house, or bought with mo- ■ eluded it is in such a way as' to show "twit t! i e ..whole! .extent of our country, ney of any (stranger, which is not of - l ' iat *H)®y are.not regarded in the light wiicivia Lihe.-ly and. Union shall in- thy seed.%[ (Gen. 17, 13.) Do these! of property. _(Eccl.'2, 7, 8.) But deed -he. “6ne and iaseparable 1 ’ hencp- j texts state' that Abraham had serv- i where the design is to show, not mere- Ibrtli and fov-wor. i | !.'■ j ants, '“bought with his <5wMi J rapney?’’ybl:.fbe result, but the greatness of any' Tut TKinr.Nt devotes attention in j Moat certainly not; is,' perSoiuage, that he 'is a man of die* calim-r times, andao some extent in, “negro slavery is right;'’ theSeJtex4s-i tinotton, amUftnyiy, a njr(cr, u prince— iliese, to Eduoutioujj Tempi-iabec, Ag- are, offered to support it. Do they do I hjs servants are spoken? of os well as rici:it«re. Inventions, and whatever it? Bo they ever bearin that direction f\ 8 P r 9P er fT-^'.-'See Josh. 23, 8. Geit. inuy minister to the npiritual and But if Abraham had-slaves, is tlieroj 28-' Job 42, 12. J Job 1, : 35. Gen Material progress and well-being of one word of approval f "110, nbt even {i • mankind ; llut.lbr-lhie present fts ener- an intimation ot it. Tlio case is simply ! pc* and its, colijnmS- are mainly do-j this; Does the'Bible record of a fact wfA tn ti c iiivigoration and ; success j make that tael, right ? Who \villdaro el V»y W-» V>r the Union. Its special j takejthat position 1 Xo, one. I Unijj ( ivs-i-i.'s accompany j every j tlia.t|is proven, the texts tire irrelevant. c.i..-;'rti.'-;e st my and report ovary j Thp Bishop says Sarah had an jjigvpt nnj-ci ta.ac Incident of tlmt Strug- j ian slave. The text says she was Sa »|V ii .iiui. we trust to result in the j rail’s “hand-maid.” Are the 1 term* >'> T -v..' and tonelhsive 'triumph of the ' synonyms ? [Webster says u har.'a- Astici.al arms And in the. restoration (maid is “a maid that waits »,t hand, i: I'-.'.-.'-n Mid Thrift io our distracted, j a fbipale servant or Slave. l!v(-i:iig .country.- Wt- bclicy'e *hci nrit! he defines tiius: ’‘A person who is efiierwise can a fuller , v r u.otc iaccii- 1 vfioV'y .sKbjwt to the icill ;of another.'' wti view'vf-the progrV-t and-, chantc i If hand-maid and slave were {sviion ter ( of tills■ -monientoui connici be.; yms the text might be jproof.l As it ■(il-tiiir.cd thiUi' through the regular i is. it Is not, I f of onr columns. And w!e | The assumption is. Abrabain held’ sohen the cooperation of, ~a vc, ... then, therefore, it is right for h "! 1 ‘^" ,l * a cause w Inter, to hold negroes as slavesnaw.— and uph o ..-Ii « that of| If tho portion is correctj it follows to a.o ua in ex- tt# a ntatfer of course, 4 because Abra tcpaing US ctrealauom. . , . ham married Hagaryk man mar mar-' „, !; ry two wives. He married his' slave, men m the price a man mav manw his slave ot piniung paper and olfae. mater,a s• n 0 acd a , we^hav “ no w i,; te ; slaveB , \n cofnjujls ■he may riiarry his negro, slave. Arc "o!, -1 ■ “• e i l,,(e . UE i RI *j not, those fair, logical consequences ( Jil.N*. Uur !.;*'V ••-ii; w ;rs,j •. . 4 t r>. »* > ° in.JJ.V/n'IuTTVF ' ■ ••: j»rpm. tlio Bisho/s reasoning. •; j ' { iKiirtr ......... '....3cetitsi i '^“ en Hagaivhad left Abram, the 1 rr-.xr nil isitue-si tB. j. an gel of the Lord.'directed her to re-j ■[ b'tAIf-IVKIiKfvY. .-tlilßUSi!. ' j turn. From this it is inferred that: i^i- 1 v| j. vrp vr.r (i 114 issues;,;.. the relation existing hbtwocnSafnh and i-Lv":'!!!' < ' !, ' ! ? oar — Hagar was mistress antf- slnrc. I When ■ it can be provqb that that relation wjis: that ol mistress and slave, x |t will-bus- i fain lh[e proposition,and not-untii then. { To prove that relation is the h'oublc. j Sarah wits childless, and. desired off- i spring; she gave Abram Hagar as\hisi wife. Would she probably give him .0 i : slave, or that fbmale next to herself. ) i Which is probable? \ The probaHilitv is I I that she went away voluntarily, and I returned at. will. As plight have boon j expected,family discord was the rcslnlt; jand Abram determines to remove |3a gar;, and she was provided for and ;sent away. .'Are these #ransactfons j those of .Slavery ? Let [the coun'ter- ( part of tlij.V bo found, in negro slave ry. lif Hagar was a slave, then ter son must' Jtave been also. Was Ish mad a slave f We quote again from the same au thor: “The third proof that slavery authorised by the Almighty, occurs in-the last of the Teh Commandments j delivered, from Mount Sioia, and uni j versally acknowledged by, Jews and iChristians, to be the Moral Law:— {“Thou sbalt not covet thy neighbor’s j wife, nor his man servant, nor bit maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’a.’’— (Bx. 17.) Hero is evident the principal ofupropsrty, anything that is thy neighbor’s, runs through whole, lam quite aware, indeed, of the pre judice^which many good peoplelenter tain against the idea bf property-in a human being, and-shall consider it, in due time, amongst the oljectmns. I' am equally aware that the wives of our day jmay-take umbrage at the law which places ia the same sentence, with the jslave,and'even with the horse and the cattle; Bntthe troth is none, the less cerlairii- jTbe husband [has a real property in the wife, bocanto be is bonndilor life to cherish and main tain her;] The character b( propofty-| is Aoubtless thodifiedfby its aeaign.— Bat whatever,, whether person i or thing, tbje law appropriates to an indi vidnal, becomM niS property. { This isthe law! against covetousneas,and also againnt slavciy. “Thou, sbalt oof covet anything (hat U thy neghbor’s;’' thns,-gaakding every man’s right to < ■’) :;■■■■•' “ ’ . T -The >’ nv-York Tritu-xk. first Is in ■■.1841, in its twenty-second has obtained both a Inrger and aj.icro diffusedcircnlation than jrv otljf-i* newspaper ever published numerical. • Though it has suffered, j„ common with other journals, from vuiun'.eering and departure of of thousands of its patron* to „, r vf in the War for the Union, its on this |6lb of December, iiGi is as follows ; : | '■pi-iT.i.:,.-. —. Vai-VYctilr 'T'it1v........ ..$3 ...Ssj . -Sl2. m CojKi's i.-ae ,jenr 522 ; 50. fcxirs ri*py vrhl sent to'dvfbs of twon ■T »n! cTc- . ii s. ore vij.-ir. ’UTEKI.y-tribute. ;ooj fr, r v, ?e i r ;i-> fc* oe £.J $o one T.;ar. ...J.I. .So, Us C;,J,In, on.-> jeajr ....J....58 . ua one yc«p...' Any larger number, .• t>4|rf.wrf' ,f 4 of subscribers, ?Rf)o u.aclv. Aii «*|ra copy will bo sent to every clul) 1 'vctity*;' Copies, to one'aJdr’ess, one i«r, ¥25, any larger nambor at ■rue price.- An extra copy! will be ■“tt tc r lnbs <}f twenty.. To dubs of fluty Tilt SEMI-WEEKLY TiiL E will be sent.. To dubs of fiftv THKbAli.lt' TRIBUTE will be sent ■gratia. AuJres* ' THE ‘TRIBUNE, 1 Tribune Buildings, 2»ew- t York t ir - j AVhei drtfts.can be procured it is wnch faicr tiian to remit-'-Bank;Bills! The name of the Post-Office and etate should in all case's be-plainly Written. ■ Subscribers ■-who send money by Ynulst prepay the Express c IV* r n e S else it will be deducted from remittance. •. f Tuk Tribune Almanac i for 1863 "'ll be ready about ChriStnlas ! .XJiiicm Hotel, ” PEKTTA. ; BEAVER, Proprietor - addition tcj the conTeniencss of a fin iHo Proprietor has fitted up in in a complete and satisfactory man .. , OYSTER SALOON, ■»'aid * i '? cst s na l' ! 7 of ovoters may be bb ,,‘j p Ur;l }B tjieir season,, in any jdesired, bv tv * ai ß’-beslcanbe furnished with Oysters, or down. The table is fiirmahcd p‘ F T au th « luxuries tile PITTSBURG MAR rl 4 . n * e ° td -; ] ■ | ; for. r V . M fo , r ‘i* liberal- patronage hercto fesn, f?-?.*” “i continuance of the same is .fwjHrctmslx ' - Librf* TjEX-KXIVKr ~ A I’urtes, Po; ;1~ Scissors, Gum Hair' Pint, Monties, Keedles, i. Spool Cotton. TErt»d, ,at HIIPSfB Stor* of KCtJf jrCOIMW^I. Tj , • - ; i ; • ; t ; ■ I 1 VfoUB9“ •; • / :• .Ml • - j jyfmmn poe ebk Aeous.] f DOES THE BIBLE SANCTION’ , SUCH A PRINCIPLE 7 60,125 , 17,250 148,000 Vl- ■: / ': vJ ■ 1 ■ ■ • 1 - ..-'i ■ . •'. ’ • . M■ . -, n |: r t~> _ iZzS? fj***!*— ll ' yit in' u i.i. i—>.—lu, ” : ;rr:r;7- • j■, • 100 wM. ; ' .' mmm ■ 1 ; 'l, ’.f- - V ! i- ! . ■: ..s.. "r. ■ l ■ ■ **• ■■■>.- n r ii}.-: No. ?5. GM Important Correspondence with President Lincoln, j | | Alu/Lny, -May, 19, 38G". j To his Excellency the President of the 1 United States,; | ' ■ j | i Thtf undersigned, .officers of A public meeung bold at th&city of Albany on jibe IGth day of -May instant, bere : 'v;,h transmit to your E- v cellcncv a copy of the ’woliiii., ..s ad Aed' at ; the saidjnceling, aiid respectfully’'re-' | <]Uv«t eanie-t consideration of 'them. They dvcnv ji(propero»i their ! personal responsioiHiy to state that : the meeting ivas one of tlia nv>-t re spectable ns to numbers and charac ! ter, and one of the- most earnest in the I support t of the | Union, ever held in f this city. ; ■; N Yonis, with great regard, ' ERASTUS CORNING, President. ELI PERRY, Vice)President. PETER G ANSE VOO RT, VieePres’nt. PETER MON TEA Til, Vice PrJsident. SAJI’L, A. GIBBS,! Vice President. JOHN NIBLAQJvj Vice President. H. VT. M CLELLAN, Vico President. L. W. ROGERS, Vice President. j WJL SEYMOUR, Vice President. JERE. \ r i(io President. W'M. S. PADDOCK. Vice President. J. B. S.ANDERSJ Vice President. '■ , EDWARD MULCAIIY. Vice Pres’nt D. V? RADCLIRPE, Vico. President iWMi A; RICE. Secretary.' * EDWARD KEWCOMB, Secretary. ' R- AM, Jb., Seerelhrj-. i M. . ; Secretary, "'f J- R' Sccrelarj-. Secretary. ! Rcsolutwhs adoptea I in Albany, N 5.V ! F of May, IStK , the I DonK New York point, to: their u course p|T action during the two j of civil jrar throjigh. hat passed, to the alacrity iJßicli they hare evinced filling the ranks’ of the army, to their contributions and sacrifices, as the evidence of their patriotism and devotion to the cause of our imperiled country. Never in the history of civil wsrshirs a Govorn ,ment been sustained with such atnple resources of .means and men as the people have voluntarily placed in'the hand* ottbis ,.j \ ; Resolved, (Tost, Democrats ; wb': are determined to I maintain this pa triotic attitude, and, despite of adverse and disheartening circumstances, tfe devote all our energies to sustain 'thS cause of the Union, to sfecuro peace through victory, and to’ bring hack the restoration of all the States n rider tbe safrguards of 'the Constitution. j Resolved, That while wb will nidt , consent to be misapprehended upon these points,.we .itr» determined not to be misundewtobd jn regard to oth- *j an hot, less essential. We - demand 1 that the Adminlstration shall be true ’J to the : Constitution y shall .recognise , and maintain the yights of the States ,]j «nd the liberties’of the citizen shall g everywhere, outside of . the lines of h necessary, military occupation find the j, scenes of 'insurrection exert all* its I powers, to -maintain tbesnpremacy of tl tbe civil over military law. L That, in view of these p principles, we denounce the recent *a- b *sumptiodof -,f military commander to .wise and try * fitlfcUh df Ohio, Otero - « - - -...p..-,,! Ol = l ''."Vs 11 . I • ’ i'li evidence, and thoprj»|ege of habeas i s-firpus, hut it striker Wow at Itlie suprctpacy of‘ j th ori ty rf tho" State iiiit Pciderpl (Jon 'UtlMltK/liS. "■ iS ■ j - yip::, . j Resolved, That tbejjCfenplUtition of I the United Suites —tb# supremo, law I of the the crim were -adopted {into opr ConstitutWQ at tbp close of involution. the tost of leeventy six years Inal,-under oui (republican systenk iprider circnrnstari jees wbiph shpw thiti, while]they‘ coo-’. |*titptp the fdundatlim of all; free gov-i iernment, they areSdie elements of the (enduring the republic. | Rexol vd,■ Thatfc'in; adopting 1 ' the, {language of Webstjer,'we de clare, ‘-It is the qmwnt and undoubt ed prerogativejohws people tc pan vass-piihlic mehNH&nd the .merits of men. I*hlt’Mfcfaorncbred 1 *hlt’Mfcfaorncbred right,’' a fffee ids' been joyed in every Lome, cottage, and cabin in the nation. It is njs undoubt ed as the right of hreathiijicf the air or walking on the earth. Belonging to pt-iym c life as a right, it belongs to (public; life as h Jduty, and j it ;is the jlast du*y which-those,'. wlijo«o' repre sentatives wtf.avo, shall fir.dj us to.tf- Ibaudoh. j Aiming at ail times to be jcomacbiijs and [temperate in its use, dyr L circumstances which show v |lhat |exceptwhon the right itself is ques- while they Constitute the foundation jlioned} Vb shall place ourselves in the jof all fi;eC government, they nrej the Icxtremo boundary of our ojwif right, I 'the element 1 ! of the enduringf stability' jand bid ij defiance to any am thatj of the Republic.”. No oho denies that jwouldjinOvc ns from ouf grojnnd “This I they have sq stood the test up to.tKe high cormitutlpnal privilege, w° shall' beginning of the present rebellio i,; if defend and exercise in all places—in t-we except !a certain occurrence at time 61 peace, in time.Of win;, and: at | New Orloank; nor docs any one cncs all time*;. Living, wo shalli assert it ; | tion that thtiy will stand the same test land should wo leave no other inheri-j much longer after the rebellion do jjlance to jour children, by the blessing! ses. But these provisions of the Oon lof God we will leave them tlie inheri-'j stitution havjo no application to the Uinhe of | Irce principles aiidj the exam- case we have in hand, because tbji ar !ple of a manly, independent, and con-j rests compliiihcd of wore not" made jstitntionhl defence of thenf.i’ jfoi treason—--that is ; . not for the ijrea | Jtesolv'ed. That, in the ejection of;son defined |in the. Constitution, and jGovernojr Seyniour, the people of this j upon the conviction of which the ])un jStafe, by an emphatic-., majority; do- ishmenb is depth; nor yet were t hey' ,dared their condemnation o;f the bjsj- made to hold persons to, answer: for jtom of arbitrary arrcs*sjmd jioir doi any capital Jor otherwise infamous 1 jtorniination to stand by the! (pnstitu- j crimes; nor jvere the .proceedings fol jtiod. That the,; revival of tljtis lawless j lowing, ir. any constitutional or logiil jaystem can ImVe ,bnt o.ne jrcsiilt; ,to 1 sense “crinunpl prosecutions. - ’ jdiyido arid disUtocfthe North,and de-; .The arrests weie made or. lot sfyoy its confidWee in the purposes af. different grounds, and the proceed: jthe; Administration. ’That Wo depre- following accorded wilth the groi pnfg itjaslan element of cohfusjon at of-the arrests. Let nsfeonsidor' borne, of] iwyaknos.s •to our j armies irJ real case with which we'are deni jthe Cejd, |and ns calculated) to and apply tojit the.pafts, of the (i jthe estimate of ‘’American. character, stitiuUon plainly made for such ccses, land magnify! the apparent peril, of our j Pripr to my installation here it had pause [abroad. ; And that, iregbrding j beqn inculcated that any State hiid a slbe blowjstruck! at a citizen of Oiiio ; lawful rightj to seoedo from the ha assmincd at the j rights of tjvofy citi- lional Union, and that it would i I be' the North we denounce it" as expedient to!joxercise the right when jigainstHbo spirit of oar lawif and Con- ever- the. devotees of the doctrine jjtilnlipnjWna most earnestly ball up- should fail to elect a President! ;to pn llreiPrjesidfent of the United-States their own lilting. I was elected c’on to revejrjej the tbp action- of| the mill- trajry to theiy liking; and, accord ng tary tribunal which has passed a ly, so faf os jit was legally possible; j'erael Ana unusual pdnishinent’’upon they had taken'seven States out; of ijib party arrested,prohibited in terms the' Onion, tad seized many of the py the Constitution, andto restore United State.ji forts, and bad fired inp jiim to/thelibevljy of which baa been on the Unit6)i States flag, all bcfoVe I deprived. , j I . [ x wasinaugurated, and, ofcourse, bc- That the president, vice- tore I had dpne any official act what presidents, and secretary of this meet- ov ? r - The rebellion thus begalh s ton ling hi, requested to transmit a copy of rundpto the present civil way; and, theseiesointions to his Excellency the in certain rekpects.t it, begun on very Presiientkpf United States, with the unequal terms between the partiei— issniincp pf this meeting of their The insurgents had been preparing WrW arid earnest doairo io support f«r it more than thirty years, while hd (fovornmeht ip constitution- the,Government had taken no slips ‘ and la viol measure to suppress the to! resist them. The former had cilre uslng rehellion?V f . fully considered all tho moans which I '. ,| i ; i could ho tamed to their account. It I WASHrsatON, June 12,1P63. undoubtedly was a wc|l pondered re r.J n ■ \ . :,i - liunco with them that in thdr own lojXrastw.CornHUf and.otheri: efforts to destroy Union. , Gentlumcw Your letter! of May Constitution and laWj all together, the 9,lnclosing the resolutions pf. a pub- Government ; .Would, in great degree, icmceting hold in Albany, NpvyTork, bo restrained'by the same Cdrjsli|u 'nthe 16th of the same mor.tls.was tion and law Irdm arresting their pro salved several days ago. \ gress. Tlioirj syrapathizers. pervadod fhe resolutions, as 1 understand all departments of the Government h/m, are rc«olvablo into tWo- propo- and nearly all communities of the the expreaion pjfw pur-, pyople.. From this,, material,! under Ac to sustain the ciiuse of the Union, coyer of “hboriy of speech,” ‘ jlibefiy fsecure peace through victory, and of ' the press,”; ond ■•'habeas, corpus" support the Administration inev- they hoped to jeoep on fopt amongst, ooostitutidoai and 14wfuf measure us a tnosli oC aptes, |n ~ |! ' ‘ i \vyt*: jnd ".tij'-.l- ■«;;{ i| ' ■(! : ;• loj fti oidaiia of-- at the meeting! held N the 16(A das-IZ~ cratf. pf iform :ars tha'ri"Hts of assemble and discuss .the 1 the’liberty bfW})cccS' !> Noff-tliei press;j the right of. trinl by Iv-the lust of , : ■ 1,-0 [■ 7; >.- •j". ■ '■• ' ■ >Vl"' - ■ '■• i . i ■ .. '--i : -:■■■■ V7.' . '■-L:' '■[ ! ■■'-■■■ I nipff ISI •"' , Sf ~ Vtv::; ;;;-i ' ■ ,-: - ;.£• '■ U■ ■' '■,.J:i.; I■: !^ar I -I; ■ . to suppress thcrebollion s and see bf> •' censure* npon Administration for • supposed an ntitulioaal action, bach as the inn I of military arrests. Arid, from •two' propositions, a third is detin which i* that the gentlemen < posing the [meeting are resolved doing thoirpartto maintain our ( mOri Government and .count r|yj spite the folly or wickedness. as ! 1 may conceive,.of any Adnrinistva* Ijhis position is eminently patW andas suob,.l thank flic 'meeting, congratulate the nhl ion foe it. , owr. purpose is the same'; no that meeting a ml.’myself have a com ‘tan have no difference ,cept in tbojchoice. of means or- no urea for effecting that object. | And here 1 ought to close this ..per, and would close it,-jf .there i no apprehension that more injm I consequences than any, merely per al to myself might follow the cens j systematically east upon me for d ijvhat, in my,view of duty, 1 cbulc I forbear. The resolutions promis suppoit me in' every constituti and lawful j measure' to suppress rebellion 1 ; and 1 have employed, nor shall kriowmgiy ploy, any other. But the moel by their resolutions, assert and ai that cerUiti military arrests, and cecdings,! fallowing - them, for w :JI afn ultirjiafoy- responsible; are jqonsdtutional. I think they are i •' The resolutions quote from, the C ■ suiiition the definition 1 of treason, a and also the .limiting safeguards' ai guaiantees therein provided for tl cjtizen on trial for treason, and or, hi hold to answer for capital oi otherwise infamous crimes, and. in criminal prosecutions, bis right |,o a u speedy and public ttial by an impar tial jury. j 7 / ‘ p-"!' j; They proceed to resolve “that I aese safeguards of the lights of the citizen j against the 1 pretensions of arbitrary j ppwer werej intended more etfieciullg j for bis protection in times of civil com l motion.” And, apparently to demon-' jstrate the proposition, the resolutions | proceed: “They wrefe secured sdbt'tan- Ually to tbcj Jinglisd people after $ ears jOf protracted civil war, and ‘were, adopted into onr Constitution at; the \dose ot thoj revolution.” tVould not the demonstration have been if it could haVe been truly saul-.that, these safeguards bad been iSpiteJ and applied 1 during the civil wartand during our revolution, instead of if(er ,0? one one and at the dose of I the other.? r, too, am .devotedly for them dftef civil.i.yror and before civil -War, land at all jtimes; “except whoii, r in ' cases ol rebellion and invasion,'the public safety may Acquire’* their Sus pension. The resolutions proceed to tell us that these safeguards “have rtood the test of seventy-six year s of trial, under.pur republican system un- itaT^lisli formars,. supplier*, i n abettors of .tbcHr caos< ways. They knew th ns they* wero ir.augdi 'Co jstitution itself, th i might be suspended; i know they ) had frier irtake a tjnpStiop as f sußpend it ; mean wile i I otli ers might re'main n 1 J>n theii>cnnne; Or if, 'fed, tho«execntive shoe t without ruinous ''instances of arresting I ao.r SKmighttoeoiir, as ar to : - : tfeur in| Riie'h ’case l : cla |fbr could bo raised ijtliiif whiehi.might be, u jseryice to the inpprji •needed no very keen discover '-ibis- part c| 'program me, so -sobii au tilicies tlielr mabhiriei j in |moicn. - Yet, then with a reverence for,l rights of ir.diviidnals, ail op t tho s! ron g' meat i degrees'! have been for being within the ex: Constitution, and as ii the public safety/ |‘No known, to history tha justice are utterly such cases. Civil cou lEoil chiefly for trials orJal most, a few ;ind in concert, and tl‘ if*, and on charges of tSrit; in ihe daw. Even ;ip bands of horse _ thieve frequently grow tioO powerful for the ohli justice. . Hut what numbers have snehj ba to the insurgent syfhp: mahy of the loyal Su jury too frequently ha member now ready! ib 3 them to bang 1 the tra again, ho who diesii! from. • volunteering,(.‘a soldier to desert,, weal cause as mitcb ad 1 Union soldier in ba dissuasion or induceW ducted as to. bo no rd; which liny civil court nizance. ’ ond the qon ring the cod, !om- ,'ex caa- pa* rore fobs son tircs iing nt)t 5 tO I Ours is, a case o | cal|eJ - by the resolutic [in fact, a clear,itfagi-at j casje bf .rebellion ; and jof Constitution flu , of the writ of habeas t ba suspended, nnlesls • JsSellion or incasiob, 1 .mayTjßquiro.it,” BptjfiaiN- applies.to' in 1 Tb|is provision plainly i d erstiuiding'of ihyj’e /Constitution tbat;oi-di ijoctinff aref {nbdcqnnt ', r e t.j o! lib n,-’4— h< iii si|yfi eases,/•men nr j custody-whom the l cm | ordinary rules,- jsvo Ilubeas corpu4 docs no who alrc proyod to be crime ; and fts.-sti spoil byj Ulio'Constitiituin o men.may be arrested . camiot.bc- proved tjoj-' b | fined crimd, “jwhenp- ir lion or invasion, tliopi require- it.” 1 This i is present case—a h*i wh’erein the jiubl’.c sat iKe suspension. Indi process of courts, and, of rebellion, donot pre upon the same basis.-, directed at the small ordinary afd continue of. crime, w-liilo. tin rented, at sudden and e ■s: against,the Govei most, will ’succeed rat length of time, te, arrests are made | what, has been don ibably M’onld bo doi ioro for the proven 'PS : iit r grei CASf for | pro klly ings inds jtlie | n f?i Jon- the sad vindictive tbiii; h cases' the pnrpo* much «iioto;casily’[uhii( casfes of ordinary cri wh ) stands by and fin} tljtc peril of his rj.oV.e Siisjed; cannot bo miss §t hmdorea, bc.isjqui enemy ; pinch more, il talks icrdiis -‘bills’’ and and -h little value the cohbti sior s 1 have quoted w if arrests shall never definederjimes shall hi m;l.o«l^in|iy’to illddu notable j Gi Breckinrijlge, General General Joseph E. job John ,JB. Mtigraicr Gt B. JPreslon;fGenoral| S nbr, and Comrnodbre ebanan, now oeejipy highest places in the re wore all within the Government since the andUvere nearly as Jr traitors then as riqi bly if wc had seined the insurgent cause weaker. But o 6 01 t.hori committed any| k the law'. i Every onel rested, would havej l on fiab&xs'corpvsivrorc ln view ; 1 think the time not wheii I shall be bli midp top few arrests many. ■ -,M ' By the third resol indicate their opini arrests may: .be con... calilies where rebellio Un.t that such ‘arrests V- ■ J|‘- 44 ■if=s , Business :r*rds, 76 cents a line; per ynrr. KjjTiageJ snd Dcailij, Heligi'ns, BoUticV J_C5 ; and other Notices of a pui'lio r. itlurh, free. ‘ iier* andJ Uonall iiv localities whetfcr I'efcoJJjtpfo.r. thousand j insurrection docs not actually! exist, imes eych i They insist that sneli arrests «ha!i not .by."the! J>e n.ade ‘’ontsiilo of this lines of no flc.s.sap- military occupation, i»i)d ■•tii'o boy alsbj bcci es of" insurrection/': Inasmuch,, 10 would howeror. As the Constitution itself j to tnakeS’no such distinction', I am ana (pies and bio to believe that there is any such t sto Jiclp , conislitiitiymul distinction. I concede ;bnj>poii-p tluvt ilie class of at rests complained ' nond ■ thcv ot'citii bo constitutional only .\vlien,iii j oases Ipf rebellion or inyajsioi., the pub- .ml u. in n win ti 3 know da ;wli \u whfi their a it la.rgj as has Id f,o of the j Ad timos of pcays ; rninislrattoh, and in c -ndemhatida of:; is, and robbers!,the mnitai-y orders of Min numerous and l iNow, if there he no mistake, about .. nary 6ojirt» of it Ids; if this assertion is the truth, and compirisrtn in|the whole truth; if there was 1 no uds eV jr,, b6r|ie | other reason for the arrest, then I s utilizers, even in j concede that the-arrest was wrong.— - ies? Again, a j But the arrest, as 1 understood, was *l* ateast one j made for a very different reason. : Jlr." jhang ;bc panel Viillandighani-avows hisi hostility jtor. And yet, the war on the part of the Upion,;- jadys one njan , and his arrest was made hecmuss-be Jr i. id v. cos brio J was laboring, .with some effect .tojpre-' phs ttia'i Union 1 vent the raising of troops; to id who kills a j age-desertions from the army ; and to ...... ... ■ leave the. rebellion ■without 1 an j ade*, qnate military force to suppress it.-—' ■lie was not arrested because Le i was ; ! damaging the political j prospects of it he Administration, or , the, pcrsor.nl' febt . i intcrcsts of the commanding general is bef>ra ineW-j but; because be ; \yr,s, damaging the' i a,rd gigantic| array, upon the existence and ylgoii jtho provision ;of which the ‘1 i of the nulioii de c'll?o lb r ’ v 'l?K e ; He', whs j warring up .mi; the o’pv§ shaji-'nbli.military, and gave'-th’e military jeonr,' .vhc|it m case qfj stitiuion jurisditirin to iay.biyi i.-ruaou ho public safety \ him. If Mr. VatlandigiianVwr.synot: projrit. on wl'icTfi damaging-t!»o ''military power of the * present case. ■ country, then his iarrestwas' in ad- oh'. attest i tha uiiij mistake ot tact, which I, would ninde tbt |'to correct 'on reasonaliy : nary courts of evidence. - I _ i ; s. tb ‘cases di |' I understood the” mcefibg, whose; ir puV )Ose that. | resoliitibus I am; considering, 1 tef bo in ' ay |bt hold' in "favor of sdp prcsshigtiie,ycbgjl iok by irts, ~aeting' onjlrnilitary force—b\parmios7~ 7^R»6#4«4 e . uld;' 'iiseiiargc./porienee sh own“that i discharge men - not bo maintained unlb»s desertloil : guilty 1 shall tie paf.ished by penV siop i; .jallo ved | alt vo; death. The' cas'o|requires, and a ipbrposo that j the law and the jConstitution,«anCiion, and held who i this'punishment. Must I , jsloot, a 3 guil y of dcr simple mindedsdkier boy Who[ desert-p ca^es jof! robo.l-'. while I must not touch a In-dr of a Mic safety may wily agitator, who .induces him . to 1 * precisely onr .d«ser t t : ?, tlte.leaf- injo.rl i of rebellion,! ous when getting a lather, ityido is require for brother, or- friend, ipto a public :ed,| nrcsts by j’meeting,' and' there' working upon’his. arresti in cdses I foqlingsilii L he is pir-cudo 1 to-; write ; eeed atogetiier j the soldier boy that he a’ The former : is j,bad cauio, for a;, wicked | [Ad mi nistra-. Of tion ot a cOntempljble Government . aa plmbetratibn toosweak to.arrest and punish him if iii- he/Shall desert. . I think'that in such . xteiisive upri|- a. ease, lb s'l'lencc 1 lie agitator .'andsave. nmeptl l .whim,. tire boy. is not only coasti'tuiibinii!,. blit ot fall in no withal a great merer-. „ ; In the latter If I oeWrong on' this, question of . "nqt |so much '.copsCiuitioniil power, my'error JieS'in ahj for wixpt I belicviirg-that eertaiii proceedings aro The latter-.j constitutional when. in cases qf rcbel anjd less for j lion or invasion, ihc public safety >rmer. Li } quires them, which 'would not be tori- • men are. j Htitutional When, in rebel*.' than ;r.j lion or 1 invasion, the. public safety' he- man, does nbf require 'them! in biheruvordsy ug when that the Constitution is not, in app)!-* t? is dis., e.ctidna in all respects tjio sahee, /in food. 11 j .case Of rebellion or invasion involving* help the; the public safety, as it is; ih timcs df. ilks a/n; profound peiioe andpublic. security; .ry ,wrth 'Jne Constitution itself mylces thel«u y ■ Q to b& dost ion a* 1 shaded that the,Government eah-ediv* , stmitlonally/t'ak.e'no strong .intim’ij r> f ircbpltidpi- because jt can be shojwn that the isaripe jcf>nld*'if^i ; W v lawfully fn time of peace than 1 can bo petsuadedj that a partfcnln* ’ ding is uot\tpod medicine forseicht!® man, t because it cap bo shown to 'Pot be'good food for a 'veil One. 3?or am able to appreciate the' danger appre hended-, by the meeting that the , ArnerieOo /people will by means of * military- during rebellion, lose the' right pi public the liberty of Speech and the presejii the law of evidence', trial b y 3nty>iia habeas corpus throughput the in6fe&. pin i be l itioral R>ber( iii’tbri, nunil mon 1 Fran ing t >el w;i power ebtllk I knov Unqi d hoi would t e df th :rime de of then )e jrv dis tcjo writ nils: peaceful future, which I trial I € much lem boa ined itf i, if ■ ap icharge'd, : allowed laf cases, to, come having' ban tod lie* before thorn, any more tbadddib able to bplieve-tbat a man cobid c6B*’r. tract so strong an appetite tics dorijig 4 feeding noon them the reihainder.of hia b«Bltt ful lifti ;T la giving the thot.efcrtj* , j est copsideration which yin [•of me 1 , t cannot overlook tbe fccdthat ■the laoetihg. speak os iN.bP am Ij. with lull r&pect kopwa ioteUigenceJand tbo fairirjflSlT : sumed delimrationilwith prepared their tod to suppose that.this Occident, dr in an# .dwy/!i|h^^pKfe 1 fiimii likely :d for ther tk tit |n'i aeetipg lilitarj in : lo exwts, instltu- in tuo that .oiiona actual! .ra unc NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. , .©. 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