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or before merriagba and death*, Tsis CENTS 185 LINZ for
each inertion. To merchants and others sdvertleing
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Icr The number of insertions must be designated on
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-v. u„ r i.goe and Deaths willbe inserted at the same
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illiorellatteims,
PENz-lONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY,
War With and Claim for Indemnity.
SThIrART, STEVENS, CLARK & CO.,
Atorneys and Counseanv-at-Law, and Solicitor.
ter all kin& of Military Claims,
450 PENNbYLVANIA AVENUE,
WASHINGTON, D. C.
This firm, having a thorough knowledge of the Pen
sion Busiume, and Ming familiar with the practice in
all the Departments of Goverument, believe that they
can agora greaser fatalities to Pension, Beauty, and
other Claimants, for the prompt and successful accom
plishment of haziness entrusted to them, than any other
firm in Washington. They desire to secure such an
amount of this business as will enable them to execute
the loudness for each claimant very cheaply, and on the
basin of Chef pay contingent upon their success in me&
ease For this purpose they will secure the services of
Law Firms in each prominent locality throughout the
States where sack brininess may be had, furnish the
States
all the necessary blank forms of application and
evidence, regniaire printed pamphlet instructions, and
circulars ' for distribution in their vicinity. with f
assoh-
ates names inserted, and upon the due execution of
di paye rsand transmission o the same to them by
their local associated, they will promptly perform the
loudness here.
Their charges will be ten dollars for officers and
=dollars for privates, for each Pension or Bounty and
Pay obtained, and ten per cent. on amount of
Mims for Military Suppyes or Claims for Indemnity.
1.1:7" Soldiers enlisted mace the let of March, ISM, in
any kind ofteervice, Military or Naval, who are disabled
by disease or wounds, are entitled to Pensions. All
soldiers who serve for two years or during the war,
should it sooner close, will be entitled to $lOO Bounty.
Widows ar soldiers who die or are killed, are entitled to
Pensions, and the $lOO Bounty. If there be no widow,
then the minor children. And if no minor children,
then the father, mother, sisters or brothers are enti-
Jed as above to the $ lOO Bounty and Back Pay.
JOSEPH B. STBWART,
IIIiSTOS L. STEVENS,
BDW &RD CLARK,
OSCAR A. PTBVBI4I3,
WILLIS B. GAYLORD.
WASHIPOSOM, D o_,lBo'l.
" Apply at our office, or to our Associate at
HenslBBoll4, PA.—JOHN - A. BIG-IiBB. Attorney and
Counsellor.
Pirrentrao, Pa.—ARTHIIRS & RIDDELL, Attor
neys-as-lam.
Porrermin, Pa.—WM. R. SMITH, Attorney and
Counsellor
Putz.soni.ritta, XENNICHILD, 40 Atwood
street, W N M. SMITH, Attorney and Counsellor.
asnisoros, Pa.—BOYD ORIIMBINCJI, Attorney
and Counsellor
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SHOE STORE,
NO. 90X MANNNT
HARRISBURG, PA.,
'Where they ntend to denote their entire time to the
assanfaotnre of
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all kinds and varieties, in tete neatest and most bah
enable styles, and at satisfactory prices.
Their etwelt will eonsist, in part, of Gentleman's
Gaff and Patent Leather Boots and Shoes, latest styles,
Ladies' and Misses , Gaiters, and other Shoes in great
variety; and in fast everything connected with the
Shoe bitaineen
CUSTOMER WORN YID be particularly attended to,
and in all cases will satisfaction be warranted. Lasts
listed up by owe of the beet maker.; in the country.
The long practical experience of the undersigned, ano
their thorough knowledge of the business will, the)
trust, be sufficient guarantee to the public that they
will do them Justice, and furnish them an article the
will recommend itself for utility, cheapness and dins
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Convertible immediately into a nourishing and deli
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Th.s admirable article condensed into& compact 'form,
41 the sabittential and nutritive properties of a large
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it dissolves into a rich and palatable Soup. which would
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obvious to need urging. Its highly nourishing qualtuaes
siomoined with its delicacy. renders it invaluable for the
del; while for thoise in health, it is a pertactatiostitate
for Pedi meat and vegetables. It will keep good in any
climate,
It is peculiarly well adapted FOR TR sVELIIRS, by
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FOR IltlirsiADS, whose capricious appetite can thus
be satisfied in a moment.
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mead It. For aids by
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OFFERED IN PENNSYLVANIA!
IT IS MADE OF
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g 7 Delivered any place in the city free of charge
pains cask oa &Livery.
JP)
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10 A very convenient Writing Desk also, Portfolios,
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("IIKESEII-100 Boxeb Prime Cheese
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NOTIONS. --Quite a variety of uselid
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goat and Cheapest in the markets! 91611 and
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owner of Market liquor* and Market street.
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SURGEON AND OCULIST,
ANNDINON .THIRD NAAR NOSTII STRAW.
He is now fully prepared to attend promptly to the
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all who notyhilor htio with a gall. be the Mame Ohm&
or my other nature. mlB-therle
WM. H. MILLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
OPPIOB IN
SHOBBIASER'S BIIILDINGFI
SECOND STREET ,
lINIWINN WALNUT AND INARKNT SWAP;
no2SJ Nearly opposite the Buehler House. rd&wav
T HOS. C. MeeDOWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
. MILITARY CLAIM AND PATENT AGENT.
Office in Burke'a Row, Third greet, (Up Stain.)
Hawing formed a connection with parties in Wash
ingtod Oily, who a•e reliable tomineem men. any burn.
near connected with 'nay or the impartments will meet
with inunediate and careful attention. veri-y
CHARLES F. VOLLMER
UPHOLSTERER,
Chestnut street four doors above Second,
(OPPOSITE WASHINGTON MOSS BOHOL)
Is prepared to furnish to order, it the very best style of
workmanship. Apring and Hair Mattresses, Window Our
tains, Lounges, and all other articles of Purnxture In hie
line, on short notice snd moderate terms. Having es
perienee in the business, he feels warranted 'n asking s
Aare of public patronage, waft* of his ability to give
satisfaction. jantl.4l4
SILAS WARD.
NO. 11, NORTH THIRD ST., HARRISBURG.
STEINWAY'S PIANOS,
MELODEONS, VIOLINS, GUITARS,
Banjos, Flutes, Fifes, Drums, Accordeons.
svaihne, Man AND BOOS WSW, itc.,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. ALBUMS,
Lhrge Piw'and Mantle Mirrors, Square and Oval Pram*
Of evedilescriphoo made to order. Reguilding dons
Agency for Rosins's Sewing Machines.
Er Sheet Minna sent by Mail. non-]
J OHN W. GLOVER,
MERCK 11NT TAILOR !
Has just received from New York, an assort
ment of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
width he oilers t hie anatomic" and the public a•
n0a221 MODERATE PRICES dtf
SMITH & EWING,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
THIRD cTRE PT, Harrisburg,
Practice in the several Courts of Dauphin county. Col
lections made promptly. A. O. SMITTI,
ft.b26 J. B. EWING.
CI )OK, Merchant Tailor,
•
'27 CHESNUT ST., between Second and Front,
Has just returned from the city with an assortment of
CLOTHS, CA SSIMER ES AND VESTING'S,
Which will he Sold at moderate prices and made up to
order; and, also, an sksortment of , READY MADE
Clothing and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods.
n0.21-Iyd
DENTISTRY.
B. MILDER, u. u.
0 9
NO. 119 MARKET STREET,
REIT & BUILDING. UP STAIRS.
janB-tf
R ELIGIOUS BOOK STORE,
TRACT AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPOSITORY,
E. S. GERMAN.
It SOUTH 81100 ND STRNET, AUOTI 0111014IIT,
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Depot for Use sale of Stereoscopes,Stereoscopic Views,
Music said Musical Instrumento Coo, subscriptions
taken for religious publications. now-ay
O}IN G. W. MARTIN,
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CA W R S HO D W HARI: R.ITER,
HETEL, a - SWIM, PA.
All manner of VISITING, WEDDING ANDE
USI
NESS CARDS executed in the most artistic styles and
most reasonable terms. decli-dtf
FRANKLIN HOUSII
BALTIMORS, MD.
this pleasant and commodious Hotel has been tho
roughly re-fitted and re-tarnished. It is pleasantly
situated on North-West corner of Howard and Franklin
streets, a few doors west of the Northern Central Bail
way Depot. 'Every attention paid to the comfort of his
guests. G. LBISENRING, Proprietor,
jel.2-tf (Late of Selina Grove. Pa.)
THEO. F. SOEIEFFE it,
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ROOK, CARD AND JOB PRINTER'
NO. 18 MARKET STREET, HARRISBURG.
irr Particular attenti' , .. paid to printing, riding and
binding of Railroad Blanks, Manifests. insurance Poll.
cies, Checks, gill-Reads, &a.
Wedding, Visiting and Business Cards printed at very
low prices and in the best style. jan2l
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HON. D. W. VOORHEES,
OF INDIANA,
IN Tun HOUSE or REPRESBNTATIVEI3,
February 18, 1863.
[CONCLUDED.]
No age, no sex, no condition in life has been
exempt from invasion, unlawful arrest and im
prisonment. I speak simply what every man
in the hearing of my voice knows to be true.
I have seen the ministers of the. gospel of a
peaceful Savior on their way to prison, leav
ing wife, children and congregation a thousand
miles behind, for preaching peace on earth and
good will towards men. One, the 11ev. Mr.
Bundy, as I am informed by my friend from
Illinois, (Mr. Allen,) living in his district, was
dragged away from the open grave of his child,
over whose remains the burial services had
not yet been closed; denied the privilege of '
returning to his house to take a final leave of
another member of his family then dying, and
hurried like an atrocious and dangerous erim
inal to the safe keeping of a cell. I have seen
the upright and conscientious lawyer seized by
the loathsome instruments of oppression, for
bidden
to console a sick wife, the mother of
his children, with a single word of parting, and I
conveyed by furtive and rapid movements to a
distant and arbitrary military tribunal, because 1
he had dared, as became a freeman, to declare
what he conceived the law to be_ I have seen '
men who had been trusted and honored in •
public life by those who had known them most
intimately in every relation, arrested in my
own State for no offenses known to any law,
and without warrant, without commitment,
made to eat " the bread which captives' tears
have watered" in every age of despotism. Io
the month of October last I met three friends,
distinguished citizens of Indiana, wbo six
years ago served as Senators together in her
Legislature. I met them, sir; serving together
in the same prison a term of imprisoment
which had no other duration or limit, no; other
beginning or end, no other cause or conclusion,
no other condition or circumstance to support
it than the mere arbitrary, unlawful, unen
lightened and audacious will of one man here
in Washington city. Sir, as I stood in their
guarded room, lisitened to the story of their
wrongs and looked out upon the sunshine and
the aft—and the floe of the white man's free'
dom floating in the distance—strange thoughts
possessed my mind and strange visions arose
before me. A new sensation penetrated my
heart. I seemed to dwell for awhile beneath
the shadow of the Bastile, and hear the cries
and groans which finally rent its walls. The
dungeons of Austria opened around me, and
the prayers of their victims for liberty seemed
to fill all space and all time. The damp vaults
of Venice and the fearful caverns of the Span
ish Ineuieition yielded up.tbeir horrible secrets.
The Tower of London, that melancholy tomb
of genius and beauty, the imperious form of
li' 11
block, all eca A iteinflintulZa -113 t—the. Teekiug,
looked, as it were, face to face, into the fright
ful, appalling countenance of tyranny. I emu
died' its ferocious and revolting features in the
light of historical associations. But when I
came to reflect on all this, and reason from
cause to effect, I found that precisely the same
terrible principle of oppression which has dis
graced the past, and filled other countries
with tears and blood, was triumphing in my
very presence. I turned away, and took my
"appeal from tyranny to God."
But, sir, the people of this whole country
and of the civilized world, have beheld worse
scenes than even these enacted in our midst.
This Houle has been invaded. The principle
of popular representation, on which the theory
of this government is based, has been assailed
in the illegal and brutal arrest of two members
of the American Congress. The honorable
gentleman from Maryland, (Mr. May,) early
fell a victim to the spirit of executive usurpa
tions, which has since spread like an evil
shadow over the entire land. He had dared,
in an hour of envenomed popular frenzy, to
raise his voice in this hall and assert, in no
suppliant tones, his rights as a Representative.
He had %dared to assert that the Constitution of
the country was binding in all its provisions,
in time of peace as well as in time of war, and
that his allegiance was due to it, and not to
the party which had ascended into power by
trampling it under their feet. In the exercise
of his undoubted prerogative as a legislator,
and in accordance with his sense of duty as a
citizen, he had brought forward measures here
looking to a speedy and peaceful solution of
that unnatural strife, which has turned our
rivers to blood, and lined our once fraternal
borders with A thousand miles of graveyards
—not the sweet resting places of those who lie
down to sleep together in peace at the close of
happy lives, but where hostile specters will
forever haunt the dismal scenes and vex the air
With shrieks of undying hate. For these acts
of duty as a Representative, and these acts
alone, sir, the honorable gentleman from Mary
land was arrested, and made to feel the iron of
helpless captivity enter his„eoul. The sanc
tuary of his home was invaded at midnight, l i
that fit hour for the assassination of liberty,•
by an unknown band of armed men, who
searched every privacy of domestic lite, and
then tore him with violence from a young and
delicate family, with that total indifference to
agony and despair, which so well becomes the
callous agents of crime. He was thrust into
prison, and became the recipient of all those
odious indignities, which it is the trade and
calling of jailors and turnkeys to inflict on
noble minds and exalted natures. He lan
guished inside of the bars of iron and the bay
onets of sentinels, until the caprice of the Exe
cutive threw open the doors of his cell and
told him to go. As he was arrested• without
charge. guilty of no offence, imprisoned with
out authority of law, punished without trial,
so he was released from confinement, without
en explanation and without a hearing under
the Constitution. This case, in a few brief
sentences, comprises the ultimate point of a
wanton and reckless despotism. Aud what I
'vivo said of it applies in principle with the
same force to the case of the honorable gentle
man from Illinois, (Mr. Allen.) Both are repre
sentatives of the people on this floor, and
both have been subjected to punishment, due
alone to criminals, by the arbitrary and lawless
edict. of one man, for the exercise of their
opinions. Sir, do we live in, a republic or an
absolute monarchy ? Is this an American Con
gress or a Roman Senate, in the most abject
days of the Roman empire? Is this an as
sembly of freemen, or a French assetnhy in
Ithe days of Louis XIV t How much More are
we exp.:Med to bear? What deeper degrada
tion is to be inflicted on us? If one member
of this body can he arrested for his opinions,
land made to feed on the damp vapors of a
living tomb during the pleasure of the Bean-
five, so can all the rest of us who do not, with
bated breath and words of whispered humble
ness, bow ourselves with Eastern adulation at
the footstool of power. If these things are to
be borne, the hour for a Cromwell has arrived,
and these walls will never again resound with
the voice of liberty. Let the victors advance
and bind us with cords, and eooui•ge us in the
open market-places, as the unworthy successors
of a nobler and prowler race. Let the pilgrim
of future times visit not this dishonored hall,
but go and linger in the old and deserted one,
and draw inspiration from the glorious memo
ries which hover over it. The voices of the
mighty dead, in behalf of freedom of opinion,
freedom of speech,. freedom of the press, and
the supremacy of the Constitution, yet seem to
echo from its venerable walls ; and its place
in the history of the progress of liberty is as
secure as the battle•Seli of Bunker Hill.
Sir, am I to be told that there was cause for
the arrest and imprisonment of these gentle
men? Who dares to say so? Why were they
not tried for their offenses, and, if guilty, pun
ished ? Who will assert that the thousands
who have been imprisoned without authority
pf law and discharged without trial were crim
inals? If they were, a double infamy awaits
the Executive and the agents of hie usurpations
for liberating upon society unproseeuted and
unpunished offenders against the laws. If
they are the dangerous criminals which they
are daily described to be, then this adminis
tration has corruptly compounded with felony,
and made itself a party to treason, by refusing
to bring them to justice, even when the crim
inals themselves protested against being liber
ated without a trial. But, sir, I deny their
guilt in every instance ; and in doing so, I
plant myself on the plain precepts of the laws
of God and man. I have but little indulgence
for this constant assumption of guilt against
citizens who have courted trials, and whom
you have not dared to try. The presumptions
are all in favor of innocence where just laws
prevail. They grain favor of guilt before trial
only in the minds of tyrants. But, whether
guilty or innocent, not one single provigion of
the Constitution has at any time or place been
complied with, in the treatment of citizens ar
rested by government officials.
In violation of the Constitution, American
citizens have been arrested for using the free
dom of speech.
In violation of ths•Constitution, their houses
have been forcibly entered.
In violation of the Conatitution, their papers
have been searched.
In violation of the Constitution, their per
sons have been.eeized with armed violence.
In violation of the Constitution, they have
been deprived of liberty without due process
of law.
In violation of the Constitution, they have
been held to answer infamous accusations with
out presentment or indictment of agrand jury.
In violation of the Constitution, they have
been denied the right to a speedy and public
trial by an inspartial jury.
In violation of the Constitution, they have
been carried out of the State and district in,
which their offenses, if any, were committed•.
In violation of the Constitution, they have
been kept in ignorance of the nature and cause
of the accusations against, them.
In violation of the Constitution, they have
not been confronted with the witnesses against
them.
And, in most supreme and wicked violation
cfafarseelor--rortewermaheft—ha‘a been denied
the insolence of a fanatical disregard of every
principle of humanity as well as law—
" That the general government will not re
cognize any one as an attorney for political
prisoners, and will look with distrust upon, all
applications for release through such channels;
anti that such applications will be regarded as
additional reasons for declining to release such
persorks."
Sir, I challenge the worst ages of the most
profligate and corrupt despots, for a mere in
tolerable picture of personal outrage than is
here presented. In prisons, in dungeons, in
cells, in solitude, and desolation of heart, citi
zens of this freeconntry are threatened with
increased punishment if they resort tethe only
possible mode of 'approaching those its power,
to obtain information or trial with a view to
liberty. Many new offences, unknown to the
Constitution and the laws, have been created
by the proclamation of the Executive, and to
these must be added that it is a calms' for an
innocent man, overpowered by unlawful force,
and wearing away his life in prison, to employ
counsel to secure for him the benefit of the
laws of the land. Sir, posterity will hold in
remembrance the authors of these outrages—
the President and his Cabinet—in order to exe
crate the prostitution which they have made
of their high offices, to the overthrow of the
Constitution. When they retire from their ex
alted positions, and descend to the quiet walks
of private life, where the voice of partisan op
misuse and interested flattery will no longer
reach their ears, and shut out truth from their
consciences, let them spend the evening of their
days in pondering over the wretchedness they
have so needlessly and wantonly caused. Let
them recall the tears of bitter grief, bereave
ment, and shame which they have caused deli
cate and tender women to weep, as they im
plored their jailors in vain for relief against
outrages, which the pen blushes to record.—
Let them visit the madhouse, and listen to the
shrieks and cries or their inmates, as they pour
forth their wailing from the shattered dome of
thought, and in that saddest sight which earth
can present—a mind in ruins—behold a portion
of their handiwork, which will accompany their
names into history. And if dreams come to
them in their slumbers, let them dream of the
poor suicide, who communed in solitude with
his sad heart, until his room became filled with
sbadews and impalpable forms, which mocked
his agony end despair, and who, to escape from
his unlawful imprisonment, launched his naked
soul into the mysterious realms of the infinite,
and appeared for trial before a compassionate
God. Let them awaken to hear the heart bro
ken sobs of the widow, and the pitiful lamen
tations of the fatherless. Let them make some
atonement for the grief they have inflicted, by
looking into all the detailed horrors which their
system of infernal outrage has brought upon
unnffending men and women. I speak not in
malice I wish evil to no man upon earth, I
feel psis to know that I ietliet it. But if I could
forbear to speak with indignant emphasis on
this subject, I would feel that the bond of sym
pathy which binds me to my suffering fellow
' men had been broken asunder. I would feel i hat
my heart was an maim from the sacred pre
cepts of the divine Nazarene, who pronounced
tee merciful blessed, because they showed
mercy.
Fut it is said that this system of open divre
gard of the Constitution, and the arrests
which have been made under it, have been
necessary to the stability and existence of the
government. •All the world knows that this is
false. Neither insurrections nor invasions
have taken place iu the lord States of the
Union. The courts of justice have never for
a moment been disturbed in the discharge of
their duties by any of the circumstances at
tending this civil war. Every function in the
machinery of government has been tree to act.
Does this administration distrust the entire
PRICE TWO CENTS
judiciary of the country, the clerks, the sher
in, and the juries ? And in what way has
the whole body of the people shown, that the
safety of the Republic requires that they should
have a master ? Sir, I scorn to pursue this
thought. I spurn from me, at once and for
ever, this base, false, and dangerous plea of
necessity. What is there to Americans worth
preserving, if the principles of liberty, the
doctrines of the Constitution, shall perish ?
We hear much stormy declamation about the
life of the nation being in peril. It is true.—
It is sadly imperrilled on all sides; But does
mere land and water, mere extent of sail, con
stitute the life of this .nation ? No, sir ; im
mortal liberty in its life ; the soul which ani
mates the body, and withcitt which the mere
form of our government will be a cold and life
less corpse, We are asked to make war on this
vital principle, and submit to its destruction,
in order to preserve the Union. You might as
well ask me to drive the dagger into my own
heart, in order to preserve my life. I recog
nize no each monstrous folly. The Constitu
tion is my country, and , I have no .country,
outside of its provision& When you require
me to destroy it, or consent to its destruction,
in order to save my country. you require a
paradox, which is the natural offspring of that
unreasoning fanaticism, which shares se
largely in the origin of our melancholy na
tional disasters.
I will not stop here to denounce this argu
ment of necessity as the uniform plea of ty
rants who have sought to destroy liberty in all
ages of the world. The children in our school&
are familiar with this truth. It has passed
into a proverb, and has the sanction of univer
sal human experience. But in close connec
tion with this familiar household word of Star
Chamber oppression, another and kindred
maxim of unlimited monarchy has been thrust
upon the country by the supporters of the
administration now in power. Loyalty has
received a new definifion. The doctrine of the
Tudors and Stuarts has been revived, and now
once more struts forth in- the habiliments of
royalty on the stage of men. A prominent
eitizen of my own State, occupying tempora
rily a high official position,.has announced that
loyalty to the government no longer consists in
obedience to the laws, in support of the Consti
tutiain, and in devotion to the flag, but in a
blind, abjeot, nitiquestioning, and unreasoning
obedience to the measures of those who are in
power. He fails to perceive how an American
citizen can be faithful to his allegiance unless
he concedes the principle that the king can do
no wrong. He has studied this heresy, doubt
less, in European courts, and desires to trans
plant it to these shores. And if it should
bloom here it would be as the deadly npae tree,
under whose blighting shadow every green and
beautiful thing dies. All civil rights would
perish. The courts would stand adjourned to
meet no more. The scales of justice would .
be broken and thrown away The temple of
Janue_would stand wide open, and war, the
sport tf kings and the ruin of the people,
would waste the country forever. The sove
reign voice of the masses would be silent and
stilled in their throats. It would be dangerous
to think, and children would no longer be
educated to enlighten•their minds, but simply
to develope their muscles, with which, as
slaves, to work for the tax gatherer, or as
gladiators to enter the arena of ambitious
wars. The prison houses would overflow with
all who dared to remember that they were once
free. and death, in ita most appalling aspects,
the gibbet. And'
strains, or responsibility, would reign the sov
ereignty of one man.
Sir, need I ask whether the public mind of
this country is ready to receive calmly and
submit to the plain and inevitable cones (leen
ces of such astounding principles ? Are Ame
rican citizens ready to surrender all, all, Otto
Cutely all that renders life a blessing and re
deems their citizenship from being a by-word.
and a reproach ?. i will not insult the proud
ancestry from which we sprene ; I will not
mock the memory of the dead who have died
for liberty on both hemispheres; I will not
peach the purity of the blood which Mows in
American veins by reiterating this question .
It has been answered more than a thousand
times already in molten and in the field, by
the great race to which we belong,. end the
American people are ready to answer it. again.
Our remote ancestors beat down the walls of
Rome and , humbled the pride of the world's
mistress into the dust. They broke the Ito.
man yoke which Caesar planed on their necks,
and turned and trampled to death the nation
which had pecetratr d their misty regions, and
awakened them to a sense of their power and
their density. Their descendants for two thou r
sand years, in all the wonderful vicissitudes df
history, have chafed under and resented and
resisted the insolent spirit of encroachment,
invasion, and usurpation against their civil
and their religious liberties. They have met
the degrading demands of executive tyranny
at their thri•shholds, in whatever forms they
have been advanced. Sir, this is the race of
' liberty. I solemnly and earnestly commend
the study of its glorious and exalted history
' to those who are this day trifling with the
majestic principles of personal independence
which it has secured to the world by its wi-dom
and its blood. it bas stood as the iron mailed
champion of constitutional government.; it has
borne the banners of the cross and -planted
Christian civilization on every shore and be
neath every sky ; it has poured the beams of
the useful soleness into the dark and waste
places of the earth ; it has carried the refine
ments of the arts, to the savage forests, and
caused the wilderness to be transformed into
the abode of learning and g- nine ; it has
thronged every ocean with commerce ; it
has spoken the great emporiums of trade
into existence; it has defied every barrier
of nature to resist its adventurous spirit; it
has played with the fiery elements of the
physical world, and used them as obedient
servants in the grand march of its gigantic
progress; and in the midst of all this, and
under all circumstanoes, it hits waited on the
fortunes and espoused the cause of liberty
with the unmeasured devotion of a knight
errant of chivalry, and the undaunted courage
of the Lion Heart. Sinn a race will take no
step backward. It will submit to no diminu
Lion of its glory. It will surrender none of
its high prerogatives. Revolutions and changes
may retard its progress for a brief season, but
they can no more defeat its ultimate suc tees
in all that is gr , at in conception anti sublime
in execution, than the storm which lashes the
waves into fury oat , annihiltre the ocean. My
faith, which brigh-ens the future to my eyes,
i 8 founded on the blood which the Amerman
people have inherited from this lofty emits. it.
will never f end the servile Knee to executive
dictation. It eears an erect port and an ele
vated cress It has d fled the insolence of
power in every age of Its history, and it defies
it now. Yes, sir, the American peeple have
Buffeted the outrages of executive umurp diens,
and they have a lemnly laud deliberately na
Cored their defiance. The voice of the Barons.
the voice of John Hampden, and the voice
Patrick Henry, crying **give me liberty or give
me death." were all concentrated in the vetoe
of the people of this country, as expressed at
the ballot box in the recent elections.
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many issues before the country, and I. shall
not at this time seek to interpret at length the
public will on any other than the one I have
endeayored to discuss to-day.
It is true., however, that this administration
stands condemned by the people in every es
sential particular. It no longer possesses the
public confidence. It is waging a war which•
it is no louver pretended is to restore the Union
as our fathers made it. The constitutional
rights of the States have been abolished by
proclamation, and that portion . of the slaves
which are not to be liberated by the sword are
to be paid for by direct taxation. - A war thus
conducted is a fraud on millions of voters who ,
have hitherto sustained it. Its failure as a
remedy for our national calamities is palpable"
and absolute, even if war, under any dram
stances, could have brought us a restoration of
the Union. These and kindred questions were
decided in certain and distinct tones at the.
ballot-box in October and November; but I can
dono more than give them a passing' allusion
on this occasion.
But on the question of the integrity of the
Constitution and the protection which it af
fords to the citizen, the voice of the people
comes to our ears with a sound equally plain
and clear. It rang out from the cities and
plains, the mountains and the prairies, in stern ,
denunciation of every infringement which this
administration has made of that holy instru
ment, and in favor of the preservation of civil
liberty, whatever else might perish. Ie de
manded not only that the prison doors should
roll back and the victims of despotism be •
yielded up to the guardianship of the law, but
it demanded also, in the sovereign and imperi
ous tones of a free people, that the audacious
and dangerous principle on which arbitrary ar
rests have been made, and speedy and public
trials denied, shall be at once and forever aban
doned, in the most open and explicit manner.
Nor, sir, will the people give any second warn--
ingen this subject. They intend to be obeyed.
They know themselves to be masters and not
slaves. If the peaceful admonition of the bale
lot- box goes unheeded; if the reasonable and
earnest remonstrance of an enlightened and
patriotic people is lost on "those who seem
drunken and mad with power; if the insane
wickedness which has ruled this Congress and
launched the present administration on its
schemes of ruin cannot be reached and re
strained in its destructive career by the pop
ular voice coming up here in all its impressive
grandeur ; then the sword, the sword, sir, must
once more in the annals of the world deter
mine the ancient Nene so
.often baptized in
blood, between the abso lute power of one man,.
and the inalienable, indestructible rights of
the masses. I speak plainly. The time for
words without meaning has gone by. Yon may
pass this bill to protect the Executive and
his agents in the exercise of arbitrary power
from the consequences of their own acts You
may plow, them above all responsibility, You.
may elevate them above the law, and say that
it shall have no claims on them for the viola
tions it has suffered. You may say that the
victim& of their barbarous oppression shall be•
dumb in their presence. You may say that the
citizen shall have no legal redress for his
wrongs-. You may sanctify power and outlaw
liberty. Sir, no such law can be enforced. It
will not, for one moment, be obeyed. The
courts will obey the Constitution, and so will
the people, but they will treat such a law as
thin se an intruder and a misse-". — -0
moor
atthe reaps, s_sa sit r isen... w seer
at its terrible features We are treadines on
the thin crust of a flaming volcano. There is
coming woe and disaster in the very air around
us. The tremor of the approaching earth
quake is visible in the ground on which we
tread. The signs of the devastating whirlwind
are gathering in the angry sky over our heads.
Already the deep mutterings of its wrath can
be heard is the distance, Will you stand still
in stubborn mutiny against the raging elements
of popular indignation which injustice and
political debauchery have aroused,. and •be
crushed? There is but one par hwtly of escape
and safety. It. is the pathway on which the
lignt of the Constitution is shining in all its
original lustre. It is the pathway of the fay
there, in which the footprints of Washington
and the sages of tbat hallowed period tie yet
plainly visible. It is the pathway of justice,
of truth, and of honor. It is the pathway of
constitutional freedom, and leads to national
life, union and peace
Mr. Speaker, lam done. I take leave of this
subject. A greater or more important one to
every generation of men, in my judgment, was
never submitted to the ennsideration of a
legislative body. I have confined myself to the
discussion of a single issue; but the princi
ples which govern it are imperishable—in.
stinct with eternal life, clothed with immor
tality. The proudest works of human hands
decay; the brightest models of human wis tom
grow old and give place to others; govern
ments are rocked to and fro by fierce revolu
tions, and fall to the earth to rise again in
some new form ; we all hasten on in our eriee
journey. soon to take up our abode in the eilent
Necropolis—the city of the dead ; but liberty,
liberty—that divine emanation from the bo
som of God to the soul of man—will survive
every mutation, every shock, every change.
But if we expect to retain the illumination and
glory of its presence on these shores; if we
expect to transmit to our posterity the exalted
and priceless blessings which it 'bestows; if
we expect to escape the reproach of being false
to the great trust which our fathers reposed
in our hands for present and for future ages ;
if we would avoid the utter and absolute over
throw of every principle which has signalized
this Government as a Republic and not a deep°.
Liam; if we , e t >main e hereon this narrow isthmus
of time which divides the living and the dead,
with the Femme of our ancestors stretching
back into the past, and the advancing footsteps
of rising generatione terming up in the future,
would flee from the juke and lawful condemns,.
ti-n of both, we must return—return without
delay—to the pl'tin, the safe, and the immuta
ble, precepts of the Constitution. Let those
who control the administration now in power
give over their wanderings into dangerous lati
tudes. Let them hastily tetraoe their steps,
and take their' stand within the buti.s of the
law. Let them ehaodon their impious claim
of power outside of the provisions of the Con
stitution. Let them pur. e th• it minds of that
madness which dares to treat, American citizens
as slaves. Let this be acne, and public eons
lence will muse more brighten the flee of the
country, and a new strength will sprint up
from a sense of public security. Let this he
done, and though deep and dark salami. lee may
overtake us. se t. the primary and fundamental
object for which this government was founded
—the establishment of liberty—cannot be de
fretted. if. however, the present policy is t 4
be pursued; if there is to he no change in the
destructive career which now usurps end sup.
ptant.s the Constitu isn the laws; eht n
r e w ere my solemn belief that a scene of ruin
is near et hand in this once favored country,
more mournful then that over which Maria*
ir Car burgs, end more terri
bleell,4llhthee P
p l i 4 c iiris f
tuce ° O I desolation which marked
the destruction of the holy city of David.