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London, England, 1863-03-11 00:00:00

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collqUeror because such was its r,
triumphantly asked, might not the President of the
United States imprison any one whom he adjudged
to be a public enemy ? The pregnant question re-
mained unanswered. The Senate and its leading
shoe: maker were satisfied with the logic and the
illustration, and inquired no further. The same
body has passed that portion of Mr. Chase's financial
project which provides for a uniform issue of notes
for the whole of the United States, such issue to be
secured not upon gold or silver, but upon Federal
bonds. This measure amounts to a decided infrac-
tion of State laws, which declare banking and its
regulations to be matters entirely fortbe legislation
of the commonwealth in which the banks carry on
their business. This is the thinnest edge of the
wedge. It is driven in much closer and more forci-
bly in the Cense; irion Act, which the Senate, under
the guidance of its leading shoemaker, has hurried
through all.its stages with scarcely any debate. The
bill has yet to be considered by the House of Repre-
sentatives, which, through its minority, has mani-
fested a disposition to contest it at every point and
to employ every privilege, every rule, and every
artifice which the forms of the house allow to ob-
struct its passage, with the hope—a very forlorn
one—that the inevitable 4th of March will come,
and find it still under discussion, and therefore
lost. The bill is not so much intended
to raise soldiers for the conquest of the South
as to supply an armed force under the pres-
sure of which the next election for the Presidency
will be conducted. The conscripts of each State
will be sent to do military duty in States with the
people of which they.. have no sympathies. The
least dissatistaction expressed by the people will be
construed into treason, or danger to the public
public peace, sufficient to justify the placing of the
State or district under martial law. And under the
operation of martial;law the election will take place.
This is a desperate game to play ; but it seems to
be the game of the revolutionary majority of Con-
gress. They think by this means to defeat the elec-
tion of General M'Clellan, or any other man who
may be brought forward by the Conservatives, and
secure the election of an e.itreme Republican,
pledged to obliterate State boundaries, to make
Washington, or some other more convenient capi-
tal city, the heart and brain of the Federal system
—that shall regulate the affairs of every part of the
body politic, and reduce the powers and functions
of the local Legislatures to a level with those exer-
cised in England by parish vestries or boards of
trustees. By these and kindred means they may
weld the mass of the Northern States into a nation ;
but it will be at the expense of its liberty, and ulti-
mately of its republicanism.