Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-09-04

savage Butler. that deuged the beautiful val
ley of the Wyoming with blood, will stand M
| and whiten their crimes in comparison with
the perfidy of the men who now attempt to di-
vide and destroy this Union. The ferocious
instincts of the savage taught him that he
might be doing duty TO his people; but these
| men were born in a land of civilization, and
| baptised in the name of the Trinity, and they
| should be held to an account for the abuse OF
the trust which has been confided to them
w no are these men in arms against the Gov
ernment-ln arms against the Union They
are men who have bean educated at its eX-
pense-been laden with its honor-been pam
pered at its Treasury. Il we perish we may
say with the poet over the stricken eagle
.,keen were his pangs, yet keener far to feel
lie nursed the piniou which impeled the steel
while the same plumage, that had warmed his
breast
Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding heart
If the Union is stung to the heart, it must be
melancholy reflection that we have reared
the men to do it., and like the demented Lear,
we shall learn
Glow sharper than serpent s tooth il is,
To have thankless child;'
that we have nourished and brought up chill
dren, and they have rebelled against the insti.
tutions of their country. We have seen bv
the action of the Border Southern States that
il is not their intention to permit this Govern
ment to be subverted. Every crime known in
the catalogue of depravity from treason to lar
ceny, has been committed in attempting to
drive them into Secession. How can these
men be sustained by any one, with hands drip
ping with blood-not only with the blood of
Northern, but Of Southern citizens; aud why {?
Because Northern candidate was elected who
had four years to serve, whose election they
might have prevented-whose election they
connived at, they will hazard whole eternity,
so far as temporal existence is concerned, to
crafty present personal pique and feed mean
ambition. Whoever sustians them, will not.
Whoever cries peace, l will not. Whoever
cries compromise with them, l will not.
for making peace with the loyal citizens of the
South-the loyal citizens of Kentucky and of
Missouri too, who have sent that modern n ebu-
chadneZzar Clai born T. Jackson to grass.
(Great Laughter). They ask in repetition can
you coerce State L say no; you cannot.
You might as well coerce the sun 10 shine or
the stars TO twinkle. Can you coerce neigh
borhood to be honest? No; but you may
punish its criminals. No one can justify
armed rebellion in opposition to the Union
and the Constitution of his country. But Mr..
Lincoln it is said, forsooth. has violated the
Constitution in conducting his Administrations
Very we'll; there is day of reckoning to come
with him and his advisers. But it is one thing
to violate the Constitution in defense of your
country, and quite another to violate it in en-
deayoring to Su bvert it. When my Democratic
or Republican friends, s'or any other man.
are disposed TO call the President to account
and l am not his defender, l merely beg, when
they get through with him, they will merely
inquire whether Mr.. Jefferson Davis & Co.
have gone strictly according to the Constitu-
tion of the United States [Cheers and laugh
ter have the Impression that instituting
pretended government within the boundaries
of the United States that stealing the treas
ures of our Government, its ships; hetraying
its commands; firing upon its Notifications
organizing piracy upon the high seas, and a
long list of other and kindred actS-I have the
impression, say, that these are slight infringe
ments upon the Constitution, and may require
examination. Laughter.l But want to have
my Constitution friends come along with me,
and when they get the Administration all
and on the constitutional track, to
look at this matter little; for it seems TO me
that it requires attention. Iknow not whether
Mr.. Lincoln has observed the Constitution
indeed, for all the purposes of resisting the
rebellion, | care not. 1t is due.to him to say,
however, that he has seemed to be in good
faith attempting to put down the rebellion.
lie has not done all things as | would have
done them, because | would have multiplied
his men by about four, and where he has struck
one blow | would have struck dozen.
| Laughter and cheering Therefore do not
comes We can have settlement with him, for
he to be held with all other officers to strict
account. But would not do even that under
the smoke of enemy'S guns. Let us see
first, that the rebellion is put down. And
when that is done l am ready to see how it has
been done. | do not propose to yield this
Union or any part of it to the so-called Con-
federate Government that has been made up
in the Southern States. 1t is no government,
and there is nothing in the shape of a govern
ment under il, over it, in it, or around it, di
agonally, horizontally, or perpendicularly.
Like boy IS training, it is all officers. Laugh
teri 1t is made up thus you shall be Pres
ldent of the Congress, and l will be President
OF the Confederacy you shall be Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and | will be Secretary of the
Treasury. Laughter Doubtless, very WE'LL
enough. If they had kept it to
themselves no one would have objected to their |
struttlng in their stolen plumage. But it is |
time for the people of the United States TO
put their hand upon it in earnest. and to main
tain the Government of the Constitution. The |
habeas corpus-a hard kind of name for a
writ, but one which lawyer or Dutchman |
finds little difficulty in pronounoing-it is |
said that the hebeas corpus has been suspen-
ded and abused. Well, think it is because
some have written so much about it, while |
they knew so little. 1t simply means to have |
the body. A prisoner is alleged to be i'm !
PioPSt's IihptiSOHOut ohu3 III oloSi tiide thC
case may be required into, a petition is presen-
ten to Judge, and then the Judge allows the
writ, and the prisoner is brought up, and the |
person who holds him is bound to make re-
turn. If the prisoner is Illegally detained,
the Judge orders him to be discharged; if
rightfully imprisoned, he remands him. That
is all there is about it. 1t is simply civil
writ. But there is an old maxim, as old as
Julius Cesar would have been bad he lived,
nfe oil hat
silent in the midst of arms. Hero is the
nuestinn An indipidnal is imnriSoned here |