Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-07-08

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cSs.ss 80 erssghe - tAcir great approval Of
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nos dsenitsly known, alshouah ~ euknf6ssd
ne esdinsnee for ratincAaiea 70 . ~ n ~ ~
Pc 70 - taken somevhst mere The : MIMI
ns.. ss The Convention ard Lssislssurs which
s .ase leading nea q TIE STATE. imne.
aseeoly ee00eased sstjse = n ~ Sta&~ -,
Eseeay out Of ne Uaien. Thsy pushed miiitesy
s.s sees vigNouGly SHvGsf ajI ovae ths
Psrr, -, xnSy ss.sd tAs 2. 8: Armory u Harper.
received pls ss,sss isso 1i .s.r sssss
Soues q troops, viii their wariiks appointmsnts
ton the % called seesdsd States. T6ey formally
n.stec isto treaty u sslianes with the called
SSoaIeoefats States, and sent members 70 their
ted ~ !. .ooseonsry and an.lly :Soy permit
,erred to their capital u Riehnond The people Of
this giant insnrrsetion TO make lie
nest within her borders, end this 0ovsrnment has
no choice loft bot 70 deal with Il whore il finds it,
and II % the less to regret the loyal citisens
have 10 due form claimed its protection. Thore
loyal citisens the Govsrnmont 10 bound t. sccoR-
niss and protect q being il Virginia.
In the Border States. called, in fact the Mid
die States, there those who favor . policy
which thew call nPm0d nAulRaIitv-th~k q
srming Of those States 70 prevent the Union
forces passing one way Or the Disunion
the other, over their soil. This would
20 d'ssnion completely, and hgurstively speaking
u would b the building Of an impossible line Of
SEPARATION, and yet not quite an impassable one,
ios under tae guise Of Mentality IL would be the
hands of the Union men aud freely pass supplies
from among them to the insur.scsionists which it
could not do q an open snsmy At .
Ole Of tho hands Of secession
only what proceeds from the external blockade. Ii
would do for the disuuionists, that which Of all
hinss they most desire. feed them well and give
recognizes no fidelity TO the Constitution, no oD-
iSessos 70 a.ei~tsi. tAe Usiea While very man.,
Who have favored it are doubtless loyal citzens,t
Is nevsftheless very injudicious In effect.
Recurring to the action Of the Government it
may be stated that 1t 6rst call
ives made for IS 600 militis. Rapidly fol-
loving this . proclamation was Issued for
closing the ports Of the insurrectionary dis
,ricts by proceeding in them Of blockade
SO tar oil Sss believed TO be strictly legal. At
this point the insurrsctionists announced their
purpose OF entering upon the practice Of pri.
watering. Other calls we're made for volun.
teers to serve three years unless
sooner discharged. and also large add.
,ions to the regular army and navy.
Taese measures, whether strictly legal or not were
ant NpnAs hal n
mand for public necessity, trusting then, as
now, that Congress would readily satisfy them.
1t Is believed that nothing has been done be-
yond the constitut onal competency Of Congress
Soon after the first call for militia, it was consd-
cred duty to authorize the Commanding General,
IN proper cases, according to his discretion to sus
pend the privilege Of tho habess corpus,
Or, In other words, to arrest and detaln without
resort to ordinary processes and forms of law
such Individuals rs he night deem dangerous 20
the pnblic safety. This authority has purpossly
been exercised, but very sparingly nevertheless
the legality and propriety Of what has been deno
under 1t. are questions, and the attention Of the
country has been called to the proposition, that
one who IS sworn to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed, should not himself violate
them. VI course some consideration was
given to the question, Of tho power and
propriety before this matter
was acted upon. The whole Of the laws which
were required to be faithfully executed, were be-
ing resisted and tailed Of execution in noary one
third OF the State. Mus, they be allowed to finally
tan OF execution, even if it had been perfectly
clear that by the use OF the means necessary to
their execution. So sin lie law made in such
extreme tenderness OF the citizens of liberty, lib
erty tat practically relieves more of
tho guilty than the innocent, should to
very limited extent be violated. To state the
question more directly, are all the laws but one
To go une xecutcd aud the Government itself 10 90
pieeos, lost that be violated? Even in such
"a case would MT the official oath be broken il tn
Government should be overthrow, when it was
beloved that dis,egarding the single law would
tend to preserve? but il was not believed that
this question WAS presented; it was not believed
that any law was violated. The provision of tn.
Constitution that the privilege of the Writ of
haDeas corpus shall not DO suspended except in
cases Of rebellion inva sion the public sstetv
does require it. 1t was decided that we have n
case Of rebellion and the public safety does reuui,
the qualified suspension of the privilege OF the
writ which was authorized to be made, Now i,
IS insisted that Congress and not the executive is
vested win TINS power, but the Consultation itself
IS silent as to which or who is to usurp the
the point and as the provision
was plainly made for dangerous emergency.
1t cannot be believed that the trainers of the
instrument intended that in every csse the dan.
ger should run its course until Compress
wae called together. the very assembling Of
which might be prevented, as was intended i,
th's case by the rebel ion. more extended
argument need not now be offered. IA an
o,inion at some length viii probably
he presented by the Attorney General
whether Tn ere shall eany Legislation on the SUBJ
Jcct, or II so, what is submitted entirely to the
better judgment of Congress. The forbeara nee
OF this Government has been 80 cxtrao rdinarv
and so long continued to lead some foreign ma
tons TO shape their actions as if they hai sun.
posed the early destruction Of our national Jniau
nFnh n vyhe
some concern He is now happy to saw ,So,
sovereignty and rights OF the IT, 3, are now nrsc'
tically respected by foreign powers, and oererol
| sympathy with the Government is m.r;sasss.
Throughout the world.
The reports of the Secretaries of the Treasr-v
War and Navy Department, will givethe informa.
ton in detail, deemed necessary, and conven;sr,
for your actioc while the Executive and
departments will stand ready to supply
omissions, or to communicate new facts Con.
siderei important for you to know. I,
is now recommended that you give tt eaal mea
tor making this contest short and decisive On.
that you place in the control Of the Government
for the work, At least 400, 900 men and S4OO. 0O0
900. That number Of men is about one-tepth %
those Of proper ages within the regions where
apparently all are willing to engage, and the sum
is less than q twenty-third mart Of the monev
value owned by the men who seem ready To avo,s
the whole. debt Of $6cO, 900 400 now. is a less
sum per head than was the debt of our
revelation, when we came out Of The
struggle and the money value in the
country bears even greater proportion. Surely
each man has q stronger motive now to preserve
our liberty, - each had then to establish them.
right result, at this time, will be worth more to
the world than tn times the men-ten t;mss ~ =
money. The evidence reaching us from the coun.
try leaves no doubt that the material for the
work is abundant; that it needs only the
hand OF Legislation to give it sanction and
tEa hand nj