Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-08

employ the military force ot the country, II necessary, for their support and execution; 6ut 10 do az Mis 20 comptiance only aolth ldw and ayith decisions of Me tribunals. If, by any ingenious devices, those who resist the laws escape from the reach of judicial au- thoritv, as it is now provided to be exer- cized, it is entirely competent to Congress to make such new provisions as the exigen- cy of the case may demand
 Treasons, sir, rank treason, all this to- day. And yet, thirty years ago, 1t was true union patriotism and sound constitu- tional law! Sir, prefer the wisdom and stern fidelity to principle of the farthers.
 Such was the voice of Webster, and such, too. let me add, the voice, in his last great speech in the Senate, of the Douglass, whose death the land now mourns.
 Next after the blockade sir, in the cata- logue of daring executive usurpations, comes the proclamation of the 3d of May, and the orders of the war and navy depart ments in pursuance of it-a proclamation and usurpation which would have cost any English sovereign his head at any time within the last two hundred years. Sir, Deconstitution not only confines to Goa gre7 the right to declare war, but express y pl>~ides that "Congress (not the presi- oeht) si,l have power to raise and SUD- port armle;" and to ''provide and main tain a navy In pursuance of this author lty' congress ears ago, had fixed the num- per or olncers' 'Nd of the regiments, of the different klnds ol ervice; and also the num- Der of ships and offlcrs, marines and seamen which should compos,the navy. Not only tnat' put congress mas -epeatedly, within the last five years, refused to increase the regular army. More than that still: in Febuary and March last, theIonse upon several test votes, repeatedly am express ly refused to authorize the preside,t to ac cept the services of volunteers for tla very purpose of protecting the public prope,tv enforcing the laws, and collecting the re- enue. And yet the president of his owr mere will and authority, and in violation o the constitution, has proceeded to increase and has increased, the standing army by twenty-five thousand men; the navy by eighteen thousand; and has called for and accepted the services of forty regiments ot volunteers for three years, numbering forty two thousand men, and making thus a grand army of military force, raised by ex. ecutive proclamation alone, without sane tion of Congress, without warrant of law and in direct violation of the constitution and of his oath of office, ofeighty-fve thou sand soldiers enlisted for three and five years, and already in the field. And yet the president now asks us to support tht army which he has thus raised; to ratify his usurpations by a law er post .tacto, ant thus to make ourselves parties to our owr degradation, and to his infractions of tho constitution. Meanwhile, however, he has taken good care, not only to enlist the men organize the regiments, and muster them into service, but to provide in advance for . horde offorlorn, wornout, and broken down politicians of his own party, by appoint ing, either by himself or through the gov ernors of States, ma generals, brigadier- generals, colonels, lieutenant colonels, ma. iors, captains, lieutenants, adjutants, quar- termasters, and surgeons, without any linn it as to numbers, ,and without so much as once saying to Congross-"by your leave, gentleman.
 Beginning with this wide breach of the constitution, this enormous usurpation of the most dangerous of all powers-the power of the sword-other infractions and assumptions were easy; and after public hb- erty, right soon fell. The privacy of the telegraph was invaded in the search after treason and traitors; although it turns out, significantly enough, that the only victim, so far, is one of the appointees and especial pets of the the administration. The tele- graphic dispatches, preserved under every pledge of secrecy for the protection and safety of the telegraph companies, were seized and carried away without search warrant, without probable calse, without oath and without description of the places searched or of the things to be seized, and in plain violation of the right of the people to be secure in their houses, persons, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. One step more, sir, will bring upon search and seizure of the pub lie mails; and finally, as in the worst days of English oppression-as ia the times oi the Russels and the Sydneys of Englisl martyrdom-of the drawers and the secre | tdIlcS Ol tllc plINdtC CitlZtuS, CNCl then tyrants had the grace to look to tht forms of the law, and the execution wa. judicial murder, not military slaughter But who shall say that the future Tiberius of America shall have the modesty of hi Roman predecessor, in extenuation of whose character it is written by the great histori an averta occulos jussitiQue scelera non spec tayit.
 Sir, the rights of property having beer thus wantonly violated, it needed but lit tie stretch of insupation to invade the sane tity of the person; and a victim was not long wanting. A private citizen of Maryland not subject 10 the rules and articles of war not in case arising in the land or nava forces, nor in the militia when in actua service-is seized in his house, ill the deat hour of night, not by any civil officer, nol upon any civil process, but by band O armed soldiers, under the verbal orders O military chief, and is ruthlessly torl from his wife and his children, and hurri ed off to fortress of the United States and that fortress, as in mockery, the very one over whose ramparts had hoated tha starspangled banner immortalized in song by the patriotic prisoner, who
 "By the dawn's early Hght,''
 saw its folds gleaming amid the wreck o battle, and invoking the blessings of heav'
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