St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-11-14

i,nprisO0 Without warrant. a"" carry thniu
out Of tie State. - t',st the writ of hab~"s
corpus cannot rs.scl, shem.
Erery day foreign ar'n"a bands are
msk;ne se;xures san0ng the people. Hui
drcds Of sisikous, OIL and young. vener!-
bic. nar.strates. whose 1--we. have been
d;st;,,. sished isv thet lpve If the pcvpie.
h,ve br~n rcmr~li.I to ay fr'm their
homes swl families :" escape imprison-
ment and exile mt tn. hands Of Northern
and German soldiers, under the orders VI
Mr.. Lincoln aud his military subordi-.
mates While yct hol.ling M Important
political trust, contilcd By Kentucky. 7
was compelled to leayc my homo and fam;-
Nv. or suffer imprisonment and exile. Il
it is asked why l did not meet the arrest
and seek trial. nv .an-wrr is. that [
would have Welcomed an arrest TO be sol-
loved by Judge and jury; but ycu veil
know that could not hav. secured thess
con .ti,ution Il rights would have been
TRANSPORTED b.vonI III State. ~ lan-nis!,
in some FcA:.rL fortress during thc pi.a-
sur, nf the oppre.s"r. Witness the fat,
Of Morchead and his kentucky associates
in their distant and glnnmy prison.
The case "f the gentleman inst mention,
ed is an example Of IN, my oth,rs. and it,
meets ever, element in Il d, G.!ition Of dsss
po,ism. Ii should occur i'll England. i
would ~ ri.httd. ar it would ovcrturn the
British Expire. H. is citizen and ma !:
tive # X cnturhy As member Of the
l. si>la.urc. Speaker Ok the H,usc. repre-
sentative in Congress from the Ashland
District. AMI tIvvern' " Of thu S,r,e, YOU
have known. trus,cd and honored him.
during 4 pubic service OF quarter Of A
century. He is eminent for hi. ah:lt,.
his amal'r character AMI his blam>l.',s
If, Vt this m.u. without inlictm-n.,
without warrant. wit, mt acrnsati,n, bat
hv III. Ter of President I.;ac In. WIS
sclzcl At midnight. in MS osn h,u>n, az!
in the mi ist "t his family, was led throuc,
the STREETS of !. 'ui>r vile. ~ an inf,rmn4
with hi, hands cfoSsel and pi,iioned b.
fore him. WIS cl"ricd out OF the State AL
lis r.,.'. mad uuw lies prisoner in a kr-
tr.ss in New York harbnr, a thaussol
miles away. u" you think that any tr,o
Legislature. ever ASS :mblr.l in k"nturkv
sine. the days Of Charles SCOTT aml Isaac
Shelby. until now. would have permitted
such >p'c,abl. to dishoncr the State?
No. Fellow citizens, the Legislatures
coull not have been free.
IwouL SPA. Of thasc thing with tho
simple solcnni'y which their ,nagniini.
dcmaad>, y,t I'll; dlIi;At s-En b,
expression Of n in I Indignation while We
,Ir:ar, un l-r suth clormiti.s. Mr. Lin-
coll IA, thousands Of soldiers on our SOIL.
nearly al from the Nnrih. AMI most nf
them foreigners. whon he employs rs his
instruments to do these things HIT few
k.n,uckians have enlisted under hi. stan.
iari, for We are nat y t accustomed 10 his
peculiar form Of liberty
will not pursue th disgr,ccful snhi-c'
Has Kentucky pas>c, out of the cohtro,
1t her own people: Shall hirclings tho
peu, Recently imported from the North,
sitting in grand security at tho Capitnl,
force public opinion to approve these u>ur-
pati"n-, and pint out victims? Shall Me-
Lincoln. through biz G :r,nrn me-csnari =.
imprisvn vr exile the children Of tao linen
who laid the foundations Of the Common
wealth. and compel our noble people to
exhaust themselves in furnishing the
money to destroy their own freedom?
Never. while kentucky remains the
Kentucky of old-ncver. while thousands
of her gallant sons have the will md tho
nerve to make the State sing to the music
of their rifles.
The Constitution of the United S:atcs.
which these invaders unconstitutonslly
swear every ci.izen whom they nncons,i-
tuti,ually seize toSsnrport. has been
wholly abolished. 1t i, as much forgotten
as if it lay away back in the twilight of
history The facts / have enumerated
show that the very rights most carefully
reserved by it to States and to indivdna's.
have been most conspicuously violated.
And this destruction has been accomplish
cd, not by the President alone. bu BY
the Congress also an / with the approval
OF the Northern States and people. They
have deliberately made the contes, con-
stitutional struggle between so many mil
lions Oh one side and 50 many on the other
one party lighting for subjugation, tho
other in scf-detencc and for Independence.
Whatever may be the future relations VI
the two confcderacies. the idea of the res
toratiou Of the Union under the old Con-
stitution is wholly visionary and delasivc.
If the North should conquer the South.
(Which it will perceive 10 he impossit,!e
after few hundred millions more shall Do
expended and few hundred thousand
lives lost J the character Of the Govern
,ucnt would be radically changed. Il
would probably not take the form even
Of a mixed government. but would soon
end in military despotism. II must soon
become apparent to all Thoughtful nsn
that the last hope Of constitutional liberty
lies in the early recognition of these great
truths-in all honorable peace and friendly
Intercourse.
You declared your purpose not to en-.
gage in the war to subIue the South. Ind
that you would b. neutral aud medists in
the Interests Of peace when an emporium.
ty should Offer This 10 the recorded
will Of the State as expressed By tho pso'
ple Bat those who assume to represent