The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1861-07-11
THE MEANS BY WHICH THEY INTEND
TO ACCOMPLISH IT.

Aside from what appears in the foregoing ex-
tracts we call the attention of the reader to other
means by which the Republican leaders intend to
destroy the government, on pretence of main
tanning the laws, AMI set up their own dogmas up
held by armed force.
Ist Congress can alone declare war, make and
unmake treaties, enlarge or lessen the army and
navy call into scrvce.the militia. provide laws for
their government, means for their support declare
blockadcs, and regulate commerce between the
States Sec. 6, Art /, OF the Constitution u S
Congress was in session when secession had done
its worst except to attack Fort Sumter. Yet il did
nothing. Since then the President has ord red
the navy increased to 5000 men, and the army to
$1,000 men. Tidy have called the militia into
service for three months, three years, and DURING
THE WAR and created debt of near one hundred
millions Of dollars AMI ask Congress violate
their oath and sanction usurpation. And Congress
will do it.
! 1t has been settled by Congress, By the consti-
tuition and the Supreme Court, that by act of Con
cress alone can the wri! of habeas corpus be sus-
pended The President has suspended it, or his
army officers have suspended it with his knowledge
and without reproof and against the protest of the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
| Government officials have seized and made pdb-
lie, private Geographic Dispatches which it is tei
ony for any telegraph operator employee to
reveal. Private property has been seized and con
! liscated to public on the highways of the ma
ton both by land and water. Ports of part of the
I baro dol Win - tt1-
ton declares that no preference shall be given to
the ports of one State over the ports of another
State. Foreign treaties have been broken by re-
fus;ng the nations entrance to the ports open to
them by treaty stipuatons. The mails have been
suspended and Withdrawn from large number of
+ loyal citizens and several States of the Union,
without act Of Congress who had established them,
and who alone has power to abolish them. Prop
erty has been declared contraband of war without
act OF Congress. Private houses have been
searched and private papers have been seized with
out authority of law. Private citizens have been
imprisoned, others mobbed, others shot and hung
for opposing Republican doctrines and when the
law has been appealed to its aud has been refused
Complaints TO government Of violations of law
have not been needed. Martyrs have been made
of republicans who have been killed while viola
ting private rights. ana men who defended their
rights have been pronounced assassins. In repub-
lican st. Louis, governed by bayonets and MIME
balls, private citizens have been shot down in the
open day in the streets and an impartial jury makes
return follows:
"That the subjects Of the present inquest came
10 their deaths from gun shot wounds inflicted by
Mimic musketballS discharged BY certain member:
of companies c, f. +, B. and J, of the Secont
Il e@incnt United states Reserve Corps, Whilst
marclin. down Seventh st Get on the morning O
the 18th. The jury fusther.e xpress it rs thc
opinion that said wounds were inflicted without any
provocatiOn or discharge Of firearms from citzen
then present. ana also without any order to iir,
having been given by the officers of SAID corps
Jackson was killed in Alexandria by volmtec
soldiers, and impartial ju Y returned that he wa
"kled'' by them "while in defence of his private
property in his own house,
, The citizens of New York got mp the following
petition and it was largely signed by al classes o
, citizens:
: .'To his Excelency. Abraham Lincoln, Presidel
of the United States:
1.-The undcrsigndt!, citizens of New York, be
leave to present to you most respectfully and earn
eSt!v the following considerations:
: awhile they hold themselves ready to sustai
and defend their government and You as its leg
: head. they respectfully suggest that the only re
naming honorable position for YOU to prevent tn
: horrors of civil war and preserve the Union is t
adopt the policy of immediate General Cor
II ventinn of all the States, suggested in you
inaugural.
..I1at course would secure Il peaceful solutio
II Of our national difficulties, and, if any State +,
2 fused to join said convention to amend the cor
II stitu!ion adjust peaceful separation, it woul
stand unanimously condemned before the civilize
world.
'Earncstly dcprecating civil war among brett
d rem, implore and beseech Won to adopt tn
Is course, which you may rest assured is the re-
e voice OF the people
- y republican superintendent seized the petite
n by force, and refused the people the right to pet
e. ton the government, which tie Constitution qua
y antees.
of Vigilance secret committees have been form,
sh to force men and women to submit to usurpatio
l. The following notices are sent even to the W
men:
God and Liberty"
OUR COUNTRY.
COP AND THE UsioN.
e HEADQUARTERS OF THE UHroN ]
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE,
New York April. 1851. \
MADAM: As a person layoring traitors to Il
il Union, you notified THAT your is records