Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-08-08

competent
provisions the exgency of the may demand
Treason sir, rank treason all this to-day. And yet
h true Union patriotism nDs and ssGS
deity to principle of the fathers.
Next after the blockade sir in the catalogue of daring
Executive usuptons the proclamation of the Sd of
ofa proclamation and usurpation which would
have cost any English sovereign his head at any time within
confines to Congress the right to declare but expressly
provides that Congress not the Presdent shall have the
maintain navy. pursuance oths authority Congress,
years ago. had liked the number of officers and OF the
Der of ships officers marines and which should
compose the Navy Not only that, but Congress has
regular Army than that still in February and March
as the House, upon several test votes repeatedly and
vice of volunteers for the very purpose of protecting the
public property enforcing the laws and collecting the
enue.
And yet the President OF his will and authority
and in voaton Of the Constitution has proceeded to in
the navy by eighteen thousand and has called for
and accepted the services of forty regiments of volunteers
making thus grand array of military force, raised by
executive proclamation alone, without sanction of Congress-
stituon and of his oath of Office of eghyve thousand
soldiers enlisted for three and five and already in the
Army which he has thus raised raty his usupatons
by awe1 post aco and thus to make ourselves parties
to degedaton and to his nfractions of the Con-
stitution Meanwhile however taken good care
only to enlist the men, organize the and muster
them but advance Tor lot
foorn wornout and broken down politicians of his
party, by appointing either by himself. or through the
Colones, Lieutenant Coonels, Majors, Captains, Lieu
tenants AdJutants and Surgeons without
ing to Congress- By your leave, gentlemen
Beginning with this wide breach OF the Constitution this
enormous usurpation of the most dangerous of all powers
the purse and the ewodoher infractions and assump
tons were easy and after public liberty private right
after and traitors although it turns out significant
y gh, that the only victim, far, is of the ap
pontees and especial pets of the Administration The tele
graphic dispatches preserved under pledge of
for the protection and safety of the telegraph companies
were sezd and carried away warrant with
out probable cause, without OATH and without description
of the places to be searched of the things to be SEIZED
and in violation of the right of the people be
N their houses persons papers, and effects, against
nable searches and seizures. One step more, sir will
bring upon search and of the public mails
hnay as in the worst days of English oppressonas in
the times of the Russes and the Sydneys of English martyr
the drawers and secretaries of the private
though then ran had the grace to look to the forms
OF the law anu the execution judicial -der and mil
tay slaughter But who shall say that the future Iberus
OF America shall have tie Odesty of his Roman predeces
sor in extenuaton of whose character is written by the
great historian dUert occulos jussque sceera spec
Thus is sir that here, America in the seventy third
year of the Republic that great writ and security
al freedom Whcn it costs the patriots and eemen of Eng
land six hundred years of labor and toll and blood to
tort and to hold fast from vena judges and yrant kings
written the great Charter Runnymede by the iron Bar
rons who made the simple Latin and u9couh words of
times nus liber homo the language of Chatham worth
ali the classics recovered and confirmed hundred times
afterwards often violated stolen away and finally
and firmly secured at last by the great of Charles
transferred thence to our own Constitution aud laws has
been wantonly and ruhlessly tramped in the dust Ay
sir that writ bearing by special Para-
ment, those other uncouh but magic Words per sdutm
rlceSSln0 primo Carroll SecUndt regis which English
judge, English minister king queen of Eng land
dare dsobey that writ brought by fathers
cherished by them prnceess Inheritance of liberty,
American President has contemporary at defiance.
Nay more he has ordered his subordinate military chiefs
suspend at their discretion And yet after a this he
cooy before this House and the Senate and the
country and pleads that he only preserving protect
and of the Senate and the Country their thanks
pations OF power while outside of this Capitol his myrm
dons are camong for Impeachment of the Chief Justice
engaged in conspiracy to break down the Federal Gov
ernment?
SIR am obliged pass by for the want of tme other
grave and dangerous nracons ana usurpaon the Pres
iden since the first OF April. only aude casually to the
quarterng of soldiers in private houses
of the owners and without any having been pre-
scribed by law the censorship over the and
the Infringement repeatedly, in the States
OF the right of the people to keep and bear for their
defence But if all these things ask have been done in
the first months commencement of this war
and by men not military chefans and unused arbitrary
power what may not expect to see done in three
and by the heroes fight? sir the power
and rights of the States and the people, and of their Repre-
sentaves have been usurped the sancttv of the
house and of nrvaie nronertv has beao ivod1 pa tb
liberty of the wanony and wcked stricken down
free speech too has been repeatedly denied and all this
under the plea Of necessity.
Sir the right of petition will follow nextnsy it has al
fall after It and let whisper your ear there will be
few to mourn its loss unless indeed ancient high
its reckless mendacy degradation Free
dom OF religion will YIELD too, at last amid the exutant
SHOUTS OF millions, VINO have seen its holy temples defed
and its white robes of former innocence ramped now uu-
der the polutng hoos of ambitious and fahless
atica clergy Meantime national banks, bankrupt laws
vast and permanent public debt high tariffs heavy direct
taxation, enormous expenditure gigantic and pendous
speculation, anarchy first and strong government
wards State lines State governments and
consolidated monarchy ceDtra lied military des
potsm must all follow in the history of the tuture the
history OF the they have,
Sir have said hing, and have time say nothing
Of the immense Indebtedness and the vast expenditures
of tho al
sgemen of the far of the atroci0us
specuations and frauds which have dsgaced in the
beginning The aveI'Gn hour for all these will come Lere
o after, and pass them by now;
day but how changed the scene Instead of thirtyfou
States twentythree only one less than the number ort
years here the other wing of apitol
Forysx Senators and hundred and seventy Rep
resentatives constitute the Congress of the Unite
States And OF these eight Senators and Rep
resentatves from four States only nger here yet depu
ties from that great South which, beginning of tn
Government. contributed SO much to mould its policy
build its greatness and to control its destnies All tn
States of that South gone Twenty-Five Senator
and siXyfVe Representatives longer to thei
names. The vacant seats indeed, still here and tn
escutcheons of their respective States look down
solemnly and sadly from these vaulted ceilings But tn
Virginia Of Washington, and Henry, and Madison,
Marshall and Jeerson of Randolph and Monroe birth
place of Clay the mother of States and of Presidents h
Caronas Of Pnckney and SUMTER and Marion, Cahou
Macon and Tennessee, the home and burial place
Jackson; and other Sates oo most loyal and
longer here The voices and the footseps of
great dead of the past two of the Republic nger still
tol but their descendants from nearly onehal of
States of the Republic will meet with with
these marble halls. But in the parks lawns and upo
the broad of this spacious city, seventy
soldiers have supplied their places morning drus
beat from of encampments within sight of tis b
eagured CAPITOL give melancholy warning the Represe
tatves of the States and of the people, that amid arm
: u' ldtcS are silent
= sir, years hence, would fan hope month
hence, dare the present generation will demand to kno
the of all this and ages hereafter the graz
I and imperial tribunal of history will make solemn and d
~ inquest of the authors of this terrible revolution.
st AN INCIDENT.-Of the squad of gallant volunteer
:. who commanded of Capt. Andersons guns at ii
i late battle of Rich Mountain, private Samuel H. Broy
les, of Lynchburg, the only who was not ethe
re kied Uonnded He escaned nnhnrt vuas tak