The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-07-29

has failed to curtail the liberty of the
masses, l have not read that history
Alright. Already. with one years
bitter experience, we have beheld
some of the dearest privileges OF
American citizenship wrested from
our grasp. And how long, at the
same rate, before, upon the convenient
plea of necessity, we shall be stripped
Of others rights which heretofore have
made us deem ourselves freemen n
How long, while personal liberty now
depends on the nod Of an official 2
How long, while frec.born American
citizens can be left to langnish in Bas-
tiles, beyond the reach Of the consti-
tuted tribunals Of the land and at the
mercy of the Executive for their lib
erationl How long, while the press
the guardian Of liberty, the friend OF
the masses. is shackled, gagged cow
ed down to sullen silence, or, worse
yet, become the minisn of party ??
How long. while voters are arrested
! ut the polls by military process, and
Legislators are hurried off to prison
before they can assume their sacred
functionsY How long, while the par
! tisans Of this immaculate abolition
party are coming money out Of the
blood Of their country men. parading
their snowy patriotism and shouting
"union," with rheir arms up to the
elbows in the public Treasury 3? How
long, sir, will the people Of the North
taxed beyond endurance. robbed and
cheated by an ever-craving horde of
! political h yenas-how long will they
have choice between freedom and
anarchy, between a republic and des-
potism 2 Alas we viii still cling to
the name Of republic, hut have we
! the reality {? 1t is entirely at the
option Of ono man or Of II council Of
men, whether the citizen shall breathe
in freedom the air OF heaven A,
) the "op-n sesame u.'thc Executive,
tn. gloomy portals Of the Bas.iles
! Lafayette and Warren viii cape to re-
ce,ve him. And this is the republic
] was Taught to love.
Sir, it is only sign ana forerun
ner Of what ,nust inevitably BIZ should
the South be crushed into the Union.
You may bring the South to terms
with your bayonpts. but when you
have done so. you will have bond
OF air: n covenant to inforca which
viii necessitate this government to
assume the functions of military
despctism. and TO break which at the
fist opportunity will be an aim and
a purpose on the part Of the subdurd
s,ctioa. What they have attempted
once, they will not fail to attempt
hereafter, when smarting under the
the remembrance Of defeat, Will.
, cllesishins the deadly hate that n war
to III. utterance will engcnder.
i For the sake Of union ROW and of
union hereutter-not inforced union.
but the strong union Of willing hearts
/, Jet the word Of peace go forth let
t the hand of reconciliation lie extend
ed Why sir, I have heard such
, words Of bitter hatred expressed to-
, ward the Southerners by Northern
r lips, that fear it may be already too
? late ever to renew the bonds OF fra
, ,ernity. Such sentiments ! have
heard of applicable, thirs,ing ven
grance. Of sectional antipathy, MS
: Hannibal was Taught to MIXTURE
y against Rome; as Rome in her qnench.
: Less jealousy conceived toward Car
! thage to the end. And tho doom OF
! Carthage may be accepted by the
e South, rather than reunion at the bay
onet's point.
e appeal to this Congress to aver
a that fate as inglorious to the victor n!
!, to the vanquished. Let the door tt
, negotiation he flung wide open, flung