Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-10-22
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THE TWO PROCLAMATIONS.
A BOLD SPEECH AT THE NORTH.

BOLD SPEECH AT THE NORTH.
A bold speech has been made in New York by
Hon. James Brooks against the two proclamations
of Lincoln. 1t is published in the " Weekly Cau-
cassian" the only paper that to have had the
courage to report it, and is copied into Brooks own
paper, the Express. The speaker commenced by
referring to the fact that in this hitherto proud
land Of liberty" he felt as if what he was about to
say made him candidate for the bastie.. He con-
tended that the Constitution is now the supreme
net and the only source from which they could
derive their power:
MAN ALLEGIANCE TORY IDEA
These are constitutional facts; this IS the written
law of the United States; this is the embodied gov
eminent of the United States, and the only Gov
eminent to which l, or you, or any Democrat, or
any Whig have ever sworn allegiance. Great
cheering The Beecher idea Of government is
twelve or fifteen hundred years DID, product of the
feudal ages the darkest ages of Europe. Braxton,
the lawyer, enunciated it in law Latin: "Rer est
oiearious ct Minister I eli in Tsrre omnis quidem
sub eb est ct ipse sub nullo isi tantuns sub Deo
The kingy idea Of government in one man. or
under authority, with certain Divine rights, ir
responsible to man on earth and scarcely response
be to God in Heaven, is the Tory Idea of Govern
Iuent; the despotic monarchical idea never before
till in this crisis this new era introduced and forced
upon the unhappy people of these United States OF
America. ("Good," and applause.) The President
himself is but the mere creature Of the Constitution
of the United States He never was elected by the
popular will, or by the popular voice of the people
Of the United States Ono, never" and great ap.
plause.) No, never, never, NEVER! Ca number OF
voices, "Never..O
Mr. LINCOLN NOT PRESIDENT BY THE POPULAR VOICE.
fho Eonr h1rdS of m
of votes cast at the last Presidential election, Mr.
Lincoln was in the minority of nearly million,
among the people, applause; } and though in Call
fornia and Oregon, under the plurality system, he
received their electoral votes, in New jersey go-
rious New Jersey, CHEERS for New Jersey) he did
not receive the vote popular or the vote electoral.
Thus in these three Northern States OF the Union,
majority of the people were against him, while
from the Susquehanna to the Rio Grande in fifteen
other States, not popular, nor an electoral vote
was given him.
Mr.. LINCOLN ONLY PRESIDENT AS CREATURE OF TIE
CONSTITUTION.
Nevertheless, under our constitutional system in
the Electoral Colleges, of the 393 electoral votes
there, though in popular minority of nearly
million of votes he did receive $50 electoral votes,
% more votes than necessary to elect him the
President of the United States under the Constitu
tion l repeat then, the President does not repre-
sent, and never has represented the popular will of
the people of the United States. CA voice" And
never Willy He Is the mere creature of the Con-
sttution of the United States and our obedience to
him as Executive our fidelity to him as the Execu-
tive, is through and under the Constitution alone
("That is all" and cheersl Hence when these de-
Chalmers tell mefhat the President is the Govern
men1 and the Cabinet are the Government, show
them the popular vote, and | repeat to them that
the President himself could not be President but
he was elected and upheld by the Constitution of
the United States and in defiance of the popular
voice of the United States. (Applause) Tell me
not then, that may not, and shall not, discuss the
measures of an Administration or, that the Admin
istration is the Government, and that in crticising
the Administration | am guilty of treason to the
Government. Government is thing eternal and
springs from God we'll as born Of the instincts of
men; but Mr.. Lincoln is but a creature of the Con-
stitution for four years. only. and the Cabinet
but creatures of Lincoln. And yet the reverend
Brooklyn exposition tells US that the President and
the Cabinet the Government Of the United States
CA voice" They are pretty nearly played out. }
shall therefore, and have right, to discuss freely
all the measures of the Administration.
THE TWO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PROVOST MARSHAL
WAR ORDER
There have recently appeared from the Admins
tration of this government three documents of the
greatest Importance, which it may be dangerous
freely to discuss, but which it is not the less
right and duty freely to discuss. These are the
first proclamation, the second proclamation, and
the last but not the least, the war order from the
War Department, abolishng, to considerable ex.
tent the civil jurisdiction Of the Courts, and estab
fishing in lieu thereof system Of Prosost Marshals
throughout the whole of the United States oil
America.
The first proclamation Of the President has in i,
three elements, three points, worthy of considera
ton. The first is emancipation, the second is a
proposition for the compensation for slaves and the
third is colonization of these slaves. propose
AS briefly as possible to examine these points il
order. The first thing which strikes man is, tt
ask, where is the grant Of power in the Constitution
of the United States which gives the President
but the creature of the Constitution, authority t,
annul whole States of the Union, or the laws ant
institutions of whole States in that Union, and t.
override all laws for the protection of loyal men
even If in disloyal States. No man can rise AM
say that there is, any where in our written Consti
tuition any such authority for the President OF thu
United States to exercise any such power as he as
sumes or usurps in his proclamation. The on
authority claimed is, that he as COMMANDER in
chief of the army-of the army not in the field
hagrunte bello, but as theoretical Commander in
chief of the army, sitting in the White House a
Washington, has tie power to exercise any author
ty which appears to hun BEST or which be deem
right. Now, if this be law, there is no securit
that he may not exercise the same power, if h
deems it best for the people Of the unitedStates,
annul the relation Of parent and child of ward an
guardian, of debtor and creditor, of mortgager an
mortgagea-aye all the rights and obligations
xocety-for he has the same right as Commando
in.chief to exercise all powers over the Norther
States Of the Union. ["Hear, hear" and cheers
TIE LAWS OF WAR.
Who created this creature of the Constitutio
the offspring of popular minority?-who vest'
and appointed him with this arbitrary power ov
thirty millions of human beings?- great cheerin
power, the like of which, if exercised in En-
land, without act Of Parliament would create
revolution there in forty-eight hours, among
classes Of people: a power which Napoleon new
dared to exercise upon his imperial throne, and o
which the French people would never submit to
attempted over the people Of France? [Cheers |
But there is no such military power under the
situations of the United States. There ave mart
rights, laws of war, but we'll known and we'll rec,
nized, laws written of in Grotious, in Vattel,
Puaendorf in our own Wheaton, and in our o.
Kent, and nowhere is there recorded as giving
any nominal commander of an army, any such
thority as the President attempts to exercise
only over the people at large, but over the Con
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