Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1862-01-08


| the Judicial tribunals, say 14t az civ
that additional lsgislsg loo, ard lei a. a.,
sanction the exarulsp uf such high pow sr1
as these outside Of the law, and, Us Ihl
senator says, sFnn the plea dflneeessity.'
bhy, AR, / deny tbs necessity. Il Thi
pEinelpls eontsHdsd for would jastifl
riots and mobs in Furnishing eriAinali
wherever found. suppose q man haI
foonthtseed an odtnso apparent to tn
/ seaeEa eaaRsEg, shall the eitfkeHs ef sht
cauntry get together and exacare tbs maE
without trial; or imprison him and mold
him prisoner without trial2 Is thai ths
way the laws OF the country are to bs al,
nainistered Has the Constitution rle
meaning, and ara laws 10 have no efEnaes'
We shall have anarchy AZ once ii such
doctrine is to prevail.
y do not know the facts in regard 20
arrests which have been made. Nv res
citation does not ASSUME that arrests hava
1sen made, bat inquiries wAsther they
hare been. If we are to 80 outside, as
TIE Senator has done, | maT say that
understand arrests have been niatfe, sud
The parties afserwaFd arrested, In soEaa
instances, have been discharged without
trial. Does the Senator justify that?
Mr. Dixon d..
| Mr.. Trumball-TheS Seastor then iusti-
hes putting inaocent men in prison Else
Why were they dischargedT take it
that was the reason for their discharge.
have heard of such cases.
| Mr.. Dixon-The yought to be diseharg-
ed, then.
MF. Trumbull-Tbey ought to be dis
charged, and they ought to be arresled,
too! An innocent man ought to be ar
rested, put into prison, and, by and by,
| discharged! Sir, that is nor my idea of
! individual OF constitutional liberty lam
| engaged, and the people whom | repre-
sent are engaged, in the maintenance of
the Constitution and the rights of the cit
lzeas under it. We aFe fighting for the
! Government as our fathers made IT,
Tha Constitution is broad enough to put
down this rebellion without any violations
| fit. do not appFehend that the pres
cot Exesutive of The United States will
| assume despoiio powers. He is tie last
man to do il. know that bis whole
heart Is engaged in eudeavoring to crush
| this rebellion, and know that be would
be the last man to oSerturn tho ConsGitu-
tioa in doing it. But, sir, we may not
always bqve the same person at the head
Of our affairs. We may have man Of a
very different character, and what we are
| doing 10 dag viii become a precedent up
IN which he VII act. Suppose that, whrn
the troubles existed in k4ns.ls few years
ago, the then President Of the Unit j
States had thvu-ht proper 10 arrest the
Senator or myself, and send him or nae
10 prison without examination, without
"pg0TIuni y 10 answer, because, in his
opinion, We were dangerous = the peace
N tbs country and the necessity justified
II. ffhaV wvufd the SCuat IT nav Z thought
II -ueb actiOu2
SIR, say there can be no such neces-
shy in tn loyal portions Of Eh. country,
wn re the courts UT crate bactuse, II tn.
LAWS arr not sufhei1nt in suca localities
IL s2carc this arrest Of p4rli > who art
wGaZ ii ag int tn tiov ovtrHrn1nt, We c.r-
tsiuly have III pa. :, ,:-..:.1 II law.
l. f thr S4saTOr fram Cunulscricur cume
forward aith bill authorizing th1 arrest
Of ;h"se nm ia his ate who aro giving
ltl and comfort 10 tn enemy, If the laws
are not ,uthcI .ut already, and certainly
shall vote most ehecfluiiy with him ior
Ehe passage Ut such ball. Then we shall
hav4 the matter regulated by iaw, aud
there will be no assuPtion Of unwarrante'{
power.
TIN s nat0r SAYS that som parsons al
tvw themselves 70 be troubled With con-
sIituiiUnaI scruplcs, and b. does not and
that these arrests grow Uut Of the necs-
siIy OF the times, Sir, it is just such
times AS these that the greatest danger
aris IS. 1t Is in just such times as these
that tn. founda!l0ns of tyranny and des-
potism are laid IL il not when the people
are wiIe awake to their rights. If you
will ulothe despotism With iron shoes, go
ing forth TO tranple upon the rights Of
the people. and bearing ch lins and fet-
tcrs to bind their limbs, no people on
earth would ever submit ID bis sway
But, sir, the desp0t creeps upon the people
unaware. Ii is under the plea Of Rtcessl-
ty under til pretcnse that it is necessa-
~ he should assume unWarranted powers
fDF the purpose Of preserving the Govern
mens Or the public peace and then, whca
the powers are assumed, aud the people
are bound hand and foot, they have not
the ability to extricate themselves from
| the tyranny that IL imposed upon them.
Now, sir, no harm, | apprehend, can
grow out OF an inquiry Of this character,
because if the reply of the Secretary of
State should show that arrests have been
made, and that there Is no law for them,
and thai there is necessity fer excrcis-
| Ing IA power of this kind, will Ia not be
better, ask my friend from Connecticut,
for Us to pass 8 law, aud haEe these
| things done under the faw 2 Then, why
| NOT let the inquiry be made, so that we
may know whether there is necessity
fOr gny such law or not !? Why undar
| take to justify and commend the exercise
of admitted usarpatten, which | under
| stand the Senator from Connecticut 10
| DO? Sir, will never commend it, 10
der particular circumstances may hare
excused some act far doing which the
| warrant Of law coald not, perhaps, ut the
time be found buE, sir, will never COM
mend the usurpation of power by any
person. would avoid IL on all occasions,
/ w0ald stand by the Constitution as we
hAv" IL. | would no more purmiG our own
ofhcers TO violate IL now, when Congress
is together, aad Gan ciuahe them with
the necessary authority, than 1t we weT,
al peace.
| lhoPe, sir, that the resolution, which
is siiHpis resolution Of inquiry. will b
permitted to pass; and aIa sorry it eoulC
nut hnve passed without opp0sitiou.
Mr.. Trumbutl-Mr. President, regre
lbe aeeassity OF saying anything furthe
with rpfersalce to this matter, which ha
assumed very wide range fsr asre
resolution of inquiry, and | aertainl,
should not 40 so bat for what has falIei
> from nay colieugas, az whose remarks
I'll sum ahut aurrarialIl l knrtal NiE