The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-30
in that Proclamation is the suspension of the

5 in that Proclamation is the suspension of tn
] hobeos corpus.
Now, friends there are certain Latin word
5 which come down to US from the history O
, our fathers, almost made English by con
slant use. which can not we'll be translated
but which. nevertheless, are full of mean
ing. All English liberty. and all our liber-
; ties as descendants of Englishmen, COM
from what is called Magma Charta. 1t wa
extorted by the barons of England from
their despotic King John, in the year 1915
for themselves and their serfs, under tht
threat of the sword, if he did not sign tha
great charter for English liberty, from which
have sprung, in the main, all the rights and
liberties of Englishmen. From thence
comes our right of trial by jury, and our Sc
curity in the possession of our property
'Nullus Htsr homo capiet,r veI imsprisonetur. ,
No free man shall be taken or imprisoned.' >
No freeman shall be disseized of his free
hold, imprisoned and condemned, but by
alignment of his peers. or by the law of the
land.' That is the right and the liberty
which the English people have had since,
Anno Domini, 1915. Now, for the first tim g
here, and only with occasional exceptions,
in the history of English liberty, we are de-
pr ved of the right of trial by jury; we are
seized. arrested and imprisoned without any
adjudication of jury upon our sins or in
iquities, on any allegations which may be
made against US, and our property may be
seized or disturbed without any adjudication
whatsoever. 'Shame']
There followed, in the reign of the two
Charleses of England, (despotic kings.) what
is called the writ of habeas corpus. the right
which an English subject had, whenever he
was taken prisoner and incarcerated in Jail,
n have writ from, TuAoa IF ha of
Kings Bench, commanding the jalor to
bring the body of the su bject before him, to
have his case adjudicated upon acco riding to
the laws of England. And yet, that which
has been English liberty since the days of
the dark ages, (l2l5 y that which the des-
potic Kings of England, the two Charleses,
accorded, one of whom was executed for his
tyranny, and his Government suppressed by
well-that which our fathers have had
since their reign, is now subverted, over
thrown. DESTROYED. by mere proclamation
from the President of the United States, an
nulling both the right Of trial by jury and
the habeas corpus, by which every person has
right to know before some judge, why he
has been incarcerated. The President claims
that he has authority, under the Constitu
tuition, to issue this power Of suspending the
habeas corpus. Believe you that Washington,
rebelling against the tyranny of the execu-
tive power of King George, that Madison,
Jefferson, franklin, old John Adams, or any
OF the fathers of the Revolution, ever created
a Constitution by which one mere man, hav-
ing the same flesh and blood that you and 1
have. is, without act of Congress, to have
authority over thirty millions of people?-
that he can take any of you, by day or by
night, from your wives and children, and in
carcerate you in Fort Lafayette or Fort War
ren, beyond all hope of redemption? IN
famous'1 Never did the trainers of the
Constitution give grant such powers to
the Executive of the United States. ['We
will never stand it'll If it were given,
there is no liberty any longer for the people
of the United States, for that Executive has
but by the exercise of arbitrary power to in
volve this country in war with England or
France, and in the suspension Of the habeas
corpus, after creating an army OF million
of men, to ride, rough shod, over thirty mill
lions of hitherto free white men. ['Never,
never
Our own Judge Hall, in the western part
Of the State. but the other day liberated a
person, a reverend gentleman-who may, or
may not, have been guilty of something's
know not what-on habeas corpus. and in
doing so, declared that, as Congress had
given the President no such power. he had
no such power. [Applause. Notwithstand
ing this decision of udge Hall, this person
was taken the moment he was liberated Ga
whiteman kidnapped) to the Central Rail-
road depot, put in a freight car, isolated from
the people, and secretly and stealthily taken
from Buffalo to Albany, thence to Washing
ton. State prisoner. ['Shame.'] And they
tell me that for this free speech, this free
and fundam entail discussion Of all these
things. l may be imprisoned and incarcer-
ated. No, you won't.'1 But 1 do not at
all feel certain that one or two thousand po-
licemen may not take me any hour of the
day from the midst of my fellow -citizens.
and incarcerate me. ['Never,' and protract-
ed cheers.
A man in the audience proposed three
cheers for Judge Hall, which were enthusi-
astically given.]
Now, ellow-citizens, I dare say I shall
be asked by Republicans, after these COM
plants against the administration of the
earth over, in Europe as we'll as here, are
using all their cunning to subvert free insti-
tutions and the great principles Ut human
liberty. If, in our hostility to rebellion, we
forget our own rights and our own liberties,
we are untrue to the sacred trust which our
fathers handed down to us, in the Constitn-
ton al d in the Declaration of Independe
Let ne end. then, by repeating now mora
important than ever to be impressed upon
the Norther mind, the sentim ent of a great
Northern statesman, in trying times before,
Liberty and Union, now and forever, one
and inseperable.''
Mr.. Brooks resumed his seat, amid en- thu
siastic cheers.
MOUNTAINS OF SILvER.-The Silver Age,
of California, says:
"From a petty reliable source we learn
that the Ophr Company arc shipping weekly
from their works IN Washoe County the
sum of not less than $50, 900 in bullion. ana ana
some weeks it amounts to nearly S1OO,OOO
in ualna Al this ra ta the Weld Of the M mln