Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
From the st. Mary's CMd) Bsacon.7

ANOTHER BOLD SPEECH FROM MARYLAND.
SaLus P0pui Ler Supreme est. Nobody, we opine
is much surprised to discover in times like the pres
ent, that men are to be found willing and quick to
support the most shameful and arbitrary assump-
tons of power 1t has been so since the world be-
gan, and we have little hope that it will be other
wise until it ends. Take little heed of SUCH"
says CaSca "if Caesar had stabbed their mothers,
they would have done no less" By thus tapping the
dirt under the heel of power these natural pariahs
not only obtain immunity for themselves, but they
also succeed IN putting money in their pockets =
They give welcome to the tyrant that they may
safely trade with his suffers The existence of such
people does not at all astonsh nor even that they
are to be found in our midst We were quite pre-
pared to see men, who had abetted mob on the
18th of April 1861 change sides and call Justify for
the blood Of that same mob on the 9th of Nav fol-
lowing. We expected nothing better of them, and
were not disappointed. When law and liberty are
again uppermost they will, doubtless, be found ma
vigating in an opposite direction. When that time
comes, as come it will, we look to behold them,
with faces innocent of shame, obtruding themselves
upon the company of honest men. The natural
inclination will be TO hang them up to the first
lamp-post but deprecate all such exhibitions of
violence We shall rest content to see them kicked
out of the public highway and limited thereafter to
localities set apart for prostton of different kind
There is a class of men, however, found support
ing the present Administration, and uphoding Its
very worst acts of tyranny, who are Justly amena-
BILE to hIg her and severer standard of judgement
than can be fairly applied to those to whom self
abasement is an easy because a natural refuge
These reasoners rest the defense of their public
conduct upon the supposed necessities of the coun-
try and the hour and satus pOpuEi lee Suprena est
is their war-cry. This maxim they make to conse.
crate not only the high-handed acts of Lincoln and
Seward, but the dirty villainy of their mill
tary and police subordinates. A little girl toddling
about the pavements whose stockings are guilty Of
the Confederate coors is arrested and taken to the
station-house that the safety of the people may be
assuredP But our present object is not to quarrel
with the prostitution to contest the truth of the
maxim in question We would remark however
that 1T IS maxim which has much oftener been
heard from the lips of tyrants than patriots 1t is
against its application to own times and country
however, that we particularly object What is the
plain English of it when applied to our present con-
ditionl 1t is to suspend the Constitution for an
indefinite period to invest Mr. Lincoln with plenary
power throughout the land in a word to seat des-
potism upon our shoulders that the subjugation of
the South may be facilitated Now, we do not
admit that the subjugaton of the South is essential
to salvation; but if it could be established to be
before invest Mr.. Lincoln with absolute control
over lives liberty and property are we not entitled
to be shown why this subjugation could not be ac-
complshed as well by obeying as by overriding the
Constitution. Besides, what security has the coun-
| try that Mr.. Lincoln will abdicate this imperial
| power when the supposed danger has been passed
| But what really is the danger which menaces our
safetys The separation of the South from the North
Is an accomplished fact which no sane man can ignore
IL ne would. Upon the part of the South the war