The Goodhue volunteer., 1862-07-09

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anything Of the state Of the country at the
time the present administration came into
power, know, that traitors thronged every
avenue Of society, and stalkcd abroad in oper
day, just as they now stalk about, here ir
Minnesota in The more genial hours of night
II was ne time for soft words, or tedious dc
lay. 1t was one Of those times dimly seer
by the trainers Of the Constitution, and
provided for by them in section ten, as fol
lows: The privilege Of the writ ofha2ra
corpus shall not be suspended, unless whei
IN cases OF REBELLION or invasion, the pu3zie
svety may require IT," Thus the public
safety is aesufficicnt excuse for suspendine
the writ of haJeas corpus, which always has
been, and still is, the safeguard Of persona
liberty. But the public safety is nothing te
an enemy Of the public, and tho suspension
of private right, when the public safety is
threatened, even by armed thousands, thun
dering at the very door of the capital, and
belching fourth iron hail on cur dcfenceles:
forts, is a glorious pretext for them to give
utterance to their reasonable SC tntinents
So with regard to the press ard the tcle
graph; when traitors dared not speak and
act their treason, they sought every mean:
and opportunity to furnish such informa.
ton to the rebels as would defeat every plan
for the salvation of the Government. The
press and the telegraph were the most con.
venient modes Of communication, aud they
were freely used until their use was wisely
prohibited by the Government. Not a loval
paper has been suspended by the Govern
ment, and that assertion in the secession
platform is simply an untruth. Many Sc.
cession papers were suspended, not because
they were secessionists simply, Qhough that
were sufficiently but because they PUBLISHED
iMtormation to the rebels. In one or two in
stances loyal papers have been excluded
from the ranks for indiscret1y publishing
news that ought net to be published. This.
those who claim to represent the Democracy
Of Minnesota tell US as.done on the PRE-
TEScE of military necessity. They will
not acknowledge that there is any real
military necessity, but only prttence No
higher military necessity ever existed than
to keep information of our movements from
the enemy; and if the secessionists did not
desire such information to go to their South
ern friends, they would never complain be :
cause it was summariy cut off, Then again
they are peculiarly sorry about the confisca-
ton and emancipation acts Of Congress, and
fear that Unonists will be driven off, and
become secessionists. Bah! They fear their
secession friends will suffer- that's all. No
emancipation act has been passed, except
with regard to the District of Columbia,
and that does not reach far enough South to
effect any Of the people they speak Of. And
the cenfiscation act only affects the property
of re6els, and does not injure any Union
man. And it is all CANNON to say or think
that the Southern Union men, have any
sympathy for Southern traitors. It is not
so. Union men are alike everywhere, North
and South. So are traitors and that, it
seems to US, is the reason why so much
sympathy exists here in the North for
Southern traitors.
But the ninth is rich, With "a want of
knowledge and ability to manage the affairs
of the nation in its present condition of ex-
treme peril" Now candid and impartial
history will tell postsrity that the country
was brought to its present 'condition of
peril ," not by the Republican party, but
under Democratic administraton.-inf fact
under succession Of Democratic Admins
trations, the last Of which excelled all the
others in imbicility. We don't say that trea-
son had any thing to do with it, but we sub.
NIT to every candid Democrat outside of the
clique Of secessionists and traitors, who, it
seems have whipped them all in this year,
that party who has had the management
Of the affairs Of the nation almost uninter-
ruptedly, all through its days Of prosperity,
and has run that nation down to the very
brink Of ruin, has but very little to say about
the wants Of knowledge and ability" Of
others.
Wesee secession and treason peeping out
Of almost every line Of those resolutions,
and we know that the Democracy Of this
State will not support them; if they do, we
know the pc pie Of the State will not sup.
port the Democracy.
Now we have no authority to make such
a call, but We earnestly recommend to the
Republicans Of this county and Of the State
to invite al who are opposed to tho resolu
tions passed by the Democratic Convention,
to come into the Republican Convention,
whenever it shall he called, and take a part
as n,en, assuring them that no DEAD issues
shall BE- forced upon them at the com
ing election, but tha, the canvass shall be
conducted on the issue Of the Union agaiast
Secession.
LATE BATrLEs.-It appears from the
latest dispatches that things bear more
cheering aspect before Richmond than was
at first feared. McCIallan was net forced T.
abandon his old position, but did it after do.
llberate reflection, in order to aet batter