Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-10-21
GBt Staa6ar6.
rHB,Two PRocLAMArroNs.
A BOLD SPEECH AT THE NORTH.

, !, A boyd speech has been made in New York by
Hon. James Brooks against the two proclamatlons
Of Lincoln. 1t is published in the p" Weekly eau
oas.ian the only paper that seems 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 bastile. He con-
tended that the" Constitution is new the supreme
law of the land above the President and the Cabi-
? net and the only source from which they could
derive their power:
#geEE 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 !, or you, or any Democrat or
any Whig have ever sworn allegiance. [Great
chseriug9 The Reecher idea of government is
twelve or fifteen hundred years old product of the
feudakages, the darkest ages of Europe Braxton,
the lawyer, enunciated it in law Latin Re1 est
oie1riors ct Minister Ell in Terre onsnis guidem
sub Cd est ct ipse SUB nullo nisi tdntum SUD DeO."
The kingly idea of government, in one man, or
Nnder one authority, with certain Divine rights, r.
responsible to man earth and scarcely response
BILE to God in Heaven is the Tory Idea of Govern
ment; the despotic monarchical idea never before,
till in this crisis this era introduced and forced
upon the unhappy people of these United States of
America {" Good" and applauSe.9 The President
himself 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-
pianseA No, never, never, NEvERl \ number of
voices "Never, .-
Mr.. LINCOLN NOT PRESIDENT BY The POPULAR VOICE
Of the four millions and two-thirds of million
of votes cast at the last Presidential election, Mr.
Lincoln was in the minority of nearly million,
among the people; applause } and though in Cali
fornia and Oregon, under the plurality system, he
received their electoral votes, in New Jersey, glo
rious New Jersey, Cheers for New Jersey,) he did
not receive the vote popular the vote electoral.
Thus, in these three Northern States of the Union,
q majority of the people were against hin, while
from the Susquehansa to the Rio Grande in fifteen
other States, not popular, nor an electoral vote
was given him.
NR. LINCOLN ONLY PRESIDENT AS CREATURE OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Nevertheless, under our constitutional system in
the Electoral Colleges of the 393 electoral votes
there, though in popula minority of nearly a
million of votes, he did receive $50 electoral votes
IS more votes than necessary to elect him the
President of the United States under the ConStitu-
ton. 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
neyu will He is the mere creature of the Con-
stituton of the United States and our obedience to
nun Is EAecuLlVe, our nuelty 10 MIN as the E8ecu-
tive, is through and under the Constitution alone
('' That is all, and cheers) Hence when these de-
Chalmers tell that the President is the Govern
ment and the Cabinet are the Government show
them the popular VOTE and repeat to them that
the President himself could not be President but as
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
mi Of N 0r no dmi
istration is the Government and that in criticisng
the Administration | am guilty of treason to the
Government. Government is thing eternal and
springs from God as we'll as born of the instincts of
men; but Mr.. Lincoln is but creature of the Con-
stitution for four years only and the Cabinet are
but creatures of Lincoln. And yet the reverend
Brooklyn exposition tells US that the President and
the Cabinet are the Government of the United States
a Voice-"They are pretty nearly played outD
shall, therefore, and have right to discuss freely
al the measures of the Administration.
THE TWO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PROVOST MARSHAL
WAR ORDER.
There have recently appeared from the Admins
traton of this government three documents of the
greatest importance, which it may be dangerous
freely to discuss but which it is not the less our
right and duty freely to discuss. These are the
first proclamation, the second procla1iation and
the last but not the least the war order from the
War Department abolishing, to a considerable ex-
tent the civil jurisdiction of the Courts, and estab-
fishing in lieu thereof system Of Provost Marshals
throughout the whole of the United States of
America.
The first proclamation Of the President has in it
three elements three points, worthy of considera-
ton. The first is emanc patton the second is
proposition for the compensation for slaves and the
third is colonization of these slaves | propose
as briefly as possible to examine these points in
order. The first thing which strikes man is, to
ask where is the grant of power in the Constitution
Of the United States which gives the President,
but the creature of the Consultation, authority to
annul whole States of the Union, or the laws and
institutions of whole States in that Union, and to
override all laws for the protection of loyal men,
even If in disloyal States. No can rise and
say that there is, any where, in written COnsti-
tuition any such authority for the President of the
United States to exercise any such power he as
sumes or usurps in his proclamation. The only
authority claimed is, that he, as COmmander-in- !
chief of the army-of the army not in the field
taayrunte beIlo, but as theoretical Commander,in-
chief Of the army, sitting in the White House at
Washington, has the power to exercise any author
ity which appears to him best or which he deems
right. Now, if this be law, there is no security
that be. may not exercise the same power, if he
deems it best for the people Of the United States to
annul the relation of parent and child Of ward and
guardian of debtor and creditor, of mortgager and
Inortgages-aye, all the rights and obligations of
society-for he has the same right as Commander
ih-chief to exercise all powers the Northern
States of the Union. ['Hear, hear" and cheers
TIE LAWS OF WAR; -|." -
Who created this creature of the Constitution
the offspring of popular minority ?-who vested |
and appointed him with this arbitrary. power over
thirty millions of human beings ?-[great cheeringl
"A power, the like of which, if exercised in Eng
land, without an act Of Parliament, would create
revolution there in forty-eight hours, among all
classes Of people: power which Napoleon never
dared to exercise upon his imperial throne and one
which the French people would never Submit to if !
attempted over the people of France2 [Cheers +
But there is no such military power under the in
stitutons of the United States. There are martial
rights, laws of war, but we'll known and we'll recog-
nized, laws written of in Grotious, in Vattel, in
Puffendorf, in our own Wheaton, and IN our own 4
Kent and nowhere is there recorded as giving to
any nominal commander of an army, any such au-
thority as the President attempts to exercise not