The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-07-31

that other name sacred in American history
and honored throughout the earth-:he
name of that man who forsook home aud
gave up rank and title, and in the first flush
of youth and manhood came to our shores
and linked his fortunes with the Anne ican
caure-the prisoner Of O,mufz the brave and
gallant Lafayette. Aye, freemen of the
/ West, fortresses, bearing these honored
names. and meant for the defense of the
country against foreign foes, and out OF
whose casem a'es bristle cannon planted to
hurl death and destruction at arm ed invaders.
echo now with the groans and are watered bv
the tears-not Of men only from States Sc
ceded and in rebellion, or captured in war
but from the loval States Of the North and
the West. and from that party which has
contributed nearly three fourths of the sol
diers in the field to-day. Are these things
to be horne? (Never; no, never) If you
have the spirit of freemen in you. bear th EN-
not! (Great applause, and cries of thars it,
that's the talll.) What is life worth? What
are property and personal liberty and polit-
ical liberty worth? or what value are all
these things, if we. born Of an ancestry Of
freemen. boasting, in the very first hours of
our boyhood, OF more extended liberty
than was ever vOuchsafed to aDv other peo-
pie, are TO fail now in this the hour OF sore
tra., to demand and to defen nd them at every
hazard? Freedom of the Pressi T. the mar
who sits in the White House at Washing
ton, and who owes all his power to the press
and the ballot. is be now to play tvrant over
us! (No! never, ncver) Shall the man wh o
sits at one end of telegraphic wire in the
War Department or the Department Of State,
a mere clerk it may be- servant Of servants
sit down and by oCe single click of the in
strument, order some m lion Of his thou
sand miles off, to arrest Samuel Wedarv,
Judge Ranney, or Judge Thurman and
hurry them to bastie? GO; it can't be
done; we viii never allow it.) The Cousti.
tuition says no man shall be held to answer
for crime except on due process Of law
Our iathe ers, six hundred wears ago assem-
hIed upon the plains of Runney NJ edo in old
Eng and, ani rescued from tyrant hands. not
by arms but by firm resolve. the G I'd given
right to be free. Our fathers in the time of
James /. and Of Charles |, endured trial and
persecution aud loss of life and Of liberty,
rsther than submit to oppression and wrong.
john Hampton. glorious John llampden
the first gentleman OF England, arrested up.
on an illegal executive warrant, went caln
ly and hero caily to the cells of prison rather
than pay twenty shillings Of an illegally as =
sesaed tax, laid in def of the constitu-
ton and laws Of England, and the rights and
privileges of Englshmen. And all history
IS full OF like exam pies. William Tell
brook ed the tyrant's frowu in his day and
generation in defense of these same rights,
in the noble repu bic of the Swiss; and that
gallant little people, hemmed in among the
Alps, though surrounded on every side by
Gespots whose legions mum bered more than
the whole population of Switzerland. have
By that same indom liable spirit Of liberty,
maintained their rights, their liberties and
their independ euce to this hour. And are
Americans now to off-r themselves up a SER
vile sacrifice upon that altar OF arbitrary
power? Sir have misread the signs OF the
times and the temper of the people, if there
IS hot ALREADY spirit in the land which is
about to speak Ia thunder tones to those who
stretch forth still the strong arm of despotic
power. Thus far shalt thou come, and no
father. We made Won: you are our servants ,
That was the language which I was taught t
to apply to men in office, when / was a
youth, Or in first manhood and private citi
zen, and afterwards when holling Office as
the gift OF the people, TO hear applied to me
and bore the title proudly. And | asked
then, as ask now no other or better reward
than, We'll done. good and faithful servant
[Cries Of, You shall have il; YOU deserve
it'l But to-day, they who are our servants.
creatures made out of nothing BY the power
of the people, whose little brief authority
was breathed into their nostril> by the peo-
pla would now, f0rs0Oth, become the mas
ters Of the people; while the organs and in
struments of the pcople-the press and pub
lie assem- blages-are to be suppressed, and
the Constitu'i1n, with its right Of petition.
and Of due process of law and trial By jury,
and the laws and all else which makes Ii e
W orth possessing-are to be sacrificed now
upon the tvranrs plea that it is necessary TO
save Government, the Union. Sir we dill
save the Union for ve4rs-yes. we did. We
were the { MON savers not eighteen months
ago. Then there was not an epjthet in the
whole vocabulary Of political biilingsgate so
opprobrous in the eyes OF Repu blican when
applied to the Democratic party as Union =
snriekers,' or the 'UniCn-savers.
rem Der in my own city, on the day
of the Presidential election, in 1901 re-
member it well, for had that day travelled
several hundred miles 10 vote FIR tephen II
Douglas for the Presid er cv-that il a ward
where the Judges of election were all Demo
Gratis. veur patriotic Wide -Awakes, strutting
in unotious uniform. came mp hour after
hour thrusting their Lincoln tickets tw II
thumb and finger at the judges, with the
raunt and sneer, Sue the CaioH; save the
Unionh And yet now for5ooth, we are
traitors and secess ionis:s!' And old grey
headed men who lived and voted in the
tim es Of Jefferson and Madison, aud III onroe
and Jacksor-men wno have fought and
bled upon the battle h,ld, AMI who fondly
in9ulged the delu sion for forty years that
thew were patriots. wake up suddenly to day
to find themselves 'trators.'-sneered at, re
viled and insultel by striplings whose fa-
hers they would have dis1ained TO have Sc,
with the dogs Of their iiocks.' Of all these
things an inquisi;ion searching and terrible
will vet be mada. as sure, as sudden. too. II
may be. as the day ofjudgni en.. We Of e
laval st.tas-va of the laval marty Of the