The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1862-02-13

alarms me, and it is this alarms
the conservative everywhere. In
the language of a celebrated jurist
of the present day, himself a son of
one of the trainers of the Constitu-
ton, and a devoted friend of the
Union, Chancellor s. S. Nicholas,
of Kentucky, whose opinions | OPP
pose to those of the Senator from
that State, [Mr, Davis {:
"The following powers are given exclu
sively to Congress:
/. To increase the Army,
2. To increase the Navy.
3. To appropriate the nations money.
a.. To regulate commerce with foreign ma
tons.
s, To regulate commerce between the
States,
6. To contract debt on behalf Of the ma
ton, ,
I. To suspend the writ of habeds corpus"
"The following powers are denied to both
Congress and the President;
]. To proclaim martial law.
2. To arrest without a legal warrant.
3. Imprisonment or other punishment
without conviction upon legaltrial.
4. Punishment under &c post facto or
~non-existing law. .-,
s. The introduction of lettres de cachet,
~bastiles, and the midnight secret proceed
ings o the lnquisition.
6. The Introduction of exports.
I. The favoring of some ports to the
prejudice of Others.
8. The regulation of the commerce of q
State within its own bounds.
9. To impair the freedom OF speech and
the press.
10. To infringe the peoples right to keep
and bears arms.
IL. To make unreasonable searches and
seizures.
IL. To prohibit emigration or require q
passport.
ID. To dismiss the police of a city in an
unprecedented State, and appoint others in
their place."
Here are twenty important laws
or constitutional provisions which
the President has violated, accord
ing to this learned authority ; and
we all know that since the COM
mencement of this struggle no man
has written or spoken more ear
nestly for the preservation of the
Union thai has Chancellor Mich
olas, of Kentucky but, being one
of those who believe that the I'm
ion can only be preserved by pre-
serving the Constitution, he con-
siders that he has a right to
~enunciate those opinions without
his loyalty being questioned. That
is all that [ have been claiming for
myself that is all that l ask to be
melted out for the Senator from In
diana. Chancellor Nicholas says /:
"Hore are twenty important laws or con-
stitutional provisions which he 1.-THE Presi-
dent has grossly, w%illfully violated. His
u~surpations are so extensive that it would
narrow the inquiry to ask what law or con-
stitutional provision he has not violated,
rather than to ask which he has violated or
usurped upon. The rights, the safeguards
he has taken away are greater, far greater,
than those he has left"
Now, l ask you, Senators, if the
Senator from Indiana has ever un-
dertaken to utter in his place here,
or to write or to publish such an
attack as this upon the President
of the United States, or upon the
exercise of authority by the Presi-
dent ofthe United States? Never.
Senator's, pause, l beseech you 4;
pause before you do this deed
You stand upon a volcano whose
fires may in a moment belch forth
to lay waste and to destroy. Al
ready they rage in fury beneath
your feet. The mountain smokes ;
the earth trembles. A general,
without authority of law, but in
defiance of law, makes forced levies
upon those obnoxious to his CEN
sure for the support of whom he
pleases. Extra and unconstitution-
al oaths are exacted by the COM
mand of a military despot. The
secret order, it is reported, goes
forth to arm the slaves, If necessary,
for the destruction of his MASTER
The marauder stalks abroad to
pillage, burn, and destroy. The
Judge is imprisoned in his house,
and his independence attempted to
be destroyed by Illegally withhold
ing his pay. Your peaceful ciri-
zens rot in bastlles, and their cries
are refused to be heard.
In the midst of general lawless-
ness be we, the law makers Of the
land, the guardians of the law, the
defenders of al imperiled Consti-
tuition. Do not that which may
return to plague you in your own
persons ; lest when, in imitation of
the example which history fur
nishes, and in imitation Of your
own, a lawless soldiery, under the
guide of some ambitious usurper,
shall drive you from these Halls.