American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-11-07
ImITAToRs OF RosETTE.

There is a pretty good representative
man of the abolition party running for
the lower house of the Legislature in
Ssngamon county, named Rosette. On
a recent public occasion he thus delig
cred himself:
II am not constitutional man am for
carrying on this war under the constitution,
over the constitution, through the conssitu-
ton, around the constitution, or against e.
constitution Any way whatever, SO as %
put down the rebellion I"
An humble imitator of Rosette is Mr..
Eben G. Ingersoll. the abolition candid ate
for Congress for the State at large He
draws it little milder. but the sentiment
is the same. Here is The way he ex-
pressed it in his Bryan Hall speech in
this city s:
ssIf the President should determine that In
order to crush this rebellion the constitution
should be suspended during the rebellion, |
believe he has the right to do i'll
So far as we have seen, there has been
no dissent by the republican press from
these methods of conducting the war
On the contrary. Mr.. Ingersoll's speech
has been very generally published as the
material document of the campaign.
We had hoped that Sepator Trumbull
would enter his dissent in the premises,
but he has not entered it, and seems, on
the contrary, to have become an humble
disciple of Rosette. We had hoped that
Senator Trumbull would enter his dis
sent, because, on 9Th Of December last,
in the Senate, he expressed some very
sensible views on the constitutional ques~
ton. and we have preferred to- believe
that he would not abandon them so soon
1t is worth while, in this conjunction, to
reproduce those views. Said Senator
Trumbull, on the 9Th of December last,
in tie Senate:
~ want no other authority for putting
down even this gigantic rebellion than such
as may be derired from the constitution property
interpreted. II is equal eren to thts great ener-
gency and the more we study its proyiS-
ions, the more it is tried ia treublous times,
the greater will be our admiration of the in
strument and our yeneration for the wisdom
of its authors.
GAS unpopular as the ayowal may for the
mopent be among The thonghtless, / here
declarcsthat | am for snppressing this mon
strous rebellion according TO TAR, and in no
other rag and believe that Congress has
only to discharge its duty, and the army
perform its, with energy. and activity, to
speedy and successful issue. We are fight
ing to maintain the consultation, and it espe-
cially becomes us-in. appealing TO the peo-
pie to come to its rescue-not to violate it
ourselves. Hosc are tce better than the rebels,
II both alike set at nouyht the constitutiou2 /
warn my countrymen, who stand ready to
tolerate almost any act done in good faith
for the suppression of the rebellion, not to
sanction usmpations of poacer schich may here
after become precedents for the destruction Of the
constitutional liberty"
Senator Trumbull was. right in December
last. Ii he has changed the democracy have
not. The democracy still say, as they then
said, eve are fighting to maintain the con-
stitution. How are we better than the
rebels if both alike set at nought the consti-
tuition pa Chicago Times.