Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-12-20
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even the most violent war Patriot nor one
OF your partisan friends to transnor, 10
Davenport the two first companies of the
First Iowa Regiment; and when met vou
on the streets Of Davenport on that event.
ful morning and informed you what had
done. you grufily told me that must take
back TO Dubuque those volunteers who
were the first to respond to what they pre-.
sumed to be the call Of their country to
duty. l. presuming on my acquaintance
with you and the personal good will which
existed between US suggested to you that
you had better receive those volunteers
and provide them with quarters immed :.
ately. You listened to and acquiesced in
my suggestion and appointed Hiram
Price, Quartermaster; a man BY the way,
who after pocketing thousands of dollars
OF the public money as profits Of the office
you gave him on that day, dared, like
villain as he is, to call me traitor during
my recent subsection to the despotic rule
Of the tyrants who WELD the power of the
Government at Washington And this
was only one evidence that you knew bet.
ter than to believe that was disloyal.-
You had as evidence the fact that had
written to you over my own signature Of
fering you my personal services in any
way IN which they could be made useful
to maintain the authority Of the Govern.
ment You had it in the fact tha: made
. public offer of my services to your Ad-
julant General to raise Regiment of vol
unteers among my personal friends, ask
ing no place, office, position or emolument
whatever for this service, and this offer
confirmed and repeated to you personally
at Dubuque. You therefore insnuated a
ialsehood and insulted me groosy when
you, ia your reply to my letter informing
you OF my arrest, acquiesced in the charge
Of disloyalty on which my arrest seemed
to be founded.
But, sir, conceding it to have been true,
for argument sake, that the charge on
which was arrested on the l4th OF Au-
gust was true, was the charge or alleged
crime Of such character as to warrant
the Secretary of War to issue any order
whatever fer my arrest2 And were you
warranted if you meant to observe your
oath AS Governor of Iowa, in permitting
me TO be arrested and imprisoned BY any
power beyond The State of Iowa, for the
commission Of crime, even admitting
one to nave been committed, within this
State. | inferred from the tender regard
which you ostensibly manifested for the
Constitutional rights of even fugitive
from justice found within your juristion,
tina, you would respect those righ in one
Of your tellow-citlzens, who, If he had
committed any otiense for which he could
be legally arrested and imprisoned, had
done So. not as person in the control Of
the Secretary of War, but as civilian, q
citizen of Iowa, and within the limits and
jurisdiction of the State. had believed
that the same tender regard for personal
rights and liberty which you manifested
in the case of Copplc, fugitive from the
justice of Virginia, charged by the judi.
clal tribunals OF that State with murder
and treason, and demanded OF you by .
requisitlon of the Executive of Virginia,
would be extended to one who held to-
of citizen to his Governor, of friend to
friend.
But no; instead of this, you not only
acquesced in my being kidnapped, but it
is charged upon you, and | believe it,
that YOU we're the bearer from the Secre.
tary of War of the order by which | was
arrested, deprived of my liberty and other
personal rights guaranteed to me by both
the Constitution of the United States and
the State of Iowa, both Of which YOU
swore, or pretended to swear, when you
became Governor of Iowa, that you would
support, observe, conform yourself to, and
if assailed or violated. protect and defend.
Nay more it would appear that you subj
orned the perjured Williams on whose affi.
davis l WAS arrested, for you certainly
rewarded some of them by comforting ON
one of them the honorable position of
Secretary Of the Board Of Edueation of
this State, a place which should be filled
by a man who has some regard for truth,
and on another the office of Commissioner
of drafting in Dubuque county. doubt
not you will compensate the other periur-
ers. as they have earned your favers and
made themselves the servile and base in.
struments of granny and despo,ism, in
due time.
Humble as am, sir, am an Ameri.
can citizen, whom had you proper ap.
probation Of the dignity OF that political
character, you would have protected in the
enjoyment of the rights belonging to me
as citizen of this Commonwealth and
Nation. Had you been the humbest,
meanest and most contemplate of human
beings, the vilest criminal, whose guilt
needed no evidence to establish it to the
satisfaction Of the world, and | were Gov.
ernor Of Iowa, no illegal, arbitrary order
from the Secretary Of War, or from any
other power, foreign to the State of Iowa,
could have taken you beyond the iuris-
dction of this State, but over the pros.
trate and extinct power of this common
wealth. Such would have been nv an.
precintion OF the Constitution of nv State,
of the United States and of the personal
rights recognized to be in the people by
those great compac,s Of Government. and
which rights these compacts attempt to
guarantee. protect and secure. regret,
for your own sake, and for that Of tho
people whose servant you we're elected,
but whose master you have attempted to
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