The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-06-11
GREAT WAR MEETING AT ALBANY.
Tremendous Speech by Dan. $. Dickinson
From the Albany Journal
EXTRACT.

Liberty Of 81 eech is one thing Liberty
Of treason is another. The lib-rly oi
speech is sacred but this does not in
clute the right to act as spy. and con
vey intelligence 10 Ibe enemy which may
destroy thousands Of tie lives Of our sol
diers. entanger our army, and jropard
the existence Of Governm, nj. (App'ause)
Swords and knives are free but this
gives no one the right to commit murder
FIRE arms are free, and exempt from sci
zure on execution; and yet no one has
a right to discharge Ibem at his neigh
Dor. Fire is free; but the one who should
employ it to destroy the dwelling uf his
neigbbor would be the subject Of an Car
b,trary arrest''--in his "own house," if
he should be found there--"in the pre-
sence of his wife and children" if he had
them. And these arbitrary arrests. !"
in criminal law, are Of daily occurrence,
and in martial law of not unfrequent oc
curreuce. in all wars. especially such a
war of rebellion as this, with spies and
traitors Matching treason. and aiding re-
elIion all along the border. ANY law
yer who can not discriminate tetwern
civil law and martial law, should b. treat
ed for simplicity on the brain. (Shouts
of applause and laughier.) The func'
lions Of martial law. and The authority
upon which it rests. were freely stated By
me last Fall, 10 a speech made at the
Cooper Institute. 1t Is a DANCE Gus pow.
er, but is absence wonl be more dang-r'
Gus. Ii is liable to abuse, but no wal
) can be conducted without it, especially
such war as this. Whether it was iu
diciously exercised in this case. ard
whether the paltry fellow was worth ar
S resting. do not know, and do not. for al
present purposes. care. All we can In
quire of is, does the power exist, and i
it does, was it exercised in good faith
! If it was even thought General Burnside
Q was mistaken, he is to be encouraged fo
his watchfuluess and commended for hi
vigilance. fApplause. Two grat,ant
: lasly, and noisy meetings have beer held
: one iu New York, atwhich Captain Ryu
ders ard others spoke, and even the lat
Thomas H. Seymour, OF Connecticut
preached, Daughter, and one at thi
J Capitol, where his Excellency, Govern n
Ssy mour. administered upon the wrong
Of Vallandigbsm by letter. The Govern
or says this arrest is full Of danger 10 Ou
: Homes. Who is in Danger in bis home
| pray tell No one, unless lie has don,
something 10 put himself in danger. Tbt
piOus thief aud snd burglar, Gordon o
brooklyn, who attended conferences apt
prayer meetings with the young ladies
discovered where they kept their iAwelry
and then entered their houses and robbed
them by night was long time In dan
ger in his home (rosis of laughter, auc
by and by tie cruel police vent 10 l'rgt
numb bers and with their murderors clubs
in the hight time, too. and arbitrarily
arrested" him. and put him in prison, and
the Court sent him 10 the State prison
for twenty years. All for stealing few
trinkets. Yet Governor Seymour says
nothing. Had he oonnived with rebel
lion for the overthrow of the only great
free Government on earth, and had he
been detected and arrested. it would have
been arbitrary" But Il interfersd with
the "ffssdom Of speec'. How? Whu
has objected to the freeest possible dis
cussion? Freedom ofspeech does not con,
fer the righ, to 20 before an enemy and
stimulate metihy and disobedience and
recommend deserlion. 1t does not juSti-
! fy any thing which, in time Of war, is cal.
culat.d and intended to weaken the mill
tary arm Of the Government. The Gov
erDor complains that Governors OF some
OF the Western States have sunk into In.
significance. 1t is certainly time to be on
the look out. hope .whatever may be-
come Of the States, New York may not
find herself in the same piliful category.
Laughter I, is certainly a humiliat'
log position for the first State Of theUnion,
when the scales OF our being as nation
are vibratiDg--When our children are
dying by thousands in defense Of the
! UuiOn--io see the Chief Magistrate turn