The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-03


compromise and adjustment upon a basis
which would have been just to all sections
OF the country; which would have satisfied
the southern people, lMho are now in revolt,
and would not have taken from the north
eru States any of their rig ss-civi, rel;gi-
Gus. or politicais think the two sections
should have met in spirit of con- promise,
and adjusted their difficulties; aud believe
that ere long the whole country will be Of
my opinion. ] said before the war COM
menced, that il you attempted coercion,
what we now have upon rs would follow;
that the people would be loaded down with
taxation; that heavy indebtedness would
ensue; and that both sections of the country
would finally be Frustrated ana ruined in
al their Interests, social, moral. and materi-
AL That is my Judgment to-day. Believ-
ing that. being devotedly attached to the
Union and the Constitution of my country
l have ever advocated such measures of ad-
| justment as / thought were available for that
object. Believing that war was not a means
towards that end, have opposed it; aud
should have been dishonest man if 1 had
not opposed 1t. believing, as did, that it
would lead to the destruction of my coun-
! try, to the fHal severance Of the States, and
to the overthrow of the Constitution of the
Republic. ....
The Senator from Maine says that I re-
joice in the recent victories of the Demo-
cracy Of the North. Sir, having been life
long Democrat, believing that the Demo-
cratic party in this country is the only party
that had the strength. ability, and capacity
Ia administer the Government in such a
mar ner as to add to the honor, the glory,
aud the dignity of the Republic, and pre-
serve the Constitution with all its guarantees
unimpaired, I haVs ever desired that it
oh ha in he nd in hiSI
dark nour Of our national difficulties, / must
confess that when heard of these victories
which spoke in thunder-peals the voice of
the people Of the free States. from the
Mississippi to the cataract os Niagara, my
heart did leap with joy. Let me tell the
Senator that in my judgment such triumph
never was obtained by any political organi-
cation since the institution of free govern
ment.
The Senator twits me because I have ar
raigned the President with having violated
the Constitution. have deied him to the
lists upon that subject; aud now, sir. will
state specifically some of the instances in
which he has violated it, aud / defy the
Senator to the contest before the Ameri can
Senate. l.e
The President informed us, by his mes
sage at the extra session of this Congress
that be had added something like forty
thousand men to the regular Army, aud
something like twenty thousand men TO the
Navy of the United States; do not pretend
to give the numbers with exact accuracy
In that. the President plainly and paipably
violated the Constitution of the country, be-
cause it is written in the Constitution that
Congress shall raise and support armies
and provide and maintain a navy have
heretofore asked for the constitutional war
rant of the President to add those men to
the regular Army and Navy. l am not nov
speaking Of the three months men whom he
called out He had right to call them
out. l have heretofore attempted maintain
before the Senate that these additions 10
the regular Army and Navy were not nee
essary, because the volunteers that came
! here saved the capi:al. if it were saved by
by force. should like to know of the
/ Senator if these two acts were not violations
by the President of the Constitution of his
country.
Ths President undertook about that time
to suspend the writ OF habsas corpus. l re-
q ard that as a gross violation of the Coust
! tuition, because hold that the habeas corpus
can only be suspended by legislative act;
| but upon that point know there is contra
riety of opinion The President through
his Minister Of War. through his Secretary
| of State through his provost marsh ais, and
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throu shout the length and breadth of this
| land, has made arrests OF citizens and i'm
prisoned them, which certainly is contrary
| to the Constitution and laws of the country,
there b.ing vested in that off ser no power
to m Ike an arrest. While the Senator was
/ reading my speech, | wish he had read the
question which propounded to the Senate,
and answered it, and undertaken, at least. to
show the constitutional authority by which
the President or his Cabinet Ministers, or
any of his military officials, bv his authority
can make an arrest of a citizen. In that,
the President has violated the Constitution,
because the Constitution prescribed how ar
rests shall be made. The Constitution con-
fers upon another and distinct body of mag
istracy the power Of srresting and commit
ting to prison citizens who iDfrac; the laws,
and prescribes the mode and IN inner in
which it shall be done. The Constitution
requires the President to see that the laws
be faithfully executed, which he has not
only failed to do, but has by these arbitrary
, arrests violated the plainest provisions OF
the Constitution.
The Constitution of your country secures
+ freedom of speech and the liberty of the
!, press That is plain constitutional provi-
slon. The President of the United States
! through the instrumentality of his sub-of-
T icials, has cloven down the freedom OF
> speech Men have been arrested because
4 they uttered their honest convictions against
his administration Of public affairs; and now
= some of them, perhaps, are lansuishing in
= prison. In that he has violated the Consti
. tuition of his country. The President
= through his Postmaster General and Others
has taken away the liberty of the press
This day large number of the papers o
the country are refused circulation through
o the mails; and many of them in the city o
Q New York, in the city of Louisville, in tn