The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-29

These are not our words, but those OF a
Republican who believes in the necessity
of war to put down the Rebellion, and,
also, that there is power enough delegated
to the Federal Government to carry on the
war without the violation of law and the
Constitution. They are contained in an
address delivered before the "National
Club " of Salem, Massachusetts,, by Pro-
lessor JOEL PARKER, in March last. The
address is an appeal for recognition of
the majesty of the LAW, which is ignored
by the present Administration. 1t will be
seen by the extract, which we copy below,
that Judge PARKER holds that if this usur-
patton of power is sustained by the people,
"the rebellion is the lesser danger:
- The spirit of liberty is jealous and watchful
against encroachment When that spirit mas
departed, liberty itself will soon fall sacrifice.
Designing demagogues and -faWning syco-
plants at the footstool of political preterment,
urge the assumption of despotic sway ''for the
good of the republic!" Learned and worthy
citizens in their horror of the rebellion, and
their earnest desire for its suppression, wish to
find in the Constitution some absolute power in
the President to put it down, and they per-
suade themselves that they have found it.
emancipation, without much regard to the fate
of the negro. And timid citizen, fearing that
they shall be denounced, by the minions OF des-
potism, as traitors, become apathetic.
If these doctrines are sustained, the rebellion
is the lesser danger. That may be suppressed
and if the Administration shall become wiser,
from the errors already committed and shall ad-
dress itself to the single purpose ofits suppress
sion it will be suppressed. But the poison of
despotic principles, once infused into the system
of the Constitution, will paralyze the national
life. From that hour, the free Commonwealth
is doomed to certain destruction. All history
teaches us that such must be the result. But we
do not need the lesson of history to assure us of
that fact. The question: who is the absolute
monarch, who shall eXemplify these new consti-
tutional doctrines not only by the prison and
the court-martial, but by the ''rope's end" and
guillotine, is only question of time. We may
dream of liberty, but the dream will be feverish
and short. The handwriting on the wall of
our institutions will be to US that which warm
ed the monarch of Babylon '.Thou art weigh
ed in the balance and art found wanting;" and
the closing sentence of our history will be
''This was people whose fathers, with stout
hearts and strong arms, and pre-eminent Wis
dom, secured the blessings of liberty to their
children, but in panic occasioned by form-
dable rebellion, they foolishly threw away the
priceless inheritance"
A prominent charge against the noto-
rious VALLANDIGHAM is, that he spoke OF
the soldiers who carry out the illegal Or
ders of the Administration, as I" the min
ions of despotism." Will Gen. BURNSIDE
arrest Judge PARKER for using similar Ian
guage, or for saying "that the poison OF
despotic principles once infused into the
system of the Constitution will paralyze
the national life - Is Judge PARKER " q
copperhead because he asserts that il
the Administration will address itself to
the single purpose of suppressing the re-
bellion, it will be suppressed ?"