Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-09
speech of Hon 4 W. FVl,er.

The resolutions IL reoa.d TO the suppres-
sion OF the chicago LINES being before the
house, Mr.. ulier said
To all forms of government claiming to
De rePuohcan' the onJeot Of most difficulty
70 De attained IS tue PARTITION of its powers.
~ an VI "ur state 'oTettutioDs-aDdG the
pan Vi 'nS ieuetsi sanmeDt is the same
.tne pu"ers OF the 9oFtrnnent are divid-
CT ,u'o !nree-'ne II Sltlaiive, the executive
a"u Juuic'ai' anu pr Visions carefully made
'pat No one OF these ispa tments shall ex-
erc'se 'he powers CO. tetrtd upon either of
tue others, ana THIS tStle end that this
may De governmeI o. lanes and not of
men for II ls well dttiared by Thomas
Jefferson, and in TIL all great publicists
Statesmen ana wfite : pr these topics agree
with him, that the q -fhi ion of des2otism
IN the Onlon OF I'll cd 'uartments Of gov
erhment In enc beec re have seen with
Is the last year the u st raLid advances
to the destruction - form of governs
ment; tor every pc ;er Of each of the de-
partments is now 81; in to be exercised
BY those in power.
But few weeks so judge Of one of
our circuit courts uIon the bench. in the
discharge of his judjci, functions, in the
performance of the c, les imposed upon
him by the solemn pt cations of bis oath,
was seized by armed men, and dragged
! from his home, carried into another state,
/ and there held under arrest without the
! slightest shadow of Iegel pretence. lie
was finally handed over tn the civilNlthor
! tiles, and upon examination DISCHARGED.
and, as is well kn' rn, that examination
! disclosed the entir -5sence Of any wrong
| ful act on bis part, q en- If the exercise of
power in bis arrest I'd been lawful. |
instance this as ing illustration of
the rapidity With the republic Z
being pressed dssL q d to the gulf
anarchy Of the Terri 4 silence of despot
tism.
Within briefer period gentleman liv-
ing in neighboring state. a distinguished
citizen, an able, bold ard consistent states
man, an honorable Al upright man, for
ell things may be said of him, whatever
his sentiments may have been or bis man.
ner of ex pressing them, has been arrested
without law, before a tribunal, and for an
offense unknown to the law, and upon con.
viction, evidence that uined the charges
into farce, has been sentenced to q pun<
ishment equally unknown to any law. civil
n miiitary-tO exile, to banishment! An
American citizen banished for the mere
expression Uf opinionl This was the head
and front of his offending. Because ht
claimed and exercised the liberty to know
tO utter and to argue freely according tC
conscience, that liberty, as ole John Mil
ton declared, above all liberty; because o.
this all, VallanGighan was arrested anC
condemned The people, while they have
held mass conventions, anG denounced thi,
proceeding. have still remained quiescent
they have repOsed upon the conviction tha
although this distinguished man was thu,
bound hand and foot and cast into thu
furnace, yet, in the eloquent language o
Curran, The redeeSing spirit of the coz
stitution would walk with the suffere
through the flames. and preserve him un.
hurt from the conAagation."
And now another step is taken, and free
dom Of the press is about to follow freedom
of speech and independent judiciary int
a common grave.
a public newspaper, the orgtu, viii
remark, though this is not a poltics ques
ton, of great political PARTY, ard the ex
FOUNDER OF its principles, in The free anC
loyal state of Illinois, suppressed Sup
pressed! The large portionof my con
stitutents-the liberty loving, Constitution
, loving democracy Of Cbicagc-whose he
rUic efforts in the cause II right were :,
recently crowned with success, are thus a
one fell swOop deprived ofthe neaus .
| general information and the exponent o
political principles so dear TO lh cir hearts
t The principles of the democratic party
/ that party which is devoted TO the cause 0
, the Union, in whose success nlene can tba
, Uniun be restored in Wbose success in tht
= past this country al no attained its farme
: prosperity and power; in behalf If the
democracy of Cook esuUty, whom / hav,
2 the honor with my colleague now arsen
, (Nr. Brandy to rePRsent upon this floor
l protest against thr unparalleled outrage
In the name Of thedemrcracy IF Illinoi
and the northwest, 1ay, of the people q
2 these United States protest against thi
. act as destructive q cur rights, yioiativ
J ! Of our fundamental law. su5versiye Of ou
form Of goverumert dpplore it as hast
euiDg, II It be not si:hdrawr, the precipi
tation Of the northern states into the fear
: ful vortex of revolution. Thus far the lead
ers have held the yecTle hack, hut how
/, long, how Ing, can it be done? Mr. Val
> laUGig ham we'll said ii was neither Han
cock, nor Otis, nor Samuel, nor John Adam
, who threw the tea into the Boston harbor
1t was The act and effort Of the people, anC
tie people vii! risp in their strength
such measures be not 6iscon tiuued, j,
= spite Of all that can be done to prevent it
s / trustin Sod that the administration VII