The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-12

The New York World says Of the bill passed
by the Northern Congress in relation to mill.
tayy arrests
II is ihe most highhanded, barelaced and
infamous afiIont that has yet been offered TO
the great charter Of our liberties. even BY the
false and periufed party that now controls the
Goverhment. Every Senator who voted for
this delestable bill is sworn to support the
Constitution Of which il is an open and con.
Iessed reputation. II is nothing less than an
act for the establishment OF despotism. II
authorizes and juslfes arbitrary arrests al
the will Of the execntive in defiance OF explicit
provisions Of the Constitution fofbidding such
arrests. IL puts every mans liberty and
/ property out Of the protection Of the funda
meutsl law; It annihilates the power Of the
State Governments 10 protect their citizens
against illegal violence il tells the President
and his minions that they may with impunity
lperpehate allthese acts of desp by which
the most odiOus iyrants IN the worst ages have
earned tie execration of mankind, it hnst
provoke the Indignation Of every man who is
not base enough to confess himself a covering
slave. The proceedings in Connection with
the passage OF this bill prove that every Sem
ator who yeted for il committed conscious
perjury that he knowingly and wilfully vic.
lated the solemn oath he had taken to support
the Constitution of the United States.
If we proposed to examine the particular
provisions of the bin we shall find that every
part Of It puts fetters OH the feet Of liberty,
while il sets tyranny on horseback In every
case Of prosecution for false impris6nmentitl
allows the defendant to appeal from court TO
court but takes away the right of appeal from
the plaintiff. II the sufferer, from wanton
acts Of arbitrary power is defeated in the
State courts, il denies him all redress against
this misfortune Of prejudiced court or q
packed jury, while 1t treats proceedings in a
State court against bis prosecutor as null and
Of no effect. 1t declares that the authority or
order OF the President shall be a valid and
eomplete defence in all such snit but as Il
this were not broad enough to coverand pro-
tect the numerous acts of despotism which
have been perpetrated in violation OF the Con.
stitation, II also DEGREES that If "there was
probable cause for the arrest, imprisonment,
or other act complained Of = that also shall be
"a full and complete defence to the action, and
itshalI be the duty Of the Court trying the act
so to instruct the jury ard that their finding
must be accordingly" That is to say, the
most malicious stories told by man'apersonal
or political enemies, no matter whether truel
or not, are to be full aud complete defense
for arbitrary arrests and imprisonments byl
every deputy provost marshal, even il he can
not make it appear that he had tho authority
Of the President fer this. daring violation Of
the Constitution. II there was ever anything
in Legislative history which deserved to be-
characterized as bin Of denominations" it is
the disgrace Of Ametiesu Legislation.
And the partywhich passes this infamous
this abominable bill defying the Constitution
and annullmg oil State laws for protecting
personal liberty is the same party that two or
threc years ago was passing 80 called liberty
bllls il behalf Of the Northern States 10 pro
tect runaway negroesaga the provision Of
Tire Constitution which requires their sirren. |
der. SO dear and sacred did they profess to !
hold individual liberty that they would not
allow il 10 be eviolated ever in the person Of
an escaped slave, and they setup State legis-
laliona against Federal legislation for his pro-
lection. These sensitive sphilanihropists and
doughty champions OF freedom then proEessed
10 be shocked at the denial.ot tho habeas cor.
pus to these fugitive blacks, aud made that
thepretext for resisting, by mob violence, the
execution Of a law Of tho United StAies, And
now we see these same champions Of personal
liberty, these .samo sticklers for the habeas
porpus, these same jusiifiers Of State resistance
70 Federal power. passing an act which de-
GRADES the white citizen below O copditiou
which they then thought intolerable for slaves
is black as the ace Of spades. M ...
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