Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-09-23

The Preside ats PsocIamat,oa.

We published yesterday Preside -.
Lincoln's proclamation suspssding III
writ OF habeae corpus throughout v,
United States. 1t took ever, body q.
surprise, and the general inquiry is,wh
has caused it? We have no aeans of
knowing Why such proclamation should
be issued a. such tune, but suppose it
has been done with view Of carry ng
the OHIO election for the abolitionists.-
Only the day before this proclamation
was issued, there WAS an election in Ohio
for Militia olicers-an order having
been issued by the governor for the re-
organization Of the militia Of the state
and the telegraph brought word, and
carried word to Washing ton, that the
democrats had succeeded in electing as
far as heard from, most Of the field OF.
ticers OF the militia OF that state. That
very night this proclamation was pu;
forth. The coincidence certainly Justl-
fies the assumption that the prospects Of
political parties IN Ohio have caused the
president to pvt forth this extraordinary
paper. We take ii for granted that the
president had become satisfied that the
democrats would carry the approac ing
election in OHIO unless he put forth
something in come shape or other calcn
lated to prevent it. There are are doubt
less great manv good people who do
not understand exactly weat is mean, by
the habeos corpus and its suspension
The const tuition OF the United States
and tho constitution Of peroaps every
state in the Union, guarantees to ever,
citizen the wri, Of hdJeas corpus. When
man is arrested and pnt IN jail, charg-
ed with any offence, uoder the consttu.
ton, tho party 50 arrested and imprs-
oned has the right to apply to some
court Of competent authority for writ
Of habeas corpus. The writ being grant.
ed, the party 10 taken be.,re the curt,
and the inquiry made az to whether
he has been legally arrested and impris
oned. II it is found that the proceed
,ngs have all been according to Ia, he
is sen; back to jail, but # it is found tina,
any part OF ali Of the proceedings have
beon Illegal, he is released and set at
bc,tv. This proclamation of tho pres
ldeul suspends this wrlt,so that If man
is arrested by anybody, nobody has a
right TO ask any questions about It. He
MAY have been arrested without lava
IN ID may have arrested aud put bin in
i.i no matter-the president says thu;
10 inquiry shall be made a out II, end
no court shall determine whether he VAS
arrested according to law, or not. The
suspension OF this writ is really a sus-
pension Of the constiution-indeed, it
is suspcniing all the rights that citi
zen has, either under The constitution or
without a constitution. If a democratic
preside had issued this proclamation.
We should have felt bad about it, but
coming AZ it does from President Lin
coin, We think it very appropriate, ard
no more than We had right to expect.
We have shown hy reference to his in-
reference with the ballot box that be
was afraid to trnst the people. lie now
admits himself that he is afraid to trust
the courts. We shouldn't be surprised
to see another proclamation from him IN
few DAYS announcing that he was
afraid to trust himself. His proclarna-
ton Of last fail respecting the negroes,
simply declaree that all The blacks IN the
south were free men. This proclamation
goes 70 the other extreme, and declares,
in substance, that the white men OF the
north are ali slaves Quincy Herald.