Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-23
Gov. sBramlette On Liberty Of Speech.

Gov. BramIetfe On Liberty OF Speech.
The aswlv elected Governor of Kentuck,
ls claimed a. az apostle Of the Seymour De
mocracy, By the copperhead journals Of the
North : The following extract from his IS IN
sugural Address sounds in Strange contrast
with the determination OF Gov SEYMOUR t.
pause" in sustaining the Government in con
sequence OF obnoxious war nea sures Z
/ We condemn, reasonable, the efforts of
those attempting to organize, under pretense
| OF opposition TO obnoxious war measures a
party whose real purpose is not to correct the
| evils complained of, but use them as pre-
| tense for withholding the necessary supplies
and aid for our defence, and thus aid and as
| sist the rebellion.
MUCH OF aais form OF opoosifio7s Is attempted
,sader a ctanso- for free speech and free press
Liberty of speech and of the press, as well as
| OF action, must remain unabridged so long az
| our government exists in its present form
But freedom and license are very different
and repugnant. Free speech is not a licens-
ed tongue. y hcentioas is not free press
10 do, TO say, to write what we have y9qht
TO do, to say, to write, - print, is the free
dom ter which we should contend. w should
not be free to tell what we have no right to
do. We are at liberty to commit a murder
/ but we have no right TO do SO. We are at
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treason, TO print or speak reasonable or Sc
| dltious speeches in time of rebellion, but We
have no right to do so; and it is no abridge-
ment OF our rights TO punish US for such abuses
| OF liberty or restrain US when reasonable
grounds exist 20 believe we have been guilty,
or are about to commit such acts to the dan
ger OF public Oh private security. Some are
more hurtful in speech than in action. Some
will encourage and promote treason without
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when seized and placed under just restraint,
they clamor for the ''sacred rights of free
speech and free press"
Let him who does or says what he has no
right to do or say to the injury of othcrs or
the public be held responsible for such acts.
To have it otherwise would be to make licen-
tiousnesS the definition of liberty. The
tongue and the press, like man, should be
| free, but not lawless. Let them act, and be
amenable for acting wrong Good and evil
is set before them--and they are free to
choose-but must gather the fruits of that
/ choice.
! Much is said about military arrests as arbi-
trary and unconstitutional. IHasch of this
clanaor is gotten up By those ,olo are not only o.
,aorant Of the constitutional pouers and duties,
ont rdose real purpose is TO destroy not to Sustain
| tie Constitution.
| COntederates Desire 10 Aid the Democracy.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 18th, gets
up programme for new invasion of Penn
sylvania, on the ground that one more adva7ace
Of lee on Meade, arould render tie success of
tie Northern Democratic party certain. These
| reb lis know who their northern allies are
| and advise well how to strike hands with
| them. Let honest men read the following
| and hen decide whether it is safe to follow
the lead of the Copperhead Democracy. The
| follow ng extract is fair sample of leader
In the inquirer
"Ihe success of the Norther7. Democratic
party lcoaaG be no longer doubtful should Gen,
Lee once more adUdace Neade. Parties in the
United States are so nearly balanced that
| the least advantage thrown IN favor of one
will insure its success. Should the army OF
| the Confederacy remain quiescent on the banks
| of the Rapahannock the boastful braggado-
| clio of the Yankee official reports viii be con-
| hrmed, and Lincoln and Halleck will point in
triumph to the crippled condition of the Con
federate army as confirmation of the great
victory won in Pennsy lvania. RS.
The Democrats unable to gainsay such evil
| dence, will be constrained to enter the con
test for the Speakership shorn of the princi-
pal part OF their strength-the disgrasetul
mlsmanagement and conduct of this war
Gen. Lee must turn politician as well as war
| successful politician the Confederacy has ever
produced. lie may 50 move and direct his
army as to produce political results which in
their bearing upon this war will prove more
effectual than the bloodiest victories Let
| ham drive Meade i:sto Washington and he uiU
again raise the spirits OF the Denaoc7~ds s,ntirna
their tnid and giue confdt7sce to deir maverinq
tie acaA enabotde'e the Peace party should he again,
cross the Potozadc, for he will show the people
of Pennsylvania how little security they have
! from Lincoln for the protection of their
homes 1t matters not whether the advance
be made for purposes of permanent occupa-
ton, or simply for grand raid it will dem
onstrate that in the third year of the war
they are so far from the subjugation of the
Confederate States that the defence of Mary
land and pennsylvania has not vet been Sc
cured.
Fall campaign into Pennsyly ania, with
| the hands of our soldiers united-not for in
discriminate plumber, demoralizing and undis-
clplining the army, but campaign for syste-
matte and organized retaliation and punish
ment-would arouse the popular mind to the
uncertainty and insecurity of PENNSYLVANIA
| This would react upon the representatives in
Congress, Strengthening TIE Democrats ami m H.
hfying Hardsieu fanaticis,a Itself The
damages which the last campaign inflicted, if
augmented by another this Fall, when pre-
| scented to the Lincoln government, would, un-
less paid, greatly exasperate the people
against an Administration which neither de-
| tends the State nor reimburses its citizens for
the losses which its own imbecility produced.
And II these damages are paid the debt is in
creased, the taxes raised, and the burdens i'm
posed, viii accomplish the same end
Let the great and important fact be con
stantly kept in tangible and threatening as
pect before the people of Pennsylvania that
Notwithstanding they have opened the Mis-
sissippi and are besieging Charleston, and
conquered East Tennessee, and threaten
Georgia and Alabama-that, notwithstand-
ing all this, Pennsylvania is not safe from in.
vasion, and Washington City is again pelca.
guered in this third year of the war. TIT,
road TO Peace les through PENNSYLVANIA, gio
Washington.
NIB. BEEcHER on GLACIERs.-Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher writes from Switzerland to the
Independent concerning his Alpine experience
"There was glacier 1t was the first
had ever scent For years | had read every
thing 1 could lay my hands upon conce rnne
glaciers; had followed the Alpine travellers
with an interest scarcely less than that ex