Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-05-28


Great War Meeting ut A1bnny-Tre-
mendous Speech OF Dan. s. DIclzIn-
son-Liberty OfSpeech not License
OF Speech.
5 From the Albany JOurnal.I
CExTEAcr.1
Liberty of speech is one thing. Liberty
Of treason is another. The liberty ofspeech
is sacred; but this does not include the
right to act as spy, and convey iutellig-
ence to the enemy.which may destroy thou.
sands of the lives of our soldiers, endauger
our army, and leopard the existence of
Government. [Applause. Swords aud
knives are free; but this gives no one the
right to commit murder. Fire arms are free,
aud exempt from seizure on execution; and
yet no one has right TO discharge them at
his neighbor. Fire is free; but the one who
should employ it to destroy tho dwelling
of his neighbor would be the subject of an
arbitrary arrest"-in his Gown house." if
he should be foundlhere-ttiu the presence
of his wife and children" if he had them.
And these tarbitrary arrests" in criminal
law are of daily occurrence, and in mar
ual law of not unfrequent occurrence,
especially such war of rebellion as
this, with spies and traitors hatch
ing treason, and aiding rebellion all
along the border. Any lawyer who
can not discriminate between civil law
and martial law, should be treated for
simplicity on the brain. TShouts of ap.,
plause and laughter The functions of
martial law, aDd the authority upoa which
it rests, were freely stated by me last fall,
in speech made in the Cooper Institute.
1t is dangerous power. but its Ubsence
would be more dangerous. It is liable to
abuse, but Mt war can be conducted with
out it--especially such war as this
Whether it was judiciously exercised in
this case, and whether the paltry fellow
was worth arrestiug, | do not know, and
do not, for all present purposes, care. All
we can inquire of Is, does the poGFerfexist,
and If it does. was it exercised in good
faith? II it was, even though Gen. Burn
side was mistaken, he is to be encouraged
tor his watchfulness and commended for
his vigilance. Applause. Two great,
and hasty, and noisy meetings have been
held, one in New York, at which Captain
Rynders and others spoke, and even the
late Thomas H. Seymour, of Connecticut.
preached, daughter, and one at this Cap.
itol, where his excellency, Governor Sey-
mour. administered upon the wrongs of
Natlaudighum by letter.. The Governor
says this arrest is full of danger to our
homes. Who is in danger in his home,
pray tell? No one, unless he has done
something to put himself in dsnrerw
The pious thief aud burglar. Cor
don, of Brooklyn, who attended conferences
and prayer meetings with the.young ladies,
discovered where they kept their jewelry,
und then entered their houses aud robbed
them by night, was a long time in danger
in his home [roars of laughter,l and by
and by the cruel police went in large mum.
bersr and with their Inurderous clubs, and
IN the night time, too, and "arbitrarily ar
rested" him, and put him in prison, and
the Court sent him to the State prison for
twenty years. All for stealinga few trink.
cts. Yet Governor Seymour says nothing.
Had he connived with. rebellion for the
overthrow of the only great free Govern
ment on earth, and had been detected and
arrested 1t would have been 'arbitrary."
But 1t interfered with the "treedom of
speech" How? Who has objected to the
freest possible discussion? Freedom of
speech does not confer the right to 90 be-
fore an enemy and stimulate mutiny aud
dlsobedience aud recommend desertion. It
does not justify which, in time of
war, is calculated and INTENDED to weaken
the military arm of the Government. The
Governor complains that the Governors of
the Western States have sunk into 5ipsig.
nthcance. 1t is certainly time to be
on the look out. l hope whatever may
become of the States, New York NAV
not find herself in the same pitiful cat.
egory. Laughter.l It is certainly hur
initiating position for the frst State ofthe
Union, when the scales of our being as a
nation are yibrating-when our children
are dying by the thousands in defense of
the Uuiou-to see the Chief Magistrate
turn from contemplating the picture with
anxious solicitude, to denounce. the Gov
ernment aud encourage the rebellion, be.
cause q ranting, foaming, frothinP, gascon
aiding traitor ferries of chang him, hang
him, = has been charged with an offense
cognizable by the martial law, and has
been arrested, and after attnll and fair trial
convicted. This is the species of support
which Governor Seymour and those who
are with him, from the beginning of the
war, have given TO the Administration, and
this he calls a generous" one They now
propose to "psuse," as he tells us; aud ifI
they will but Gpause" in their assaults
upon the AdministrRtion-in their pro-
claimed sympathy with traitors, and 10
their eneouragementoto to febelliou-they
will confer favor upon the present aud
coming generations. ApplRuse-1 The peo.
pie cry "pause, but It is to those engaged
in assaults upon the Administration, moi
TO those who are striking death blows al
the rebellion. They cry Epsuse,p but they
cry TO those who give aid. encouragemen;
and comfort to the rebels. The soldiers
are among US here, aud they cry 'tpause, y
but it is that you stpause" in stImnla-
ting the rebellion. They have 5periled
their lives in n,defeuse of the Government.
With heads uncovered and bosoms barred.
they have met the enemies of free institu