North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1863-05-20

what Fsleral gislatian is endeavoring to do Here
t,for # any Federal official, high or ow Ma rshal
Soldier Tide Waiter or Secretary acted in violation
of Sttc law transcended his authority or had none
no was lmenable like any other citiren in the State
Cvu s. l don't pause to inquire if snch suits here.
aftor brought might might not, by adequate
statutory provision, be removed thence. l think
they had better not be- But such prospective action
does not to please Congress 1t is to be retro
active. Its statute provides, if understand it, that
soa after trial. and verdict and Judgment such cases
may be removed bodily into the Federal Court and
over again. and then the color OF authority 10
to be proved under the general issue, and to oe
complete defence A Deputy Marshal or Provost
Marshal und er some inadequate pretended au-
thority, arrests and drags away a citizen of New
Jersey for instance That citizen sues him, he
has right to do it in New Jersey, before Chief JUS
tice Groen or any other State Judge, and
verdict or convicts the Marshal according to State
law the defendant has right under the act
ofCongress to remove his after his trial, and
have it tried over again before his Honor Judge
Field-a gentleman just appointed to Office after
short apprenticeship of estate loyalty to Mr. Lin
coin Ny friend, G. ". Bridle,and tried case
the other day of this kind before the Chief Justice
Of Pennsylvania and a jury OF mixsd politics. AZ
Ter fair, temperatetrial, got verdict and judg
ment If fairly construe this act Of Con -ress there
is nothing to prevent Mr.. Millw ard, the Marshal
from having his tried over again in the Federal
Court and no doubt (unless the Judges precedents
may deter hlm) he will Now this call gross vio
laton of Stat rights of the authority Of the local
Judiciary which if assented to, reyolutionzes the Gov
ernment. tits not jot better than it would have
been for the State of New Jersey to have ordered
new trial its Courts of Jackalow, the Chinaman.
after hc had been tried in the Federal Court. The
Conscription tells its story. 1t is the most COM
pete engine of consolidation yet devised-ifin no
other respect than this, that the Conscrpt mus
terd in a Federal soldier like any other He is to
be Injured lis State, ana the soldier from Phiadep
hia or Bucks, or Berks Montgomery, is liable 10
be enrolled in the uncongenal array of Massachu
sets, or, it may be, of negro regiment There
to be no more New Jersey Pennsylvania regiments
There is to be a National Guard for US new CON-
bination of words, such nonsense love for
Oaes State is to be tolerated As the law once stood
MA had light to choose his company, Il mean to
play upon worus) and if he pleased, could enroll
himself among his neighbors among strangers but
my impression is for like Mr.. Van Buren, spake
diitiently the individual man is plunged into the
huge array of rationalism he is to be marched far
away, and won't have the consolation, if he falls
wonnded on some distant field TO have his brow wiped
OF ais thirst sIaked by tn hand of whom he has
known from ch ildhood and who can carry dying
NEE re to his old mother or to his young wife al
hoIG;.
should not deal csuiidly with -ou in referring
to this last matter if did not recall what every stu
dent If cur history knows-and what Mr. Ingersoll re-
ferrel to the other night-that this exp riment to
raise armies by Federal conscrptoD unlike its legal
toA1es levice, his prcedent-Mr. Monroe's plan of
1914 but beg you, when this is quoted to
Ter ,- that plan made the enrolment through the
agency Of CO. of6cers--If that Its constitutional
ty was denied en- TIC floor of Congressional it was
resisel the bitter end by united New England
now 50 anxious to force PennsylSanians and Jer-
seyHlcn into the ranks; and was prevented from
going iat0 force or even being enacted by the uu-
conqu IA lie repugnance of the Representative body
au3 what it is treason TO pray for-tne bless
ii rc5o.n Of Peace. 1t was then said--by Mr. Web
ster, tla the power to raise armies gave
power enforce eonscription than the power to bor
row mJr6y to authorize forced loan. Then 1t
the Of Massachusetts, that the natural allie
glance Of tie people is due to the State horities
anu Glrt the,c is allegiance to the Federal gov
ernr at but such as had commenced and expressly
prom.7 i to give.
NJ Van Buren, in his speec- some time ago, at
the Cooper Institute pretended Ae had found her
pre-, .ent in the Act Of Congress Of 1885, giving his
fat certain powers to re- o certain invasion of
II naa, by Sir John lIarvcy- Really, such citation
in. les remarkable 1t or won't say efron-
ter. for that is h7r. word applicable to Mr..
Van Ea-cc l.. ,t lance on the creduty and ig-
OF his audience, which is stupendous, though
probably it very just The Act eff 1929 bore the
sane relation to agglomeration of statutes recently
passed, conferring power the Executive, di the
Sl0,O09G 600 it appropriated, the 81, 700 900
Mr. Lincoln has. It authorized the completing of
small Navy: not the huge 1t directed call for
0uateors, not CONSUMPTION. 1t raised the term Of
service Of the militia six months 1t did not force
tEem in for three years the war. But there was
one part Of it which Mr. Van Buren, may have in his
memory though he does not to give prominence
II it yet. It authorizes the sending special Minis
ter-a confidential ole, if need be-to negotiate
settlement with the enemy. Now it may bel on
Iy throw this out as hint-a possible solution Of
the New YoIk mysteIy-that out of the secret SER
vice fund which Secretary Seward now administers,
instead of employing, he did last year in Europe
Z team Of Bishops-one American and one Irsh--he
contemPates sending team Of lawyers-one Irish
and one AmercaE-lny two acquaintance, Mr. Bra
is and Mr. NansBuren to Richmoud-to negotiate
settlement IF the war and the recovery Of the
'wavwarl sisters" | cannot imag inc a more i'm
prcssye ta5leau than the reception by the stern
s'4tesman who administers the Executive power of
J.e Southern Confederacy of the two joyia and YER
sa;i'e practitioners of law from the city ofNew York
Really, were not such regeneration exhibit
ed in New Yoak, sad spectacle, one might we'll af
forl to srno ct the Importance which has been at
tacled to 1t.
Clt eyerN rnw and then hear coma loosA rcaier