The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-06

closing week of the 37th Congress. Con srei
ITSELF offers an animated scence as its teri
draws to,an end. The galleries of the Hous
Of Representatives, which are capable of az
a commodating al out 800 or 1000 spectator
2 are daily and nightly filled with attentive at
diences of men aud women, who loudly ez
press their dissent or assent to the lutterance
B of the Representatives. below. The syniratli
\ of this crowd seems to go almost entirely wit
\ the Republicans and the Exterminators. The
applaud every encroachment upon the hbel
ties of the people which is proposed by Mi
4 Thaddeus Steyens--the dreary Robespierr
who rules in that assembly-and justify every
unusual and uncor rstitutioral power which
vested in the President. The; fact may per
haps be explained by another fact, which i
that the residents public of Washington is
| public of officials and Hhangers-on of the Gov
1 ernment, and large numbers Of strangers from
eeery part of she Union are here sntrigusns
! for places and contracts, and that these cldsse
aooutd cheer Mr. Jefferson Daois as lustily a
they cheer Mr.. Lincoln If the fortune Of aod,
should instal The iSouthern President an til,
| White House and place the destinics Of III,
North at has Disposal. The debates during
the week have been animated and interesting
but all the fire and eoquence have come from
the Democratic side of the House. The Re
| publicans hare not an orator among them
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens, Chairman ofthe Gem.
mittee of Ways and Means, who by virtue Of
that position is the Ministerial leader, is clear
headed, methodical aud logical; but he drawls
and drones, and is utterly without animation
of manner or elegance of diction. He speaks
like cold and callous theorist, who would
carry out, if he could, his idea of Southern
determination with. as little compunction as
he would erase wrong word in sentence.
This gentleman, an attorney from Pennsylya-
MIA, is only ardent in one cause-that of the
abolition of slavery, and differs from the
Northern peoplei in having no antipathy to the
negro as race. On the contrary, lie has a
sympathy seith them, uhiclt he hos p-oued an a
manner quite unusual among Northern avAife
men, especially scien, Ike him, they hare passed
the middle a9e.- The other members of his
party who address the House may be less
wearisome, but they are not mere eloquent
+ than their leader. They are simply dictato-
rial and offensive; they sneer at the writ of
hddeds corpus, if it were some new tangled
notion, invented for no other purpose than to
impede the prosecution of the war, and with
scarcely the form or show of debate they vote
into the hands of the President po,oers ,ohich
Jprop2scd to be yioen to a monarch of Eng
land, Prussia, Spain, or France, teouid inect.
ta6.y godd The peopte into a. riolcnt reuolation.
BIT in this city despotfsn, seems to be taken as
ing is unusual, nothing is Unconstitutional,
nothing as aciehesl to people iclo are prosperity
upon the acar, and have set their minds ppoa
fat Contracts Neither is any thing strange
or unconstitutional to- the zealotssnd lisets of
the Republican party, or to the mani uiacturers
of NeU England and Rnnsyzrdnia, ,Oho
thrive apo'. The ncw ii6Siohieh as running the
country. In the eyes>of all these people no.
thing is objectionabH that tends to perpetuate
IL. X, e. I.
and the best I1opes of this, and succeeding
generat;onsare all sacrificed without exciting
their ehrm or disapprobation. When Mr.
Vall<hdigham, Mr.. Pendleton, Mr.. Cox, or
ot6er leading Democrats denounce with fiery
eloquence the>wrong that has been done, the
galleries make no sign, and aehen these gen
tenaen dcfendthe COnsfifutiD,, and the 7atr, and
urge that ander no circumstances ought they to
be abro9dted, hiss spreads among tte geese
tcho haze got into thc Capitol, which Mr.. Ga
lusha Grow, the Speaker, mildly reprobatcs
He threatens to clear the galleries. but does
not carry the threat into execution, and the
interruptions continue as before. The scene
recalls to mind the sittings Of the Jacobins in
the French Revolution. Robespierre ia lord
of the ascendant. The people applaud him
and his TO lowers only, and reason, justice and
law are not to be tolerated. Z ..'. = -.
The week will be a memorat le one in the
annals of America. 1t has sealed the doom of
the liberties of the North unless there shall
occur in due time counter revolution to re-
store q Constitutional Government Three
extreme measures have been passed, which
was intended to make Mr.. Lincoln Dictator,
and have accomplished their purpose. BY the
first he is authorized to suspend the operation
OF the law of haGeaS corpus whatsoever he
shall deem. fit, expedient and n ecessary. He
or bis secretaries may cause to be Imprisoned
and kept in prison, without trial, for an indef-
mite length of time, any person, h'gb or lew,
in any OF the States cf the Union. He may
order a military force to seize the Governor of
New York or Connecticut, or any other sove.
reign commonwealth. He may arrest and
hold in Forts Lafayette, Warren, or MHeury,
the members of any Legislature whose proceed
ings he may adjudge to be reasonable or dan
gerous. He may seize judge upon the judg-
mentseat, and carry him off to prison, as his
secretaries did Judge Carmichael, of Mary yland,
and hold him. there as common ualefactor,
without specifying the offense committed. He
may silence any tongue, or pen, or printing
press in the country, and no judge or jury
shall question the Legality Of his, act. 1t is
true that the Secretary of State and the Sec.
retary of War 'sare directed to furnish to the
Judges, as soon may be practicable, the
names of the persons arrested, that they may
be presented to the grand jury for indictment;"
but the President and his secretaries are alone
to decide on the 'practicability's of such
step; and if they are of opinion that it is un-
wise or unsafe to hberate or bring to trial any
such prisoners during the two remaining years
of the Presidential term, there is nothil & in
the actrof Congress to compel them tozmako
an earlier decision. This proviso, therefore,
counts for nothing. s
And in order that the President may have
the power to carry this gigantic tyranny into
effect, and become de jtacto the stron gest .des-
pot In the world, CONGRESS has passed a Con-
soription Act, which calls out, at fhe discre-
ton ofsthe President as to members, the
whole able bodied male population : of the
country between the ages Of Is and 45, The
first callFof 600, 600 men 10 To be made, with
what success will not be known until after tho
10th of July, when the act ocmes into opera.