True Democrat., 1863-01-14

The People and the Administration-A
 Volcanic Eruption Imminent - The
 March Towards Despotism Must be
 Stopped.
 PLYMOUTH, Ind, Dec. l3, 1862. To the Editor of the Chicago Times:
 wrote you on the 30h ult., in relation to the President and some of the difficulties surrounding him, in which remarked that the people could not afford to lose their liberties because of his i9nor ance or misiortune; and hoped to be able to make some suggestions to the duties of the people in this terrible trial of the theory of the government they have established for themselves. Being bus an humble and obscure man, mix with the people. am one of theni--of the great mass who hold the real balance of power and never seem 10 know who ''ong sulcrng;" but who, when they rise, rise like the volcanic eruption, to vomlt forth the lava that destroys 1t goes, and leaves its debris to mark the eruption for all time to come; who rlse but i'll just cause, and when once risen, never subslde until every veStigc of that has ceased to exist. Nay, more; hlppy the age that them rise ani stop at the point that marks the ! removal of the cause. The world has never seen it vet. When once the masses are gcadcd to mad ness the |" earth drinks blood to yomit crime;" and it remains for us for the st time earth, to be thus g0aded and rest with the removal of the cause Of our madness. The pcople--I mean these masses; not those in large towns; not those in of flee; not the educated and the prominent; but the '' bone and snew" of the country, the people par ercstleRcc-arc slow to believe; slow to con- prehend are slow i'll action; C ow to anger;" but once aroused they are terrible, terrible They are jealous of the rights, but 1t Is hard to rouse that jealousy. They have confidence in men and are tolerant of opinion. Individually, they moan to do right, and slow to think nei ghbor means to do wrong. They see things through the medi- um that immediately surrounds them. neigh borhood of Methodists think the Methodists do or will prcdolnnate everywhere. A community of abotionsts or republicans democrats seyerally think the majority of the people think they do. They profoundly respect talent or superior educa ton wherever they meet it, and always pay defer ence to it. They innocently believe all men as honest as themselves. They labor cheerfully and bear taxation patiently. They rely on the learned orators who ask for their votes. They sec plausi- ble theories facts, and act by them accordingly. They permit the politician to mount them on his hobby, and, if it moves easily, they ride it, and feed it, and exhibit it, and propa gate 1t, and make it popular, and behold it at home and afar with pride as tue work of their own hands. So they have dealt with the political party now in power. When they learn that they have been deceived, triael with, miscd, used tools for individual or partisan purposes their dsgH. H.t, their wrath, their vindctiycncss is equal to their faith, and woe to the man or men who have sought to use them for base purposes. am one of these people. It is
 
 those who write to you mlngle ". tn them seldom, see but little of them as they are. They will, in times like the,e, talk to one of their number, one who is of them and with them, and they are now talking in style, tone, and language that be- token the disturbance of those volcanic elements I mentioned and 1t were we'll now to seek to avoid or prcDlre for the terrible eruption on which the world must gaze with feelings indescribabe
 Their confidence in Mr. Lircoln's innate hones- ty has been unboundcd. Their sympathy with him in his trials has been profound, Their hatred of his advisers has btcome hearty and unmistakable. Their confidence is becoming couded with doubt and fear; their sympathy largely mixed with dis- gust; their hatred fast reaching mali gnity A few more days of such misrule 5 has governed them for year past and the culmir ation will show, they say, that ,ce tte people, begin plainly to and fully to realize what has been done, and what must and shall be done.
 The simplest of us kno,o that Mr. Lincoln reads the proceedings of Congress. We knoD that he cannot be ignorant of what laws and resolut ions are passed and rejected Weknop that he is lawyer enough to know that each branch of the govern ment is supreme in its sphere, and cannot be in terfered with by any other. We know that he is fully advised that the government must exist 0D fe basis of the consnution or that andrchy must reign in it's stead: and that he must either abandon the constitution and declare Dictatorship, or he must abide by the constitution and act within its pro- visions. He cannot deceipe us on these points We l knoD further that there can be such thing a " military necessity Either the constitution is broad enough to give us government sufficient for all emergencies within its limits, 1t is not, If it then he and all of his subordnatcs and coordi- | mates must act within it on their oath, or they are | perurcd corrupt usurpers, and deserve the doom due usurpers. If it is not, then e people, have the right, the only right, the sole and erctasiUt right to make another, broader one, or alter and amend as we see fit; and there IS right else | he vhO or n is and a traitor at heart, and deserves and shall re- | ceiye at our hands fitting doom. We, tue people now announce that there is no such thing as "military necessity outside of the military camp: and the actual field of military operations; and wt will brook no more acts under the plea of 'nitary necessity'' in places where no rebellion exists, nc | aray occupies, no civil laws are suspended by armed occupations nor will we permit the suspen | sion of the civil law nor armed occupation wber, there is rebellion.
 The time has come when the march of our ser | wants on the road to despotism must be stopped Our servants must know what Charles X, of Franc learned of his subiects-" that Me soldiers Q inc people and the soldiers haue arms." 1 IVe. he people kno,c that arbitary arrests ar wrong, and that no act of Congress can make then riobt for the constitution that makes the Congress ood makes as members tnke oahh to protect q fro orbitrary arrests prohibits them from legal z inp such arrests, or depriving us of redress iron those who make them, be they clothed with olic
 or not ..
 We, the people, kno,o that this administration corrupt bevoud precedent and beyond endurance We have this proof among thousands of others that M me- men high in office have been seized, throw
 into prison for months. and discharged without
 word of explanation or accusaton Gen. Stone, fo
 one instance among many. Those men thus in
 prisoncd hold their commissions without being a:
 signed to duty They draw pay and emolumen'
 without returning any service. They are refuse