Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-03-12

militia was brought into the held under
this act; and would be glad to know
why it may not happen that this extraor-
binary demonstration on the part of the
Congress of the United States, of the pow
er and resources of the loyal portion of
this confederacy will not again be followed
up by similar suspicious result. The
successful way to prosecute war is to make
an overwhelming demonstrate of strength
to satisfy those who are prepared to resist
the rightful authority of the government
that resistance is useless, and that this
must be crushed out (Cheers.) Now,
gentlemen, there is nothing, in my hum
BILE judgment, therefore, in the law passed
putting this enormous power in the pos
session of the president of the United States
to deter me from asserting to vigorous
prosecution of the war. (Cheers.) | can
very we'll understand how, if sympathiz-
with the rebellion-if deemed that this
war should fall could spend hours and
columns in this act. But if | believed
that substantial justice required, that the
great ends of prosecuting the war demand,
that the whole power of the government
shall be lodged by the Congress of the
United States in the President of the Uni
ted States, | will bow in silence to the act,
whether | approve of it or not prolonged
cheers)
THE INDEMNITY BILL.
Now, in regard to the bill to indemnify
the president of the United States, | have
simply to say that if this act is constitu-
tional, it will protect him. if not, it will
not. The conrts are open to those COM
planning of arrests at any time for prosecu-
ting him for damages received. Again, as
to the act authorizing the president to sus.
pend the habeas corpus. | suppose he
cannot suspend the habeas corpus under
the constitution of the United States.
Chief Justice fancy, in an opinion which
| have never seen answered, has demon.
strated it, and a republican Judge in Wis
consin, Chief Justice Dixon, who is now
republican candidate for reelection against
the democratic candidate, has in a recent
decision solemnly SO adjudged, and not
outstanding this, he has been made the
candidate in Wisconsin for reelection.
The Congress of the United States tacitly
admit this by assuming that they must au-
thorize the president to suspend the writ !;
they SO judge, and they have authorized
the president to suspend the writ, when
he judged it wise and prudent to do So.
| don't object to that law. cloud cheers
EMANCIPATION.
And what have to say is in reference
to the proclamation of the president of the
United States, declaring slaves free in
certain parts of the Union. | have taken
occasion on several times, to state what
my objections were to that proclamation.
There are no objections to it constitutions
ally. The president has right to make
any proclamation he chooses, and SO have
|. applause and laughter.) The only
question | make is as to the wisdom and
legal effect of this proclamation. Now |
say that the proclamation does not set any
body free. If a man is free by law, he is
free with or without the proclamation, but
| say that it excites the southern people
to this view of the subject: (Hisses and
applause) They say. "You declare that
if we come back and submit to the laws
and to the government, then our slaves
are emancipated" That was not the pres
ident's intention. You may rely upon it
that he did uot emancipate the slaves in
any territory of the United States that is
under the dominion of the United States
They are not emancipated in Kentucky
in Missouri, in Tennessee, or in Mary.
land aud that was, in my hnmble judg
nent, no part of his purpose. In my
judgment his sole object was to declare
as general policy. that as our armies ad
vanced against the rebels, when the rebels
were conquered, their slaves should be lie
gally free. There is no doubt about that
with or without the proclamation. sla
very exists by force, recognized by law
slaves are now held in the so-called confed