The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1863-03-13
From the Lynchhurg Republican.
EsmC0fn q Dictator,


yesterday conetituted Lincoln complete Die.
tstor of the Yankee nation: Not q Potentase
in Europe Of ancient or modern times, was
ever more completely INFESTED with the robe,
of imperial power. than this I!linoiee Apes.
The freedom of the citisens--the liberty Oh
the press and Of speech-eyorytbing which
pertains to people Of a constitutional so.
yernment, has been placed completely At his
mercy, by the sweeping Law authorizing the
suspension of the hateus coyp.a. This mea-
sure is powerfully characterized by the New
York World: s..
'sAs the most high-handed, haEe.fsced and
Infamous affront that has yet been offered 80
the great charter of our liberties, even by the
false and periured party that row controls
the government Every senator who voted for
this. detestAble bill is swura to support the
fassed Reputation. The bill, if it passes the
house, which it viii, and receives the sigma
tnre of the President, (which it willt) is noth-
ing less. than an xct for the establishment of q
despotisin in tilsse once free and happy Unit
ed States. and taking frou,ethe people the pro-
lection of the Constitution. II authorizes and
.jussifss arbitrary arrests at the will Of the
executive, in defiance of explicit provisions Of
the Constitution forbidding each arrests. 1t
puts every mans liberty and property out Of
the protection OF the fundamental Ian; it AM
initiates the power of the State governments
to protect their citiEsHs against illegal vio-
ienee; It tells the President and his minions
that they may with Smpunity perpesrase ali
those acts OF despotism by which the most
odious tyrants in tue worst ayes have earned
the execration Of mankind. This may be
deeaed strong language, but II is no more
than adequate to characteriEa the infamous
act Of combiaed perjury and despotis& which
we print this morning, and which challenges
the attention and must provoke the indigna:
tion Of every man who is not base enough to
CONFESS himself covering slave. The pro.
ceedings in CONNECTION. with the passage Of
this bill prove that every Senator who voted
for it committed conscious perjury; that he
knowingly and vilfully violated the solemn
oath he had taken TO support the Consultation
Of the United States. We .sak th4.deliberate
attention Of the country to the facts we will
now recite, and which appear on the record
Mr. Carlisle, Of Virginia, mayed to amend the
first section Of the bill by inserting after the
phrase President of the United states,n the
words 'sin the constitutional authority" an
amendment which would give that officer inl-
mnnity for ali acts, arrests and proceedings
which he has done or ordered in tile exercise
Of bis authority, but leaving him and his sub
ordinstes to the full consequences and penal
ties OF acts done in violation Of the Constitu-
ton. The Repurliean Senators saw that the
adoption Of this amendment would render the
bill nugatorg, that this confession Of allegi-
anoe to the Constitution would render ii Of no
more effect than SO much blank paper. The
amendment was accordingly rejected by III
ayes against 80 nays. By this stiff and bra
zen vote the Senate of the United States de.
clared their determination to treat the .Consti.
tuition which they have sworn to support and
the guarantees it throws around the liberties
Of the people, as q nullity. THE vote Of these
twenty nine Senators is danlning and in
.delible record, not only against themselves
but against the President OF the United States.
1t in effect declares him quite guilty Of hume,
rous, frequent and repeated violations Of the
Constitution. 1t is plain confession that
the design Of the bill issto shield that officer
and his underlings from the legal consequent
ces Of such violations. IF that we've not the
object, Mr.. Carlisle's amendment would have
been readily accepted, for the insertion Of
that amendment could in no way impair the
effect Of the bill, in exempting the President
and his subordinates from penalties for acts
which were not violations Of the Constitution.
These Senators in effect declare that be has
violated the Constitutions; that they consider
violations of the Constitution meritorious acts
on the part Of an officer sworn tossupport and
defend it; and that they will stand between
him and all parties ordained by State or Fe-
deral laws for wanton and Illegal trespssses
on the rights Of citizens"
Such is the record against Lincoln, and his
abolition Congress, as drawn BY one Of the
ablest Northern journals, and it is q sad som-
mentary upon the once proud and honored
country known as the Federal Union. In the
brief space Of two years liberty has become
extinct and the home of the free and the land
Of the brave been converted into q sdespotism
governed by knaves.
"A gentleman who has administered the fol-
lowing remedy for diptheria, says that it has
always proved afectuafi in afording speedy
relief: Take a common tobacco pipe, place
live coal within the bowl, drop q. little tar
upon the coal and let the patient draw smoke