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mendOus Speech by Dan. S. DIckin-
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mendOus Speech by Dan. S. DIckin-
: sOn.--hiberty Of Speech not Liiensc
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Liberty of speech is one thing. Lib
erty of treason is another The liberty
of speech is sacred; but this does not in
clude the right to act as a spy, and con-
vey intelligence to the enemy which may
destroy thousands of the lives of our sol
diers, endanger our army, and leopard
the existence of Government Ap-
plause. Swords and knives are free;
but this gives no one the right to COM
init murder. Fire arms are free, and
exempt from seizure on execution; and
yet no one has right to discharge them
at his neighbor Fire is free; but the
one who should employ it to destroy the
dwelling of his neighbor would be the
subject of an arbitrary arrest in his
''own house" if he should be found there
lin the presence of his wife and chill
dren," if he had them. And these "ar-
bitrary arrests, in criminal law, are of
daily occurrence, and in martial law of
not unfrequent occurrence, in all wars,
especially such war of rebellion as
this, with spies and traitors Matching
treason, and aiding rebellion all along
the border. Any lawyer who can not
discriminate between civil law and mar
tial law, should be treated for simplicity
on the brain. Shouts of applause and
laughter. The functions of martial law,
and the authority upon which it rests,
were freely stated by me last fall, in
speech made at Cooper Institute. 1t is
a dangerous power, but its absence
would be more dangerous 1t is liable
to abuse, but no war can be conducted
without ESPECIALLY such war as this.
Whether it was ludiciously exercised in
this case, and whether the paltry fellow
was worth arresting do not know, and
do not for all present purposes, care.
All we can inquire of is, does the power
exist, and if it does, was it exercised in
good faith? If it was, even though Gen.
Burnside was mistaken, he is to be en-
couraged for his watchfulness and COM
mended for his vigilence. [Applause. ]
Two great, and hasty, and noisy meet
ings have been held, one in New York,
at which Capt Rynders and others
spoke, and even the late Thomas H.
Seymour, of Connecticut preached,
Daughter, and one at this Capitol,
where his Excellency, Governor Sey-
mour, administered upon the wrongs of
Vallandigham, by letter. The Governor
says this arrest is full of dangers to our
homes. Who is in danger in his home,
pray tell? No one, unless he has done
f4R%ehjng fR%e 6IdpS ttboefn to nut aha hhimse il danse
Brooklyn, who attended conferences and
PRAYER meetings with the young ladies,
discovered where they kept their iewelry,
and then entered their houses and rob
bed them BY night, was long time in
danger in his home [roars of laughter,
and by and by the cruel police went in
large numbers, and with their murder
GUS clubs, and in the night time, too, and
arbitrarily arrested" him, and put him
in prison, and the court sent him to the
State prison for twenty years.
All for stealing few trinkets. Yet
Governor Seymour says nothing. Had
he connived with the rebellion for the
overthrow of the only great free Gov
ernment on earth, and had been detected
and arrested. it would have been "arbi-
trary." But it interfered with the free
dom of. speech" How? Who has os-
iected to the freest possible discussion?
Freedom of speech does not confer the
the right to go before an enemy and
stimulate mutiny and disobedience and
recommend desertion. 1t does not Just
ify anything which, in time of war, is
calculated and intended to weaken the
military armofthe Government The Gov
ernor complains that the Governors of
some of the Western States have sunk
into insigni6cance. 1t is certainly time
to be on the look out. hope whatever
may become of the States, New York
NAV not find herself in the same pitiful
category Laughter. 1t is certainly
a humiliating position for the first State
of the Union, when the scales of our
being as a nation are vibrating-when
defense of the Union-to see the Chief
Magistrate turn from contemplating the
picture with anxious solicitude, to de-
nounce the Government and encourage
Il rebellion, because a ranting, foaming,
frothing. gasconading, traitor, cries of
chang him, hang him. has been
arrested. and after full and fair trial
convicted This is the species of sup
port which Governor Syeymour and
those who are with him, from the begin
ming of the war, have given to the Ad-
ministration, and this he calls "gener
Gus" one! They now propose to pause
in their assaults upon the Administra-
tion-in their proclaimed sympathy with
traitors, and their encouragement of re-
bellion-they will confer favor upon
the present and coming generations.
TApp plause The people cry "pause,
but it is to those engaged in assaults
upon.the Administration, not to those
who are striking death-blows at the re
bellion. They cry pause. but it is thai
you 'pause' in stimulating the rebellion
They have periled their lives in de-
fense of the Government With heads
uncovered and bosoms barred, they have
met the enemies of free institutions
upon the battlefield, vociferous cheer
ing, and they cry pause to you who
by sympathizing with traitors, encour'
age resistance to the Government and
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