The mountain Democrat., 1863-01-24

and Il is g disgrace to US that We have 90
tamely submitted to such acts Of atrOcious
despotisnl. IL would seem that the American
penpIe had lost every spark Of that resistance
70 tvrants' and vigorous love Of independence,
which strongly marked the character Of our
forefathers. For the past year, the people of
the Northern States have permitted their SER
vant-the President Of the United States-to
rule them as q despot rules his slaves; to
crush their sacred rights under the iron heel OF
tyranny, and to rob them Of the fairest portion
Of the Inheritance bequeathed them BY Wash
ingtun and his e0mpassiots>, TIE North
American colonies were less arbitraFiIy gov
orned BY George ILL.,, than the Northern
States have been during the past year by
Abrsham Lincoln, of Illinois, Almost every
ton, has been $50 far as lay in Mr. LiucOln's
powerl taken from US. The right of trial by
jury the habeas corpus; the right OF free
speech . free press the right Of the people
u be secure 10 their persons, papers aud ef-
fects against unreasonable searches and seiz.
ures'-indeed every privilege peculiarly free
mans, cave the ballot box, has been denied TO
the people Of this nation by the Administra-
ton.
And the American people, cowardly and
meanly submitted u this tyranny without even
questioning the right Of Mr. Lincoln to exer-
else it.
Nayl there are even nov menial presses, so
cisV IS ~ RMFC 70 Tchro~' mir |~soo'ic nsa'r-
pstion.
There are presses that, and demagognes who
will seek to justify or excuse the Stanton Ken
nedy arrest of Mrs Brnsmade, and the whole
sale system of kidnapping. instituted by these
two worthless, who have disgr aced the coun-
' 80" :. :" kt %S12 hour gave then
birth, ana Or which many innocent persons
have suffered.
Bat the people are now awakening IN sense
of the deep aud wilful wrong they have suf-
ierpd. Not Lincoln, nor Stanton, nor Kennedy,
DOR that meanest Of all-Marshal Carr-will
longer be permitted to suspend the Constitu-
uon.' The recent elections have shown that
ell arbitrary arrests Of innocent persons, con-
trary to the supreme law Of the land, must
cease. The people will no longer submit to
| the reckless infringement Of their Coustitu
tional rights, and he who shall further attempt
it, will Haman like, erect gallOws for his ow n
| execution"
EDlroRs DEMocRAr: The foregoing have
copied from Sentinel and Witness, published
| in Mddletown, Conn, under date Nov. 20,
SO "a paper that, for forty years, has been the
| unwaverng advocate of Democratic pri cples,
rs enuncIated by Jefferson, sustained and
cherished by Madison and Monroe, and eX-
| pounded and enforced by Jackson.
II is seldom that nice, so much truth EN-
| bodied in 50 few words. and send it to you ,
believing that it cannot be too often pub ubliShed
until the people become fully aroused from
| their letharE", TO the dangers which menace
| them. | take issue, however, with the editor
| upon the second paragraph 1t may be that
we have nIe1nly HubHLtted to these wrongs,
| but not irOm cowardce, and here the query
| suggests itself to NY mind -tnaS not those
who perpetrHte these nuirageS think that the
people are silent through fear? 1t So, they Ia
| Dor under u sad deusioD, which if persisted in
| against the warning vance Of that silent but
| powerful mnniLor-the ali"t-box-must even
| luay lead tU fearful reribution.
The great mass of the people are devoted to
| the Constitutions. and the laws made under it.
Such reverence have they for even the form :
VI law, that they not unfrequeulr y submit, with
mitch patience, to tn" OncrUus effects Of profit
| gate and cnrrnpt legislation. until they can re
| iIeve themselves, through the baliol-bnx, in
| the manner prescribed by their system uf gov
ernuent In the present crisis ni our uutIInal
| affairs, the minds Of tens # thousands are So
Warprd By pTedjudicc and passion, that IN
their Ienzy they are unable tn appreciate the
| fun effect and tendency ut these usurpatlunS
| vi dc hundreds oi tiImlsaudS, futly srtSible of
| tn wrongs cuuHiti,d and the dangers that
| mruace thrn, know Ihat against All arbitrary
| executive, with servIle Senate tprTbaps
| should have 81 4, u Dictaturial Senate, with :,
Sert lie executive and an ob>e'llouS HOUSE.
| there IN 10 iHiuedIAIe tedrcSS, except III Krvo-
| lu;nn They believe II a vttWe to suffer long
| an endure mach, rather than to ATTEMPT q
! redfe>A I grievances n any other manner ihan
! that Ires,l lDrd by jhelr Cous'Itutl1n and laws
Tt,v have tie higAcst confidence in the IN
hrr"ni vlr'uc and idt i"tiS.n "i the people, an d
| betrte ;hai luv Il" "srcund Suber Thought " all
! prove both rig and eiticitns. II IS this rev
! vreurc inr est hH>icd turn-, and this cent?
dr.ce 10 HE virtue And imieingenee 1t The pco'
| pie, and MT cO0ardicv. that has caused tuetn
| i"s1 quietly su.ihn tn these great wrongs
| But As there Is p"IDt at which tutbearanct
! ceAsr- I" be Il VIRTUE. wni:id u mt be wisc f1T
| those VIM are cioth,d iIh u lttle brief author
| iiy 10 pause, aud consider that their safest
as well AS noblcst study is the happiness and
welfare oi t"e people W. B. ID.