The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-30

TREMENDOUS SPEECH BY DAN. S. DICK
INsoN-LIBERTY OF SPEECH NOT LICENSE
OF SPEECR.-Liberty Of speech is one
thing. Liberty OF treason IS another. Inc
liberty of speech is sacred; but this does
not include the right to act as spy, and
convey intelligence to the enemy which
NAV destroy thousands of the lives OF our
| soldiers, .endanger our army, and leopard
the existence of the Government. APP
plause.l Swords and knives are free; but
| this gives no one the right to commit muir
der. Firearms are free, and exempt from
seizure on execution; and yet no one mas
right to discharge them at his nelghpor.-
Fire is free: but the one who should en-
ploy il to destroy the dwelling his neigh
Dor would be the subject Of an ''arbitrary
arrest''-in his town house, If he should
he found therein the presence OF his
wife and children II he had them. Ana
| these arbitrary arrests in criminal law,
are of daily occurance, and in martial law
of not unfreauent occurrence, in all wars,
especially such war Of rebellion as this
with spies and traitors Matching treason,
and aiding rebellion all along the border.
i Any lawyer who can not discriminate pc
tween civil law and martial law, should be
treated for simplicity on the brain: [Shouts
of applause and laughter.l The functions
of martial law, and the authority upon
which it rests, were freely stated by me
last Fail, in a speech made at the Copper
Institute. tits a dangerous power, put us
absence would be more dangerous. IL
is liable to abuse, but no war can be con-
, Quoted without it-especially such wal
{ as this. Whether it was !judiciously eXer-
cised in this case, and whether the paltfy
fellow was worth arresting, do not know
. and do not, for all present purposes, care
, All we can inquire of is, does the power eA-
! ist, and if it does, was it exercised IN gooo
5 faith? If it was. even though Gen. Burn:
q side was mistaken, he is TO be encourage
q for his watchfulness and commended 1ol
e his vigilance. [Applause.l Two great, ans
y hastv, and noisy meetings have been heid
+ one in New York, at which Captain Ryn
V ders and others spoke, and even the iat'
s Thomas II. Seymour, OF Connectcu.
t preached, daughter and one at this Capl
4 tol, where his excellency, Governor sey
: mOur. administered upon the wrongs o
: Vallandigham by letter. The Governo
: saws this arrest is full of danger to GU
! homes. Who s.in danger IN his nome
pray tell? No one, unless he has don
y Something to put himself in danger. Tn
:. pioIrs thief and burglar, Gordon, 9
!. Rrooklyn. who attended conferences an
nrayer meetings with the young ladles
Il discovered where they kept their ieweiry
: and then entered their houses ana roppe
If them by night, was a long tilne III uallSe
~ in his home rroars of laughter and by an
~ Inv the cruel police went in large number
10 and with their murderous clubs, and IN tn
" night time, too, and arbitrarily arrested
~ him. and put him in prison, and the Coul
g sent him to the State prison for tWent
10 wears. All for stealinga few trinkets; =.
in Governor Seymour says nothing. Had l
ID conniyed with rebellion for the overtime
le of the only great free Government on ear'
an and had It been detected and arrested.
n. would have been arbitrary. But II !, u
r. terferred with the freedom Of speech. !.
How? who has objected to the freest 20
cd sible discussion? Freedom. OF speech 90
SIX not confer the right to go before an 81 ene en-
n and stimulate mutiny and disopeolen
h and recommend desertion. IL goes
1t Justify anything which, in time OF war !,
or calculated and intended to weaken ~ y
,e- military arm of the Government. .l
n Governor complains that the Go over ims;
ed the Western States have sunk in,o ins =
nd nificance. 1t is certainly time 10 oe om :
elf look out. hope whatever may oec ,'nrs
I'm the States, New York may not ma ne sts
Tor in the same pitiful category. Laugh Lausn'e.
nv 1t is certainly humiliating, posltlon u,
ed the first State of the Union, when the sci.l
Ill of our being as nation are vibrating-wi !
Mt. our children are dying by thousands ~
IN tense of the Union-to see the Chle1 MAY
ne. trate turn from contemplating the plcst