The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-01-15
give you every necessary information on
the subject of this address.
HcadQuarters, 7th Military District,
Mobile, Sept 2lst, 1914.
ANDREW JACKSON,
Major Gen. COMMANDING

Mobile, Sept 2lst, 1914
ANDREW JACKSON,
Major Gen. Commanding.
Dwell upon it Compare it with the
proc!amatlons Of those tanatical, .lboli-
tion Generals, Fremont, Hunter, Phelps,
Butler, Mitchell and Lincoln Having
exhausted that, read the following ad-
dress, issued by Andrew Jackson, Sun
day, December IS, lSl4-read it twice,
dwell upon it, Compare it with the pro-
clamation of that "corrupt politician" T."
Abe Lincoln. Don't let any fall asleep
during its reading. Give car, . my
people.
TO TIE MEN OF COLOR.
SoldiCrs-From the shores Of Mobile
| collected you to arm&--l invited you
to share in the perilS and to divide the
glory of your white couptrymcn. cx-
pccted much from you, for | was not
uniaformcd Of those qualities winch
must render you SO formidable to an in.
vading foc-l knew that You could en-
dure hunger and thirst, and all the hard,
ships of war; knew that You loved the
land of your nativity, and that, like our.
selves, YOU had to defend all that is most
dear to man but YOU surpasS my hopes
| have found in you, united to those
qualities, that noble enthusiasm which
impels to great deeds.
Soldiers-Thc lrcs dent Of the Unit
ed States snail be informed of your con.
duct on the present occasion, and the
voice of the representatives, Of the Amer
lean nation shall applaud your valor, as
! your General low praises Your arlor. -
! The enemy is near; his "<aiI, cover tie
| lakes > but the brave are united AID
if he finds Us contonding among our
selves, it will be for the prize Of valor
and fame, its mobiles; reward.
BY command.
THOMAS H. BUrLEH,
Aid de camp.
IF, after this, the evening is not too
far spent, and your souls are stirred 10y
"a little of the spirit of jacE>on,' be
renewed in the spirit of your minds by
| the following quotation from douglas
defense of jackson for suspcndinS the
writ of haJeas corpus, thereby attempt
ing to destroy the great hulwark OF
American freedom;
..Vhe cbarcps for oxrrt;ny arbitrary
power and lawless violence over court,
and legislatures, and civil institutions. ir
dcrocation Of the Consti,u,ion and laws
and without the sanctions Of rirLtful au
thoritv. have been So often made and re-
itrrafrd far noIi,i,al f., F., tlqt Jnhtl,.s
MANY candid men have been lisnoscd TO
rcposc faith in their correctness. without
taking the pains to examine carefully the
grounds upon which they rest. A 1ucs-
tion involving the right of the country
to use the means necessary to its defense
from foreign invasion in times Of immi-
ncnt and impending dargcr is too vital
ly important to be yielded without an in
quiry into the nature aud source of the
fatal restriction which is to deprive the
nation of the power Of self, f,prcscrvation
The proposition contcndcd for by the
opposition is that tie General in COM
mand to whose protection is committed
the country, and the lives, property and
liberties of the citizens within his dis
trict, may not declare martial law when
il is asccrtaincd that il exercise, and it
alone, can save all frou total destruction.
1t is gravcly con,cpdcl that in such an
awful conjuncturc of circumstances, the
General must abandon all to the mercy
of the enemy, because he is not author,
lied to elevate the military above the
civil authorities, and ,lat too when it is
certain that nothing but the power Of the
military law can save the civil laws and
the Constitution from complete annihila,
ton
"If these are not the positions assumed
by the gentlemen in so many words, they
are unquestionabIy the conclusions to
which their positions necessarily and IN
evitably conduct us; for no man prctends
to venture the assertion that the city of
New Orleans could, by any human agen-
cy or effort, have been saved in any 9TH
er manner than by the declaration and
! enforcement of martial law For ono