The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-02-28

exclusive control and power; and re-
CARELESS of the great lessons of tha
past, the National Executive in nan.
dering to the insane fanaticism oftho
Abolition faction, has ventured upon
a system OF public policy; which, if
successfully inaugurated, would dis
grace our country in the eyes Of the
civilized world, and carry lust, ra-
pine and murder into every house in
the slaveholding States.
Resolved, That the act of the fed
eral administration in suspeuding
the writ of habeas corpus, the arrest
of citizens not subject to military law
without warrant or authority-traus-
porting them TO distant States-iu-
generating them without charge or
Notwithstanding them the right
of trial by jury, of witnesses in their
favor, and counsel for their defence
withholding from them all kuowl-
edge of their accusers, and the cause
of their arrest-answerug their Pc
tition for redress BY repeated injury
and insult-prescribing in many ca
ses as q condition Of their release,
test oaths, arbitrary aud illegal:
In the abridgement of freedom of
speech and Of the press-in suppress
ing newspapers by military force;
and establishing censorship wholly
incompatible with the freedom Of
thought and expression Of opinion:
In the establishment of system
Of espionage by secret police to lu-
wade the sacred privacy Of unsuspect-
Ing citizens:
In declaring martha law over States
not in rebellion, and where the courts
are open and unobstructed for the
punishment Of crime:
In attempting to strike out of ex-
istence the entire value Of slaves tho
out the country:
ia the attempted enforcement Of
compensated emancipation:
In the proposed taxation of the La
boring White man to purchase the
freedom and secure the elevation Of
the negro:
In the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the State
ofVirginis, erecting within her boun.
diaries new State without the CON
sent of her Legislature
Are each and all arbitrary and un-
constitutional, subvertiug the Con
s,itution, State and Federal, inva-
ding the reserved rights of the people
and the sovereignty Of the States,
and if sanctioned, the destruction Of
he Union, establishing upon the
common ruins of the liberties Of the
people and the sovereignty Of the
States consolidated military despo-
tism:
And we hereby solcmnly declare
that no American citizen can, with
out the crime OF infidelity TO his coun-
try constitutions, and the allegiance
which he bears to each sanction such
usurpations. Believing that our 81
lencc will be criminal, and may be
construed into consent, in deep rev.
erence for our Constitution, which
has been ruthlessly violated we do
hereby enter our most solemn protest
against these usurpatons OF power.
Rcs0lued, That in connection with
our fellow.c citizens of other states, wc
will use our utmost influence to pre-
vent the payment Of single dollar
of the money Of the people unconsti
tutionally appropriated for the I'M
warranted Executive project Of Com
pcnsated Emancipation.
Resolucd, That wesympathize with
the soldiers who enlisted to sustain
the Constitution and tho Union, 10
the great deprivations, and hardships
to which they have been subjected in
sickness and in health; and demand
in the name Of justice and humanity,
that the great frauds which have de-
prived them Of proper food, raiment
and care, shall be exposed, and their
authors duly punished.
Resolved, That the enormous plum
der Of the public treasury by self
constituted patriots, which has been
rife throughout the country, demands
the closest scrutiny: and the severest
punishment should follow just ex-
posture.
Resolved, That as representatives
Of large proportion Of the people Of
Connecticut, We demand the fullest
exposure Of the manner in which the
sum of four millions Of dollars appro-
priated by our State during the past
two years, or any portion Of it, has
been expended, with detail Of the
objects for which that vast amount
Of money has been used; and we pro-
test against the extraordinary and
uncalled-for appropriation by the last
extra session Of our Legislature, Of
Ten Thousand Dollars to the Cover
nor Of the State to be used by him in
secret for any object he may see fit 10
expend it.
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