Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-09-29
supervision of the Writ of Ha
beaS COrpus-LeIter from
MIR. VaIlaDdIgham.
WINDSOR, G. W. Sent. II 1ss3

WINDSOR, g. W, Sept. II, 1863.
To tie President of tie Democratic Mass
Needing at Carthage, Ohio
Since writing to the mass convention q
Dayton to day, the monstrous proclamation
OF TIE president has appeared, suspending
the privilege OF the writ OF habeGs corpus.
and thus declaring martial law through.
out the United States, 10, every one and
every part OF every one of them. and in ali
their territories. 1t comes without previ,
Gus warning. 1t is announced at a time
when the successes of the federal armies
and the reyerses of the confederatss are
greater than at any period since the begin.
ping OF the war; at time when the lines
OF the former are more extended and of
the latter mode contracted aud fcrther re-
moved from the original frontier than ever
before, and at time when, according 10
the secretary of state, the rebellion is AT
last almost crushed out. 1t appears in the
midst OF no riot tumult, or other popular
convulsiOn anywhere in the states ALWAYS
true to the Union, and no preparation for
any; and when even the .odious 'couscrip-
ton is being executed quietly aud without
resistance wberever announced. 1t is TO
continue during the rebelliOn'-the uresi-
dent being the sole judge and arbiter of
how long the rebellion shall be deemed to
last. AT such a time, and under such cir
eumstances, it can have but one object
the pending elections this fall, but especi.
ally the presidential canvass of 1864 II
is. irdeed, the full development of that of
which have so Often warned the people
81 Ohio and of the Bnite6 States-tbe
great conspiraey against constitutional
liberty and free popular govsrnment-the
establishment Of a formal and proclaimed
des2otism' in your midst. 49, =. -
Oh, that the warning voice. feebIe
though 1t was, which, two years ego, in
the beginning OF this great struggle, 10 &C.
cents earnest as ever issued from human
lips, cried aloud to the people that, one by
one, their Liberties were about to perish.
and that anarchy first and o. strong gov
eminent afterwards-no more state lines,
20 more state governments, but CONSOLE
dated monarchy, or vast centralized mill,
tary despotism must al follow in the bic.
tory OF the future. as is the history of the
past they bad centuries before been writ
ten. But that voice found no echo then,
save in the columns end corridors of the
capitol To dag it is lifted up sgain.-
And hereafter let no man tell you--least Of
al ING eeotluels upon your Waten tower
that there is no danger. no ground for
alarm or apprehension. To day your pres-
ident is in form, as Cor two years aud more
be has been in fact, A Military Dictator.
The most incredulOus may see at last that
the issue is, indeed, whether tn ere shall
any longer be constitution and law ia the
United States, other than the will. un !.
known or expressed, of the presldeot:-
whether freedom of person, of The press of
speech, free political Assem- blazes and a
free ballot shall any more exist among ma
and whether the people shall hereafter. as
heretofore, choose the legislatures and
chief executives of the state and federal
governnents.1 Shall there be free state
elections any longer, or smother .presiden.
tai election Of any sOrt1 Shall popular
goVsrnmentor q despOtism unlimited by
ia" and uncontrolled by Judicial courts,
henceiOrth prevail in the United Statesf
Tins, now, men of Ohio, more than ev-
er, Is the issue before you. The revolu-
tonary purpose OF the administrations 70
perpetuate, by intinidstioD or fOrce' its
power in the states and 10 the general gov
eminent, stands nov fully revealed. Next
after this declaration Of maItisllsW VIII