True Democrat., 1863-02-25
Lincoln Denounced in the Senate.

Mr. Saulsburg, Senator from Delaware, in late speech on the bill for the sdlScharge ot ln- colns State prisoners. declared that partisan revenge had governed the actions of the admin istration, and that the ntamy of is acts. wonid drag 1t in disgrace down to future generations; that the system of espionage of Napoleon was nothing compared to the tyrannical acts ot Lin- coin. Abiding to the suspcntion of the writ of .habeaS corpus he said:
 The President never had the right to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, that 1t never had been so held or supposed by any one up to the time of this war. Quoting the acts of the Eng fish Parliament and the proceedings of the con- vention which formed the Constitution and the laws of the various States in support ot his opinion, he claimed that the power of suspen- sion was vested alone in Congress.
 He believed that if the framers of the Consti- tuition had supposed that within eighty years a man would sit in the Presidential chair who would suspend this writ and play the tyrant by < sezng innocent citizens in loyal States, they never would have formed the Union And yet the President has had the audacity before men and the temerity before heaven to presume to suspend this writ throughout the whole United States, and seize peaceful citizens, and baStile them in distant parts of. the country. And here 1t, 0 ye heavens! and give ear, 0 earth The patient and long suffering people K of this country have tamely submitted to this exercise of despotic power. Since the instltu> tion of the government there never was such an assumption of power, or such an unwarrantable use of 1t. And, so heip me God, though forts and bastiles were to be my reward, would m the name of my country aud Tn behalf of eivll liberty protest against 1t. And any one, who for this he said was di3loyalto his country, he'd before men and in the presence ot high heaven.
 He used this language because every mlser- able press in the land charged every man with disloyaIiy who dared 10 express his sentiments. Innocent men in his State had been arrested and he had made appeals for them without ef- feet He would make no more appeals, but would say to them now that they must protect and defend themselves against wrongful arrest ; for the President told the niggers even that, they had this ght of defense, and such defense wonld be u accordance with the laws of. the land and meet the approval of righteous God.
 Then he referred to the Presidents Procla~ nation as mere brutum .fulmen, and the Pres ident might just as we'll have issued procla- nation that the rebels should all be blind or lame. This rr oclamaton commits the govern ment to fight for the extinction of slavery and prevents the Southern States from coming back into the Union as 1t was. The words of that proclamation would light their author to dis~ honor through all future generations, and though the memory of John Brown might dle, the memory of the present Executive never would. He (Saulsburyl would say, let hostill- ties cease and an armistice be declared; and let the people esmeet in convention and agree upon g basis of Union for all time.