The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-09-29
I-asT OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC.' =,

Two items of information that have lately
,e.ched ms from the United States show the rapid
rrogycss If not the consummation of despotism in
1T unhappy country. The i.st is the suspension
of the writ of. HoLeas Corpus as TO all persons
connected with the military naval service, or
charged with any offence tending to the Obstruc-
rion of the military policy of the administration.
The second is the enforcement of so strict GEN.
sorsbip over the press that with the newspapers at
the seat of Government, seven matters in no
manner connected with military operations have
to receive the approval of the official supervisor"
We know not what is lacking to make the Yankee
President an absolute autoerat. The immense
military and naval force of the United States is
Internationally subject to his control
The entire financial means of the country are at
his DISPOSAL Any citizen in the land may at any
moment be deprived of his liberty by being
thrown into jail, without the right of being in
formed of what he is accused, or of being brought
before Judge TO test the legality of his imprson-
ment. The Press, whose freedom is everywhere
the measure of the liberty of the people, is for
hidden to publish anythinswithout the permission
of an "offcial supervisor" The Autocrat of Rus
tsia, the Emperor of Austria, or the Sultan OF
Turkey has no greater powers than these. Invested
with these attributes and agencies of supreme and
irresponsible authority there is act OF tyranny
that may be practiced by any ruler of q civilized
The people over whom he relgns are as literally y
and as truly slaves as though he were the
descendant and heir of loug line Of sovereign
despots, and they the children of serfs and bonds
men for twenty generations That such would be
their tate sooner later if they should attempt to-
CONVEX: a government by "consent" into a govern
ment of force, was predicted by all thinking men
before the fatal experiment was made. But the
rapidity with which they have moved to their
doom, the boldness and reck essness of the usur-
pers, and the tame and servile submission of the
people, are matters Of establishment even IN those
who thought least favorably of the Yankee ca
pacity for sef-government. They have succumbedl
with scarcely protest, sign that that they
sufficiently appreciated the essentials Of free gov
ernment to know hen these were destroyed, or to-
be aware of the fate to which they were them-f
selves so hurriedly borne. The few who at one
fine seemed to realize their situation, and had the
courage to confront the destroyer of their liberty
have either been suppressed by the strong hand of
lawless power, or have supinely sought safety in
silence.
The country was never more quescent than
now, when all of which it was most proud, and
for which 1t was most renowned, is passing from
it. Vaandigha is in exile; VOORHEES, has mar
rowly escaped hanging; Seymour has sold hiuselfI
to the war party; Wood, Brooks and the rest of
them are dumb; Maine, the least fanatica of the
New England States, has proclaimed itself in favor
Of the Lincoln policy. The overthrow of free
government is complete, and the usurpation
stands unchallenged and unrebuked. The fact
should make us struggle more rcsuluely to escapel
being lnvolved~ln the same ruin, and to preserved
for our children, and for the benefit of mankind >.
the principles and institutions Of Republican,
liberty, rescued by us from the fabric before i'll
ftll.-RjeAmoud Whig.