The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-06-25

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Particular drug is not good medicine for
! a sick man, because it can be shown not
to be good for we'll one. Nor am l able
to appreciate the danger appreher ded
by the meeting that the American peo-
pie will, by means of military arrests
during the Rebellion, lose the right OF
Public Discussion, the Liberty of Speech
and the Press, the Law of Evidence,
Trial by Jury, and Habeas Corpus,
throughout the indefinite peaceful fu-
tu.e, which trust lies before them, any
more than l am able to believe that
man could contract so strong an appetite
for emetics during temporary illness as to
persist in feeding upon them during the
remainder Of his heathful lite.
In giving the resolutions that earnest
cons deration which you request Of me,
| cannot overlook the fact that the meet.
ing speak as ''Democracts Nor can |,
with full respect for their known intelli.
sence, and the fairly presumed delibcra.
ton with which they prepared their res
olu,ions, be permitted to suppose that
this occurred by accident, or in any way
other than that they preferred to dcsig
nate themselves "Democrats" rather than
"American citizens" In this time of
national peril, l would have preferred to
meet you upon level one step higher
than any party Platform; because | am
sure that, from such more elevated posi-.
tion, We could do better battle for the
country We all love than we possibly can
from those lower ones where, from tie
force of habit, the prcjudlces of the past,
and selfish hopes of the future, We are
sure to expend much of our ingenuity
and strength in finding fault with, and
aiming blows at each other. Put, since
you have denied ne this, | will yet be
thankful, for the country's sake, that not
all Democrats have done so. lie on
whose discretionary judgment Mr. Val
land'g CHAM was arrested aud tried is
Democrat, having 10 old party ;finity
with ne; and the jud &c who rejected
the constitutional view expressed il these
resolutions, ty refusing to discharge Mr.
Nallandigham on hateas corl us, is
Democrat of better days than these, hav-
ing received his Judicial mantle at the
hands Of Presideu. jackson. And still
more, Of all Il ose Democrats who are
nobly exposing their lives and shedding
their blood on the battle field, | have
learned that many approve the course
taken with Mr.. Nallaudicham, while |
have not heard If single enc condemn
ing 1t. l cannot assert that there are
none such, And tie name of Presidcn,
Jackson recalls an instance of pertinent
history: After the battle ot New Or
cans, and while the fact hat the treaty
II peace had been concluded was well
Known In the city, but before official
knowledge of it had arrived. General
Jackson still maintained martial or mill !
AIRY law. Now, that it could be said
hat the war was over, the clamor against
martial law, which had existed from the
',st, grew more furious. Amopp o,bcr
nnr i;,,nr Mr. LouiaIIicr published de-
jazz san Arrest GSparer article General
Name of Mor,l pro, \ lawyer by the
States Judge Hall to i>ss,' 'ne 1 nlt'd
bcas corpus to relieve Mr. wiz y, OF ha-
Gen jackson arrested both t'I, e.
and the judge. y Nr. lIoiloudc ;tt"yer
tnrcd to say of some part Of the mai.
that cit was a dirty trick. General
jackson arrested him. When the fiiccr
undertook to serve the witt of hah, as
corpus, Gen. Jackson took it from him.
and sent him away with a copy. Hold
inc the judge in custody a few days, the
General sent him !eyond the limits of
his cncampmcnt, aud set him at liberty,
with an order to remain til tie ratifca-
ton of peace should be regularly an
nouucea, or until the British should have
left the Southern coast. y day or two
more ciaps d, the ratification Of . treaty
of peace was regularly Announced, and
the judge and Others were fully iberat-
cd. a few days more, and the Judge
called Gen. dickson into court and fined
him and the Others named The Gener.
al paid the fine, aud there the matter
rested for nearly thirty years, when Con
gress refunded principal and interest,"
! III Jaw .SbdtoI DCuvidS, tleu IN tho
House of Representatives took leading
part IN the debates, in which the coneti
tutlonal question was much discussed
| am not prepared to say whom the jour
nails would show to have voted for the
/ measure.
It may he remarked Fret, TINT We
had the same Constitution then as now
secondly, that We then had case of in
vasion, and now we have a case of REBEL
ion; and, thirdly, that the permanen
right of the People to Public Discussion
the Liberty of Speech and Of the Press
the Trial by Jury. the Law of Evidence
and the Habeas Corpus, suffered no dct
rlment whatever by that conduct of G G,
jackson, or its subsequent approval b,
the American Congress-
And yet, let me say that, in nv ow,
discretion, | do not know whether
would have ordered the arrest Of Mr.
|allandi@ham. While | cannot shift
the responsibility from myself, | bolc
that' as genera! rule, the commando,
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