Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-01-29

army. In the camps here tney nave been
checked. and the active men have been ar
rested. This order the Democrats in the
Legislature refused to allow Investigated.
by strict party vote. Remember this
fact 1t is significant. -. 81.
Whilst this Infamous order is at work
breaking up the army it is evident that it
must be protected from the interference of
military duties or discipline, Hence the
civil law is invoked to take offenders out
of the hands OF the military law. Now.
see how closely the facts follow the
track of this policy. A deserter was ar
rested in this city. a Democratic lawyer.
who has been active in advising and as :
sisting in the propagation OF this order,
applied to Judge perkins for habeas cor
pus. The Judge granted it., The military
authorities concluded that a deserter was
subject to military law. and refused to sur
| render the man. Judge Perkins swore
1.-THE streets of indianapolis should run
,cith 5lood unless he got that man." so de-
terinined was he to protect from interfer.
encc this infamous order. He knew that If
desertcr could be taken ont Of the hands
VI tuC iaWs uc tOuiu uOt Oc pun
ished at all And he knew that if the ba.
beas corpus could be used TO protect one
descrter it would protect all. and then de-
seriion wonld be made perfectly safe He
knew that what he was doing was striking
blow directly at the heart of the army.
uprooting its discipline. breaking its faith
to the Government, and encouraging bad
men to swinde it out Of the bounty and
pay they had received. Yet with these
facts full in his face, he determined to save
that deserter from punishment, even at the
fearful cost of covering our streets with
blood. This is what a Democratic Su-
prcme Judge did. In Wisconsin another
Democratic Supreme Court has decided
! that men who resisted the draft. and mob
bed the Commissioners. shall not be pun
ishcd. They. like Judge Perkins. have
put the habeas corpus between these men
and their deserts. Why? If they want
the Government sustained and the rebellion
crushed. of course there is no possible rea-
son for their conduct. But suppose they
don't want either done, but want the
Northwest separated from the Union, and
the army temoralized and DESTROYED, so
that the separation can be effected safely.
is there no reason for their conduct then?
Verify. plain one. that all the world can
read. Again. see every Democratic paper
and speaker. from Vallandigham to the
Sentinel. cursing and agonizing because
deserters, spies. and rebel sympathizers are
not released on habeas corpus. All over
the country, you see the pulley of Judge
Perkins pursued. The secret order. which
they all understand. and most of them be-
long to, is doing its devilish work. and il
must not be interfered with. This is the
secret of this universal Democratic clamor
for the habeas corpus.
| Look at the vehemence with which Dem
ocratic papers and speakers justify the re-
bellion. Docs any one ever hear them de-
nounce the rel,cls? And does any one ever
hear them fail to denouncc the uncompro-
missing advocates of the war? What does
this meah? Jesse d. Bright says the reb-
els ''are fighting for their constitutional
rights" If they arc what are we fighting
for except to Cypress them? Judge Per-
kins in his speech before the Democratic
club declared that though the rebels struck
the first blow. the provocation came from
the North. In other words he made the
rebellion an excusable burst of outraged
patience. instead OF the infer nal conspiracy
the rebels have so often declared it to be-
The free States violated their constitution
al obligation to protect slavery. and drove
the South to resistance. says the Judge
But Yanccy, Rost and Mann declared in
their official statement of the origin and
purpose of the rebellion, addressed to Lori
John Russell. that Interference wiM slavery
had nonti,cg TO do ,ciM IL. that they had no
fear Of their institution, on the contrary
tho North had voluntarily proposed to in
scrt in the constitution all the protection
and guaranty they wanted, and that it was
commercial evils. and not danger to slave
F. ry, that made rhe war. Judge Perkins is
contralicted right to his teeth by this off,
cial and authoritative declaration of the
rebel commissioners. With what face can
he. q Judge Of the highest court in our
State. and dealing with the highest inter-
ests of her people. pablish SO unblushing
falsehood. when the rebels themselves
give him the lie. He justifies the rebellion.
That is the sole and entire effect of his
whole elaborate speech. And he does it
on the ground that the North assailed
slavery. We wonder If he remembers .
conversation with us one Sunday morning.
ct the corner of tho Post Office, some
months ago. In which he declared "that q
division of tho Union was ruin, that it
must be restored, and that it neuer could
be restored till slavery ,oas abolished. ."---
For he addcd. "a Union now, unless
the institutions of both sections are alike,
is impossible. Either the free States must
be made slave. or the slave States made
free, The free States eansot be made
slave. therefore the slave State mast be made
free" This was his declaration and argu-
ment. We told him that his abolition.
ISM was q little bit stronger than ours.
He said the same thing to Governor Nor
ton. and be has said it more than once or
twice. Yet with this decl aration Of. his
opinions. made without solicitation, rol-
u,ateered. to men who never expected to
bear it. ant were surprised to hear it, he
denounces the Presidents proclamation
and all who support it. Weallude 10 this
matter incidentally. and only TO show the
spirit in which tho Democrats movement
for new secession is carried on. Its ad-
vocates spit on their own past, professions.