The Placer herald., 1863-01-17
[From the New York Express
Proclamation Law no Law Ct All.

The Cincinnati Times, is pleased, inso.
lently, to lecture one of the editors of the
Express, and to impute to him threats Of a
Counter revolution" &c, because, after
January l, when Seymour becomes Govern.
or of New York, he has emphatcaIy said,
ell Mrs. Brlnsmade operations must then
stop. But what the editor most complains
of is the following:
"a White House emancipation cdict is no
more law than a black house edict The Presi-
Gcnt can more utter proclamation Law than
John Doe or Richard Roe. Slavery ceases to
exist. of course, as arms reach ard dssolvc it
upon the same principle that forage, armories or
armaments cease to exist before opposing arms
but when arms do not reach and dissolve the re-
lation Of master aud slave, the;Presdents Proc
lamation is of no more effect, and is no more law
than Tribune newspaper law. Greeley has just
as much right to utter Proclamation Law as
Lincoln. Both are equally legal-when they
step out OF their own proper domain
Upon which the astute Cincinnati editor
says:
Putting this and that together, James Brooks
NJ. C. elect holds
"That Presidential Proclamation is of no
avail"
Not the least-not the least-when-th
President oyersteps the Constitution and the
law. The President is just as much the
creature of the Constitution and of the law
as the constable, and has no more right to
enact Proclamation Law than constable
But for the Constitution, even the President
could not have been President in spite Of
the peop'e-for, only a minority elected
him, and now a large majority submits only
because he is a creature of the Constitution.
There were constitutional battles in Eng,
land for two hundred years between British
kings ard people, on this matter of Procla
nation Law, but in the end the British peol
pie and British liberty beat out and beat
down the kings, and settled-what we have
declared here-that Proclamation Law is no
law at all, and that Kings or Presidents have
no more right to make laws than John Doe
or Richard Roe. Haman's British Consh.
tutlonol History is full of points and prece
dents on all this matter. Kings and Pres.
dents have right to proclaim what law ia,
to warn people from violating law, and to
point out to them the fatal consequences of
violating law, but they have no right to
make law; aud when they attempt it, they
become tyran's usurpers, and ought to be
overthrown. Proclamation Law cost Charles
the his head, and James II his throne.
But, nevertheless, and Notwithstanding.
the Erpress only re utters and re'echoes
great plnci pies of British liberty, and the
great struggles therefor, the Cincinnati edi
tor thus forms an opinion Of one Of its eli
tors:
1--WE have always reg gNrded Brooks as an un-
principled demagogue. and this atrocious language
confirms the worst opinion we ever formed of
him. The most charitable view we can take of
it is. that his elevation to position which his
conscience tells him he is untitled for. has crazcd
the editor and heiis ready for anything that will
increase the national trouble. 1t is sad a very
sad reflection that in these times congress is
too much ma e I'D of the nconlnu