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DOOlittle VS.. DOOlittIe. ais IS

DoOlittle VS.. DoolittIe. l'3 =
United States Senator DooLlrTLE (Republi
CAM Of Michigan, not many days ago, made
speech in Chicago, passage In which 10 thu
reported: M 'iy H.. ,t,.'
I, In regard to the matter which was imn,edi
ately before thea,meeting, he said: He believes
the exercissoof the power In any part of th,
United states to suppress newspapers is simply
q question Of time and necessity. In New Or
leansi Gen. Butler suppressed newspapers, ant
even executed q traitor. Has anybody fount
fault with that7 Inanany parts Of the Nortl
papers have been suppressed, and Justly so. II
my opinion, the Executive Is clothed with dis
oretion in the time ofMar to do what he deeml
Ut and proper. He alluded to the revoking or
Ider. Probably the President thinks the time
has not yet come when Chicago shall be pu
under martial law. But If any newspaper op-
poses the enforcing Of the CONSUMPTION law, OF
any other order the President thinks proper "a
give, that paper will be suppr essed, and If need
be, martial law proclaimed. We desire, If DOS
sible, to have the loyal people Of the North unit
ed as one man, and We must have Il practically
so, or II is Of no avail. He regretted that there
were still two political parties. There should
be but one, and that one united With the de-
termination to put down tho rebellion. But, %
1t 10, the President must control all men of all
parties, and those who oppose the Administra-
tion will suffer the consequences. Ii the time
comes, and 1t becomes necessary, Mr.. Lincoln
will declare m artial law, even in Chicago. He
hoped there would never be necessity for such
| O Reaeuge.
Upon this the Boston Courier, having prevl-
ously cited LOUIS NAPoLEoN's tyrannicsI inter-
ference with the elections In France, comments
thus happily and justly:
We confess that there is thoroughness, q
completeness, O roundness In Mr.. Doolittle's
| views which we rather like. He resembles the
actor In Mr.. CTummle's company, who used 10
black himself all ever when be was going to
play Oshelo. "In my opinion, the Executive
10 clothed with discretion In the time of war
TO do what he deems fs and proper" This Is
simple, satisfactory and Ineligible; it cuts
clean; as with a touch of a msgician's wand, It
transforms our institutions into despotam like
that of RuDjeet Sing or Dr.. Francla. II saves
O great many nice questions, and puts an end TO
q great deal of impertinent nonsense on the
part Of certain pestilent fellows called LAWYERS,
who tratorously corrupt the youth of the realm,
who usually talk" of kabsds corpus and bills
OF rights, and "such abominable words as no
Christian ear can endure 20 hear" After hay-
Ing armed the President with the power of do
ing whatever he deems it and Proper, he pro.
| ceeds to dehne the ends and purposes to which
ne would have this power directed, and these are
TO suppress every newspaper, and 20 hang or
banieh every man, that opposes the Admipistra-
tion. As between the American and the French
man, we think the former the greater artist -
The soil Of America does not mean to be ex
celled by that OF Europe, even in the production
OF couItiers aud sycophants. The genius oil
Mr.. Doolittle would seem TO have been e!amped
by the accident of his birth In land of liberty |;
but 1t 10 the prerogshve Of genius 10 triumph
over obstacles and difficulties, and he is to be
congratulated upon course OF events which
enabled him to manifest alavish eubserviency
to power which the creatures of Louis Napo-
leon may contemplate with admiration and de-
spair. 1f... .
But justice to Mr.. DooLlrTLl requires US 10
say that he has not always manifested this
slsvish disposition or expressed these abject
views. We, therefore, "appeal from PHILlr
drunk to PHILIP eober"-from the fanatIcsl
DooLlrrLE of 1868 to the patriotic DooLIrrLE
of 1861. A little over two years ago, Mr.. Doo-
LITTLE raid 10 speech in the senste, May 2,
1861:
Sir, repeat that never before in this body,
nor in any legislative body the sun ever shone
upon, were there graver questions raised than
shese. And yet, under all this responsibility,
there are gentlemen who, In their eagerness 10
press this measure to vote, smile at oonstitu.
tional scruples a1d responsibilities. Sir, am.
not one of those; confess that can Join fully
in the language of my colleague, and say, when
am pressed to act upon questions involving
such great responsibilities, then do 90 with a
sense OF apprehension--not the fear of sny
man here or elsewhere, for know no master
on earth, but the fear that In the presence of
that God before whom have taken On oath to
support the Constitution, l may be pressed un.
der the excitement OF the moment, when pas
sion rules the hour, to tfample il under my
feet.
Mr.. President, we are In arms, today, we
are at war, for what7 1t is for this very Con-
stitution; to maintain, protect and defend its
supremacy In every State--every where, from
Maine to Texas. To maintain that supremacy,
We send our sons to She battle. field, we stake ali
We have and all we are; and / should regard
myself wanting in manhood, ss cowardly shrink
ing from the performance of my duty, If, while
my SONS and my countrymen are in the field
fighting the enemy, meeting danger and death
in every form, should not staud here for the
defense of the Constitution by every power God
has given me, let 1t be asssiled from what
quarter il may. The only fear have is that l
may not defend IL 90 should.
Mr.. President, that Constitution, let me say,
is just as supreme in reserving powers from
this Government 90 1t lin granting powers to
it; Just as supreme In Withholding az In con-
ferring power. If this Government or any
branch of 1t, If Congress, or the Executive, or
the Supreme Court, shall undertake 10 overturn
it's provisions and to trample it under their
feet the rights reserved to the States and to
the people by it, ii is just as much an attempt
at revolution and rebellion as when the men In
the insurreoslonary States undertake to trampe
under their feet the powers which BY Is
are given to this Government. Either
ia revolutions and, if either succeeds, il is an
end to our whole system Of republican govern
ment. If the doctrine shall once prevail and
be acquiesced in by this Government and by the
people Of the United States that the Constitu.
ton can be overbofne, that this Federal Gov
ernment can usurp powers which are no. dele
gated, but are expressly reserved to the States,
the days Of shis Republic are already passed:
the days Of the empire have begun; we are
preparing 10 re,enact, on perhaps q grander
scale, tSe history Of the decline and fall of the
empire Of Rome. N"The maintenance ipviolate
OF the rights Of the States, and especially the