Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-07-09

4 tons. i'm connection with the fact that he is
Also commander-in-chief of the army and ma
Ivy OF the nation, he is undoubtedly bound to
\ use all lawful means both civil and military,s
70 suppress and put down this most wicked
and monstrous rebellion. / knowwe have
those among us who discard, or pretend to
discard, the idea, that the President can exer-
cise extraordinary powers in his military ca
paclty which lac cannot do in his civil capaci-
W. They say the military power OF the gov.
eminent Is always to be subordinate to its civ
II power. But % in case of rebellion or inva-
sion, cannot the writ of habeus corpus,
which isa civil power, be suspended by the
milltary powerY Does not the constitution
/ itself make distinction between times of
war and times. of peace? The military power
OF the ration was created to enforce the laws
OF the nation where resisted, and in case OF
assault to save the nations life
In times of peace, when there are no OBJ
structians to- the admin stration of civileiuris-
prudence, when he civil laws are executed
without hindrance, the military power of the
country lies Inactive. 1t requires an occasion,
necessity to arouse it into action. Like
| good sentinel at his post, its chief business, in
| times of peace is. to watch for the enemy, to
guard against sudden danger; and when even
asusplclon OF danger approaches to give the
alarm In times of war, its business is to
hasten. with all possible dispatch the time of
peace. Like the faithful watch dog ii scents
the enemy atlr off and Immediately prepares
Tor the attack. Unlike the civil power in
many particulars, it does not wait for the
danger FULLY to develop itself. Ii reaches for
| WARD beyond the civil power aud makes ar
rests on slight suspicion and holds the sus-
pected one Till the danger is past 1t suspect
ed Aaron Burr and arrested him. Under
! Jackson, IL thwarted the designs of the South
Carolina nullitiers. At New Orleans, il ar
rested private citizen. a printer. u lawyer
and Judge. And, under Buchanan. in my
judgement, it might have thwarted the de-
signs OF the seccssionsts and averted, entire
| ly, this intestine cOnmotion liz acts, or
| ought to act, more promptly than the civil
power, and it entirely sets aside its technical
lilies, 1t rises with the emergency, and in ex-
| IRENE cases in case of life or death to the ma
tion II may set at naught the civil authority.
such understand to be the functions of the
| military power of the nation. The only ques-
ton in regard TO its employment is the emer-
gency- Had the rebellion assumed such a
| form and presented such an emergency as to
| justify the Issuing of the proclamation Ii "a
| sheriff he resisted in the execution of civil
! process, he calls on the bystanders 10 assist
him. If they refuse, and he cannot other
wise make service Of his process he summons
his posse comitatus and brings to his aid
the military bower of his county. Ii this be
insufficient, application is made to the gov
| ernor for State aid, and a force Sufficient 10
| remove the resistance is brought into requi
sition In cases OF rebellion or invasion the
President calls into requisition the whole
army and navyAof the nation, Ii need be-. to
repel the invasion or to suppress the rebellion
| And IN proportion to the magnitude of
the resistance must be the number called in,
| to the field
Let s,s for moment examine the tnagnil
| tudc of the rebellion.i Eleven out OF thirty
\ five states had already seeded from the I'M
| ion, and three or four more were threatening
to do So. They had formed a pretended GOV
eminent within the jurisdiction of the United
| States, refused to obey its. laws, robbed its
| treasury, seized its forts aud arsenals, and
scattered its navy. Having set aside. discar-
ded, rejected and defcd the FEDERAL authority.
they committed the overt act of treason by
levying war against tile United States, thus
committing the highest crime known to the
constitution and the laws, They had killed
and were killing its citizens by thousands,
and were exertng every effort to destroy the
Union. Ordinary means had been tried-bat-
ties had been fought-tyrants, kings, aristo-
Gratis, the opponents OF republican govern
ments every where, were looking with strain
ed eye balls on the scene, and hoping for the
success Of the rebellion. The American Ea-
gle tluttcred her pinions and stood suspended
in mid air Freedom shrieked through fear
and the whole civilized world Was rocking
and reeling with the throes Of this most gi-
gantic and hellish rebellion. 1t was life or
death not only to this nation, but to repnbli-
can institutions every where. The emergen-
cy could not be exceeded in magnitude
more sublime and solemn spectacle could not
be presented. The channels Of good govern
ment had become entirely Instructed through
ont the entire rebel states. The functions OF
civil power had entirely failed hence meas
ures of the utmost severity must he adopted
Means the most extraordinary must be resort
ed To i'm order H. meet this sublime and most
alarming crisis. Looking at the means which
supported the rebellion. it was ascertained
that they were based upon the labor and wal
ne of four millions of slaves belonging to reb-
ell master. That the value of these slaves,
at Six hundred dollars a. piece, the price ra-
ted by the rebels. amounted TO the enormuos
sum of 400, 900 900 Of dollars, besides their
labor. That in proportion to the number Of
these slaves transferred from the side of the
rebellion to the side Of the government, the
rebellion would be weakened.
In view of this the President, with fore
sight which will render his name illustrious
throughout all succeeding generations, came
down upon this channel of distractions to
good government liberty and freedom, with
like SOME mighty river, or all the rivers COM
bined, and running at full tide, will these
distractions be speedily swept away, and law
and order peace and'prosperity once more he
established in our land Up yon river OF
time, methinks see sable host, assembled
not ON the fourth Of July like ourselves, but
on the first day of January of some future
year, to celebrate a day, which to them, has
its origin in 1868 On that day. methinks |
see, all over this mighty globe gatherings of
the negro race, and hear their shouts of ho
sannas and songs Of liberty in commemora-
ton of Abraham Lincoln and the first day of
January 1868. This proclamation If success
fully carried out. will strike the shaekles from
every slave in the land.
Other nations following In the wake of uni
veFsal emancipation, will join with us in pro-
claiming To the negro universal freedom and
lfberty.i Russia, no longer able, in conse-
quence Of the universal cry for freedom, will
cut the shackles from her serfs, and thus the
bond men and bond women in all the nations
of the earth will 90 free. A year OF Jubilee
will be proclaimed throughout the wide world,
and among the songs sung ON that occasion
will DE the latdatien of this emancipation
proclamation and the year 1868. The black
man, the red man, the white man and every
tpecies OF this Taee of mep, will. on that occsl.
sion, Join In the, universal song of Freedom
ana fibeffy fBreyer.'8 s8Ast't btks3N4 *t estis~
Entertaining these, views, Mr.. PRECEDENT 1
heartily endorse the proclamation. Though
Democrat all my life, am not of THAT school
Of democracy; whose leaders arc the MaAoilies,
the Seymours, the Woods, or, rs my demo
CRITIC friend yonder from Prairie du Chen
suggests, the Vandal-d am-h ims / ,a sst.tflI
/ claim for MY associates all men of all
trades. colors, conditiohss occupations, or pro.
fessions proa,aed they are willing TO give,
and do give, their best energies to the Gov
ernment for suppressing the rcbellion. ses
down the long seTied ranks Ut my associ- !
ates, such time honored democrats as the |
DiSies, Dickinsons, Butlers. Grants HaleclSs,
Burnsides, Pppes, Sigels. Stantons, and Me- |
Clellands. / know the yandal- dam -hims |
claim to be loyal men, ready and willing to |
assist in putting down the rebellion but it |
is always with am IT, I have yet to learn |
that genuine Democracy opposes itself to the |
Government in times like these, or gives its
sympathes to the enemies Of its country
Their pretensions to loyalty remind me of |
the story Of the skunk and the wood chuck. |
nice, fat, chubby wood-chuck left his bole |
one day, and went sauntering btsily about /
in fin ,1n g. L.. |