Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-05-28
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LIZ was In aliuslon TO this |" home-bred right that
Daniel Webster once spoke as follows
at is the ancient and undoubted preroeative Of this
people canvass public measures and the merits of pub
lie men lt ID home-bred rigbt'-a freside privilege
IL bath been enjoyed every house cottage and cabin in
the nat on 1t is not drawn into controversy 1t is
andoubted the right Of breathing the air walking
the earth Belonging 10 the private life right il be-
longs to public life duty and it Ia the last duty which
those whose representative am shall find to abandon
Aiming all times to be te0us ard emperats its
use, except when the right itself is questioned, shall
place myself the boundary Of my right, and bid
defiance any that ,o0uid from my ground
This high constitutional privilege shall defend and
else within this house and all places in Time Of Teaee
in time of s1ar, and at all times. Living shall it,
and should leave no other inheritance my children by
the blessing OF God, will leave them the inheritance of
free principles and the example of manly independent
| and constitutional defence of them"
1t is gratifying to observe that many of the
political friends of the President are foremost on
this occasion to deplore the error into which he
has fallen by his omission to cancel the pro-
ceedings illegally instituted by General Burn
side. We have already cited abundant illustra-
tions in proof Of this statement, and we find plea
sure in saying that the attitude taken in this mat
ter by the great mass of the Republican press does
equal honor to its intelligence and its candor
Even the most embittered political opponents of
Mr.. Vallandigham demand that he shall be legally
tried and condemned, if condemned at all, for his
violent speech at Mount Vernon. A correspondent
Of that extreme paper, the Anti Slavery Standard,
writes as follows;
think there can be doubt that Gen. Burnside
United blunder in paying any attention to his (Vaan
dighams stump speeches He should have been indicted
and tried in the courts That is the better way free
State For ONE am not going to desert the of free
speech and good government Let men like VaaDdigham
" he fanVhn 1v Atsd atxn
where there courts the border, where the
RACES let the military power him. but it is not
quite time yet to let Gen Burnside direct the
and the politicians of Ohio If he may so the next
step will be for Gen Wool suppress the newspapers Of
New York Those who justify tho military arrest of VAL
andgham for making excited stump speeches could not
deny to Gen. aeck the right to suppress every newspa
per in the country through his subordiDates Gen Bum
side the sole judge according to this military theory,
and OF course Gen Wool would be the only judge in Nrw
York. Let us moi admit 100 much against iber-
IN this terrible attempt suppress the pro siape,y
| luton
| To like purport the Washington correspondent
of the New York Independent writes as follows:
at is yet doubtful what will be done with Mr.. Vaan-
dgham 1t is reported here that Mr. Seward il
great mistake for Gen. Burnside to arrest him-,hat he
should have been brought before the and tried for
treason If this is Mr. Stewards position he exhibits his
unusual sagacity The time has not yet arrived when
there necessity for arrestng citizens and trying them
by courtmarta in the States where the conflict of
does not rage If Gen. Burnside may with proprety g-
York. and the next step will be- perhaps the arrest of
every editor in New York who ofends Gen. Haeck by
criticisms upon his course. For it must be remembered
that the General who arrests who sole Judge of the
necessity and if half dozen officers be found who
believe that criticisms upon the Generanchef tend to
evil in the then your Washington correspondent aud
the editors of the Independent be sentenced to
the Dry Tortugas There liberties for the citizen
if the military doctrine prevails The better
Is to stick to law and order and in the peaceful States to
prosecute men in the civil courts for reasonable acts The
experience Of 1862 certainly shows this The President
hesiiates, and wisely He doubtless dskes to to
shrink from collision with the copperhead If Vallsn-
dgham goes free again. all will agree that blum
der that the arrest made the President
evade The bunder, and he is forced to decide upon its
merits
1t was to be expected that the Democratic press
and politicians would eagerly avail themselves of
this bunder" to create popular sentiment to the
disadvantage of the Administration. This should
have been foreseen by Gen. Burnside when he en-
tered on such a thorny path; bat most of all
should it have been foreseen by the President if he
did not promptly interpose his authority to arrest
such irregular proceeding We still hope that
the return of Mr.. Vallandigham to his home (for
we presume he will SO return) the President will
direct that he be put on trial according to the
Constitution and the laws
In the mean time we invite the attention of
all good citizens to the following observations of
Mr. Crittenden, as contained in his recent speech
published by us few days ago, and which COR
rectly define the duty of patriot at this crisis
Neither this any other occasion has il been
my habit to make outcry and clamo but when
pations Of power made dangerous, and when
croachments upon my liberty and the liberty of my
sttuents and upon the Constitution intended to guard
the liberties of us all made would have every
have spirit enough to declare his opinions and offer his
protests. Without this freedom of speech there
be lasting lberty-the Republic exist II every
should close his lips, aud not venture word
against violated rights who could maintain free Gov
| ernmentf Nobody people who cannot di.cuss The
public Of the nation, and apply the necessary
rebuke correct Of wrongs cannot be tree PEG
ps and do not deserve to be- But is not necessary that
it be done with passion You portion Of the people
Of the United States act in becoming your high
character Sedion does not become it clamor does not
become it, Acten, at the proper time and in the proper
according to legal and constitutional provision is
what want and what the world has right TO expect
The enlightened friends of the Administration
will find in the illegal trial and punishment of Mr.
Vallandigham something much more deplorabe
than its probable effect parties in giving to the
Presidents political opponents ga good cry" 1t
is easy to perceive that many who now raise their
voice in vehement championship of /" free speech"
seeking rather to subserve the interests of party
than to promote the ends Of justice and patriotism.
1t is from the midst Of such mingled motives that