The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-03

EsfoPtS.53 !AAosb OF Cn6 acts thSs n9Y65 0P 0et-
letter of the Constitution. Tbev aya not
matters of construction, but thew ara 40 nlaifn
and explicit that there can be no doubt.4
Hence gentlemen try to lead the country off
from the argument in the manner in which
it is said in the books of the little school
boys, the lapwing leads the boy from bar
nest by flying away on apparent crippled
wing, and expecting the boy to follow her,
Gentlemen expect to lead me off from thu
argument in that way, but they are mistaken
sin their man. I will hold them to the point.
+ l will call the attention of the country to
the issue. L, demand again to know By
what constitutional authority the PresideIt
has done the things to which have .alludr
ed Show tito me if YOU can. Til gentle
men do that, repeat I wilI'regard him |as
having exercised usurpsd power, and TioL
lated the Constitution of tbs country which
he has sworn to support. f..,-,, -,-,..5,
Mr.. President, had hoped that I should
not be again brought into this debate, for
two days ago l. said more on the subject
than had intended to say. made no
preparation for argument. When I came
here to-day, did not expect to speak on
the resolution any more, and would not
have done so but for the extraordinary
.peech of the Senator from Maine:
The Senator from Massachusetts, fMF.
Wilson, the other day, inlreply to the few
remarks of mine to which the Senator from
Maine has alluded to-day, said that it was
not these arrests that had had influence up
on the elections in the North He intimated
that the Republicans had come out most
gloriously as the party of the Constitution
and the Union. With great Difference to
the opinion of that Senator, do not think
that with thesexhibit have made to-day,
they can lay claim to being the party of the
Constitution, for l think they have violated
1T in almost every vital part. The Senator
says that the Democracy gained this victory
because the Republicans were away in the
Army. am not accurately informed as to
what proportion of the soldiers coming from
those respective States were Democrats aud
Republicans, and consequently cannot dis
tinctly and specifically state the conpara-
tive numbers of the two parties, but I de
know that Democratic members OF Csagress
who have been elected in Indiana aRd in
Illinois and in Ohio have told me that If the
soldiers had been at home, their maj oritiss
would have been very greatly incrOasod.-
That, however, only proves ono fact, shat
they and the Senator from Massachusetts,
differ. As stated, I am not informed Of
the political, complexion of the Army, aud
consequently can state nothing about it. but
know that mem bers7 Of Congress who have
recently gone through the ordeal Of q tri-
mphant canvass have told me that they
wished the soldiers were at home, for them
their vote would have been very largely in-
creased That is the opinion of the west-
ern Democracy. I have heard no express
sion of opinion as to the effect in Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey, and New York. but a.
to Ohio. Indiana, and, Illinois, have heard
th g. i.
of Congress.
Sir, whilst did not pretend to intinats
that these illegal arrests were the sole cause
of the defeat of the Republicans in those
States, ] did regard it as one striking issue
10 the canvass. 1t was certainly 50 in Illi-
nois, Indiana, Ohio Pennsylvania, New
jersey, and New York. regard it, hsw-
ever, as but one Of the prominsnt issueI.-
l know there were were many Others, and
now will state candidly to the Senator
from Massachusetts, tho iss ues that 1 think
were presented, and the reasons Why the
Democratic party succeed ed in the late cleo.
tions. l believe that the people through
out the whole Union-North, West and
South-scrutinizing the action ef the Re-
publican party since it came into power has
come to the conclusion that it is radically
disregardful of the Constitution Of the soun-
objected to these illegal arrests. They werG
appalled, when the President Issued his
emancipation proclamation. Their alarm
was still further increased when the last
procl amation was issued, undertaking to sus-
pend the writ of habcas corpus, and to au-
thorize the trial by courts m artial and midi
tary commissions of persons not in the land
or naval service. When they eame tOreAd
the reports of the committees Of invGstiga-
ton of this Congress, they were struck with
horror at the profigacy of the AduiniStra-
! ton, and at the frauds and thOfts that had
been, committed upon the Treasury. Take
| the reports which have gone out from this
Congress. and perhaps there never was ex-
hibited in the history of the world more
| hagrant and outrageous plunder and fraud on
/ the public revenues than those reports attes t
| These were the causes upon which ths
Democracy, so far as it was able to under
stand, arraigned the Administration in the
late canvass in the States to which have re"
ferred and L was not an inattentiVs observer
of those issues. gA -sz
i l have thus briefly alluded to the issues
that understood to be affirmed, ana upon
t which the Democracy triumphed; and allow
+ me to saw, now, Mr.. President, IN conmen-
Edation of the gallant Democracy Of the North
that since there have been struggles going, on
! for civil liberty, I regard their triuuph in
I those States as the grandest moral victory
+ the world has ever witnessed. What was
4 the condition of things when, they entered
that contest? The Republic ms, two years
ago, had carried each one of those States by
! overwhelming majorties; they were possess
ed of the Army; they had eight or ten hum
dred million dollars at their command foE
annual expenditures; they had offices in-
i Vulnerable to give; newspapers advocating
7 Democratic principles and Democrats d 90
were suppressed, in many cases refused ad-
M ission in the mails; their orators were
seized and thrown into prison. Rotw4th-