The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-09-25

ure, it is impossible for them TO compre>
hend. The successes Of our arms have
filed our people with the glad hope that
the suppression Of The rebellion was nigh
at hand, and the peaceful progress Of the
draft, it was believed, had removed a.
necessity that nigh: have been supposed
to exist for a resort by the government to
measures Of an arbita'y character. Ard
yet we have this proclamation suspending
this great privilege of freemen, for the free
enjoyment of which so much has been sac
rifced, both in the old world and the new.
with no other reason assigned for it than
:" that in the judgment OF the president,
the public safety demands it.
From the Buffalo Courier
We desire to speak calmly Of the proc
lamation of the president. suspending the
writ of habeas corpus. 1t is an act SO
momen.ous in its character, that at first
glance we fail 10 take in its fall scope and
meaning. In brisf, it is an abolishmen;
of the judiciary, by the executive. 1t
places the person Of the citizen complete
" in the power Of the president, or any
of his myriad representatives, military,
naval, Of civil. It makes him as absolute
in his domination over the people as any
monarch Of Europe. ) ot defence, of
for the personal liberty Of the Citizen
The slumber glance Of popular will and
sentiment, may indeed be rouse! to inter
pose in ease this absolute power is abus-
ell, but aside from that possibility, there
does rot remain single guarantee for civ
il rights aud freedom.
F,om the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Despotism never stops of is own &C
cord, and aIwavs travels the same road -
The path is well beaten, and whatever
NAV be the excuse for the several steps in
lis progress, the end is always the same.
The time has come, in the United States,
for the sons of patriotic sires, who gained
lasting fame by fighting for civil liberty in
the revolution. to cease to be sstonshel
At anything We thought we knew some
thing af the native rights Of people and
the just powers Of q government. Each
dav tells us that we were mistaken -
There are no native rights no just pow~
ers. Rights are simply the amount Of free
agency which the administration permits
the people to enjoy and institutions are
the sum of the president. Righ's have
ceased to be ndti0e powers no longer ex-
st because they are Just, and the supreme
law Of the land is the will OF the execu
! tive.
From the + journal OF CONNIE ce.
| Tie effect Of the presidents proclama-
ton suspending the writ of habeas corpus
is Immediately felt in this city. YESTERDAY
morning a Young man named Warinc, O.
/ BROOKLYN for whom a writ Of haheas cor
pus had been maize out before Judge Belts,
on the ground that he had enlisted while
under age, without tie consent Of lis par
ents. was remanded into the custody Of the
military authorities. Judge Clarke, Of The
! Supreme Court, yesterday made a similar
! disposition Of two men named Mehan and
/ Do remds. wio claimed TO have been ilIe-
| galv enlisted and they were sent off un.
! der charge Of a sergeant and guard.
From the \. Y. World.
! Conscious Of purpose to WELD his il
/ liTi'able and despotjc power, only for ,ht
restoration of the Union and he er,hrow
/ ofits enemies. NJ. Lincoln, however. NAV
have blinded himself 10 the illao oaiiy O
lis assumption aud the extent Of It's spiri,
Let il be granted that we are unjust to hi,
! intentions in suSpecting him of gathering
/ 20 his grasp powers which he himself must
/ admit might satisfy Cesar and suffice to
/ the ambition of a Napoleon. Let 1t lie
supposed for one absurd instant that the
people of tho north, 10y al, liberal Of life
/ and treasure, are willing to surrender them
/ liberties, their julgment, their freedom Of
speech aud political action to the arbilra :
( rv pleasure and unrestrained Judgment Of
a most benevolent anil wise chief magis-
tra,e' Let it hs supposed that they Can
! forget what the logic Of events ard the
language of authority have alike admon,
isheI US of, aud still it would remain on,
duty to warn that chief magistrate ma,
not upon bis sense Of ins:ice not won hir
/ benevo!ence, not upon his wiSdor., low ar,
suspended our essential rights aud libn,ties
The power which he ha. also scattered /
the thousand weaker hanJs anI weass
b aims than his own. No, how the chic
Magistrate a one NAV % ,be arbit or Of Law
and life anil llbarf'., 5nt every military
naval and civil Officer ofshe United States ;
IN caprice, in foolisLness, in revenge, il
naoa ae.ss. in partisan pa'sion and hate ma,
nn .ock the arsenals Of dospotic power AMI
! shut npon American citizens the gates 0
he temples ofjustice.
Arrest Of two Catholic Priests for Trea