Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-23
T.incoln Denonnced - ,he ssnnre.

LfncOIn Denounced in the Senate.
Mr.. Salisbury Ssnstor from Delaware, in lat
speech the bill for the discharge Ct Lncolns STATE
prisoners declared that partisan ref nge had governed
the actions Of the administration aid that the infamy
its acts would drag in disgrace down to future genera
iOns; that the system Of espionage of Napoleon was
nothing compared to the tyrannical acts of Lincoln
Alludng the suspension Of the writ Of habeas
be said:
The President never had the right TO suspend the
writ Of habes corpus that it had been held
supposed by any up the time Of this war. Quot
ing the acts Of the English Parliament and the proceed
ngs Of the convention which formed the Constitution
and the laws of the various States in support of his
opinion he claimed that the power Of suspension was
vested alone in Congress.
He believed that If the trainers Of the Constitution
lad supposed that within eighty years would sit
in the Presidential chair who would suspend this writ
and play the tyrant by seizng innocent citizens in loyal
States they never would have formed the Union. And
yet the President has had the audscity before and
the temery before heaven to presume suspend this
writ throughout the whole United States, and teze
peaceful citizens and baste them in distant parts Of the
country.
Aud hear it, o ye heavens and give ear o earth !
The pstent and long suffering people OF this country
have tanely submitted to this Of dPspOtic
power. Since the Institution Of Ehe governments there
never such assumption Of power OF such an un
wsrrsntsbe use of it. And 50 help me God, though
forts and bsstes to be my reward would in the
name of my country and in behalf of civil liberty pro-
against it And any one, whoOr this he said o
loyal to his country lied before men and in the presence
Of highhsaven
He used this language because every miserable press
in the land charged every man with disloyslty who
dared to express his sentnaents Innocent men his
state had been arrested and he had made appeals for
them without effect he would make no more appeals
but would say them that they must protect ami
defend themselves agant ul arrest; for the Pres
ident told the ngger even that they had this right Of
defense and such defense wOald be in accordance with
the laws Of the land and meet the approval of right
eous God.
bTutUu ftlmea, and the President might just
well have issued proclamation that the rebels shOUd
all be blind or lame. This proclamation commits the
government fight for the extinction of slavery and
prevents the Southern States from coming back into
the Union it was The words of that proclamation
would light their author dishonOr through al future
generations, and though the memory Of John Brown
might die the memory Of the present Executive never
would he (Saulsbury would say, let hos'lities cease
and armistce be dec ared and let the people meet
in convention and agree upon basis of Union for ell
time.
ProcIaniation and Counter PrOCla NATION.
The Albany Aaas thus happily hits eff the prOelams-
ton policy:
Let Us anticipate events little. We have in these
United States, commanders-inchefO of great
tagonstic armies. Lincoln by the constitution COM
mander in chief of all the armies Of the United States
about to exercise his power not President bat
General Davis, with army quite large, is not
less in fact generslnchef, and has the right to
else all the war power which belongs to that position
The two generals act Gen. Lincoln puts forth the
following proclamation:
WASHINGTON, Jan. J. 1867.
T. Abraham Lincoln, President and COmmsnder-in-
chief do declare all negroes within the United States
henceforth emancipsted and free.
(Signed) A. LINCOLN
Commander-n-Chief
Seven days afterwards GenerslissimO Davis puts
forth vermilon edict in this fashion:
RICHMOND, January T. 1868 II, JEFF Davis Presi-
dent and commander inehef do hereby declare that all
negro slaves emanclpsted by the proclamation Of A.
Lincoln, are hereby returned to slavery.
COmmsuderin Chief
We know that Mr.. Lincoln, with that versatility Of
intellect and profound knowledge that distinguishes
m would reioin with another ukase, again emanci-
patng the unfortunate victims Of Mr. Davis proclama
ton
WAsHINGTOE January 15-It having been made
known to that Jefferson Davis, commander Of the
Southern armies has violently, by proclamation, re-
maud ID into slavery the NE groes Of the South whom
my last proclamation made free T. Abraham lincoln,
commanding etc, do hereby again emancpste the VIC
Tins ef said proclamation. A LINCOLN
Commander InC Chief.
General Davis would doubtless reply az before
The two generals might thus consume the interval TO
eapse before Mr.. LincOns President and gem
eral expires As Presidents there is no equality be-
tween the two. Davis is but creature of evolution,
Lincoln the representative Of law. But generals they
are equals, and one has the war power as the
other Neither the Tghtfuness of his the e
gtmacy Of his government has anything to do with the
war power of commander. It is a beligsrent right
and rebel general exercise il to as fuN extent
as the most legitimate sovereign that takes the field
The of il is that these great statesmen and ur
consus Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis ard their
learned advisers both agree to the extent Of their
war powers as generals and each has subsequently,
,ognized in the other 1t evident according to their
own theory that the that gets the last word will
have bis way