Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1864-04-06

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CONSERVATIVE
March 81, 1864.
Iron the Richmond Examiner, June. 1ssl.l
Writ of Habeas Corpus.
The destruction of the Federal Constitution has
been the and complete that has ever over
taken political structure since the world begun
In his first proclamation the Washington President
coolly assumed the war-making power-which is
constitutonally given solely toCongress-and, with
out authority Of law, called out an army Of seventy
nVe thousand men. 10 his next edict be usurpeds
right dened BY the Constitution, the usage Of the
country, and the law of nations, and laid 1hcle
coast under blockade If these usurpations Of power
pad been made under the pressure of foreign in:
tason, and brought to bear against public enemy,
40 excuse might be found in the demands of the pub
lie interests but these violent measures are taken
against people whose liberties he isbound to pro-
tect He proceeded much farther in this course of
conduct OF his owR motion, he ordered large
increase Of the army and navy for the purpose IF
what he is pleased to denounce an in.
surrection of the people. He accompanies these
measures by dsarming private citizens and depriv-
ing those whom he chooses to suspect of the con-
guaranteed right Of having weapons
and firearms for their defence. He follows this high
handed proceeding up by domiciliary visits and
searches 10 cap the climax of tyranny, and to
finish the work of enslavement he authorizes SUBJ
alterns to do what he cannot constutonally do him
self suspend the habeas corpus writ
The overthrow Of habeas corpus is of itself, the
destruction of liberty. II citizen may be seiz ID
by military corporal and thrust into prison; and
there be no power in the Courts of law to inquire
into the cause of the arrest to release for want
Of cause, then there is no such thing as personal
liberty left If tho arbitrary acts Of military chict-
nj toh o ;no, into. of
tice of the United States may be treated as an old
woman then the last vestge Of freedom is gone, aud
the gloom Of despotism has settled upon the lalnl
There could be no more wretched condition Of
slavery than subsection to such despotism that
which reigns at Washington. If it were single
monarch or dictator whofuled with arbitrary pow
err the slavery would not be so utterly lntolerable
but nero puppet is set up in the case of Lincoln,
by an ogarchy of fanatics, and forced to do what
ever their mad passions and tyranncai natures may
saictae. The most savage the most corrupt and tho
most reckless party which any age Or country hrs
ever produced has seized thereins of power, taken
possession, of the military organisation uniol
overthrown the Courts, trampled anas1 iksttheOon-
stitution, set at naught all the fEanGhsss Ind i'm
munities with which the Common l1F surround.
the citizen and, with such puppet as Lincoln in
the seat of Washington, undertakes to conquer and
subjugate twelve millions Of people. In the effort
to destroy the liberty Of others, they have over
thrown their own. If the proceeding Of Cadwalader
Is to be sustained, then no more account need be
taken of the Constitution Of the laws of the COURTS
or of the rights Of citizens. There is no law but
the arbitrary will Of the Chief Of the Government,
or of the olgarchy Of (which be is the tool There
is no necessity for Congress to make laws which
are not regarded, and which the courts not al
lowed to administer. There is no necessity fo- any
of the great departments of Government, save the
Executive head. The statute books and the liberty
charters may as we'll be thrown into the fire; for
henccforth the only oracles that men need consult
for the regulation Of their conduct are to be found
in the columns of such journals as the I'ibuns.-
Self government Is to be taken from the people and
their liberties turned over to the tender keeping Of
the men who invoke armies into the field uphold
them in acts Of outrage at home, and set them to
subjugating and eonquering neighbourlng States
They have no more right to subjugate at distance
than to subiugate at home, and they have commence
ed the work at home by overthrowing the writ; in.
tended to protect all the personal rights Of the citi
zen. -,
Without ho6sa. corpus the citizen rs less secure
in his franchises in America than in Europe; inf.
nitely less secure in Maryland than in England
Without ha6sas corpus it were better to be subject
in Austria than citizen in the North for there they
have hereditary monarch, responsible to his own
fame lineage and interests for his acts whereas at
the North they have an elected vulgarian, managed
and controlled BY vicious, corrupt aud tlthy OIL
garchy Of politicians and plu1derers.
When we reflect that the whole professed object
for which they are waging this war, is to uphold
and enforce the authority Of government, and that
the government which they are seeking to maintain
at such COST is the vulgar and unscrupuous despet
ism which Lincoln and his managers has made that
at Washington, We arc overcome with disgust TO-
wards all concerned which it is hard to find adequate
language to express. In resisting such . govern
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ed rights but she is resisting the most corrupt vic
Gus and diabolical assault upon liberty and law
which the world has ever witnessed.
LIBERTY STILL UsrErrERED- Telegraph dispatch
es from Milledgeville convey good news to our
readers 1t is glorious news News which will
remove the anxious suspense which has prevailed
in every community COR the past few days. News
which will send thrill Of joy to the heart Of ever'
true lover of civil liberty. News which win
strenphen the purposes of those who believe thsc