Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-06-30

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sasivs h Nv eengress n sis United
States. Iwas aosassa al no srins a.
gainst the Constitution or laws, and was
guilty Of none. But whenever and where
ever Ihns elAxseds npoa aas prooasa Of
law am now hsra ready to answer be-
fora any civil court Of eonpsseus juris.
dicNoas seA hutY e my seaizsfymsn !. @na
mednHhe 10 giao hail TIM Any sunS wglseh
any jadga or court, State or Federal, nav
aiax; and you, the hundred and eighty
ak thousand democrats Of Ohio, offer
As my sugities. Never for ono hear have
remained ia sxils because | recognised
any pbligEsicn Of ebsdisnee TO tho aaas
conseishsioaaI and arAissaky adioss Nesshs
er did personal fear restrain me; and to-
day return Of my own aes and pleasure,
because il Ia alg constitutional and legal
right 10 retarn. Only by an exeffion Oh
military force, was abducted from my
home and forced into Punishment.
The asssrsaow Of NE Paasidsns thas
was arrested " beeause IAAorfng With sofse
effect 70 prevent the raising Of troops and
10 encourage the deseFtiou from the ar
my,v and was responsible for numerous
other sets Of rssissaace 20 lbs draft and
to the arrest OF desssssrs, causing Has-
sassination, manning and murder" or
thai, As any time, bad disobsyed or fail
ed to COUNSEL abedieacs to lawkal sashaEE
isy, ssr ssn 20 ths ssahlahes 81 Law, ID
absolutely false. appeal for the proof,
TO every speech ever made upon those
questions, and 10 she very record Of the
mock military coRmissiun, By the trial
and sentence of which | was outraged
No, the sole offence then laid to ny charge
was suds Of ertticism sg tha pnnli POI; I
iSJ oIsIas aapiuis9asloB, addressed to
"a 0eaA ard eublia aaeatingsaf my faRi
citizens Of Ohio, lawfully and peace
ably assembled. And to-day my only
f'crime" is that, In the way which they
call treason, worship | he constitution of
nay fabhags. But, for nov more than one
year, no public man has been arrested
and no newspaper suppressed within the
States gdheriag still TO the Union, for
expression Of public opinion; whife bun
dreds in public assembly and through
the press, have, with license and Tio-
lsnca in which | meter. indaAged, criticised
and condemned the acts and policies OF
the administration, and denounced the
war, maintaining even the propriety and
necsssis5suf sac recognition oE soHshesn
independence.
Endorsed by nearly 200, 900 freemen Of
the Democratic party Of my native State
at the late election, and still with the
sympathy ana support of millions more,
lido not mean any longer to be the only
man of that party who 10 70 be the victim
Of arbitrary power. II Abraham Lin
coin seeks my life, let hiin 30 declare;
but be shall not again deprive me Of my
personal liberty, except upon "due pro-
cess of law" The unconstitutional
ssOrder 49," under which alone vas ar
rested, thirteen months ago, was de6ed
and spit upon at your State convention
of 1868 BY the gallant gentleman who
bora. shs staadaEd a. yoag candidate for
Lieutenant Govssnov, and BIZ ssesy DeAa.
eeratic press ard public speskes since
Is is dead. From the first il Was against
the constitution and laws, and without
validity, and all proceedings Under it
were and are utterly null and void and OF
no effect. The indignant voice of con-
deTnnation long since wefs forth from
the vast majority of the people aud press
es of America, aud from ali free eoun-
tries in Europe, with entire unnaaimity;
and more recently. too, tha platform of
an earnest, unanimous, and most foTmi-
dable souEantiun Of the, sAaceEs gepubli.
cans. &fa' fS@
Still further, the emphatic letter of ae-
cep. ance by the candidate Of the couven-
ton, Glen. John G. Fremont, the 6rst can
didate, also, of the republican party for
toe Presidency, eight years ago, upon the
rsliyisg cry eTsfrea pssch And has pxess,
gives renew sa-hope thar d. least the reign
of arbitrary power is about TO be brought
to an end in the United States.
1t is neither just nor 6t, therefore, that
the wrongs inflicted under "0rder B, /"
and the after ediets and acts of such
powers should aRy longer be endured -
certaanly NOT by me alone. But every
ordinary means Of redress has first been
exhausted; yet, either by the direct agen-
ey of the administration and its subor-
dinates, or through its influence or tim
idaiions in the civil courts TO meet case
which no American eyer Ia former GEacs
conceived to be possible here, all have
failed. Couzsel applied 10 my behalf to
an unjust judge for the writ Of habeas
corpus. II was denied, and gov the priv
ilege Of that writ Is suspended BY act OF
Congress and Execative order, in every
State. The Democratic convention OF
Ohio, one year ago, BY resolution form
ally presented through d committee of
your best and ablest men in person, at
Washington, demanded Oh the presid@nt,
Ia behalf OF xexy large minority af the
| people, sssoeaiion Of tie ediel d ban
ishment. Pretending thht the public
| safety then required it, he refused, say
| ing that it would afford him pleasure TO
comply as soon as be could, by any means,
| DC fRXFae 10 DStieF6 tnaS sl1 pQo4ic salsty
would not suffer by it. One year has 9
EIapsed, yel this hnlloa prpEenss Ia Saoisiy
asserted; and to-day am here 10 prove
IL unfounded in fact.
appealed TO the Supreme Court of the
Unised States, and, because Congress had
never conferred jurisdiction ia behalf Of
citizen tried by tribunal unknown fol
such purpose to the laws and expressly
forbiddea by the Constitution, u aas
powerIess to redress these wrongs. Th'
time has. therefore, arrived when ii be.
dzsnsaa ms, 10 q. siglzea OF 0asu and thi
United States, to demand, and By my owl
act 10 vindiease, the rights liberties anS
privileges which | never forfeited, bat d
which, for go many months, have beei
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