Boise news. (Bannock City, I.T. [Idaho City, Idaho]) 1863-1864, 1864-10-08


commit homicide in selt-defence, because in yot
to life. If the Captain Of a ship, tossed on an
angry sea, throws the cargo overheard to save
F vessel and crew, he Is guilty of malicious mis-
chief and if he should cut away mast or spal
in order to survive the storm his offence is heni
ons and he should be mulcted in damages. IF 4
confagraton takes place you may not enter npor
the lands OF another for bucket Of water to ex
tinguish the flames, for by SO dong you commit d
i trespass. Ii you observe an incendiary applying
the torch to a building, or brigand drawing his
Il murderoas knife Teeking with blood from the
4 BODY of his victim, you cannot arbitrarily arrest
him on the spot, because under the Constitution
it requires " due process OF law to restrain him
i of his liberty. If some turbulent fellow should
/ ha1rangue the populace, melting them to fire a
EIUof OF cut a throat, he must not be interfeTed
with because he is exercising only the freedom OF
speech. This is where all such foolish doctrine
must en3.
The right of sefdefence and MISREPRESENTATION
/ is inherent in governments as well as in man OF
animals and it is the sworn constitutional duty
| of the Executive head OF this government, be he
who he may, to arbitrarily arrest all who may ass
satlt or endanger the peace and safety Of the re-
public whether like brave men they storm and
| assault the works in front OF flank With all the
panoplied pharapharnalla of war, or in less
nonorable manner, attack them in the rear,
through the more potent medium OF NFree
Speech and" Free Press, y creating dissensions,
where all should be united, producing discoTd,
engendering strife and hate, undermining he
pubic confidence by villifying the Government
and its constitutional officers, pafading in glow
ing terms its weakness and their defects, and all
to encourage the enemy inarms fear thai this
late brand vi Democracy is spurious article and
ii we lift the constitutionalVe they carry their
faces something like the yelled prophet Khoras
sen, we will stand appalled, at the perjGgN trea-
son and perfdy that would be exposed u our
view.
Butin the name fall that is consistent, if the
Suspension Of the writ of habeus corpus, and Il
dozen two arbitrary arrests is a constitutional
crime in the President, how much greater an
offence it should be in Mcclellan, the Democratic
nominee? Why is he not vituperatively assailed
by these two year old Democrats? Why should
he be indorsed by tlenE If he, as an inferior
officer commanding the arm y of the Potomac only
Constitution at pleasure, without provoking al
grOwl, could not the President, who, by this same
revered Constitution is made commandment chief
OF the army and navy, do equally as much without
having the vials OF wrath OF every improved Dem
ocrat in the country emptied upon his head. !
There is no sincerity, no pride, no patriotism in
such pretensiOns for me. 1t compares with the !
Democracy OF Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jacl1,l
son and Douglas in the same light, that tho teacl-
ngs OF Julian, the apostate, did with that OF the
early Christians; and when they can teach moral I
ity to the tWeNe apostles, law to Justinian, Lyt-
tleton and Blackstone, or patriotism to Tell, Sars
field and Washington; then they can convince me
that L, as citizen Of the United States, am not
bound to give all the support in my power to +
whatever President the majority of the people /
shall elect under the forms and in the manner
prescribed by the Constitution, when foes from
Eithoutor traitors from within are battling and
struggling to trail our national emblem IN the
lust, and blot out our existence as a nation of the
9arth then can they teach me chat partizanship
5 above patriotism, and thatit is better to have
party with anarchy aud desolation, than a Coun~
ny happy, prosperous and free.
There is aninexplieable mystery in the conduct
# some OF these Democrats. They are ever ready
o have their children educated at the public
chools themselves TO be fed at the public crib ;;
o be clothed from the public wardrobe; to hay h
heir broWs garlanded with public honors aEnI to
III the offices inthe. country OF honor OF profit {
nd receive the enoluments in Lincoln s. currency
yithOnt a Whllnper of dissatisfaction. At the
anne time they've talk treason flippanty andi
emand a peace and cessation Of hostiltits by
he Federal armies laying down their arms.
No man would hail the advent OF peace with
lore heartfelt satisfaction than /, and have a :
cry shreWd notion OF my own how it can be :
loTtly obtained, ii, these WayWard Democrats
i'll take my aGyice. Cease hurra hing for Jet.
avis and the Southern Confederacy, both in pup
r
alHng It hard names. QUIT abusing the Presl
ent, and calling him a tyrants an usurpersaE
end, etc. Be nuen, esctizens, and GO not illl-
zinc yourselves under or subject to arbitrary
rrests and incarceration in some horrible bastile "
top dspaIaging the currency of tile country
dVise JEFF. Davis and friends, whom you admit
be in open rebellion against the Government e
Ou claim to be citizens OF, to lay down arms ana
y word for it, there will be peace in thirty days
ON date. But if you continue to heap rldlcule b
Id cOntumelY, uponthe country by maj king her I
isery and dlvdlngher distress; by insulting Ell
sr flag and disparaging her arms by railing al
II living heroes ana sdetfactIng from tie fame
her dead ones, there will he no peace, and the
an must wage untilthe old flag waves over all
e country that was. once under its shadow and I N
otectiOnl and every man, whether an open or u
vert enemy !; Whether know u in the South as a j. +
bel or in the aNOrthaas "a Democrat ]; whether "A
arging With abayonetin his hand or a snake Y
his bosom, must yield implicit obedience, as I
I'll to the spirit as 70 the letter of our laws.
It may appear paradoxical that there are some n
10 call themselves Democrats who uncondition
y support the Government and never question =
WISDOM or authority of the acts of the Admin.
ratiOnin its efforts to put down the rebellion, -
q restore and preserve the republic; while "a,
3fe are othels who's claim to be and call them III
YES Democrats, who never question the wisdom =
authority of JEFF. Davis to inaugdrate the re- "
lien anG overthrow this Government ii he can. 81
leiong To- the former class and claim the title by
scent the latter claim it by. assumption Luci, n
mars ed.his eohOrIs in heaven as angels aud =
" we're known as such until they started re-
li0n0f their oWn But since he and they. were
rled from the battlennents on high into the =
0ths of PandemoDlum they have been known by
cry different apPellatien. Soft viii be with D.
latter class of Democrats in the days to come: