The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-21
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ED TO YOU AGAIN. ,,..- M at. VIII, 1
In contemplating the numerous unlsw
full, despotic, tyrannical and cruel arrests
and imprisonments which have been infiic
ted upon American citizens, by the pres
ent national administration, we feel dis
posed to make an earnest and candid ap-
peal to those who have supported and are
still supporting that administration in its
course of despotism and unlawful oppres'
sions. We ask them to learn from history,
which teaches by example, the horrible
consequences to which such acts inevita-
bly lead. We warn them that the danger
created by such repeated outrages upon
the constitutional liberties of the people,
ia one common to all. No individual is
exempt from such danger. The spy and
the eaves-dropper are everywhere in the
service of the cowardly tyrant. TO be sus-
pected of opposition to despotis'n' is TO De
stricken down by the despot. VINO tnat
deems himself a freenan,i is even now
safe p Not one. Only the servlle and
sycopbantic are safe, and they are the spies
and ;nformers. We warn LINCOLN, the ty-
rant. and all his servile followers, that
they may, and if they persist in their wick.
edness and cruelty, they sciH, sooner or Ia
ter become victims to their own policy
and practices. HANNAH was hanged on the
xallows that he had prepared for MoRDE-
CAL JULIUS CAESAR fell in his own capi-
tol by the hands of those whom he trusted
to support his ambition and usurpations.-
RoBpsptRRRE and the Jacobins erected the
guillotine, and with it murdered thousands
of innocent but suspected citizens, but us
bloody work ceased when it had shorn the
Jacobin's and RoBEsP1ERRE of their heads.
SAMPSON could break the pillars OF the
temple, but he, with all his mighty
strength, could not support the weight OF
the falling fabric and was crushed beneath
the ruin which he wrought. These exam
ples are commended to the contemplation
Of LINCOLN and his frenzied party, as we
warn them of the natural and inevitable
consequences of their habitual disregard
and contempt of the rights of the people,
Wickedness generates it's own punishment.
And there is another example, drawn from
our own history, which we commend to
their thoughts, and we adjure them to
dismiss their fanatical madu&ss for an hour
and calmly consider it. In 1898 JOHN
ADAMS was President ofthe United States.
In that year the ''alien bill," $50 called),
wis passed, and it provided ''that the
President might order dangerous or sus-
pected aliens to depart out Of the territory
of the United States" The penalty for
disobedience of the Presidents order, was
imprisonment and a perpetual exclusion
from the rights of citizenship. 1t avoided
all judicial proceeding and authorized the
President to act on his suspicious and
without responsibility, and the victim was
without other relief than Presidential Glenn
ency. This act was accompanied by an
other, called the "Sedition Law, or, gag
law" by which it was made criminal to
oppose or discuss for the purpose Of oppo-
sition, any of the acts of the administra-
ton. These laws, though in palpable vio'
lation of the constitution, were desired
and signed by President ADAMS, and who
proceeded to execute them. He was {
Federalist and these acts of his and hi
party rendered the name of 'Federalist,
infamous and beneath the weight of OPP
probrium which they generated among the
people, ADAMS, at the next Presidential
ballot, sank to rise no more as star il
the political armament.
ADAMS in his proceeding, had the form
of acts of Congress (void it is true) t.
sustain him, or rather to palliate his Fed
eral intirmities. .o
LINCOLN has not even the form of Law
on which to rest his worse than Fedora
tyrauny,-his malicious and infamous vic
lations of constitutional rights, and con
stitutional liberties. he, in the absenc
of all form, and all pretence Of authority
tramples upon the constitution, and wit
jests and mockery, plays the usurper an
tyrant pure.
Adams deserved his fats and receive
it. What fate does LINCOLN deserve
Who can tellf Let him beware, for IL
people still lice.
We cannot close this article without g
extract from the mastery speech of Hol
.EDwARD LIVINGSTON, in the Senate of til
United States against that "AIien bill,
and we commend it not only to LlNoo1
and his servile fanatics, but to all the pe.
ple 1t is full of wisdom. Mr.. LIVING.
TON then said:
Legislative power prescribes the rule of a
ton the judiciary applies the general rule