Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-21
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be has tried 10 save the other. Tfke
RaS toTa tas garmeat A. las taksn
precaoaS care ef fbs body, aad is saf the
o0ag oetfsf fsan tie raiasskf -
Mind you, feliox.eitizens. : do not sd-
nit that Mr.. Lincoln has violated our
J Constitution. do not admit that these
arrests ia time Of war. are forbi6dep bv
the Constitution I do not object % Nr
Lincoln on that account not We, 70 Nc
Ciellan on The same ground Nav. en-
the contrary, there is no act of General
Mcclellan Jthat 50 cordially approve
as bis wholesale arrest df thar MARYLAND
Legislature II he had beenfas promnt
and successful in putting down the whole
rebellion As be was IN putting Down that
/ branch Of it, sc would have had peace
long ago Who caa tell bow much
precious blood has been saved by that
| timely Actf What would Be the con-
! ditiOn of Maryland nov, If that censsa-
non OF traitors had carried her into the
Southern CoaEederacg2 But for those
arrests, We sheuld have Witnessed all
over Maryland such scenes as those in
Baltimore. wheu lhe lo~s soldiers OF the
| kepablic were marieaed BY a mob. Wa
that tine for ihe sheriff and his pessef
Vas that time fer the Aabeas eorpus
and trial by juFg2 All vas terror aud
/ confusion, and the whole nation hailed
Butter aad bis soldiers as deiivcrers
When 3 nation Is IN state Of war,
no matter What may be lie FORM Of Cow
ernment it Is the executive power.
whether lodged in King o. Presi-
dent, that is called into action The
4 Legislature aud the Judiciary 40 not do
the tighling We do rot carry on war
/ by statutes, debates or judicial deer
sions. MaF requires action and a
guiding sill ready on the instant for
any emergency If you look into our
frame OF Government you viii see that
/ Il IS on the President that tke power aud
responsibility are cast 10 carry on war.
lie eanuoi declare war or make peace.
| Il requires the intervention Of Congress
10 begin it or end il--Aut whilst Il exists
it 10 the President who must act He
commands cur ARMIES aud navies, aud
he directs their movements Without
bis authority nothing can be done.
Nov, my friends, this nation Is not
only engaged n war, but in war
against the rebellion II a war whred
by as lor aelf.preservaiion. u is not the
common form Of a rebellion which aims
| only to change the dominant power
while the nation Is preserved, but is aim
Is to destroy the nationality Alasl what
blood, what treasure, what sorrow, what
lameniasion have followed that crime
against humanity, civilization and civil
/ liberty, which waA committed in Charles
ton harbor on the 18th Of April, 1861
Il could have been committed nowhere
else throughout the South but just there
The mortal instruments could have been
found nowhere else Those disanected
spirits had bect. trained erd prepared
ior il long before Twenty eight years
before, they mad, under the nretense OF
an unconstitutional tariff, passed an or
dinanee Of senessiou IN the very words
Of their ordinances Of December, LkG0
What then saved the coontryY Il wRsa
/ President Il wat Executive poser In
hands that you'd have welded i with
terrible roiribution Think you that
jackson would have heaiiated about ar.
rests II those traitors had fired upon our
dag9 No, my trends; he would have
seized them ali with grasp Of iron, and
instead a allowing them the hAbeas cor.
pus, he would have arrested any Judge
who dared 10 issse ii, rs be did ~ New
Orleans IN 1915. Now again, Il this na-
tion is 10 be saved, Ia can only be saved
under ihe auspices Of the Executive Il
"a the war power hat must save IA In
the plain and expressive language of our
President, "we masl keeppegFing away
Blow must follow blew, harder and hard.
er. without cessation, until tho traitors
cry hold enough Il Is no time for
trsaties OF armisncea OR Antagonist
reels wiih ihe hard hits he has received
At Mobile aud Atlanta, and Is gasping
iST breath under Tie close hug Of Grant
al Petersburg C'hasrs
The Chfc1go Plans for Peace
Il Is just atthis isneture thHi cry for
peace and cessation Of war, comes 10 ua
from Chicago That Convention pro-
poses 70 save the nation by means OF an
arisistioe and a Conweution a all the
States Stop lighting. say they, and let
us ltv taking. We have tried for four
years 10 whip these rsbsls in, and they
wont come Nov lel ~ see II We cant
coax them ia
Let ua consider their plans A change
Of Administration is the 6rst thing il
a their party which is 10 bring about
this glorious contamination. The next
thing i an immediate armistioe; bat
ss their Prefideni, Il elected, could not
propose au armialsce before the fourth Of
March, il vii moi be exactly imrssdi-
ate There must, therefore, be first Of
al, a delay Of four months before their
plaa goes into operation Bss We will
-suppose this tine 10 have clspssd. and
that Mcclellan ia ia the Execuuye chair,
what then IL be 10 do. according 70 the
plsttormg He must propose an imme-
date aTmisfiee. And 70 whOnl To
that other Presidents who is n0w in Rich.
mond. Where hs will be on the fourth
Of March is more ahan ] can saf--but
wherever be i cur President must enter
into formal negotiations with him. They
+ must negotiate aA equals, with Al the
. forms aud aii the eOartesies Of aipso-
. matte intercourse
Fellow citizens, this u recognition.
The moment that our E0FernmSnt en-
ters into Diplomatic isssreeurse with the
+. Cs.nfederaer, the nioment We cease 10
coeree the rebeslE6as citizebs and begin
. | 10 deal vita the political power that he
! has act up--tbe moment that y0u send
: and receive embssBadors, ministers, or
commissioner. from that moment you
give 70 the rebels she character Of an
established government
Year aiter year Davis and bis dipiO-
mAtie agents baye been knocking ior sd-
mission - every eO8rtip Europe The
answer has been. We can't admit you.
We cant feeoRHizs you We can't enter
into commercial rslaiiOus o. diplomatic
] intercourse With Yen. The nation TO
, which yoa owed allsgiance treats you a.
J rebels, and refuses yon All diplomatic IN
? tese0uFse The raomentit Is knnoGnced
{ at London, Or Paris that the United
= States has opened dipioBatic intercourse
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