Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-05-26
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guished British statesman Who when the rights OF tie
English subjects were at stske, in bis place in
Parliament and declined to discuss questions OF war so
iorg as private rights in jeopardy. UDder these
constant encroacbmeDts OF power shall wake up
hereafter and fad that the dream We have been iD3ug-
lcg 10 was delusion. Our ols:tntiona righs we're
secured TO not only for times of peace but tines of
wer They EeTe udders to he chip, end ii aba1don-
ed the ship was lost. Nehe. is The pretxt that the
surrender Of these lib rites emporsry is unnecessary
Tor their preservation permanently What al absurd
y that the Union be preserved by the destruction
OF the Constitution. In this opinion those who have
toe matters il hand have Lot in view tie preservation
Ct the Constitution The eff CT OF ther uttegences
evinced the truth Of what he said.
LIST any public say that be "a ia favor Of the
Union il aad the Constitution as it Is AID what
is the judgment passed upon him Why that he is
disioys AID unfaithfui to the Government under
which lie lives AID the Eoblee of all sentiments ut.
tered ia this day is adudped BIZ the very guilty of
Fepetretirg acts in vicl OF the Constitution
Gisloyal He thoue ii that the only dsloya men and
ai in the country those WOO secuted at the
CONSTITUTION. II TO that Constitution, and that
alone, he 0@ed bis allegiance. Had be right to cher
eh any love attachment to anything else besides the
Union aid tie Constitution Those who advocate the
policy OF des:l Dying ttese the real traitors, and
deserve to be branded as such Yet eloIm lus had
been the abuses prperaed By this administration that
be power that enthtoned at tie other end Of tie
avenue found it Necessary send armed forces into
State to prevent free people from expressing their
love Tor free Constu on, mate by their fathers aud
under which they s desired to live
Toeir oDIy dsoyafy from the fact Of their fol-
loving il the pceceps OF their fathers Was he asked
to support Union under the OATH be took Was
he asked to enter the house built to Butler On the
ruins Of the cd tnb:ic built BY Washington, Adams,
j ferson aud Madison? His people did not desire to
ener the beauteops palace OF Archbishop Butler, 10
spite OF the adornnens which he picked up in the
Gait OF Mexico. Tney did desire to look into the
costly mirrors lor to hear the strains of the music
from &c llen Instruments They preferred the good old
srags which came up from the past, which they have
heard in Infancy ard nanhood-the music of the
Union and the Constitution-a1d r declaration Of
his kind alone have the people OF whar once his
3 ate, but now military province, bad the yranrical
hand laid upon them for presumng vote for the rep
esentatives OF tleir choice. Yet the gentleman from
Michigan said if these things were they deserved
it besides they should consider the state Of the times
Such response that might we'll come from those
WHO desire TO pick up tie crumbs which fall from the
presidential table. The sole offence OF the dominant
party in bis State their attachment to the Corgi-
tuition snd their refusal to tie Administration
might dictate.
You can never conquer the spirits Of brave men,
though you may keep them from the poll by brute
force aud thus deprive them OF their rights because
they 90 desire clash against your armed power
but they will retire to their homes Of them may
ot be provided with prisons, and your power and
tfy your malice. Suppose the President should be
successful nominee, and now in po@er with bis army OF
of it every politically obnoxious to him. Sup
pose that after the exercise OF this power be f0ds hat
tie army approVcs0 his acts the Senator from Mich
gan does, what Is TO hinder him from parpetuatng
bis power, Utter eight years. aud thus becoming Of
the greatest nonRrchs and dspotg that ever set upon
throne?
Suppose the army should become, after from four to
eight years servce bis willing instruments to continue
om in permanent powsr, and bis children alter him,
what is to prevent it. He YVES met here with this
swer That the soldier was too honest and loved bis
country too much to be guilty of such an act :" but
conf nee plant of Glow growth La this connec-
tion MIR. salisbury qnoted from Gibbons decline anG
Fall of the Roman Empire" showing that cen thou,
SAID we-armed and disciplined man kept in subsection
ten millions OF uuarned men. If that be true what
could million and half of armed men at the CON
InaDd OF the Prcsident Executive, any other man,
do in population OF twenty millions? He knew that
soldiers entered into the present contest for the nobet
purpose-to preserve the Old, and not to make o new
Union but 40 man could tell the changes that might
Gene over the mIrds OF men. The power b-ing exer-
csed and the soldiers being placed under tcers hav.
ing common purpose, with The executive in the hands
Of ambitious man, and one regardless OF the rights OF
the people, there would be no chance Tor the preserva
ton OF cur liberties
II IVES safer for the people that charge should take
place four years than that the pcrson should be
continued iu order to sreng then himself in power and
have grea opportunity Tor the purposes OF am bton
He said the Senator from Michigan lays down the
oroa1 proposition that the military ordrs concerning
eecODs law, aud therefore the pr0csma ion OF the
Governor Of Maryland usurpatiOn of power; yet,
strangely be compliments the man who never was
Governor of the State of Delaware by the voice of the
people but who put over them by the force of the
oayone, because be lsued proclamation for the peo
pe to be obsequiousy obedert the orders of their
mast, r. Gene al Scnenck. If the soil OF Mary land had
b. IN reddened with blo d. the Senator Indicated il
might have been, aganst whom would the dead account
stand Not against Governor Bradford or the citi
hum rr1hH tito I'd tlo-
end of the avenue and Major General Scbenck and
those associated with him. In regard to military 10
reference in his State he quoted from a volume
Of three Lundrd pages OF sworn testimony taken before
a committee of tie Delaware Legislature.
che Governor says that he had no eff ,al informa
ton that troops would be sent into the State at the
election of 1862 yet the OF the day of election
every village of the State WAS filed with soldiery
they swarnled at every pol except or two on the
day Of election. Where did they come om, and for
what purpose? He denied that there had been any
iroube in that State demanding their presence. The
oaly authority for executing h "a rs OF the State Was
entrus ed to the Governor, command ern-chief, ex
cept when he seeks the protection Of tue Fede al Gov
ernrent yet, because that State small and feeble
10 numbers, but not III patriotism OF her sons hose
troops were sent among them. He cited the testimony
of Mayor Gilpin, OF Wilmington, and others, who had
never been Democrats, show that it had been
beforehand that unless force procured the State
would go for the Democrats and provost mars as had
commissions sjgned by Edwin NJ Stanton. aud sent is
blank accompanied by orders, and yet the Secretary
of War MES that any orders had been sent direct
from his de partmeut He could not show these orders
but the testimony would prove this crime on the Sec
retary to the satisfaction OF jury of twelve homes
men, The blank commissions it is testih d by seVera
of the provost marshas, who are ct course Republl
cans were filed up the Sunday preceding the Toe
day election by George F. Fisher the Republican can
didate for Congress, aud Judge of the SUPREME
| (Ionrt Of the District.