North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1864-01-06
1.-THE JERSEY BLUEs.".

New Jersey,) have adopted the repor. Of a
committee appointed to prepare declaration
OF the views Of that organization with regard
to national affairs. The report is manly and
patriotic, and recommends that prompt action
be taken by the people to rebuke the unlaw
full acts of the President and his subordinates,
and to compel them to respect tho Constitu-
tion and the laws-and proceeds to indicate
ing the assailed rights and liberties of the
States and citizens.
The report declares, justly, that
=" 1t has become manifest that the men who
now control the National Administration do
not intend to bring the war to an end, until
they have subdued the people of the free
States, and perpetuated their own power and
there is much reason to believe that the mill
tary force, and the financial resources of the
country, will be made use of to defeat the
popular will at the next Presidential election :;
and that by these means the tyranny which
is now depressing the people of the free
States will be permanently established"
The association, adopting the language OF
their committee, assert that the Constitu-
tion has been overthrown, and despotis,n of
the most tyrannous character has been estab-
lished in It's place." and prove their position
by the subjoined catalogue, which, although
incomplete, abudantly sustains them:
l. The freedom Of speech has been viola
ted by the arrest and Imprisonment of num-
Der of persons charged with no crime, and
whose only offence was the utterance of
sentiments distasteful to the men in power.
H. The freedom of the press has been
subverted by the suppression of a number of
newspapers.
III. The right to security from arrest
When no crime is charged, has bten disre-
garded in the arrest and Incarceration of a
large number of persons, denounced by the
parasites of the Administration as sympa
| thizars with the rebellion;
II. The right to security frsm unlaartul
searches and seizures has been violated in
| numerous instances, in which domcls have
been visited, and papers, ETC., seized without
legal authority
Y. The right TO q trial bv jury has been
refused in the cases of citizens arrested and
imprisoned or banished by military orders
or court-martials.
| w. The right to persouat freedom has
oeen taken from poor men by the Conscription
act. which compels persons, who are unable to
pay S5oO to enter the army. This act is an
assumption OF power, not given, by the Con
stitution, and it makes grossly unjust dis.
tnction between the rich and the poor man.
vi, The freedom of every citizen has
been taken from him, by the illegal and IN
necessary suspension of the right to demand
the writ of habeas corpus.
VII The right Of property has been ab
rogated by the Emancipation Proclamation
and the Confscation act.
TX. The inyiolabllty of contracts has been
destoyed by the act which makes deprecated
Treasury notes legal tender for all debts.
\. The freedom Of religious 10 or ship has
been violatsd on repeated locations by the in.
reference of mill tary officers
II. The right of States to management {
their militia has been taken from them by the
Concsription act, which places the whole mill
tary of the country at the disposal of the
President.
III, The formation of the State ofsWest
Virginia was violation of the 3rd section Of
the 4th article of the Constitution.
1IL The heretofore undisputed right of
the people to elect their legislators and rulers
has been taken from them, and the will Of
majorities dsregarded, as is abundantly mani.
tested in the manner in which elections have
recently. been carried by the grossest corrup-
ton in Northern States, and by military or
ders in the border States of the South.
The Association, in the spirit of freemer
reprobate the conduct of President Line oln
and the members of his Cabinet, in pamper-
ing parasites and meuals, and encouraging
them to denounce all who oppose the illegal
acts of the Administration as " traitors sreb.
ell sympathizers,' &C., as grossly insulting to
the people, and deserving the indignant re.
buke of every honest man. In refereecc to
the corruption and extravaganza of the Ad-
ministration, the Camden Association say
that
"The expenditures Of the General Govern
ment, since the commencement of the present
Administration, have been wastefu and ex-
travagant in an unexempllfied degree and it
has been acknowledged by men of its own
party that the National Treasury has been
piundered in the most shameful manner. It