Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-09-29

army to ind you one hundred white who have been
Kept OUT OF the army ~ your proclamation You have
the power, but truth and justice are with me.
thank you for the printed copy of your letter to Mr.
Hodges which you sent to with the preferred parole,
have read II carefully, and find in il this remarkable
statement: t hes as
By general law, life and limb be protected often
wisely given to limb felt that othsrwise
might bscoms lawful by becoming ndspen
sable TO the preservation OF the Constitution through the pre-
servation Of the nation Right or wrong assumed this
ground, and now avow it."
Unless / have been strangely msnstructed, Mr. Prss
dent the Constitution 10 not limb attached to the Gov
ernment but 10 the life Of the Government 10 destroying
1t you destroy the bond by which the Unions held together
and take the life of the Government The idea of an un
constitutional policy becoming necessary TO preserve the
Government and save the Constitution, like the idea of
killing man to save his life and keep hun from dying of
disease You annul the law make the rebels obsy it.
disregard the Constitution TO make them
your oath to keep from breaking it The trainers of the
Constitution surely intended that President should
amper with his solemn oath and with that sacred nstru
ment in such manner
| Again, you say:
81 was in my best judgment driven alternative Of
either surrenderiDg the Union, with the Constitution
or Of laying strong haad the ooored element choose
| the latter"
Do you really to say that the white citizen SOL
ders could not whip the rebels and that after exhaustng
all the wisdom, strength power, and vaor Of
the white men, you failed to save the Union; that with
two millions of able bodied white still n reserve you
to force the negroes to fight in order To the
try If you do, Mr. President what compliment you
pay to white men in and out OF the army One negro,
according to this doctrine, worth in the army much
more than dozen white Do you believe it, sir9
You claim gain by this policy of hundred and thirty
Thousand colored soldiers to the army. Would not
hundred thousand white men have done well You
add
Now let any Union who complains of this measure
DUNG the rebellion by force of and in the that he
for taking hundred and thirty thousand the
he cannot face his case stated
| it ia only because he cannot face the truth"
am that Union man. and thus face the case: To place
your hundred and thirty thousand coored where
they would be but for the in question would be
place most OF them back into the fields to raise
supplies for army and to return the remainder of them
to their legal owners, making them monument of the
justice magnaniuty and good faith of Government,
being as they would be, many living witnes thayou
hsd kept pledges while their places in the army
would be teo times than filed by five hundred thou
sand white men, who but for this would have
lunteered
Now, Mr.. President, will you test yourself by writing
down side of the paper that at the
OF this war you took oath to preserve the Constitution
and to see that the laws made in thereof
faithfully executed that you pledged yourself to the peo
pie that would carry the for the deenca of the
Union alone add not in any spirit of conquest subjug
ton that you would not interfere with the rights of the
States with their domestic institutions with the rights
of individuals with their private s,rs that the rela
lions OF parent and child guardian and ward husband and
WIFE, master and servant should all be respected and
main unchanged by the that these pledges strength
ened the weak confirmed the doubtful fred the patriots
heart with ZEAL and enabled you to command all the
available Union strength in the nation that upon them
Congress voted all the and money that you desired
that soon you had collected by volunteering the purest
nobest, gandest army of intelligent Christian soldiers
that ever the face of the earth that this
grand army, composed of Democrats Republicans Old
Line Wings, Aboitionists and men of no party, met
around the altar of their country and standing upon your
pledges suck the partisan in the patriot and the name
of the God of Liberty and of the Union, marching
forward like band of brothers to victory and to glory
that your Pledges too had inspired the Union inside
OF the rebel lines with new hope and le and made
him rejoice 10 the justice OF this Government of his fathers
and finally that they served to increase division and dis
traction n the rebel army and among the Southern people,
so that great hopes entertained of counter revou
ton IN the South in favor of peace and the Unon write
down these facts side say and then write down
on the other side that changed mind and violated
all these pledges that you broke the Constitution and
your oath to preserve it, that you intersred with the
rights of the States and of Individuals that you usurped
the power to disturb the relations between master and
servant and issued proclamations freeing the slaves
that you procured the passage by Congress of odous
conhscahon laws that you trying to change this
war into war Of plumber conquest and subugadon that
you claim the right TO reduce sovereign States into the
condition OF conquered provnces that accomplish there
things have placed the military above the civil author
ity that you have instituted system Of arbitrary arrests
which has given TO instances of cruelty and
OPPRESSION by dragging innocent men, and in nsau
women and children, away from their peaceful
homes, to undergo the pvsons of prison. 10 which
of them must die, aud all to CRAFTY the private malice of
some OF your partisan leaders, though do not pretend 10
that wicked not sometimes arrested that you
have constituted strange and courts try
citizens denying them the right of being confronted with
their face TO face we'll the right OF trial by
jury, and denying them the benefit of the law well
the privilege of having il expounded in their behalf by
learned judge these strange courts having usurped The
power to mprson citizens for life and even to Danish them
from their country that have declared martial law and
the right to the writ Of habeas corpus in the loyal
State of Kentucky, at time when the civil authority
in full force; that you have permitted military officers in
Kentucky TO interfere with the freedom Of elections by is
suing orders stating who shall be allowed to for Office
and who rha be allowed to vote-thus drying up all the
fountains Of civil liberty and leaving life and property in
secures and, finally that the effects of this change Of po
Icy have been to drive many original Union in the
South into the rebel army, and to unite the Southern peo
pie to such extent that all hopes of counterrevoluon
10 the South lost at least for the present. while so Ovid
ing the people of the loyal States that you have fears
which God grant may be realzedthat revelation
will burs forth in the North which may you to lose
your head and also the Union TO be Lost in the midst
Of disorder blood, and ruin IT, Mr. President you cannot
your stated only because you cannot face
| the truth.
you, by persistng in your policy Of orobly abolshng
slavery should this to continue yesrs longer
it will involve this nation in debt the amount Of which
will be twice much the value Of all the taxable pro-
perty the nation contains II will bring million Of
/ freemen to bloody end. 1t will cause crpples, aud
widows, and orphans 10 become numerous and crime,
and violence and blood aud misery will increase TO such
an extent aud your tyranny will have 10 become great
carrying out the policy that you have adopted ia order
to keep down the Discontinued and wounded spirits that
your course will 10 rice to defy you that impair
a history Ia attetng the goodness and severity OF God
will write you down the greates tyrant that ever lived
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