Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-10-15
THE REMEDY rdeE USED
TO the People ofthe U,itea States

10 the lE0pte 81 the tRtifed States.
The Democratie$National Committee o
the United States! hold It to be their duty t
call the attentiopfof their fellow .countrymel
without distinction of party, 70 certain
grave acts of usurm,ion and wrong nov
practiced up6n the citizens Of Maryland an,
Tennessee but involving the dearest right
Of all thu people in all the States; and tn
very existeTipe Of those constitutional rene
dies against executive wrong doing which
have heretofore Aavetl this nation from thu
commissions through which popular libert,
in other lands has besn forced to assert, t,
maintain, and to extena>ir guarantees.
In the State of Maryland, on the 3oth da,
Of September. the E'reniN Past, journa
pri It'd in the city of Baltimore, which hat
that day Tor the first time published tn,
electoral ticket Of the Democlat.c party o
that State, was suppress cd by lhc following
order Of Maj Gen. Wallace, 4ommandn-
the United States troops in that tty:
"EIcuru Army doRrs,
Baltimore, SeIt. 90.
Editors Of the Ersniay Post.
AS the surest means OF pre- entiny your
office being made the suhjectof violence
you will discontinue the publication of your
paper, the Erening POST"
The sole pretext for this oJ1er was the as.
sertion that several scltlicrt subject TO the
command Of Mai. Gen. Wallace. intended IA
create riot in the streets6f Baltimore, and
to destroy the propertY'of the suppressed
journal on account Of qfs;atcment upon its
bullerin-board ANNOUNCING as an item of
news fearful roy in Gin innat, during
which Lincoln clubWoccssion from Ken
lucky fired upon the cffxens, men, women
and children, several belpg killed and
wounded
Such pretcxt for such al order is so
inanilcstly disgrsceful to the military officer
who in issuing it confessed his Inability to
restrain soldiers Of the national schylce from
acts ct ONE Of military insubordinit,on and
Of civil outrage, that it is impossible to be.
ieve he could have been CONTINUED. as he
since has been, in his command By the Pres
ident OF the United States, had not (he sup
PRESTON of the Ecening Post. which:was the
,, ~ Democratic Journal published IN Balti
more, 1een designed by the executive for
the express r.,rposs Of Sepriyinr ~ no, III
al opponents OF no existing ADM :! strat;on
in that city Of their s,lc means II odxosa'
ting their opinions; and even Of Esss,n;n.
ting the information necessary q ia. a.,
the polls. y
Maryland is leYA State. 40 her fidelity
President Lindugn iDbis Acssage to Con
gress on the 21t6 If Dedepber, 1851. bears
thte emphatic witness Her bridges and
Isalroads are repsirsd shd open TO The GOV
- s ~ sne aireadysiv,s seven regiments
g the cause OF the fCn,on, and none to tho
snemy; ana her people at a regular cleo ION
I've sustained the Union by larger major.
= and larger aggregate vote than thew
ever before gave 70 any Candidate on any
NO enemy now treads her soiA Tho VIC.
t'ous advance ofShcridan has Il AIRED even
! s0rthest hOrders OF all rebe)A n arms
1es people are ~ fully entitled toA.h.o,,,...
aycooo = the polls and in the AZ cnss;c,,
~ ~ polittc1l questions a. tne - rc,s - I
lassecausetts or New York.
AZ saneeon an act by which tfar .ro
.l y. deprived Of this fi,.eS' s4c
~ 'cesato assumption by the exec,R;,s -.
- aaseas!o9 - peru tuate his aush'I ~. -
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