The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-06
No.. 26.

! SOME OF the iStldlcaf journals, and
among them the New Norb Times. hay
ing nnisrepresented the speech Of Mr..
James Brooks as the State Convention
Of the Democracy Of Connecticut, Mr.
Brooks publishes in his own paper
true report Of what he said, which we
fepubiisi below:
The Radicals have now before the
country two projects for the subyersion
| 81 this government. One, the over
throw of the Supreme Court Of the Uni
ted states the otlaer, lie despotisn1 OF
| the Executive branch oi The Govern
ment, and the substitution in lieu there
OF OF some Senator in Congress. The
Supreme Court cannot be 0yegtarown
without fist depoSin@ tie Presi
dent. 4 distinguished General from
Massachusetts, a perg distinguish
ed General not General Banks -
cries OF who? who: with innumerable
other cries proposes first deposing the
President. and his arrest and ncarcera-
ton, by the Sergeanf-st-Arnls Of the
House OF Representatives, under a sim
pie act OF the lsump House. This de-
position Of tie President is to be ioiow-
ed forthwith by the installation OF /. Sem
ator as President. The Supreme Court
! cannot be overthroWn until the Presi-
dent Is first overtllroWn-tor the Presi-
dent nominates and SO far creates the
Judges of this court. Gentlemen, / tell
these Radicals to beware. Their hold
upon this Government all hangs upon
Democratic love Of law and order, and
upon their reverence Tor the Consfitu-
ton OF the land-the supreme law. We
hA M .,n # A.
lantic States, from the boundaries of
Massachusetts to the Potomac river, the
hard handed, hard listed, iron-muscled
men OF the workshops, the ship-yards.
the toundries. The fighting men are
ours three, it not five, to one. They
have put us in prison without resort to
law, and we have gone there. They
have tettered and manacled us in pris-
ons and on the way there, and we have
submitted. They have torn down our
printing presses. They have mobbed
our people. They have silenced free
speech and free press. Their gentlemen
in epaulettes, their Provost Marshals,
| have inflicted upon HIS outrages which,
under a hopeless despo4ism, would have
| driven men forthwith into rebellion.
But we all, in Fort Lafayette or out,
have submitted, because, in due time,
we knew that the free institutions of
Our country would rise superior to OPP
preston, and vindicate law and liberty.
The Supreme Court otthe United States
has now pronounced all these outvages
upon the democracy OF The country to
be laWless and reVoiutionary-in SUBJ
stance, has decided that the Democrat
IL party We're right, and tine Radical
party were all Wrong-tsat we We're the
/ loyal men 1.-THE only loyal nen-that is,
men obedien6 To laW,l and they the
dlsloyai, laWless men of the land. Great
cheering. These Radicals have educa-
tea us during four long years of civil
war to recognize the administration of
the Government as The Government.
When the ha6eas corpus was suspended
by the President, the Government sus-
pended it, we We're told, as the Govern
ment had right to suspend it, When
Provost Marshals violated all laws, hui
| man and divine. under the order of the
President, the Government, we were
| told, had right so to ordain. We are
not III a, we cstnl4ot '3es, iorgetfgsi OF these
lesse rs. We may noC approve Them in
principle, though taught to put them in
practice, and suffering from such teach
ing. What, then, l have to say is this:
| Ii the programme Of the very distin-
/ 8
executed by the Rump branch of Con-
gress, and the Executive Department is
broken up, and the President arrested
and incarcerated-a proclamation from
him invoking the aid of the people to
stand by the Government, will start the
hard-tisted Democracy from their ioun-
dries. their workshops, their ship-yards
and no one rallroad-no, not thou
sand railroads-will have means enough
to carry them on to Washington. Loud
cheers. Our ministers of religion have
taught u.s." obedience to government is
obedience to God" and God willing,
we mean to stand by and to maintain
this Government, and to hand it down
to our children just as our fathers hand
ed it down to us-the inheritance of
freemen, OF free institutions, and of con-
stitutionai liberty and law. Prolonged
cheering.]
An old lady, reading an account of
distinguished old lawyer who was said
to be the father Of the New York bar,
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