The Portland daily press., 1868-10-27
Terms $500 per anmu,,s, In adranee.

Court the whole bench concurriro IN ,ho oaso
OF NJ ligan and Bowles, which went nm from
the State OF Indiana on writ of habeas corpus
In that case it was decided, in the plain Ian
guage of the Constitution that the Governnent
could not establish martial tdl0 in time Of peace
or try a citizen By military commission or
c0urtmQrtidL The Reconstruction acts, so
called, stand on martial law, and nothing else
II Is the essence of these acts. They were pre-
pared and put in execution in time of pro-
Iound peace, in defiance of the unanimous de-
clslon OF the supreme Court, to which have
reIerred, aad they, and all that has been done
mnda thsm, are null and void. A case was
I@oe r under these acts-ihe case of McCardle,
O..,aa .1,aha,ssElsslppi-and brought before the Su-
Ptene Conrt, and IL is loeU kno1cn thot the
,',eo,,o J"S reGav 20 declare these acts nconsi
depFiUe the Supreme Court oS its ;,,r;s,,;ct;o., ~
and openly attempted to intiinidate he ;,idoes
By threats Of ren1odelling the Court The So-
preme Court, in another case-that OF Cum
mings, of Missouri decided that the olsen
reimbursement OF the white people o. the
Southern States ty an act of Cor gress was a
bill of attainder and an eI post fdcto law, both
of which were forbidden in express terms by
the Constitution. Even the Radicals admit, IN
their Chicago platform, that the States alone
hare the right to decide t1ho shall be entitled to
suffrage within the States; and yet Congress has
assumed to tdke the right from the uhtte people
atd a 9toe % TO the negroes Ulthin the Southern
states Inc Reconstruction acts violate the
CohSOitueion III all tneSe particulars, ana IL mas
Deen already so decided by the Sopreme
Court The Constitution says the military
shall always be subordinate tn the civil au-
thority, but these acls have superseded all civil
authority, and erected military governments
at the South. Do you want decision Of the
Supreme Court to 81 ow that this il uneonsti-
Are those who say that the militia
ry Is subord uate to the civil authority revolu-
tionlsts? Are those who demand the reStora-
tion Of the trial by jury, which has been sup
pressed in the South by the reconstruction
act, revOlutionists? Are those whu clai m the
Drneht Of the writ Of right, the hdbeds corpus,
the Infamous Reconstruction az >. TO be brand
Ell as revolutionists? Shall we be called revo-
Iutionst because we proclaim in the very lam
guage of the Constitution, that Cong ress shall
pass no bill of attainder or ex post Idcto Law?
Jr shall we be thus branded Tor claiming what
ne Constitution comedies in express words
hat the States shall regulate suffrage for
hem elves? Do we want more decisions OF
he Supreme Court on these points? The
ruth is that the Radicals are the real revoIu-
ionlsts, and have subyerted the fundamental
principles OF our Government, aud converted
{ into a mean and malignant oligarchy, sure
o lapse into military despotsm. To restore
he Government and the great guarantees OF
reedom contained in the Constitution, and in-
lerited from our ancestors, is revolution" To
xeeute the will of the people, whom the frag-
nentary RumD Congress has put at defiance,
$ revolution. To carry out The decisions of
II the Supreme Court is revolution" This
evolution is at hand. The peoples will, the
Judgment Of the court of the highest iursdic-
ion, will he enforced against a usurping
fump Congress. L am, most respectfully,
our obedient servant, FRANK P. BLAIR.