The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-03-12

tCuC ptOpiC DOWeu tIltH 1Cduo W tie nag
and renewed their allegiance to the Gov
erment of the United States, then it was
| that these pretended patriots appeared beS
fore the nation and began to pirate about
the thousands of lives and millions of
F., treasure sacrificed in the suppression of the
rebellion. They have since persistently
sought to enfame the prejudice engender>
| ed between the sections, and retard the re-
storation OF peace and harmony, and by
every means to keep open and exposed to
the poisonous breath of party passion the
terrible wounds of a four years war. They
have prevented the return Of peace and
the restoration of the Union In every
way rendered delusive the purposes, prom>
ises and pledges by which the army was
marshalcd, treason rebuked, and rebellion
crushed; and made the liberties of the
people and the rights and powers of the
President objects Of constant attack. They
have wrested from the President his consti-
tutlonal power OF the supreme command of
the army and navy. They have destroyed
the strength of the executive department
by making subordinate officers independent
of, and able to defy, their Chief Magistrate
They have attempted to place the Presi>
dent under the power OF bold, defiant and
treacherous Cabinet officer They have
robbed the Executive of the prerogative of
pardons; rendered null and void acts of
ciemency granted to thousands of persons
under the provision Of the Constitution :;
and committed gross usurpation by legisa-
tive attempts to exercise this power in ia
vor OF party adherents. They have con-
splred TO change the system of our govern
ment in Ihe form of articles of impeach
ment, and contemplating, before hearing or
trial, that he should be placed under arrest,
held IN durance, and when it became their
| pleasure to pronounce his sentence, driven
from place and power in disgrace. They
have, In time of peace, increased the ma
tlonal debt by reckless expenditure of the
public moneys, and added to the burdens
which already weigh upon the people.
They have permitted the nation to suffer
tie evils of deranged currency and an en>
hancement in price of all the necessar les of
life. They have maintained large stand
ing army for the enforcement of their mea
sures of oppression. They have engaged in
class legislation, built and encouraged
monopolies, that the few might be enriched
at the expense of the many. They have
failed to act upon important treaties, there
by endangerlng our peaceful relations with
foreign powers.
Their course of usurpation has not been
limited to lnroads upon the executive de-
partment, by unconstitutional and oppres-
slve enactments, the people of ten States
Of the Union have been reduced to condi-
ton more lut0erable than that from which
the patriots of the revolution rebelle6.
Millions OF the American citizens can now
say OF their oppressors, with more truth
than our fathers didi OF British tyrants,
''That they have forbidden governments to
pass laws OF immediate and pressing i'm
portance, unless suspended until their
assent should Oe obtained that they have
refused to pass other laws for the accom-
mediation of large districts of people, unless
these people would relinquish the right of
representation in the legislature-a right
lnestlmable to them and formidable to
tyrants only; that they have made Judges
! dependent on their will alone for their ten
ure OF office, and the amount and payment
; OF their salaries; that they have erected a
multitude OF new offices and sent hither
swarms CT officers to harass our people and
eat out their substance that they have
effected to render the military independent
and superior to the civil power; combined
with others to subject US to jurisdiction
+ foreign to our constitution and acknowl
edged by our laws; quartere large bodies
OF troops among us protected them, by a
mock trial, IRON punishment for any muir,
dcrs which they should commit on the in
habltants imposed taxes upon US without
our consent; deprived US, In many cases.
or trlal by jury taken away our charters
excited domestic Instruction among us
abo lshed our most valuable laws altered
| fundamentally the forms of our govern
cd 0l1r 1n,,
declared themselves invested with power
to eglslate for US in al cases whatever"
i This catalogue Of crimes, long as it is, is
not complete. The Constitution vests the
judicial power Of the United States in one
Supreme Court, whose jurisdiction shall
extend to all cases arising under the Con
stitution and the laws of the United States
! Encouraged by this promise, a refugee
from tyranny, citizen of the United
States, by order of a military commander
given under the sanction of cruel and de-
llberate edlct OF Congress, had been denied
the constitutional rights OF liberty of con,
science, freedom OF the press and of speech
personal freedom from military arrest; OF
| being held to answer for crime onlv upor
presentment OF an indictment, OF trial by
jury OF the writ of habeds corpus. and the
| PtOlSSiiou VI q Wv III dIu COEStiluIlUI1aI gov
eminent. A citizen thus deeply wrongec
appeals to the Supreme Court for the pro
lection guaranteed him by the organic la ".
/ OF the land. AT once fierce and cxcitec
majority: by the ruthless hand of legisla
tive power, stripped the ermine from the
judges, transferred the sword of Justice t
the General, aud remanded the oppressed
citizens to degradation and bondage wors.
than death.
1t Will also be recorded as one of th(
marVels OF the times, that party claimin!
Tor Itself monopoly of consistency anC
patriotism, and Boosting Of its Unlimited
sway, endeayoring, by costly and deIlber
ate trial, to impeach one who defended tn,
Constitution and the Union, not onl,
throughout the war Of the rebellion, bu
during his whole term Of office as Chic
Magistrate; but, at the same time, coult
had no warrant or means at their com
mand to bring to trial even the chief of thu
rebellion. Indeed, the remarkable failure
in this case we're so often repeated that, TO
plo}rlety's sake, if for no other reason. i
became at last necessary to extend to hin
an unconstitutional pardon. What NOR
plainly than this illustrates the extremitie
OF party management and inconsistency, OF
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