The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-15
Greeley and Brown Meeting

Dttl lOT extreme heat vi the weather.. Inc
hall was we'll filed, however, Notwithstanding
the greater comfort of an outdoor position.
The meeting was called to order at O'Clock.
by w. H. Simpson, who called to the chair w.
| H. Burril, Esq. The meeting was further or
ganiZed by the following Vice Presidents
Charles Baker, Joseph Williamson, Edmund
p. Brown, Randall Ellis. Joseph II. kaler.
The following Secretaries were selected =
Russell G. Dyer. Charles H. Mitchell. one
half the Vice Presidents are Liberal Republic
cans.
| EX-SENATOR DOOLITTLE.
| The chairman then introduced Hon. j r.
| Doolittle, of Wisconsin. He is stout, COM
pactly built man. full-bearded, with 4 determ-
| med face and resolute eye, and altogether the
appearance of man to do and dare in his un-
dertakings.
He commenced by reference to the North
Carolina election, in which State he had spoken
| during the canvass. Some remarkable features
We're shown by that election. From 81, 700 to
| 10000 more votes We're thrown than ever be-
| fore-an unheard of gain upon former contest
ed elections. The fact is that the colonization
of negroes from adjoining States and between
counties had been wholesale Ten thousand
We're registered from other States, hut by the
vigilance of the liberals only one-half of that
number We're polled. In other than border
counties the liberal gain had been large. 1t
| had been given out that while Grants friends
| had supervision of the polls, there would be
no danger of liberal success. He diStrusted
the accounts of these men, GOV. Vance said
tb,t of ho Il
consolidated by Union Leagues so that if any
desired to vote liberal they were inundated
and had violence done to them. While the
speaker was i'll the State, cases of the kind
Cured.
1t has been made public that the u. S. Mar
sha of North Carolina recently drew from the
treasury S223.000 for the expenses of his Office.
There We're 400 deputy marshals i'll the stare,
with blank warrants ready to be filled out with
the names of any whom they desire 10 arrest.
Three thousand men were indicted for pretended
violatioeSf law and those who would promise
to support Grant had been discharged. with no
trial or costs. He had the authority of the
private Secretary of Senator Chandler for the
statement that the Senator had declared, eve
| will carry North Carolina, for have 1000
| voters under indictment, who will have no
punishment it they vote right" Such is the
policy of the administration.
1t will be remembered that in louisiana o
control, not an election but republica! con
venton, Collector Casey, brother law to the
| President, placed soldiers about the Custom
House, in which he held his convention, and
allowed no one without ticket to enter And
| II e
the Legislature, enough to do il We're taken on
an II. $. revenue cutter, that steamed up and
down the river If all the practices of the adj
ministration We're known to the people, it could
not get one thousa md votes IN the state of Maine
(applause.D
He had AZ unkindness toward Gen. Grant,
| who had been bred soldier, and carried his
training into civil life. His iiea% were ali
military He believes that a soldiers first duty
is TO obey commands, and to command is an
officers business. Like the centurion he said
500, and he goeth-c0me, and he cometh
This is needed for the control of an army, but
it does not train for civil life, nor 10 he re
publican. With such ideas the men are scarce
who will not be deSpots Washington was not
a military man by professional WAS with him
but incidental. So of Jackson, who was
lawyer and Judge. The President may under
stand armies, hut he does no better in civil life
because he don't know how. 1t j. impressed
on his administration from the beginning 20
this hour. He looks upon the Presidency not
As a great public trust, but thing for his
personal advantage. In forming his cabinet,
he consulted no one. II was created rs by mil
tarv command. tie appointed A. H. Stewart
| ts Secretary of the Treasury, not knowing that
| a law old aS the government forbade any one
| in mercantile pursuits to hold IN Office in the
| treasury. Who had heard Of Borie, when APP
pointed Secretary of the Treasury. He had
subscribed $4,000 to buy Gen. Grant house
| DO not believe there was any arrangement
about it, but il influenced the appointment.
| Bore knew nothing of his duties. and Porter
bad really to he the head Of the depart
ment. Boutwell, is honest, but "A man of mar
row views. In North Carolina this Secretary.
referring to Greeley's hope that flaterna hands
might be shaken across the bloody chasm, said
in his higotod way 1--WE protest against shak
! ing hands thus" And in saying it he uttered
! protest against the UNION Of our fathers II is
time that we come back to the methods Of peace.
| An act of Congress authorized the Suspen-
sion of the writ of habeas corpus. How many
realize what this means. IIahpaS corpus is the
great writ of liberty, which any and every Judge
Is bound to Issue when application is made on
the ground that any one is held in durance
without due process of law. The Judge is
liable to fine and Imprisonment, if he does not
grant it. 1t is judicial inquiry INTO the q oundS
upon which the man is held, and if not on legal
grounds he is bound to set the prisoner at
liberty. or admit to bail, if the oilenSe he bail
able. The constitution of the United States
| looks with so much horror upon imprisonment,
| that it provides that habeas corpus shall not be
suspended except when in eases of invasion or
| rebellion the public safety may require it. Yet
Congress authorized the President to suspend
| it at his own pleasure, on his own judgement,
! in any state, when he sees tit. 1t was an out
| rage that should overthrow any administration
| Suppose he writ to be suspended in this
county-what then? Why, any lieutenant or
corporal can go into your houses, arrest you by
day or night, take you anywhere hold you as
| long as he pleases, and you can't get your own
| liberty. No Judge can restore it, because the
| privilege of the writ is suspended.
In North Carolina there We're said to be dis
! orders From Long Branch went out the order
| to suspend the habeas corpus. 1t was made to
cover one county where there was no pretence
of disorder The presi,lent had made IL mis-
take! mistake that involved the liberty of
10000 persons 1t was like the issue of a war
rant of execution by your Governor, who should
afterwards discover that he had hung the wrong
| man. Gen. Grant don't govern better, because
he don't know how.
When Gen. Mead was in command in Georgia,
an instance of military rule occurred. A man
was killed in negro brothel. AS he was a
leading carpet-bagger something must be done.
An order issued, and Il or 90 young men, who
knew nothing of the crime, were arrested
They were hurried Off, put into dungeons S feet
by IL, with no light and no air, in the heat of
summer in the horrid stencil of neighboring
prves, and not allowed to speak to friends.
Detectives piled them with snares and prrsua-