Year: 1862

The proclamation OF President Lincoln Sus-
pending the writ of Habeas Corpus has alarm
ed the Hberty-loving, despot-hating and true
friends of American liberty throughout the
republic. The press and people Of the Eastern
portion of this g" land of the free and home Of
the brave are fully resolved on frowning
down every attempt to deprive them Of their
constitutional rights. They do not forget the
warning words Of the brave, true and honest
old patriot. Jackson Eternal vigilance Is
the price Of liberty The New York Kniek-
erbocker Magazine says:


at is one of the most monstrous acts ever
perpetrated by the Government Of any country
1t is an insult to The whole population of the
North il is an outrage upon liberty it is in
defiance of the law. Are We a free people or
are We slaves2 Have we the right Of free
speech or must we remain dumb Are our
Constitution and laws written in sand and IS
justice dead ? These are questions which the
people of the United States may well ask, and
to which they have right to demand an an
swer. Their freedom is menaced, and their
eternal rights as American citizens, are placed
in jeopardy, and by that very elective power
of which they are themselves the source


The New York Express, which has uniform
ly advocated the war, though opposed to the
abolition policy of the Administration, says of
the proclamation


The Presidents proclamation, No. ,, has,
If possible, made more impression upon the
public mind, than proclamation No. l. The
words in No. , are sown broadcast - the
threats of the dungeons are so loose, so wild
that the apprehensions of all who differ in
/ opinion with the President upon the policy oi
proclamation No. l, or upon the mode ana
manner of carrying on the war are very brie
and very exciting. All nations, all history
records, are never in so much peril, as when
/ the people cease to talk out loud. but talk in
whispers as when public discussions are sup
pressed free press shut up. and whispers
take the place of free and open talk. The
right Of growing and of grumbling, it has
been well said. is the great conservator of the
British monarchy and aristocracy, and if the
British people are deprived of the right to
growl and grumbe, it has also been well said
the monarchy and the aristocracy there could
not exist day. The right of grumbline
even, is now forbidden the Anglo Saxon race
in the United States, and We are to be gov
erned, it would seem, very much as the British
rulers have governed the Irish until the ten
years past and very much as Austria governs
her Hungarians and Magyars, or other sub
jects, very much as Bomba governed Naples
and Sicily-by terrorism and espionage"
/ Hon. William j. Allen, OF Illinois, recently
elected to Congress was arrested IN the midst
of his canvass. conveyed to Washington. held
for several weeks, and then Internationally
discharged, without any investigation or any
means of knowing or purging himself OF the
charges alleged for his arrest The Springfield
Register says:


The curses OF all honest men upon the era
ven scoundrels who conspired to effect his
arrest. Shame upon the State authorities
who permitted one of the most loyal and
prominent citizens TO be dragged from without
the States jurisdiction. to be iucarcerated in
a prison a thousand miles of, without demand
ing an investigation Of his case by some Judi
cial tribunal within the State; and shame
upon the National Government for the adop
tion of policy involving such injustice