Year: 1864

AS an illustration of the utter extlnc-
ton of the right of free speech, which, with
all other rights and liberties In this coun-
try, the bloated tyrant Lincoln, has ami
hilated in blood, we commend the follow.
ing extract from Democratic" journal
the Metropolitan Record, most faithful
sercant and expositor of the Democracy
which consists in toadying slave-lords and
supporting the theory that capital ought
to own labor:


GAS to the freedom and independence
of the South we have no apprehension,
Her people can never be conquered, and,
if that were possible Abraham Lincoln Is
not the man to accomplish that subjuga-
ton. The address of the Virginia Assem-
bly, is proof that the resolution which
animated Virginia all through this war Is
as unbroken as ever; that there is no fall
tering, no wavering. In the eloquent
words of this great document, Tirginia
takes no step 6ackuard.' Grand old State,
may we never see the day when you shall
have to bow beneath the yoke of the op-
pressor If that day should ever come,
then will the friends of freedom, the lovers
of true heroism and manhood, mourn over
the sad fate of great people, who fell
while fighting for liberty amp indePend-
ence-fell on the same soil that gave birth
to Washington, to one whose name should
have been sufficient to save the great Com
monwealth from the tread of the heartless
invader" -........ 20


This is like the speech which Fernando
Wood made last autumn at Bergen, in
New Jersey, in which he said: "There is
no such thing as rebellion under the insti-
tutions upon which the Government OF
this country is founded. Suppose New
York chose to secede, who dare attempt
to prevent her: Virginia has the same
right as New York. 1t is the duty Of the
people now to refuse to give another man
or another dollar for the puprose of carry
ing on the war"


If any man asks why the Government,
in the midst of civil war, does not ST.
lence such talk, the reply is very obvious;
because it is quite strong enough to tolor.-
ate it. But its constitutional right and
power to send Fernando Wood to Fort
Lafayette and to suspend the Metropolitan
Record are as indispntable as its right to
kill rebel upon the battlefield. They
are not derived from the clause which de-
clares that treason shall consist in levying
war, but in that which empowers the sus-
pension of the writ of habeaS corpus when,
in time of rebellion and invasion, the pub
lie safety reqnires it. In such instances
as these, and at this time, the Government
rightly judges that the public safety does
not require it. For the great mass OF the
American people feel towards such ora
tors and newspapers as their fathers felt
towards Bache's Arrora, which said of
General Washington, when he retired from
the Presidency: 1.-The man who Is the
source of the misfortunes of our country
is this day reduced to level with his fel-
low citizens. The name of Washington
from this day ceases to give currency to
political iniquitv and to legalize corrup-
tion."


What the slanderers of Washington said
of him, their descendants, the Copper
heads, now say of the Government Of
which he was chief founder. They are
equally safe in public contempt. They
and their falsehoods will be equally held
in the undying scorn of the American peo-
ple.-Harpere Weekly. ........