Year: 1863

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every intelligent patriot to see how the con-
servative men of every former political af-
filiation are abandoning old antagonisns,
and uniting heart and hand with the Dem
ocratic party as the only one by whose prin-
ciples and whose numbers the country can
be saved from the remediess ruin which
the fanatics of the North and the South have
invoked upon it.


Mr.. GEO. s. HnLARD of Boston, one of the
accom- plished men of his time, friend of
WEBSTER and of CHoATE, a Whig of the
straigh test sect. and patriot of the purest,
in his letter to the Academy of Music meet
ing, which we publish on another page this
morning, uses this significant language.


81 have, never been a member of the Dam
ocratic party, but l am convinced that there
is now no hope of ending this deplorable
war and restoring the Union but by and
through that party"


And the Hon. JOEL PARKER, form er chief
justice of the supreme Court of New Hamp-
shire, and now sitting in the chat Of STORY,
who prefaceS his letter with similar state
ment, that he has "never been a member of
the Democratic party'-though honored by
that party with high places, in the belief
that he was conscientiously desirous of sus-
tanning and enforcing sound principles of con-
slitutional and municipal law-says, in
similar letter to the New Hampshire people:


Most assuredly, do at this time deeply
and cordially svnpathise with the Demo-
cracy in their efforts to maintain the Consti-
tuition to preserve the rights of free speech,
the liberty of the press, persons freedom
from arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, and
the supremacy of the civil law in all places
not occupied by the forces of the Union for
the prosecution of the war. Legitimate
i,1 L. or in nj nar
there is not only no war, but no troops for
the prosecution of the war. What is so
called, and is attempted to be enforced as
martial law" in such places. is merely the
exercise of arbitrary power, without any war
rant of law whatever. 1 trust that the dis
tinction will yet be fully drawn between
those places where war actually exists, and
over which it is admitted that the laws of
force, duly exercised for the purposes of
the war, must prevail and those places where
there are not armed forces for the purpose
of active participation in the war, and in
which, th herefore, all the constitutional guar
antees of personal liberty ard private right
are not only in legal existence, as in time of
profound peace, but are, or should be, Sc
cured and enforced by the judicial tribunals.
1t is high time that the miserable sophistry
of the solicitor of the War Department,





ton for the security of life, liberty and pro-
perty, freedom of speech and of the press are
'notIapplicable to a state of war; and that by
SOM Preserved and hitherto unused power
contained in the Constitution" the govern
ment may, in time of war, be turned into
most absolute military despotism, should be
exposed to the scorn, inclination and con-
tempt, which such doctrines richly merit.


The objects of your NJ eeting as set forth
in your circular, must commend themselves
to all true patriots. At time when the
party in power are attempting to maintain
as constitutional doctrines which are sub
versive of all constitutional law and all per-
sonal freedom, it is most especially proper
that the Democracy of New Hampsh ire
should meet in convention "to revive the
glorious memories of the past-to repeat the
vows to which the fathers on the 4th of j uly,
1776, pledged their lives, their fortunes, and
their sacred honor-to renew the expression
of their unwavering devotion to the Consti-
tuition and the Union"


There is but one place for men like these,
who are devoted to the Union, the Constitu-
ton and the Enforcement of the Laws.