Year: 1861

Such extreme tenderness OF the citizen 8
liberty, lba! practically it relieves more
Of the guilty than Of the innocent. should
to very Limited extent be viol4ted. To
state the question more directly:


Are all the laws but one to 60 nnexe.
cuted and the government ilsell 20 10 pie
ces lest that one be vindicated? EYeu in
such case. would not the official oath
be broken, if the government should
be overthrow. when il was believed iha,
disregarding The single law would t. nd 10
preserve it? But il was not believed that
this question was presented. 1t MAS not
believed tllst any law was violated.


The provision Of tho Constitution that
tie privilege oi the Habeas Corpus shall
not be suspended, unless when 10 cases Of
rebellion or invasion, the public safety
may require it, is equivalent 10 proyis.
ion that such privilege may be suspend.
ed when in cases Of rebellion or invasCn
the public safety does require it. 1t was
decided that We have case of rebellion,
and that the public safety does require
the qualified suspension Of the privilege
of the writ which was authorized 10 be
made.


Next il is insisted tina. Congress, and
not tls Executive, is vested With the p W.
er. But the Constitution issell is silent
as TO which or who is to exercise the pow.
er, and as the provision was plainly male
for dangerous emerger cy, it cannot be
believed the trainers of tue instrument
intended that in every case, the danger
should run its cOurse until Congress could
he called together. the very reassembling
of which might be prevented, as was in
tended in this case by the rebellion.


No more extended argument is now
offered, as an opinion at some length will
probably be presented by the AItorny
General, whether there shall be any leg
islation upon the subject, and if any, what
IS submitted entirely to the better iudg.
ment Of Congress


Tue forbearuce Of this Government had
been so extraordinary and so long con.
:inued as 10 lead some foreign nalions to
shape their action as If they supposed the
early destruction of our National Union
was probable. While this, on discovery
gave the Executive some concern, he is
now happy 10 say that the sovereignty
and rights OF the United States, are now
everywhere practically respected by for
eigp powers, and general sympathy
with the country IS manifested through.
out the world.


The reports Of the Secretaries oi the
Treasury, War and the Navy. will give
the information in detail deemed necrs.
sary and convenient for your dcIiberaliou
and acton. while the executive aud al
the departments, will stand ready to sup
ply omissions, or TO communicate new
facts considered important for you tt
know


1t is now recommended that you give
the legal mesns for making this combat q
short and decisive one; that you will
place at the control of the government
for the work at Ieas, four hundred thou.
sand men and fur hundred millions OF
dollars. That number of men is about
one tenth of those of proper ages within
the regions where apparently all are will
ling 10 engage, and the sum is less than
twenty-third part Of the money value
owned by the men who seem ready to de-
vote the whole.


A debt Of six hundred millions Of dol.
lars now is a less sum per head than was
the debt OF our Revolution when we came
out Of that struggle, and the money val.
ue in the country now bears even agrea:
er proportion to what it was then than
does the population. Surely, each man
has as strong motive now to preserve
our liberties as each had then 10 esiab-
lish them.


A right fesult at this time will be worth
more to The world than len times the men
and ten times the money? The evidence
reaching US from the country, leaves no
doubt that the material for the work is
abundant, and that it leeds only the
hand of Legislation to give it legal sane
ton. and the hand Of the Executive 70
give it practical shape and efficiency.


One of The creates. perplexities of the
Government is to avoid receiving troops
faster than provided for; that, in a word,
the people will save their governm ent, if
the government itself will do its part
only ndiaerently We'll. Ituight seem at
FIRST thcGght to be Of little difference
whether the present movement at the
south be called secession or rebellion
The movers. however. well understood
the difference at the beginning, They
knew they could never raise their trca'
son to any respectable magnitude by any
name which implies violation law.


They knew their people possessed a.
much moral sense, as much Of devotion
to law and order, aud as much pride apc
reverence for the history and governmen
of their common country, as any otbe
civilized aud patriotic people. The,
knew they could make no advancement
directly IN the teeth OF these strong an,
noble sentiments Accordingly they com
menced by an insidious debauching Of TIL
public mind.


They invented an ingenious sophisn
which if conceded, was followed by per
fectly logical steps, through all the in
cidents to the complete destruction Of th
Union. The sophism itself is that an!
State Of the Union may consistently will
the National Constitution, and therefor
lawfully and peacefully withdraw from tn
Union without the consent Of the Uuion
or Of any other State.


The little disguise that the suppose
right is to be exercised only for jul
cause. because they themselves are To