Year: 1863

ministration in suspending the writ of habeas
corpus, the arrest of citizens not subject to
military law without warrant or authority
transporting them to distant States-impris-
oning them without charge or accusation
denying them the right of trial by jury, o
witnesses in their favor, and counsel for theil
defence-withholding from them all knowl-
edge of their accusers, and the cause of theil
arrest--answering their petition for redress
by repeated injury and insult-prescribing in
many cases as a condition of their release
test oaths, arbitrary and illegal:


In the abridgement of freedom of speech
and of the press-in suppressng newspapers
by military force, and establishing censor.
ship wholly incompatible with the freedom
of thought and expression of opinion:


In the establishment of a system of espion-
age by secret police to invade the sacred
privacy of unsuspecting citizens:


In declaring martial law over States not in
rebellion, and where the courts are open and
unobstrucLed for the punishment of crime:


In attempting to strike out of existence
the entire value of property in slaves through
out the country:


In the attempting OF enforcement OF com
pensated emancipation:


In the proposed taxation of the Laboring
White man to purchase the freedom of the
negro, and place his labor in competition with
so taxed white man:


In the dismemberment of the State OIL
Virginia. erecting within her boundaries q
new State without the consent of her Legis-
lature:


Are each and all arbitrary aud unconsti-
tutional. su subverting the Constitutions, State
and Federal, invading the reserved rights of
tn he people and the Sovereignty of the State;
and if sanctioned, destruction of the Union
establishing upon the common ruins of the
liberties of the people and the Sovereignty
of the States, consolidated military des-
potism:


And we hereby solemnly declare that nc
American citizen can, without the crime o.
infidelity to his country's constitutions, anG
the allegiance which he bears to each, sane
ton such usurpations. Believing that ou
silence will be criminal, and may be constru
ed into consent, in deep reverence for oul
Constitution, which has been ruthlessly vio-
lated, we do hereby enter our most solemn
protest against these usurpations Of power.


RESOLVED, That in connection with our fell
low-citizens of other States, we will use our
utmost Influence to prevent the payment o.
a single dollar of the money of Q people
unconstitutionally appropria ted for the un-
warranted Executive project of compensated
emancipation.


RESOLVED, That we sympathize with th'
soldiers who enlisted to sustain the Consti-
tuition and the Union. in the great depriva-
tious and hardships to which they have beer
subjected in sickness and in health; that We
demand in the name of justice and human
ity, that the great frauds which have de-
prived them of proper food, raiment, anc
care, shall be exposed, and the authors duly
punished, and we insist on their being
promptly paid for the services rendered.


Resolved, That the enormous plurder o
the public treasure by self-constituted pa
triots, which has been rife throughout the
country, demands the closest scrutiny; and
the severest punishment should follow a just
exposure.


ReSoFued, That as representatives of 6
large proportion of the people of Connecti-
cut, we demand the fullest public exposure
of the manner in which the vast sum Of fou'
millions of dollars, appropriated by our State
during the past two years, or any portion o
it, has been expended. with detail of the
objects for which the money has been used
and we protest against the extraordinary
and uncalled for appropriation by the las
extra session of our Legislature, of ten thou
sand dollars to the Governor of this State
to be used by him in secret. for any object h'
may see fit to expend it.