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"The once venerable Constitution HAS EXPIRED BY DISSOLUTION in the hands of those wicked men who were sworn to protect it. Its spirit, with the precious souls of its first founders, has filed forever. Its remains, with theirs, rest in the silent tomb! At your hands, therefore, we demand deliverance. New England is unanimous, and we announce our irrevocable decree, that the tyrannical oppression of those who at present usurp the powers of the Constitution is beyond endurance!-Address to Hartford Convention, 1815.

"My plan is to withhold our money and make a separate peace with England."-Boston Daily Advertiser, 1814.

OPPOSING THE "GOVERNMENT," ETC.

"On or before the 4th of July, if James Madison is not out of office, a new form of government will be in operation in the Eastern section of the Union, instantly after, the contest in many of the states will be, whether to adhere to the old, or join the new government! Like everything else, which was foretold years ago, and which is verified every day, this will also be vilified as visionary. Be it so. But, Mr. Madison cannot complete his term of service if the war continues! It is not possible! and if he knew human nature, he would see it. Federal Republican, Nov. 7, 1814.

"It is a time of day that requires cautious jealousy; not jealousy of your magistrates, for you have given them your confidence. * * Cursed be he that keepth back his sword from blood. Let him that hath none, sell his coat and buy "-Sermon "of Rev. Dr. Parish, of Boston, July 4,

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"The voice of lamentation and war, heard all over the country, from homes and firesides made desolate by the slaughter of fathers, and husbands, and brothers, is sweet music to the ears of the President and his friends, and they seem ambitious to swell the chorus by increasing the victims. We rejoice to see a large and respectable number of Whig papers in this and other states taking ground against further appropriations by &ongress of men and money for the Mexican cut throating business. This is as it should be."-Warren (0.) Chrinicle, 1847.

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"If there is is in the United States a breast worthy of American liberty, its impulses to join the Mexicans, and hurl down upon the base, slavish, mercenary mercenary invaders, invaders, who, born in a Republic, go to play over the accursed game of the Hessians on the tops of those Mexican volcanoes, it would be a sad and woful joy, nevertheless to hear that the hordes under Scott and Taylor were every man of them swept into the next world! What business has an invading army in this?". Boston Daily Chronotype, 1847.

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OPPO SING THE "GOVERNMENT, Resolution adopted by the Essex County (Mass.) Anti Slavery Society May 16, 1862.

"Resolved, That the war as hitherto, prosecuted, is but a wanton waste of property, a dreadful sacrifice of life, and worse than all, of conscience and of character, to *preserve and perpetuate a Union and Constitution which should never have existed, and which, by all the laws of justice and humanity, should in their present form, be at once and forever overthrown."

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the mandates of despotism, or here we must remain slaves forever."-p. 13. April 7, 1814.

"Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall write, print, utter, or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly or willingly aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the Government (the party in power) of the United States, or either House of the Congress of the United States, or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said Government, or either House of the Congress, or the said President, &c." Sedition Law, July 17, 1798.

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"It is our opinion, as our readers well know, that no man of foreign birth should be admitted to the exercise of the political rights of an American citizen.”—Albany Daily Advertiser.

"We could not find any other remedy against the threatening danger, than a repeal of all uaturalization laws."-Col. Webb, of New York.

"All naturalization laws should be instantly repealed, and the term preceding the enjoyment of civil rights extended twenty-five years."-Mr. Clark, Whig Mayor of New York.

ed expressions of disloyal and incendiary sentiments, the publishing of the newspaper known as the Chicago Times is hereby suppressed. Burnside's Order No. 84, June 1,

1862.

"That any order of the President, or under his authority, made at any time during the existence of the pres

ent rebellion, shall be a defense in all courts to any action or prosecution, civil or criminal," &c.-Extract from act suspending Habeas Corpus, March, 1863.

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We might proceed almost ad infinitum, but | have agreed, voted, acted and thought alike. the above must suffice Our only object is to The above does not exhibit the strongest family link together the principles of fraternism in resemblance-that feature, in all its various a single group, between the old Federals and tints and hues, will be found scattered throughtheir progeny, so that the reader might see at out this entire work. Let no Republican say a glance how well the three great parties, or he was not sired by a Federal. We have traced rather the one party, with three great names, his geneology too clearly to admit of doubt.

REPUBLICAN PREACHING VS. PRACTICE.

Senator Doolittle vs. Political Doolittle.

are expressly reserved to the States-the days of this Republic are already passed-the days of the Empire have begun, and we are prepar

the history of the decline and fall of the Empire of Rome. [You were right, Mr. D.]

On the 2d day of May, 1862, Senator Doo-ing to re-enact, on perhaps a grander scale, LITTLE made a speech in the Senate of the United States, in which he maintained that there was ample power under the Constitution for every emergency in war:

LOOK ON THIS PICTURE.

"Sir, I repeat, that never before, in this body, nor in any legislative body the sun ever shone upon, were there graver questions raised than these. And yet, under all this responsibility, there are gentlemen who, in their eagerness to press this measure to a vote, smile at constitutional scruples and responsibilities. Sir, I am not one of those; I confess that I can concur fully in the language of my colleague, and say when I am pressed to act upon questions involving these great responsibilities, that I do so with a fear and apprehension-not the fear of any man here or elsewhere-for I know no man master on earth, but the fear that in the presence of that God, before whom I have taken an oath to support the Constitution, I may be pressed, under the excitement of the moment, when passion rules the hour, to trample it under my feet.

"Mr. President, we are in arms to-day. We are at war. For what? It is for this very Constitution to maintain, protect and defend its supremacy in every state, everywhere, from Maine to Texas. To maintain that supremacy we send our sons to the battle field-we stake all we have and all we are, and I should regard myself wanting in manhood, as cowardly, shrinking from the performance of my duty, if, while my sons and my countrymen are in the field, fighting the enemy, meeting danger and death in every form, I should not stand here in the defense of the Constitution, by every power God has given me-let it be assailed from what quarter it may. The only fear I have is, that I may not defend it as I should.

"Mr. president, that constitution, let me say, is just as supreme in reserving powers say, is just as supreme in reserving powers from this government, as it is in granting powers to it. Just as supreme in withholding as in conferring power. If this government, or any branch of it-if Congress or the Executive, or the Supreme Court shall undertake to overturn its provisions, and to trample under their feet the rights reserved to the States and the people by it, it is just as much an attempt at revolution and rebellion as when the men in

the insurrectionary states undertake to trample under their feet the powers which by it are given to this government. "Either is REVOLUTION! And if either succeeds. it is an end to Our whole system of republican government!! If the doctrine shall once prevail, and be acquiesced in by the government, and the people of of the United States, that the constitution can be overborne ; that this Federal Government can usurp powers which are not delegated, but

"The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states and especially the rights of each state, to order and control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends."-[From the Chicago Platform.

"Without that they cease to be states at all, [Mr. D. did not think then, perhaps, how soon he would be forced into the "state suicide" doctrine] and the Federal Government becomes one vast, consolidated empire. This was as true in the beginning as it was in 1860, when we made it the pledge upon which we came into power, and it will be true, forever, whether men in the heat and passion of this hour shall heed it, or trample it under their feet.

"This Constitution of ours gives to us all the powers which are necessary to meet even the exigencies of civil war. It is just as perfect in this as in any other respect. [For claiming this, Democrats have been called "Copperheads."] It meets all the necessities of our situation, whether of war, insurrection or peace. The idea that at any time-for one single hour-this Constitution, because civil war exists, is dissolved, or gives way to martial law, as to somethiug higher, and above itself, at the discretion or caprice of the President or Congress, or both together, is a heresy as fatal to free Government, and as full of evil as the whisperings of Satan to Eve in the Garden of Eden. No, sir, no! The Constitution is just as much above mortial law as it is above civil law. From it alone are derived all the powers of the Government, and under it alone can they be exercised."

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in the time of war to do WHAT HE DEEMS FIT AND PROPER. He alluded to the revoking order. Probably the President thinks the time has not yet come when Chicago shall be put under martial law. But if any newspaper opposes the enforcing of the conscription law, or any other order the President thinks proper to give, that paper will be suppressed, and if need be, martial law proclaimed. We desire, if possible, to have the loyal people of the North united as one man, and we must have it practically so, or it is of no avail. He regretted that there were still two political parties_ [suppression is a good way to get rid of one]-there should be but one, and that one united with a determination to put down the rebellion, but as it is, the President must control all men of all parties, and those that oppose the administration must suffer the consequences. If the time comes. and it becomes necessary, Mr. LINCOLN will declare martial law, even in Chicago."

tion, and thus prevent all enquiry. This was carried by a strict party vote, 85 to 46.

PROFESSIONS OF EQUAL RIGHTS TO THE NEGRO IGNORED IN PRACTICE.

Several years ago the Republicans of Wisconsin passed a law, in pursuance to the Constitution, submitting the question to the people whether the negroes should vote, and notwithstanding the professions of that party to be in favor of the move, and their having 12,000 majority, the negro was voted down by 27,000 majority.

In Illinois the disparity between profession and practice is vastly greater. In 1862 that State voted on a new constitution, two clauses of which related to the negro-one to exclude him from all privileges in the State, to prohibit him from being on Illinois soil. Below is the vote in several intensely negroized counties:

Now, let the reader judge of Political DooLITTLE's "heresy," by Senator DOOLITTLE's declaration, above, as to martial law being "fatal to free government." We confess we are naturally too nervous to comment further upon such whiffling inconsistencies. They are degrading to the high character of an Ameri- Cook ... can Senator.

PRESIDENT LINCOLN VS. POLITICIAN LINCOLN.

Look on this Picture.

"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.-President Lincoln in his Inaugural.

Then on This.

"I order and declare that all persons held as slaves in the said designated states and parts of states, are, and hereafter shall be free.Politician Lincoln in the Emancipation Proclamation.

Counties. McHenry Boone

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Henderson.... LaSalle..... Coles...

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While the Republicans had the vote to defeat the constitution, they voted down the negro, by adopting all the articles against him, some of which by over 100,000 majority.

PRACTICE VS. PREACHING.

Just before the election in Wisconsin, November, 1863, the Sentinel, a Jacobin journal printed in Milwaukee, declared that “he who votes must fight."

Fortunately an opportunity occurred to test the sincerity of this vociferously patriotic organ. One of its editors was drafted, and in the next issue of the paper appeared the follow

The Republicans have always professed to be for law and order, and Mr. LINCOLN in his VALLANDIGHAM and Springfield correspond-ing: ence, scouted the idea that he intended to violate law and the Constitution. This was the profession. What of the practice.

In defiance of law a military Governor was appointed for the District of Columbia, which by the very terms of the Constitution, was to be forever under the exclusive control of Con

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"While Mr. L., (the editor) would make a tip-top soldier, he is too valuable to be spared for that occupation just now."

This is a specimen of a large class. Mr. TILDEN, of the N. Y. Independent, who had been vociferously abusing the "Copperheads" for not going to the war, was among those who drew a "prize" from the wheel of fortune, but instead of following his own precepts, he proved the value of his patriotism to be just $300, under the pressure of a dire "neces

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For years the Abolition politicians have been rocking the cradle of liberty, and singing the lullaby of freedom, and the idea of buying and selling "human 'flesh" as "chattels" most terribly shocking to them. The following, from a publication during the summer of 1863, will speak for itself. The matter was hushed up, because Gen. CURTIS was a political General, but "when this cruel war is over" many facts blacker than the following will appear in the great record book of recorded facts:

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"Q. After these fifteen negroes were put ashore, did any other negroes come back with you as deck hands iu the service of the boat?

"A. No sir. These negroes were taken on an expedition to the same place some weeks before from the same plantation. "Q. Under whose charge was that expedition? "A. Col. Hovey.

It would crowd the dimensions of our volume to unreasonable proportions to continue this chapter to the full; we must therefore close it, to make room for more important

"A commission is now in session at the west with Maj. Gen. McDowell at its head, investigating the conduct of Maj. Gen. Curtis and other Republican officials, in conducting their mil-matter. itary operations so as to secure the largest amount of cotton possible for their own private benefit. One of the richest revelations made is in reference to the trading off of negroes for cotton! The specification alleges that negro slaves had been taken from the plantations upon the pretense of giving them freedom under the President's "emancipation edict," and thus used as a substitute for coin. It has been fully The proven before the investigating court. officer charged with this lucrative speculation was Col. Hovey of Illinois, formerly the principal of the State Normal School at Bloomington. The following is the testimony upon the subject.

"Brice Suffield being called and sworn, testified as follows:

"Q. State whether you ever made an expedition for cotton on the steamer Iatan, in September, 1862, and if so, state what occurred at that time?

"A. I did. Our company, commanded by Capt. Twining, was ordered out from a camp near Helena, to go down on the steamer Iatan. The captain of the boat told us the intention was to take us down to get some wood for fuel. We landed on the Mississippi side of the river, opposite the cut-off-White river. There was aboard the boat one Brown, an overseer of Col. McGee's plantation; he was on the boat when we went aboard. After the boat was tied up, Brown went ashore; this was after dark. Some of our company, supposing him to be a rebel soldier. asked him where he got his clothes. He told them he got

them in the Mexican war. He went to the captain of the Loat and told him it was all right-that the cotton would

be in, in the course of a few hours. In due time Crown returned, bringing with him twenty-six bales of cotton. After the cotton was delivered, the boatmen, by order of the captain, put on shore fifteen nogroes that had been used as boat hands.

"After getting them on shore, they tied them,'after considerable struggling on the part of the negroes. In the tying operation one of the negroes escaped. After they were tied, Brown took them away. I was on picket post, and Brown, with the negroes, stopped at the post and bid me good evening, and then went on, Some time after taking the negroes away, Brown came back and went aboard the boat and stayed till daylight. A member, of my company (don't recollect his name) told me he saw Capt. Weaver pay Brown some money-we supposed for

the cotton.

"Q. What part did Capt. Twining or soldiers present take in the transaction of putting off the negroes?

"A. Merely acting under orders. They put us out on shore to guard against surprise. We guarded the boat.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

HAVE WE A MILITARY DESPOTISM? General Remarks... Educating the Army to the New Role ...Adjutant General Thomas Preaching Politics to the Soldiers...Punishes Soldiers for Political Opinions... How the Soldiers View it...Anti-Copperhead Letters and Resolves from the Army... How Manufactured...General Remarks...General Halleck on "Crushing the Sneaking Traitors of the North"...Seward, Chase, Blair, &c., at the Cooper Institute Meeting...Case of Lieut. Edgerly... Abolitionism a Test of a Soldier's Duty...The Conscription Act intended to Ignore the Constitution..." Boston Commonwealth" Admits that the Administration Employed Bayonets to Carry Elections... Difference between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy...Atrocious Sentiments of Senator Wilson...A Leaf from French History... A Fact by Sallust...Gov. Seymour on the Rotten-Borough System His Message of Jan. 5, 1864...A Flexible Platform... Henry Clay's Opinion... Free Speech Abolished... Senator Howe on... Petty Despotism...Arrests for Wearing Badges ...Several Instances in Point... The Evidences of Approaching Despotism...A Link from "New York Tribune"...To Doubt the Infallibility of the President is "Treason"...Declaration of Independence Revised, &c.

HAVE WE NOT A MILITARY DESPOTISM?

That we have not only a military despotism, but the worst species known to civilized nations, is a fact that will not only soon be generally known, but universally felt, unless a swift and radical change takes place in the aims and policy of the Administration. We say this in no spirit of controversy, nor do we utter it with factious feelings or ulterior purposes; but, we declare it in unutterable grief founded on the "logic of events."

We see in the modes and measures of the Administration that silent, yet sure, tiger-like tread in the path so often pursued by the tyrants and despots of the Old World, that we cannot mistake their purpose. The ingenuity

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