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CHAPTER VII.

OPPOSITION TO THE MEXICAN WAR- LIKE
FATHER, LIKE SON-LIKE FEDERAL, LIKE
WHIG.

for a New Deal all Round...David Wilmot on Dissolution
...Wendell Phillips again...Lowell Republicans for Dis-
solution...Massachusetts Petitions for Dissolution...
James Watson Webb for using "Fire and Sword"...Bos-
ton Free Soilers, 1854... Charles Sumner bound to Diso-
bey law...The True American pronounees a Negro
"Worth all the Unions on God's Earth"-Another Mas-
sachusetts Petition for Dissolution...Dissolution Resolu-
tion by Anti-Slavery Society... Another from same

source...Disunion again in Massachusetts...From Red-

mund's Speech... Wendell Phillips labors nineteen years

to Break up the Union... Parker Pillsbury labored twen-

ty years to destroy the Union...Stephen Foster dissua-

ding young men from enlisting in this Unholy War, &c.

EFFORTS AT COMPROMISE-WHO RESPONSIBLE,

The Statement of Douglas...His last Letter...Senator
Pugh's Statement...Endorsed by Douglas...Chicago Tri-
bune wouldn't Yield an Inch...The Peace Congress...
Efforts of Republicans to Hush it Up...Senator Chand-
er's "Blood-letting" Epistle, &c.

Disunion began in the North...Admission by Wendell

Phillips... The War brought on by the North as a Means
to an End...The Kansas Imbroglio... Stimulated by the

Radicals to Aid Secession and Disunion-Helper's "Im-

pending Crisis" as a Means to hasten Dissolution...Mr.

Seward Endorses its "Logical Analogies
Logical Analogies "-Treasona-
ble Kansas War Meeting in Buffalo-Gerrit Smith and
Gov. Reeder Stimulate the "Cause "...Beecher on Shoot-
ing at Men... Charles Sumner admits the Northern Con-
spiracy.

The Radicals conspire to overthrow the Government long

before the Rebellion of 1861...DOUGLAS' testimony on
this point...JOHN BROWN Raid originated in Kansas..
Col. Jamison's testimony...Col. F. P. Blair on the cause
of the war... Abolitionists and Secessionists united...Mr.
Seward's testimony...Parson Brownlow on the designs
of the Abolitionists...Thurlow Weed on the "Chief Ar-
chitects' of the Rebellion... Aboliiionists of New York
Invite Southern Secessionists to join them...Massachu-
setts for Dissolution in 1851...Also in 1856...Ben. Wade
Declares there was no Union...Garrison's "Covenant with
Hell"...Republicans of Green County, Wis., Pledged to
"Revolutionize the Government"... Anson Burlingame

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CHAPTER XV.

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WISCONSIN NULLIFICATION AND SECESSION.

The Four Shocks of Secession: 1st, New England; 2d,
South Carolina; 3d, Wisconsin; 4th, The Confederate

States... Wisconsin Bids "Positive Defiance" to the

General Government...Constitutional Provisions Rela-

tive to Judicial Dicisions... A Premeditated Conspiracy

to take Wisconsin Out of the Union...Complete Chrono-

logical History of the Booth Case, and Judicial Action

thereon... The Federal Supreme Court declare that Wis-

consin was the First to Set Up the Supremacy of the

State over the Federal Court...Republicans Break Open

Arsenal, and Seize Arms to Defy the Power of the

Government...Judge Paine's "Eloquent Extract "...Op-

position to Law Placed Judge P. on the Bench...The

Rescue Leaguers...Republican Meeting to Denounce

Law...Judge Crawford Opposed solely because he felt

Bound by the Decision of the Federal Court... The Con-

stitution Quoted...Lloyd Garrison declares Fugitive Law

Constitutional, but Defies It..." Milwaukee Sentinel”

on Habeas Corpus and Jury Trial for Negroes...Opposi-

tion to the General Government a Political Test...The

"Wisconsin State Journal" on said Test... Various Re-

publican Papers on the Test...Judge Smith's Opinion...

No Precedent to Sustain It... What Senator Howe said...

Judge Smith Scouts the Consequences of His Own Acts

...The Seyen Points as Proof...The "State Journal"

declares "Dissolution no Misfortune "...Republicans

Resolve to "Revolutionize the Government "... Repub-

lican Papers for Dissolution...To Sustain the Decision of

the Federal Court declared a Crime...Republicans claim

that Judge Paine was elected expressly to Defy the Fed-

eral Court...Disunionists in Mass Convention...General

Government again Defied...Republicans endorse South-

ern Nullification... Wisconsin Legislature "Positively

Defies" the Federal Government...Substitute to Sustain

the Government Voted Down...Doolittle's Views...North-

ern Nullification a Twin of Southern Nullification...

Wisconsin endorses South Carolina and South Carolina

endorses Wisconsin.

Threats to Force Mr. Lincoln to Issue the Proclamation....

From "New York Independent"..." Chicago Tribune "

Against the "Union as It Was"; also, its Threat to

use Bayonets in Defiance of the People... The Radical

Conspiracy of 1862...Disclosures of the Round-Head

Plot...Suggestions of the "Boston Courier"; also, from

an Albany Paper... The "St. Louis Anzeiger" Reveals

the Plot...The "N. Y. Observer" Gives a Clue to It...

Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, on "Machinations of Home

Governments," &c......" Legalized Treason ".....From

"Boston Courier"...The Second Hartford Convention

Toasted...Chas, Sumner Teaches Revolution...Mr. Sew-

ard Boasts of More Despotic Power than the Queen of

England dare Exercise... Thad. Stevens declares the Con-

stitution an "Absurdity "...Republicans Cheering for

Dissolution.....Republicans for "Extermination and

Damnation"...The "Boston Commonwealth" Denoun-

ces Restoration a Crime... The "South Not Worth a

Copper"..." Boston Commonwealth" Curses the "Union

as It Was "...Bingham Don't Want the Cotton States...

The Constitution Committed to the Flames by Garrison

Senator Henkle and Vallandigham...Destruction of the

Constitution a Test of Loyalty...God and the Negro...

Beecher Declares that the Negro is our "Forlorn Hope"

Republican Bloodthirstiness...Jim Lane would send all

the White Men to "Hell" Chicago Tribune" Down

on the "Union as It Was "...Amalgamation and Negro

Equality...Fred. Douglas and White Women...Wendell

Phillips Thanks God for Defeat..."N. Y. Tribune" De-

fies the National Government-Ben. Wade on Dissolu-

tion...The Seceding States follow Ben.'s Advice...C.

M. Clay "Spots the Union as It Was "...Beecher Ridi-

cules the "Sheepskin Parchment"...Daniel Webster

on the "Grasp of Executive Power". "Democrats

Must Not Clamor for the Union as It Was "...Moulding

Public Opinion... Mr. Lincoln in 1854... Mr. Seward and

Violence... Mr. Seward on the "Last Stage of Conflict"

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DISLOYALTY AND "TREASON" OF THE RADICALS.

How the Radicals "Opposed the Government" before the

Proclamation... Parker Pilisbury... "New York Times''

Before and After the Election..."New York Post" "Op-

poses the Government"... "New York Times" Again...

"Chicago Tribune" Denounces the President... Wiscon-

sin Home League on "Imbecility and Cowardice"...Pre-

dictions of "New York Tribune"...Democratic Predict-

ions...Gov. Stone admits this an "Abolition War"...A

Short Tack after the Gale of 1862..."New York Tribune"

... More Prophesies by False Prophets... Wendell Phillips

as a Prophet... "New York Post" as a Prophet... "Nation-

al Intelligencer" a True Prophet...Gov. Andrew's Proph-

esies... "New York Tribune's" Prophesies... The "900,-

000," &c... Remarks of "National Intelligencer" on

Same...The Proclamation in a Nut Shell... Belief in the

Proclamation & Test of Loyalty...Forney Thereon... Sen-

ator Wilson's Address..."Disloyalty" of "Janesville,

(Wis.) Gazette"..."Waukesha, (Wis.) Freeman"..."New

York Tribune" on "Blunders"... Wendell Phillips on the

"Lickspittle Administration"... "Milwaukee Sentinel"

Disloyal to the "Government"... "Slate Journal" Ditto

...Phillips Again...Beecher on the "Government"....Tes-

timony of Senator Browning..."Milwaukee Wisconsin"

Throws a Javelin at Seward..."Chicago Tribune" Cor-

rects Old Abe... "New York Independent" on the Ad-

ministration... "New York Times" Scores the "Govern-

ment"... "Chicago Tribune" Ditto... "Milwaukee Senti-

nel" Ditto...."Buffalo Express" Ditto..." Pittsburgh

Chronicle" Ditto...."Anti-Slavery Standard' Ditto...

"New York Post" on "Mistakes," &c...The Loyal Sia-

mese Twins..."New York Tribune" on "Cabbage Head"

Halleck.

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The Confiscation Scheme...The Constitution Ignored...
Testimony of Senator Covan... Political Extremes Com

pared...Postmaster General Blair on Secessionists and
Abolitionists... Comments of "National Intelligencer "
...Senator Doolittle on Colonization and Emancipation...
The Three "Solutions": Of Calhoun, John Brown,
(the same as Radicals), and Jefferson...Doolittle on Con-
fiscation... Also, on Same and Abolition Denunciations of
the "Government"...A Republican Journal on Senator
Doolittle.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

INDIRECT MODE TO VIOLATE AND NULLIFY LAWS.

The Personal Liberty Bills of the Various States... Sundry
Provisions to Nullify the Fugitive Law...A Radical Or-
gan admits the Purpose...Schemes of the Plotters ex-
posed.

CHAPTER XXIX.

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glish Bill

from King John... Lord Campbell's Boast..
of Rights..." Body of Liberties" Brough:: the May-
flower...The Bill in the Declaration... Virgia Bill of
Rights...Massachusetts' "Declaration of Rights" in
1780...From Bill of Rights in Our Constitution...General
Remarks on Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus....
Law of Suspected Persons... A Leaf from French History,
by Allison...Our Parallels... Thiers on French Confisca-
tion...Danton's Prediction...General Remarks...Black-
stone on the English Habeas Corpus...Our Constitution
Applied...The Ordinance of 1787 Applicable... What Our
Fathers Tnought of it... Pinckney, Rutledge, Morris and
Millson on the Habeas Corpus...Judge Curtis on "Loy-
alty and Habeas Corpus...A Scathing Speech... Mr...
Chase's Opinion of Loyalty... The Roman Law and Per-
sonal Liberty...St. Paul on Arbitrary Violations of Law
Judge Festus and King Agrippa Respected the Roman
Law..." New York Independent on Arbitrary Arrests
...What a Conservative Republican Thinks of it... Prosi-
dent's Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus: His
Proclamation... Congress on Arbitrary Arrests...Official
Vote...Supreme Court of Wisconsin on Suspending the

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John Adams 8 Monarchist... What the Early Fathers
thought of the Vallandigham Case...Great Speech of
Edward Livingston on the Alien Bill, 1798...Terrible
Scathing of Assumptions of Arbitrary Power... Who
was Edward Livingston ?...Republican Confessions of
Gross Abuses of Arbitrary Power...Case of Messrs.
Brinsmade and Mahoney...Damaging Admissions by
"Milwaukee Sentinel "...General Remarks thereon.

CHAPTER XXXI.

DESPOTISM, USURPATIONS, INALIENABLE RIGHTS
TRAMPLED UPON, Etc.

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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 Re-
solves 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 Conscrip-
tion Act intended to Ignore the Constitution..." Boston
Commonwealth" Admits that the Administration Em-
ployed 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 Flatform...

Henry Clay's Opinion... Free Speech Abolished...Senator
Howe on...Petty Despotism... Arrests for Wearing Badges

...Several Instances in Point...The Evidences of Ap-

proaching Despotism...A Link from "New York Tri-

bune"...To Doubt the Infallibility of the President is

"Treason"...Declaration of Independence Revised, &c.

CHAPTER XXXV.

SYMPATHY BETWEEN RADICALS AND REBELS-
THE DRAFT, &C.

The Rebels Hate the Democracy and Sympathize with the
Radicals...General Remarks...Benjamin's Speech in 1860
...Breckinridge Seceshers Toasted with Office, &c... Rich-
mond Examiner on Vallandigham, Cox, &c... Mobile
Register on Democrats and Abolitionists....The Draft vs.
Volunteering....Volunteering a Success....Wilson's and
Fessenden's Admissions....Thad Stevens on "Alarming
Expenses"....Too many Troops to pay, but none to Spare
McClellan....General Remarks, &c....The number of Men
called for....Cameron's Eulogy on Volunteering....Cost of
Conscription....Opinions of the Republican Press on the
Draft....Albany Statesman....The Draft in Rhode Island
...A candid Statement by a Republican paper....The
Conscription in Massachusetts....A mysterious Draft in
New York....Result of Draft in ninth District of Massa-
chusetts and eighth District of New York....Thurlow
Weed on "Sneaks"....Drafting in the time of the Revo-
lution....Remarks Thereon.

Poetical applications...General Remarks on... Scions of the

old Puritanical stock...New York Custom House Frauds

...Testimony and Facts...Conclusions of committee...

Van Wyck's speech on the Development of Astounding

Frauds...Collector Barney and his subs...John P. Hale

on corruptions of the Departments...Cattle contracts...

Cummings' Agency...Charter of the Cataline...General

Mania for stealing...Horse contracts...Contract Broker-

age...Treasury Department Frauds...Fire Arms Frauds
...George D. Morgan's Operations...Army Transporta-
tion...Mr. Dawes on Frauds... A Refreshing Expose...A
New York Paper on Van Wyck's Report... The "Re-
cord of Infamy" by the Ohio State Journal...
Members of Congress take a hand in... Simmons, of Rhode
Island, takes $50,000...Jack Hale takes a "fee"...The
Horse Swindle...Frauds in the Navy Yard...The Book
Swindle...The Grimes Committee... Frauds, Rascality,
and Perjury...The Vessel Charter Frauds... The Com-
mittee's Conclusions...The Mileage Steal... Stupendous
Frauds in New York... Swindling at Cairo...A Defaul-
ter Caught...General Wilcox on Contractors...Mr.
Dawes on Larcenies... Millions upon Millions Wasted...
Beauties of Republican Retrenchment...Fremont's Frauds
...Marshal Laman Mr. Lincoln's Right Bower... Honest
Old Abe and Simon help their Friends... Mrs. Grimsley, the
President's Sister-in-law, figures in Fraud Investigations
...Letters from Old Abe'and Cameron to Major McKinstry
...Congress Censures...that's all... The Holt and Owen In-
vestigation...The Splendor of Fremont's operations...
Frauds! Frauds!! Frauds!!! on every hand...General Re-
marks...Holy Ministers and Stolen Pictures... Swindling
the Soldiers... Hundreds of Millions Swindled... We are all
Mortgaged...Our National Debt... The Means to pay it....
General Remarks...The Currency Question...Stand from
Under...General Remarks on Republican Thieves and
Plunderers.

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