TO THE PUBLIC. IN consequence of the great demand for the numbers of the RECORD containing the articles enumerated in the index, the supply was soon exhausted. As the papers are still called for, the publication of this pamphlet is intended to obviate the difficulty. It can be had of all newsdealers throughout the country CONTENTS. PAGE The United States Converted into a Military Despotism. Can a Disunion Administration Restore the Union?. ARTICLES TROM THE METROPOLITAN RECORD. THE UNITED STATES CONVERTED INTO A MILI-. TARY DESPOTISM. THE CONSCRIPTION ACT THE LAST DEADLY BLOW AIMED AT POPULAR LIBERTY. (From the METROPOLITAN RECORD, March 14, 1863.) THE Congress which has so fatally misrepresented the Republic during the last two years has at length adjourned. It expired on the 4th instant, leaving behind it a memory that time can never efface, and fastening indelibly upon the history of the nation the blackest record the world has ever seen. It found the United States a free country, and it has left it a land of slaves. It was elected to do the behests of the people, and it has converted our servants into our masters, and our President into an autocrat, with power as great over the liberties of the people as that which the Czar of all the Russias possesses over his subjects. All this it has done, and more. It has rendered a union of fraternity an impossibility; it has again and again passed enactments violating the supreme law of the land; it has persistently refused to permit any inquiry to be made into the arbitrary arrests of loyal citizens; it has broken down State limits, and admitted bogus members as representatives who pretend to have been constitutionally elected, and in its last measure, the Conscription Act, it has put the liberties of the people in the hands of a man whose presidential career has proved that he never wanted the will to become the arbitrary master of this so-called Republic. With a persistence that the dread crisis through which the nation is passing could not affect nor alter, it has |