Daily Evansville Journal, Volume 15, Number 219, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 19 June 1863 — Page 1

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PICTURE GALLERY. SCHROEDER & LELICKE, wnOt.ESA.LX DEAIKKS rX Cigars, Smoking-, Chewing Tobacco, Snuff. Pipes, & c. 3No- GO Tvlxx &"t.m EVAKSVILLE, IND. Xehave now, aixl will keep, ou hand a complete nl well assorted stock ef CIGARS & TOBACCO, AND OFFER THE SAME TO THE PUBLIC LOW FOR CASH.. IHS-Sutlers 'U find it to their iuterest to call and examine ocr prices. We are enabled to sell to tbem as lw as any honw in the West. ortU-Uw SCllKliKIiEB LKMCKE. HARDWARE. jicob mm & si, "7-3 TCaIzi. Street, (Six doors below tbe Wellington House.) HAVE NOW ON HAND 60 Dozen Blood's C. S. Grass and Grain Scythes ; 50 Doz. M. & L. Waldrow's Grass Grain Seythes ; 10 Doz. Blood's Briar Scythes. 50 Doz. Hay Hakes ; 25 Gross Scythe Stones; 85 Doz. Hay and Manure Forks; 30 Doz. Shovels and Spades ; esc Tk n ji xuz. frames; 50 Doz. Snaths ;" 200 Kegs Kails ; . T 5 Cas1 s Trace and Log Chains ; Locks, Screws, Tack3 and Coffee Kills Spoons, Table & Pocket Cutlery : Piles, Saws, Curry. Jomhs and Brushes; , Serves, Carpenter and Coopers Tools, &c, &c. JACOB STEAT7B & SOU. apZ2-3rn BOILER MAKER. ""JOHN P. LAURENT, Boiler iVElS-oi, Corner of Pine and Water Streets, EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. T AM PREPARED TO MAKE ALL KINDS I ri... m RniWs. stationary or portable Ihavo errrv facility for doing good work that good ma- " i wj.rL-nk.fi ran irive. aud nil wprt rutrustvd to me will be made under my personal supervision wornmeu n tn anv nart of tne HIT ana couutry to do repairing. al'-J SPECTACLES. No. 67 Main Street, RESPECT KCLLT ANNOUNCES TO HIS friealsaud th public be has a utwly invented Pantoscopic Spectacles, on Bewly discovered principles, by which the nuS r.r th. Knectacles now in use i .miflwl audevcrv advantage secured .i . .ii. rn nossiblv aftord iu assisting tUe ,ight. In additiou to tuat l nave on nauu i Brazilian Pebble Spectacle, They are niaJe on a actentiCc rincirk. Pield Glasses for the Army, Superior to all others now in use. Marine Spyglasses, Compound and Simple microscopes, via. Hunting Glasses, opyclasses, Eye Glasses, fa Tortois S ell, Steel & Gold Frames, Kear Stshtcd and Cataract Spectacles .... a Bk Alt t.:ndn be bad of I. RITTENBLRG ou y. o. 67 Main Street, r. van.. " ' ! AUCTION & COMMIS'ION Old AnctionHonse andaNewAne tioneer. t i J. COHN, HAVING IWH1 in Auction Room on the corner of Main and .. r..n.ciiu. form term of years, will Ihird .;.. Ani-tinn and Commission business. . ....... . .11 vin). of Goods. Furniture, Wazous. Buieies, Carriage, Horse, tattle, an kinds of Manufactured Articles, Ac. .ila am inuir'iimstttJI. Prompt attention will be given to all goods rnsted to my care. imarj AUCTION AND COMMISSION. tt KELSON A CO., WOULD INFORM

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CHRISTIAN KBATS. WK. ntllHtX. KRATZ 8l HEILMAN, Oity Foundry, Manufacturers and Builders of Steam Engines and Boilers, Saw and Grist Mill Machinery, Tobacco Screws, Gumming Machines, Chinese sugar Cane Mills, THRESHING MACHINES, &c, EVANSVILLE, J D. rpHE PROPRIETORS OF THE CITY FOUNDJL ry beg leave to iuforni their friends and tbe public in general, that they are prepared to do all kiuds of Macnine & Finishing Work And everything appertaining to the Foundry business. They are manufacturing Steam Engines and Boilers of any sire and power required.. Saw 11 ill Machinery and Mill Gearing of any size; Distillery and Mining Machinery, Tobacco Screws, Gumming Much hies, Threshing Machines, Malt Mills, ilorseowpn, Cora Snellen, Machinery of all kinds made and repaired ; Irn and Lrass Castings of every description, Iron House Fronts, Cellar Grates, c. Cooking and Heating Stores of tbe latest improved patterns ; Hollow Ware, Dog Irons, ic. i Brewers, Distillers, Rectifiers, &c , npplietl with every description of Copper snl .sheet Iron Work, Brewing Kettles, Refrigerator., Attrmperators, Sparges, 8tillhcac and Worms on an improved principle, Columns for Alcohol Stills, Yeast Jugs, Caus, t-rpbons, Ac. ; Copper. Lead and Iron rij ; Copier, Brass and Iron pumps of every variety, for Beer, Spirits, Oil, Ac. Brass Corks and Valves, Steam Whistl -s, 4c. Wxrkmen sent to all parts to fit np work and do repairs ou Steam Boilers, Copper and Sheet Iron Work, Ac. Old Metals Bought. They are dealing is and selling Allen's improved Steam Gnage, Wrought Iron Welded Pipes and Tnlibing, 11 nam Hopkins' Improved Smut Machines, Stephen Hughes' Flour Separators, German Bolting Cloth, Gum Elastic Belting, Tacking, Hose, Ac, of the best kind ; Tiuplnte, Sheet Iron Block Tin, Fig Iron, Babit Metal, Spelter, Fire Bri.-k. . They have every facility of the best Machinery and workmen, and will give all work entrusted to thuni, their individual attentixn, filling orders promptly, warranting their work, and are satisfied with reasonable prices. -"Oitice nd Sale Booms, Fonndry ,Boiler-yard Machine Shop ou Pine street, between First and econd. streets, Evansville, Ind. docT BOOTS AND SHOES. CI T Y 600T iD SHOE ST6BL C02&B5 & GATOH Having re tad the Store Room recently occupied ry joun itasn, at Are now openining an entire New and Fresh Stock Of the 33 TH 3 "27 GOODS t i fimnd.' from medium to finest otiality Having purchased their goods for CASH, they I intend to sell for Cash As low as Any House Can Sell. They would respectfully solicit a call from all in want of a Pair of Good liotB aud Shoes. Evansville, My 18, 18G3. The Thorough. Bred Stallion B U O 3FL X , IX7ILL STAND THE ENSriXG SEASON AT V the Americau Stable, in the City of Evans ville. Terms: $20 to insure; eio iue season, uu Sin for single service. - Duforcl is a imra cay, uneeu uu c inches high. In form, action and endurance has no superior, anil has proven uirnseu an st-k num. The celebrated Mare prexeiitid rnnr Morton bv the 1st Indiana Cavalry, is a f 1,1. :..lt. Also, tbe vouue Stallion i; 1 1.. vm i rvknt ami sold for S0OO. and many T.adv Palmer, his half k.. il.. lw..t TROTTING TIME.ON RECORIt.'to double harnesi Breeders are invited to call and examine this Horse aud pedigree, and several of his Cits at the Anieric.n Sta .le p3 lilCHARDSON BRITTQN. A CO. STOVE WORKS. r. W. BBIttKXKTCB. A. niLBLISS sotjtheb.it stove woeks. BRINKMEYER a CO., Manufacturer uf Stoves, nollow Ware, Iron Railings, Hoax, Froutu, v ermmiu., Balconies, Callings In General, COPPER, TIN AND SHEET IRON WARE, Ac tr Salea Room Main Street, opposite Court D'Vounderv-Near tbe Mouth of Pigsou Creek EVASSVILXE, IND. Bfw-OBDERS SOLICITED my9 SEWING MACHINES. en - - . .TTiin TfVMfWITTl TIIS F. olncomao T7T ai A !W Brl W I III ULllUU W - on Second street, opsosite tne new --- unurcn, win ----- ,. " Sowing men t of Wheeler IS" ' rT", oll. Machines and Needles, hand. raacnines aim : . . . , minMtevr, thing " VlVm AT? ! Dim u.v - the te PINE SHINGLES.

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SADDLERY. Cliarles Babcock, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN Coach and Saddlery Hardware, MAIN STIiEET, ErAXSVILr.E, INDIANA. HAVING COMPLETED MY ARRANGEments with European and American manufacturers for a direct supply of all goods in my line I am enabled to oiler inducements that can not fail to be to the iuterest of all engaged in the business to give me a trial. I lianre in part.' A ties, Springs made oft ne best Sf Bands, enameled a all kinds of Lcutho. Cloths, Linings for Carriages , Varnighea, Castings of all kinds ; Saddle Trees, English Bridle Leathers ; Bits, Stirrups, Spurs, Hames, fine Silver Hames of all kinds; Jeuuv Li nd Gig Trees ; 6elf-adjsting Pads; Taylor's "Patent Hames; Fly Nets ; Shoe Threads ; Horse Blankets ; London Girth Webs, American Girth and ltoin Webs, both cotton and worsted ; London Welt Skins, asuperiorarticle; Ivory ; Gutta Percha and Brass liued Marteugai Riugs; , ' 1 surior Kerseys for Horse Covers ( the bxt quality of Carriage Bolts; Patent Gig Trees, Ac, Ac, Ac, Ac I keep in fact everything appertaining to either rraurh of tbe business, and understanding bth branches thoroughly, we would respectlnlly invite your attention before purchasing elsewhere. I am aUo Agt for Ward'a Pateut Spring 8 3till On Hand and Determined Succeed. to GEORGE THORNHILL takes pleasure in iaforming his old customers that in the quality and style of his work, ho flatters himself he cannot be excelled. He has removed to Bray's New Building. Second street, bet. Main and Locust street, streets, where the choicest Harness and Saddles . of every description can be obtained on the boat of terms. WfKepalring done with neatness and dispatch. Second-hand Harness always ou baud. jel REMOVAL THE rNDERSIOKED FIRM HAVE REmovrd their Saddlery entablisbnivnt to the Corner of Main and Second Street, iu the room occepiud by Freil. Krone, deceased. C. W0LFF& J. KR0EPSCH, MAMTACTrSEKS OF AND DEALERS IN Sskdcllcs, Harness, CO I LARS, &c, &c, Main Stree Cor. Second, (Store formerly occuppied by Fred Krone.) eVjl,AU orders attended to with dispatch. Work wnrrnnted nnvl.S-lv DRUGGISTS. UGGIST AND GROCER, Ho. 176 Main Street, VASS VILLE, INDIANA. 1 Medicines aud Groceries at the lowest cash prices of the city. aug:3 THE T FAMILY 11 IM WM. A. HALLO CK, Druggist and Apothecary, NO. 10, FIRST STREET. NEAR POST OFFICE, Haa just received another large and splendid as gortment of Pnre Drags, Medicines, Chemicles, Fancy Articles, Perfumeries, .romanes, Brushes, Combs, Toilet Articles, Soaps, Flavoring Extracts, &c, &c Brandies and Wines, for Medical Purposes. All the Approved Pateut Medicines kept ron tantlyon band and fcr sale at North American iriccs. , .. tPartirularattentkn paid to the compounding ,f prescription, at all ho.,rj. QxtiLOCK, No in South First Street. ;'''' Al?. LJ" " iiov27 SASHAND DOORS. J AIES STEELE, (Sucossor to Stev.lb A HvssiL,) SECOND ST., BET. CHESTNUT ANDOHMtRY. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. SASH, D00ES, WINDOW BLINDS Dressed Lumber, Boards, Laths, Ac., of every description constantly on hand. Packing Bo.es of all kinds ma ! to orenler Sawing of every kind done on the shortest notice. pl-ly AMD DOORS W. HUNNELili, C0EXEE TYALKVT STREET AND CANAL, EVANSVILLE, IND. Has on hand the largest lot of Sashes, Doors, Blinds, Frames, &c, Ever Manufactured in the VTeit.

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of all descriptions doue at tne anonw .1 Salt. TTTV IRV NOW RECEIVING OUR BfcUi; VV lar supply of Salt, and sell at all times lowest market price. W. M. AIKMAN 4 '.'0., No. 6 Nwth Water 8trwt. mhH-1y MAVSV1LLE COTTON oOtt's and 00's of this favorite brand for

FRIDAY MORNING,-

DRY GOODS. GREAT ATTRACTION ' - -i I N ' Dry Goods,. Millinery AND IT'IVCY GOODS, ,' A T Wholesale and Retail. tXTE HAVE NOW ONE OF THE MOST COMt V plete Stocks of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods To be found la this City, which we Sell at a great KKM'CTION iij price, and always corrcKuding with tun pric ran; ing East. In this line we have, by far, tbe most attractive stock (trimmed or trimmed to order) that can be found in the City, and at prices to please consumers and merchants Cheap. t Silk and lace Mantilla Department. This tlepartmciit is now stocked with the latest of "BROADWAY STYLES," and as regard quality, variety quantity and cheapness ia price, we defy competition. SCHAPKKR A BUSSING, jclO - , . .49 Main Street. DRY GOODS KEEN & PRESTON HAVE JUST RECEIVED geueral assortment of A LARGE AND Desirable Dry Good, Which they invite the ' trade " to call and examine prices and qualities; believing, kuowing, they can save dealers additional freight and expenses in going further Eastward. j:tiil"i a. cTp us"heeT DEALER IN Foreign & American Fancy Goods, COMBS, BRUSHES, PURSES, WALLETS, Satchels, Toilet Soaps Rubber Goods, GAMKS, YANKEE NOTIONS, Ladira' Baskets, Children Cabs, &.C. No. 20, Main Street, EVANSVILLE, .... INDIANA dee-t SHIRT MANUFACTORY, 2?Jc. G Seoond J3t, (in bbat's block.) SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER FROM MEASurment and a fit warranted. A stock of ready.mnde Shirts and Collars always on hand, and at prices that mill suit the purchaser. Tucking Skirts, Stiching Bosoms, Ac, done with in-atuess and despatch Thankful for past favors the snbseriDer respectfully solicits a contmince of the atronage so liberally bestowed for the past Ave years. ortr' j HMTTH DR GOODS. NEW AND ELEGANT GOODS AT ISTJEiSW!., E, A. COOK & CO. ARE RECEIVING AND 0TENING AT FIIfcST STREET, ..... ' A New and Elegant Stock of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods AND 1" X O 3" J3 Tl,ir r.nv1 liBvelwn selected with great care by experien-xd hands, with special reference to the trade of this city ; were bought for CASH and will b- sold very low to t asn iiieiomera ouij. Their stock comprise all the most ELEGANT STYLES' Required to constitute a first class Di-v Croocls House, BMPKACINO uiacK, Plain ana j; ancy bum, Foulard Silks, Fine Mozambique Dress Goods.plain nnd Check; Bareges, Organdies and Jaconets, T.a wns. Monrniner and Summer Dress Goods, or evTT kiiiuon Point Lace Collars, Collars of every Variety, Mourning Setts, Mourning Collars, Silk Talmas Sacques. and Circulars of all kinds, Lace Mantles Summer Shawls, Silk Parasols, a beautiful assortment just received. Marseilles Quilts and Spreads, Cloths, Cassimeres, Staple Goods of every description. NOTIONS. Our stock in this line is Urge, and of the finest quality, to which particular attention is directed. Keuiember the place for bargains NO. T FIRST STREET, EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. LUMBER. Lumber and Shingles. - ITTST PFCEIVEn A T.AKOK STOCK at of Pine Lumber aud Shiuglee, direct from . ii.t..nv rh u:h I am uow uruwiuK ai m

luaeco wnari. auj priu iu wauv i articles will fino it to their advantage to call on K..f nrrliiuiinsr elsewhore. I have tb hug-

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JUNE 19, 1863.

GROCERS. Samukl E. Gileebt. William R. Bakeb. . S. E. GILBERT & CO., WHOLES ALE GROCERS, Sycamore Street, bet. Wat.r and First, . - EvANsvn.i.E, Inn. ; - : -: A full assortment of Grocorif always ou. band, ad for sale at the lowest prices. MEDICAL. B. J. DAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. EXAMINIG SURGEON FOB PENSIONARY. OFFICE Ou Second Street, between Main and Locust. RESIDENCE At Sherwood Home. Evansville, Jnnnary G, 1SS3. S. W. THOMPSON, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office and Residkkce No. 'it Walnut 8tbekt, (At Dr. Ronald's Old Stand.) EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. nov29-ly ' - NEW SALOON. CHANGE OF EXCHANGE A NEW ARRANGEMENT. SAM CRAMMER & IIARRI J01IXSOX having purchased Theodore's Exchange, ARE FITTING IT LP IN style for- a first class EXCELLENT j BILLIARD SALOON and RESTAURANT, j They will keep at the lar the best brands o Liquors and their larders will at all tinioe be tilled-! with the richest daiiities from the animal and i vegetable kiuiidoms, and the waters of the vnetr deep will be made to contribute of their richest stores ccial attention will be' given to the cum, which will be under charge of the most competent ai tints. Their Billiard Room is large aud their TABLES FI l!ST CLASS. The establishment will re-open on Tuesday next. A ltbernl share of public patronage is respectfully, solicited. my3(Jd;tm "" BOOTS' AND SHOES. WE ARE RECEIVING BOOTS AND SHOES Daily from the East, and are Warranting THEM TO GIVE SATISFACTION. Should they rip wo mend them without charge. Having employed a good werkmau, we are prepared to fill all orders for Gents' or Ladies' Slippeu6"Repairiiig done at our shop promptly je- COMBS & GATCH. LAW CARDS. CHARLES DENBY, Attorney at Jarvv, Has resumed the practice of Law. Office on Third Street, middle of Hall's Block, tip stairs. fvb'i riJJ;A M E S:'ip. 1 15,-4 1 COLLECTING AGENT. OFFICE Ou Third Street, third door from Main Street, in the Crescent City Bank Building, EVANSVILLE, INDIANA. fe r.25-1 jr . SOAP AND CANDLES. niilip Iecli:ei5 (Successor to Decker Si Kramer), Manufacturer of Lard Oil CANDLES. B UBNISG, ENGINE, AND CAB Ol TW...W. in Rosin. Soda, Ashes, 4c. Also Pure Catawba Win Of ourowu raising, in quantities to suit pur chasers, 116 Main So set, hetween First and Second, " Evansvill, Indiana. BfJP Terms cash, or 60 days' paper negotiable Ib nk. Jana-lT MARBLE WORKS. Just Reoeived, Direct from the Quarriea, tue The Finest Stock of Marble Ever brought te this market, aud for sale at STREET & YOUNG'S American and Italian Marble Mufactory, WARE ACAD SALES ROOM MAIN STREET, -Npar jtheJSanal. Our facllttlea for furnuthlrg tnoee wwniuB MOSOIESTS, GRAVKSTOSKS, TOMBS,. M A N T E 8, Or anything else in our line, are unsurpassed in ' J .v of Marble Is complete, having been -in with great care at the Quarries. niyb MILLINERY. Cloaks. Mantillas, & Dressmaking. ivl ,j wm T.ouiaville. baa re opened VT.T7A SFIEGELBEKU, WHO flAO

her old stand ou First Street, between Main and lTJcust, where she will be happy to wait upon her old friends and patrons again. She has engaged the assistance of eue of he best, Dressmak.rs of Louisville, who guarantees every Dress she makes to fit to perfection. Mrs Sliegelberg also has bought a large assortment of bilks, Head Dreseses, Hair Braids and CurlsVLadys' Pocket Haudkercbien. of every style d a treat many otber articles tor tbe convenience of the Ladies of EvausvUkt ai-U vicinity too numerous to' mention. . t The beat Sewing Machine of Orovor Baker Ko. 13 First Street bet Main aud Second. . mar '' ''

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PUBLISHED BY JAMES n. MeNEELY. F. M. THAYKR, ' JNO. H. McNEELY. CNM'B TUB IBM OK Tilt 1 Evansville Journal Company. LOCUST STREET. BETWEEN FIRST AND WATER. FRfDiY MORNING , ..JUNE 19 The President's Letter on the Arrest of Yallandigliam. Executive Mansion, ) Washington, June 12, 18G3. j Hon. Erastus Corning and others : Gentlemen: Your letter of May 19, enclosing the resolutions of a public meeting held at Albany, New York, on the 16th of the same mouth, was received several days ago. . The resolutions, as I understand them, are resolvable into two propositions: First, the expression of a purpose to sustain the cause of the Union, to secure I peace through victory, and to support J the Administration iu every .constitu- . tional and lawful meaxure to suppress the rebellion; and, secondly, a declaration of censure upon the Administration for supposed unconstitutional action. such as the making of military arrests. And from the two croDOsitions a third is deduced, which is that the gentlemen composing the meeting are resolved on rlotncr their Tiftrt to maintain our pnm. ......... j . ,i mon govern iuent and tue tony or wicKeaness, as ttiey may conceive, of any Administration. This position is eminently patriotic, and as 8ucb I thank the meeting and congratulate the nation for it My own purpose is the same; so that the meeting and myself have a common object, and can have no difference, except in the choice of means or measures for effecting that object . And here I ought to close this paper, and would close it if there were no ajprehension that more injurious consequences than any merely personal to myself might follow the censures systematically cast upon me for doing what, iu my view of duty, I could not forbear. The resolutions promise to support me in every constitutional and lawful measure to suppress the rebellion: aud I have not knowingly employed, nor shall I knowingly employ, any other. But the meeting, by their resolutions, assert and argue that certain military arrests, and proceedings following them, for which h am ultimately responsible, are unconstitutional I think they are not The resolutions quote from the Constitution the definition of treason, and also the limiting safeguards and guarantees therein provided for the citissen on trials f m his being l,ey to anhis right to a speedy ana puouc m w, an impartial jury. They proceed to resolve " that these safeguards of the rights of the citizen against the pretensions of arbitrary power were intended more especially for-his protection in times of civil commotion." And, apparently to demonstrate the proposition, the resolutions proceed: " They were secured substantially to the English people after years of protracted civil war, and were adopted into our Constitution at the close of the revolution." Would not the couldhave-trcWiiaben better, if it had been adoTftearTrrrcr---r-plied during the civil wars and during our revolution, instead of after tbe one and at the close of the other? I, too, am devotedly for them after civil war, and before civil war, and at all times, " except when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require" their suspension. The resolutions proceed to tell us that these safeguards " have stood the test of seventy-six years i of trial, tinder our republican system, under circumstances which show that i wt.;i iheiv constitute the foundation of all free government, they are the elements of the euduring stability of the republic." No one denies that they have so stood the test up to the beginning of the present rebeliion, if we ex cept a certain ocenrrence ai ;w Orleans; nor does any one question that they will stand the same test much longer after the rebellion closes. But thoC provisions of the Constitution have no application to the case we have Itl k'UIl. , t, -X-- ..rl.,M.fl of were not made for trrason that is, not for the treason defined in the Constitution, and upon the conviction of which the punishment is death; nor yet were they made to hold persons to answer for any capital or otherwise infamous crimes, nor were the proceedings following, in an TCOIIlitmtw .. l w I f "rriminal prosecutions. The arrests were made on totally different grounds, and the proceedings following accorded with the grounds 01 me arretto. uc eider the real case with which we are dealing, and apply to it me parts vi .ue Constitution plainly made for such cases. Prior to my installation here, it had been inculcated that any State had a wfnl rio-ht to secede from the national Union, and that it would be expedient to the ripht whenever the devotees f the .loetrine should fail to elect a Pres ident to their own liking. I was elected contrary to their Ukmg; ana, accorumgly, so far as it was legally possible. they had taken seven States out of the Union, Ul coI'pH mahv of the United States fn-ta find had fired upon the United States flag, all before 1 was inaugurated, before I had done any .ffinlol oof whatever. The rebellion thus began soon ran into the present civil -o- and in certain respects, it began on very unequal terms between the parties. The insurgents had been preparfor it more than thirty years, while the government bad taken no steps to The former had carefully all the means which could be ..,naA tn their account ; It undoubtedly

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that in their own unrestricted efforts to destroy Union, Constitution and law, all together, the government would, in a great degree, be restrained by the same Constitution and law from arresting their progress. Their sympathizers pervaded all depurtraenjti of the government and nearly all communities of the people. From this material, under cover of" liberty of speech," " lilrty of the press, ' and " habeas corpus," they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors or" their cause in a thousand' ways. They knew that iu times such as they ware inaugurating, by the Constitution itself, the .' habeas corpus" might be suspended; but they also knew they had friends who would make a question as to- teho was to suspend it; meanwhile their spies and others might remain at large to help on their cause. Or if, as has happened, the Executive should suspend the writ, without ruinous waste of time, instances of arresting innocent persons might occur, as are always likely to occur in such cases; and then a clamor could Le1 raised in re gard to this, which might be, at least, of some service to the insurgent cause. It needed no very keeu jterception to dis- " covea this part of the enemy's programme so soon as by open hostilities their machinery was fairly put in motion. Yet, thoroughly imbued with a reverence for the guaranteed rights of individuals, I was slow to adopt the strong measures which by degrees I have been forced to regard as being within rhe exceptions of the Constitution, and as indispensable to the public fafety. Nothing is better known to history than that courts of justice are utterly incompetent in such cases. - Civil courts are organized chiefly . for trials of individuals, or, at most, a few ii div'uhihls acting in concert; and this in quiet times, and on charges well defined in the law. Even in limes of - peace bands of horse thieves and robbers frequently grow too numerous and powerful for the ordinary courts of justice. But what comparison, in numbers, hava such bands ever .bor ie to the insurgent sympathizers even in mauy of the foyal Slates? Agaiu.a jury too frequently has at least one member more ready to hang the panel tian hang the traitor. And yet, aain, he who dissnades one man from volunte r ng, or induces one soldier to desert, weakens the Union cause as much as he who kills a Union soldier in battle. Yet this dissuasion or inducement may be so conducted as to be no defined crime of which any civil court would take coguizanee. ', Ours is a case of rebellion so called by the resolutions before me in fact, a clear, flagrant, and gigantic case of rebellion; and the provision of the Constitution that "the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless whenr in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it,'', is the provision which specially applies : present case. This ' provision "case.sof rebefiro"n7"aUesis"fhefrp'tf; pose that, in such cases, men may be held in custody whom the courts, acting on ordinary rules, would discharge. Habeas corpus does not discharge men who are proved to be guilty of a defined crime; and its suspension is allowed by tbe Constitution on purpose that men may be arrested and held who cannot be proved to be guilty of defined crime, " when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it" This is precisely our present case a case of rebellion, wherein the public safety does of rebeuion7doot unon the same basis. The former is directed at the small percentage of ordinary and continuous perpetration of crime, while the latter is directed at sudden aud extensive uprisings against the Government, which, at most, will succeed or fail in no great length of time. In the latter case, arrests are made, not so much for what has been done, as for what probably would be done. The latter is more for tbe preventive and less for tbe vindictive than the former. In Bach cases the purposes of men are much, more easilv understood than in cases of ordinary crime. The man who stands bv and says nothing when the peril of his Government is discussed, cannot be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy; much more, if he talks ambiguously talks for his country with "buts" and "ifs" aud " ands." Of how little value the constitutional provisions I have quoted will be renaerw, r ' t.n y, made until defined Crimea shall have been committed, may ba illustrated by a few notable examples. General John C Breckenridge, General Robert E. Lee, General Joseph E. Johnston, General John B. Mngrnder, General William B. Preston, General Simon B Buckncr, rrnu-cw -JJ. Ruel,.iin. nnw nepnnviD? tne very highesTrpraces ;n thP rebel war service, were all within the power of the Government since the rebellion began, ana were ue&nv a wen known to the traitors then as now. Urquestionably if we had seized and held tlietH, the insurgent cause would be much weaker. But no one of them had then committed any crime defined in law. Every oue of them, if arrested, would have been discharge! on habeas CQrpus, were the writ allowed to operate. In view of these and similar cases, I think tbe time not unlikely to come -when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many. By the third resolution the meeting indicate their opinion that military arrests may be constitutional in localities where rebellion actually exists, but that such arrests are. unconstitutional in localities where rebellion or insurrection does not actually exist1 ' They insist that such arrests 6b&U not be made " outside of the lines of necessary military oc-cupation,-ind the 6Cenesof insurrecu in. Inasmuch, as the Constitution itaelf malces no such distinction, I am unable to believe that there is ny such constitutional distinction, I concede that the , See fourth page. .

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