Show ARREST OF MR lvir clias cilas INGERSOLL at a democratic meeting I 1 held in inge independence pen dence square philadelphia on the of or august mr charles ingersoll Inger eoll vas aap iap one 0 of the speakers speaker and gae gave utterance ute rance to 10 the following foU fon owing offensive language aa as appears from an affidavit made bya by amr a mr willard before ber ore alderman butler 11 rhe fhe despotism of the oid old world can furnish no parallel to the corruptions corrupt ions of the administration of abraham lincoln they caa can imprison us as they like for the exercise of the rights of 0 free speech as in the case of a citizen of 0 the ward wards but what does it all amount to if they can imprison us they have to feed clothe and lodge us and in these hard tim im s bat hat is quite a consideration 2 for alai aldi g t th us disrespectfully lly liy of the administration tr tra tion mr inbe Inge inglesoll soll was arrested and incarcerated car in prison the world ill in referring to the circumstances says of the it no doubt contains a world of incent incendiary ary aty and disloyal matter matters or else lie he would not have been arrested but a great many honet bonet t people will cudgel el their brains without finding it out ile he expresses a doubt as to the wisdom and anti honesty of the administration it is true but bat then H race greeley and wendell have done the same sane thid thir th arg g in a lifty fifty foid fola more offensive manner yet the one offender receives a respectful letter A lincoln and the other is sent to jail it is an extra ordinary spectacle which we have witnessed for the last year a free people the frei fret freist st on earth demaci te nacius us of their ri rights abts imperious for the largest liberty quietly submitting to the i suspension oe ol their rights and liberties to a restricted fre dorn demot of the presy press the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus imprisonments without trial liberations libe rations without reia rela reparation oration the resident Pes ident of the United states and his advisers will terribly tr riby mistake the temper of the american people the secret of their submission sih to of ther their the r demand for these stretches of executive power if they presume or act upon the presumption that they will tolerate them for any other end whatever vcr than the suppression of the rebellion |