Colorado, and the Federal Circuit Court for the District of Colorado, a heartfelt vote of thanks; for they can now refer their disaffected and liberty-loving subjects to the decisions of these courts as an illustration that under a republic a common, ordinary person has no more protection than under a despotism. Let the autocrats of Russia, Turkey and China henceforth, before arbitrarily im-
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prisoning, deporting or killing, proclaim an insurrection in their respective lands! If an ordinary proclamation of this kind permits a mere governor to commit such outrages on citizens of the United States, then surely a royal proclamation ought to confer at least a similar privilege upon an emperor or a sultan!
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued his world-famous proclamation, declaring that slavery should no longer exist in the United States. In our day, any person who desires to better the industrial and social condition of workingmen — white slaves — is denounced by our conservative press as an "agitator," as an "anarchist," and is imprisoned for months