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act of tyranny under the pretence of maintaining the Union. It does not believe in them; it would be glad to get rid of them and replace them by better men; but they are in power; they stand as the representatives, however unworthy, of the United States; and, hoping against hope, the people of the North obey them because opposition might seem like an abandonment of a cherished design. We do not think that in the days of England's fiercest struggle with the French Republic the Government of Pitt would have ventured on such an act as the trial by court-martial of a private person for making a speech against the war, and recommending his hearers to agitate constitutionally for the overthrow of the Ministry.--Yet it was for an offence precisely similar that Mr. Vallandigham, one of the most prominent politicians of the West, has been sentenced to two years banishment to a miserable islet — a sentence graciously commuted by the President into expulsion from his home and from the limit of