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WEEKLY SENTINEL.
MONDAY, MAY HO.
m CAMPAIGN SENTINEL.
THE WEEKLY SK3TI3TEL wilt be furnUhed to club
of tea or mora, during the campaign, at the following
rata:
Far Rix Month 75 Tent.
or Four .Tlonth 50 Cents.
Ill-Democrats r peclally urged to ted the e'r
ctuailoa of tba 8ntlnl daring tbe present campaign, in
17 township ia Indiana. uij9
Tht Xfmr In the Itepubllcan Hank.
We bare charged over nd over again that the
meo at the bead public affairs were corrupt
and selfish, caring more for tLeir. personal ag
grandizement than the good of the country. We
laid 80 because we beliered euch to be the fact.
But wbat baa been the response of the Republi
can press? Tbey did not attempt to controvert
tbese charges agaiust those controlling the Ad
ministration, and in fact the Administration it
self. Tbeir onlj reply was that it came from a
copperhead source, hence the accusations were
not entitled to consideration by the 'loyal" men
of the country. But a chioge has recently
taken place with those who entertain the moat
radical views in regard to the prosecution of the
war and the future administration of the govern
ment. Tbat class has no more confidence in the
integrity and capacity of the men at the bead of
the government than the Democracy. While we
agree with them most fully in that regard, we
are as wide apart as the poles in the
sentiments they entertain and the purposes
they hare io view. A. large portion of the Re
publican party bare no confidence whatever in
Mr. LixcoL and bis associates. We bare re;
published lately in the Sentinel articles from the
radical Republican press, taking issue most de
cidedly with the Administration as to the manner
it is conducting public affairs. No charges have
appeared in the Democratic papers more per
sonal and denunciatory of the men in power.
Yet no attempt has been made to sop
press this freedom of the press, and the
right to criticise the acts of public servants. Our
attention was directed to a letter which appeared
a few days ago in a very "loyal" Republican or
gan from Washington, commenting with just
severitj upon the "unprincipled wire working"
of the Federal officers in the National Capital.
As the sentiments and facts set forth in that com
munication corroborate most forcibly the charges
wt have preferred against the Administration, we
appropriate a few extract from it to convince
the honest but misguided friends of the party in
power tbat the partisan interests and personal
ambition of the "political wire workers" in
Washington rise superior to the public welfare.
The Washington correspondent referred to
writes as follows in general condemnation ol the
spirit and objects which control the partisans in
power:
I believe it to be a just and great principle in
a republican Government, that the people should
be impartially informed of the wire-workings of
the publio men in the nation's capital. But sad
as is the picture, who will have the hardihood to
speak the truth in reference to the unprincipled
wire-working now going on here, by the office
holders, for the purpose of securing the election
of the President for a second term? Every
means, both honest and dishonest, is resorted to,
and woe to bim who dares object.
While the people throughout the land, who
have Dear and dear friends upon the battle field,
arrayed against a hostile and infuriated enemy,
to defend our common country, and are doubt
less sending up their prayers to Heaven in behalf
of our brave army and the right, the political
wire workers in Washington are seldom heard to
speak of anything but the Baltimore Convention;
and tbey are incessant in their denunciation of
such as do not believe Mr. Lincoln the man for .
the times to be again placed before the people for
re election.
The writer then refers especially to the office
holders ia Washington from Indiana, who openly
expressed their hostility to all from this State
who do not support Mr. Lincoln and the existing
dynasty.
We call the attention of the reader to the re
marks made by Joax D. Defkees, Esq., "in regard
to the Germans. Mr. Defkeis is Mr. Lincoln's
"Public Printer, and he undoubtedly expresses
the views of the Administration towards the
citizens of German descent, who, entertaining
radical Republican views, repudiate the men in
power as unworthy of public confidence, and
therefore desire not only, but insist upon a
change of administration. We quote these ex
tracts at length.
From the promineut office holders here from
Indiana, the political war is made hot and bitter
against all wko prefer some other good and
available man to Mr. Lincoln, and of the abuse
which is heaped upon such, no set of men get so
full a share as do the Germans. It is a fact with
which every one is acquainted, tbat the Germans
are hostile to there election of President Lincoln,
and will never support him if nominated, and be
cause they do not bow in bumble submission to
the opinions and whims of others, they are driven
from the party by such shameful abuse and in
sults 'as no one but an office holder under Mr.
Lincoln could be guilty of. It is but a few even -ings
since Mr. Lincoln's Public Printer declared
that "the d n Dutch should be kicked out of the
party." "The party will get along better with
out them." "They have no business to intrude
suggestions upon American citizens." Such i3
the course of the friends of Mr. Lincoln in their
efforts to secure for him the Baltimore nomina
tion. - How will snch remarks, made in the spirit of
the worst and most hostile feelings of "Know
Nothingism," be received in Indiana, where the
destinies of party depend upon the vote of thse
who are thus shamefully set apart to receive the
curses and anathemas of the men who are pent
out as agents to coatrol Conventions and Legis
latures in the interests of Mr. Lincoln, as was the
ease with this office-holder, at Indianapolis, on the
23d of February last?
Certainly no Democratic paper h is arraigned
the Ljscol.xites for selfishness and corruption
ia terms more decided and set ere. Our German
m
citizens must feel especially complimented by the
remark of one of the most active supporters of
Lixcolx L Co.
We make one more extract from these Repub
lican revelations, and in connection ask every
good citizen, desirous of promoting the true in
terests of the country, what hope there is in the
future if the direction of our public affairs are
continued with a lot of "political wire workers,'
who care nothing for the happiness and welfare
of the country, but only the perpetuation of a
party rule, by which their schemes of persona
aggrandizement will be promoted? Says tin
correspondent referred to:
What friend of the Administration will not
regret aoch a course of conduct, by which the
true loyal men of the country are becoming di
viJed and weakened in their strength, as is eri
dent from the movement of a second National
Convention, which ia called to meet at Cleveland?
I fear ws are fast drifting towards prospects of
electing a copperhead President, and lam often
forced to ask myaell the question, "Why insist
npoo forcing the nomination of Mr. Lincoln,
when it is known that he is so obnoxious to a
sufficient number of the true friends of the gov
era ment who can and may effect his defeat, while
there are other able and popular men who could
unite the whole loyal people, and thus make suc
cess sure and certain?" But there seems to be a
disposition to form a new political combination,
to be mads up of such as. but a short three years
fo, were oar worst political enemies. To tbiat
end a war is made upon the Secretary of the
Treasury, because it is believed that his friends
will insist upon presenting his name at Baltimore
as a competitor for nomination. This war upon
Mr. Chase, made by the Blair family and their
frlnda, I am sorry to mt, U countenanced by the
President; and it ia believed by the moot promi
nent men in Washington ts be intended to drive
bio from the Cabinet.
In this connection I will give your
readers what I btve from trustworthy au
thoritythat it is talked of in official circles
that Mr. Chia anticipates retiring from the Cab
in, od that tkm President has tendered the
portfolio of the Treasury Department to Mr.
Stebbics, a Democratic member of Congress,
and late President of the New York Board of
Exchange. Whether the people will indorse
such a course is a matter ubout which I propose
to make no comments, beyond an expression of
the belief that the public has n?ver dreamed of
such a programme. Where are we diifting to?
The Situation.
By request of the Secretary of War we have
refrained from making any comments upon tlio
late movements ot General Grant. As loval
citizens we desire to acquiesce most unhesita
tingly with the intimations that may come from
headquarters. Not having any information w hat
ever of the movements of General Gkast, ex
cept what we get through the official dispatches
of Mr. Secretary of War, Stastox, it is impossi
ble fur us to convey intelligence to others of
which we are not possessed ourselves. All we
know of "the situation" at tho present writing,
is just what Mr. Stantox permits t!s to know.
In his dispatch of yesterday's date he very frankly
and decidedly informs one General Dix, not irr,
the people, that Mr. Lee and his rag muffin army
are between the Nor'h and South Anna rivers,
bu' that it will take several days to develop the
exact situation of the enemy. Is not that ns clear
as mud ?
For the past few weeks, or since Gen. Grant
commenced "moving upon the enemy's works."
Mr. Secret try Stanton his issued daily, semi
daily and tri-daily, dispatches announcing the
situation of affurs, officially. Subsequent fccts
have demonstrated most conclusively that eithei
Mr. Stantox has takeu the job of humbugging
and deceiving the people, or else he has been de
ceived himself. What boru of the dilemma he
will take we will leave to himself, but he must
hang 'jnon one or the other.
According to the reports of the Secretary of
War, General Graxt is rapidly advaucing upon
Richmond. If this is real! so, the news will be
encouraging to every loyal heart. But we must
admit that tho exaggerated and sensational re
ports of Mr. Staxtox in regard to Federal suc
cesses heretofore have created a very considera
ble distrust in the public mind in regard to the
truthfulness and reliability of his official war
bulletins, and the fact that they are filtered
through Oeneral Dix in New York does not add
to their credibility or value. We have learned
from some little experience that it Is somew hat
difficult to convey that information to others of
which we have no definite idea ourselves, and
hence we refer the re idei to Mr. Staxtox's dis
patches in the telegraphic columns for an appre
ciative idea of the situation.
The Corruption in Tahingtoii.
The Springfield Republican, which is the lead
ing Republic.au organ of New England, and
which supports the Administration, speaks as
follows of the corruption at Washington: "It is
a sad, a shocking picture of life in Washington
which our correspondents are giving us. A bu
reau of the Treasury Department made a house
of seduction and prostitution. The necessities
of poor and pretty women made the means of
their debauchery by high government officials
Members of Congress putting their mistresses
into clerkships in the departments. An honora
ble Senator knocked down in the street y a
woman whom be bad outraged. Whisky d ank
ad libitum The government cheated, in con
tracts and openly robbed by its employes. Wri.es
or careful correspondent a long resident in the
capital: 'Washington was never quite so vil
lainously corrupt as at the present lime. In the
palmy da) 3 of Southern rule of slavery, there
was not half the corruption there is now.' We
do not doubt this is strictly true, and we repeat,
it is a sad, shocking picture."
Such language from a loyal Administration
paper, which labors "in the interests of God and
humanity," needs no comment from us. We
accept it as a truthful picture of the characteris
tics of the leaders of the "party founded on a
great moral idea."
The Freedom ol the Pros.
Mr. Madison expressed the following senti
ment iu reference to the freedom of the pres,
which, in view of the recent outrages committed
by the Federal Administration in suppressing
two newspapers for a hoax perpetrated by its
own political friends, is eminently worthy of
consideration. He said:
"Unconstitutional power over the press ought
more than any other to produce universal alarm;
because it is leveled against that right of
freely examining public characters and
measures, and of free communication among the
people thereon, which has ever been justly
deemed the only effectual guardian of every other
right."
Will there be any liberty to the people left if
the right of freely examaning public characters
and measures is denied to the press? There is
no more healthy restraint upon publio officials
than the criticisms of the press It is a power
felt and respected, and only knaves would desire
to restrict it.
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The Frosf res we aire .vi&kins In Call
In? out the l.ust Tlan.
In order to show the progress we are making
in calling out the "last man" for the prosecution
of this war, we give the following table of levies
made since it commenced:
April IA, 1S61 75 000
May 4. 1SC1 64,000
From Julv to December, InCI 50o,0oo
July 1, liCi 300,000
August!, 162 300,000
Draft in summer of 1863. , SWyoO
February 1, 1864 5"0.0m
March 14, 164 2U0.0U)
Total 2,239.0110
To this is soon to be added another draft for
300,000 men, which will make two millions and
a half called out! The whole number of voters
in the so-called loyal States in lbCO wa about
three millions and a half. We are making better
progress for the last man than people imagine
Lincoln is determined to have bim. He is the
most generous person to dispose of other people's
lives that wan ever known siucuthe creation! In
another four years he could exhaust a population
of 'ts men in a country as thickly settled as
China Cin. nq.
The Personal Altercation Between
Voorhees and Chandler.
The special Washington dispatches to the Cin
cinnati Enquirer of the 2G(b inst., give the fol
lowing particulars in reference to the altercation
between Mr. Voobukes and Senator Ciiaxdlek:
A personal difficulty occurred last evening at
the dinner-table of the .National Hotel, between
Mr. Voorhees and Senator Chandler. Whilst
sitting at the table. Chandler, talking about
Democrats, made use of abusive language, and
addressed his remarks to Vooi-hees. Some words
passed between tbem, and Voorhees struck Chan
dler in the face. They clenched, and were
parted. Mr. Hannegan, a friend of Voorhees,
remarked that Chandler should not bave talked
as lie did, whereupon the latter struck Hannegao,
who, in turn, pitched into and severely handled
the Senator.
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The Proclamation Fraud.
It appears that the author of the proclamation
hoax is a man by the name of Howard. He is
a Republican and a leading member of Rev.
Hixrt Ward Bxecbir's church in Brooklyn, and
h - stood high ia the estimation of both preacher
congregation. A friend writes us that his arrest
causes quite a vacancy in the church, and tbat a
substitute had to be appointed to carry around
the collection plates. When these facts are made
known to Mr. Lincoln, be will doubtless promptly
release so good a man as Mr. Howard, from the
annoying restraints that have been placed upon
him.
t2TIt U estimated that $18,000.000 bare been
raised since the commencement of the war by
fairs for the use of the Sanitary Commission.
i it on xiii? south.
Hebet View of tho SituationCondi
tion of Affair in Lee's Army.
Washington, May 23.
The Richmond Sentinel, of the llb inst.,cou
tains the following:
The confederates find a source of great en
couragement and abundant reason for thankful
ness over their present prosperous fortunes. It
we can conquer now, and Clod is giving us
the promise of it, our work will bo done.
The reasonings and tho fears of the enemy
assure us of thin. Grant's army is the last
head and front of this horrid war. This is the -time,
therefore, for every man who can strike a
blow for his country to render his aid. Let ev
ery one assist in whatever sphere is open to him.
Ourselves and our substance, let all be cheer
fully and zealously rendered n may bo needed or
called for until this great tibt ia done. The
weak and helpless ones who cannot lift the spear
of battle, or assist in active employment, may
do as Esther did when the fate of a nation hung
on her efforts.
They can beseige the throne of Heaven with
fervent supplications that Its blessings may be
upon thoi-c who, on the part of the conlederacv.
are conducting the great issue. We have much
to stimulate and encourage us. Tho news of yet
another victorv has just come down from Gen.
Lee's army. Butler has been driven to cover.
The Trans Mississippi sends us cheering tidings.
Let us strike on and strike hard, for our deliver
ance draws nigh.
THE war.
The news reached us yesterday morning tbat
there had been more righting in Spottsylvania.
The reports brought in represented that Grant
had made a heavy assault on Lee's right, at or
near S'annard'a mill, and had met with his usual
success in his Virgiuia operations, c very heavy
repulse.
The telegraph may bring us more accurate de
tails before going to press.
There was some firing on the south side yes
terday, together with some skirmishing, though
we have not learned that it was of material con
sequence. We have any number of reports as to
the movements of the enemy; but we believe
there has been no material change up to this
time since "Baldy" Smith sought his fortifica
tions. ' The reader will find a dispatch relative to the
trans-Mississippi operations, which will give him
comfort according to his faith. For ourselves,
we confess that we are waiting for its confirma
tion. We have been deluded often enough with
news from that quarter to teach us caution. At
the same time the result asserted is not to be
considered as improbable Banks was undoubt
edly in a desperate situation, surrounded by su
perior forces, and his navigation interrupted and
suspended. His pride, however, would make
him refuse to surrender until reduced to etremi
ties. He ia fighting for the Presidency and to '
Furrcmier is not the road to it. In reference to
the flirtender of Steele to Price there has been
much contusion and mtiiy contradictions. From
a comparison of the several stories, we are iu
clined to the opinion that his army has been cap
tuied jut as Milroy's was at Winchester, on the
14th of June last that is to say, Steele with a
remnant made his escape while the body of his
forces fell into our hands. He probably lost
from six to nine thousand men, besides his trains
and artillery. Steele, with about three thousand
men, had a race with Marmaduke which should
enter Little Rock the first. Steele, carrying but
little weight, won by a neck.
The telegraph tells of the brilliancy of Breck
inridge's victory and of Sigel's pedestrianism.
We bad nothing official from General Lee yes
terday, but a private disp itch from Milford says
that General Early made an attack yesterday
morning upon the enemy to the right of Spott'
sylvania cV"V House, capturing nine pieces of
artillery if number of prisoners. Later in
the day the enemy made two assaults upon our
lines near Stannard's mill, on the Po branch of
the Vlattapony. both ol which were repulsed with
severe loss. Persons who left Milford in the
morning concur in saying that the fire was very
heavy.
Staunton , May IS.
Geueral Breckinridge's victory at Newmarket
was even greater and more complete than at first
announced. He captured six pieces of artillery
and nearly one thousand stand of small arms.
The loss of the enemy in killed, wounded and
missing is heavy.
Gen. Sigelran thirty miles without stopping
abandoning his hospitals and destroying a portion
of his train. His cavalry force alone prevented
us from burning the bridge in his rear before the
rout, and thereby capturing the whole. Our suc
cess was chiefly due fo a day and night march of
over thirty milc3. and commenced the attarlr be
fore tho arrival of one of his divisions, which was
whipped when it did arrive. Sigel commanded
in person.
Brigadier General Stahl commanded his cav
alry, while Generals Sullivan and Couch com
manded each a division. The etiemy encamped
last innht on Cedar Creek, the swollen condition
of which alone checked their flight. Our ad
vance is wo miles below Strasburg, und it is
thought that General Sigel will contiuue to Mar
tinsburg. Petersburg, Mar 17.
The enemy has gone from our front to bis en
trenchments at Bermuda Hundred.
The turnpike to Richmond is now open.
Kautz's raiders are eight miles this side of
Jarrats.
There is a general rejoicing here over Lee'a
victories.
Provisions are declining. From Mobile, Ma
con, Charleston, Montgomery, and other cities,
comes the welcome information that prices are
tumbling. In Macon flour is selling at one hun
dred and fifty dollars per barrel, and first quality
hams at two dollars and fifty cents per pound,
and other articles of prime necessity have fallen
in like proportion, which two weeks since com
manded the same prices that they are now sell
ing for iu this city. f Augusta (Ga.) Constitu
tionalist. We compile the following interesting intelli
gence from Southern papers ol recent dates :
THE 8ITCATIOX.
Fiom the . Richmond Examiner, May 18. J
The battle near Drury's bluff was imperfectly
appreciated in Richmond till yesterday. It was,
during the time it lasted, one of the most terrifij
combats that has been kuown. Confederate
valor never had a more splendid illustration.
The nerve of Smith or Butler's large army was
concentrated on the hills behind large forlificv
tious, which they had strengthened with all f he
appliances of unlimited labor and inexhaustiole
tugenuiiy. A world in arms would not have
moved Ileiureg irJ from such a place. The vast
army of Grant has been lately broken on some
hasty breastworks thrown up iu a night by Lee's
troops w ith their bayonets and tin pans. But a
small force of brave Southern ' men moved on
tho-e forts, uot iu a drunken rush, but with the
steady Spartan step of true discipliue andi nflex
ible resolution, and went through the blaze of
teu thousand guns straight to the mark. Al
though completely successful, tl.ey suffered a
considerable loss in killed and wounded. "To
make an omelette, one must break some eggs,"
s the proverb of French armies. But we are
iucliued to think that the number is exaggerated;
for there is this evident cause of exaggeration,
that tbo brigade which bore the bruut ot the bat
tle contained a great proportion of young men.
from this city. Many houses here contain
wounded brothers and sons, and hence the pop
pular imagination in Ricbmoud increases the to
tal loss beyond reality.
Yesterday a graud field day, under the eye of
Beauregard (Felix,) was anticipated. But at
daybreak the whole show of the enemy hau van
ished. Butler had stolen off in the night to the
shelter of his gunboats. He is scarcely to be
blamed. The contest was unequal. Butler
against Beauregard. A buzzard to fight a grey
falcon!
Infantry are now landing in considerable num
bers on the other side of the river. They are be
lieved with a good show of reason, to be Cut
ler's men. He is not safe until he puts the river
between himself and Beauregard, and he knows
it But as the truth will be known this morning,
we refrain from further supposition.
All is still quiet along the lines of Spottsyl
vania. Grant has gone clean away from the
scene of the late slaughter, leaving his dead and
dying on the field, with five thousand stand of
arms, many caissons, gun-carriages, etc. The
guns were conveyed away to make a vain trophy.
But it will uot counteract the effect of his re
treat. It is impossible to cave over the crown of
victory now. Lee remains on the field, rnaste
of the field. It is possible that Grant's army
will stop a while in Fredericksburg to plaster its
hurts. Grant has already received two reinforce
ments, one of thirty and the other of forty thou
sand. He has lost them, and must have more
before he can come up to the new lines whicbr
await bim where he will find them.
"Dubois county, with a population In- lbCO
of 10,3'J1, paid a government tax of $750 for
grocery licenses, and $75 for three breweries this
month.
ritO.TX WASIIIMGTO
aawaawBaaaaa
Conaequencea of the Defeat of Sl-gel
U rant's Great Victory of .Tin j- 12 tu
Lincoln Rltlerljr Denounced by the
Fremont Jlen Defeat of Ilutler
flay icth.
f Special Correspondence of tbe Chicago Times.
Washington, May 21. When the good gen
eralship which the rebels have always been wise
euouh to use, results iu any advantage on their
side, the administration journals here, instead of
profiling by the lesson, growl and grumble at
what they call the "secesh" papers for beina "ju
bilant" over the rebel successes. said jubilation
consisting merely of a statement of the facta as
they exist. Thus, heu it was known a few
days ago, that Sigel was defeated in the Slienan
doah Valley, and compelled to retreat, the-fact
was suppressed as long as possible, theu denied,
and theu the democratic papers were denounced
for publishing it. The whole facts in this case,
which are far more important than seem at first
sight, and which bave uot yet seeu the light, are
as follows :
General Lee, who was aware that tbe move
ment iu the valley was goiug on, had directed
Gen. Imboden to employ his civalry in watching
i'., and to adopt such measures as would keep'
Sigel's forces in the valley, and prevent theui
from effecting a junction with Grant, it that
should be attempted. At the same time Bieck
iuiidgc, in command of his own and Echols' di
visions, was advancing from Southwestern Vir
giuia towards Staciiton. Breckinridge was or
dered to put himself in communication with Im
boden as soon as he arrived io the valley, and, if
necessary, to act with him until Sigel should be
defeated and driven back. It was knowu how
large Sigel'a force was. One authority put it as
h!gh as 50,000 men. Bu'. he cannot bave bad
over 30,000. The forces of Imboden, Breckiu
ridge and Echols combined u!d not amount to
the latter figure.
On the I5l!i inst. Sigel's troops, marching
down the Shenandoah Valley, had nrrived at
Newmarket, a point 00 miles west of this city
and 35 miles fiorlhwest of Culpepper. Here
they weru assailed by ltuboden's cavalry, and a
severe engagement ensued. It would seem that
Sigel'a orders reclly were to pnsb through at all
hazards; to cross the Blue Ridge at Swift Run
Gap, 25 miles west of Culpepper; to cross the
Rapidan at Germania Ford, and to joiu Grant's
right wing near SpotUylvauia. This would give
Grant a reinforcement of probably 25,000 or 30,
Ü0U troops.
Sigel, who is a good soldier and a gallant oih
cer,was fully sensible of how much depended
on the fulfilment of these orders, and he did his
best to execute them. He fought desperately,
and, having at first ouly about 15,000 rebels to
contend with, came very near being victorious.
But, at the critical moment. Gen. Breckinridge
came up with 1U.000 fresh troops, who had been
held in reserve, and this turned the scale against
him. He was defeated with a very heavy loss,
nud was compelled to retreat. His loss is not
less than 1,000 in killed mid wounded, and 140
prisoners, besides two whole batteries of artillery
of six pieces in each.
This, of course, is the end of Sigel's move
ment in the Shenandoah Valley. The statement
made ten davs ago, that ltuboden's cavalry had
been ordered to join Lee, and the statement
made a week ago that Sigel and Couch were
passing through Thoroughfare Gap to join
Grant, aro thus proved to have been without
foundation.
Grant's alleged great victory had taken place
on the 12th. This victory commenced with the
gallant exploit of Hancock's corps, in capturing
some guns and prisoners early in the morning.
It ended by the rebels recapturing most of tbe guns
and cutting up badly two of Burnside's divisions.
If this was a victory it is singular tbat Geueral
Grant did not follow it up for four days after
wards, which is the fact. On the 13th, 14th,
15th and lGth. General Grant maintained a posi
tion of masterly inactivity. That is not bis usual
course of proceedings after a victory.
After the defeat of Sigel, General Imboden re
mained in the Valley to watch his movement,
and the troops under Breckinridge and Echols
continued their march eastward. They have, of
course, joined General Lee bv this time, and give
him an additional force of 20,001) men.
The quarrels between the differeut factions of
the Republican party lead to much more bitter
recriminations between them than either of them
bestows upon the Democratic party. The admin
istration party denounces that faction which re
fuses to support the claims of Mr. Lincoln for the
next Presidency ns "copperheads," and the latter
retort with still greater bitterness. For using
language not half so strong as that now used by
the Fremont men, dozens of prominent Demo
crats were immured in the government bastiles
for months, two jp-.ro If ..a lieawii v
speak in that comparatively mild tone against
the measures of the Administration two years
ago, it is equally treason to speak against other
measures of the Administration in the violent
tone used by the Fremont men now. Vet noth
ing is done to the Fremont men. The President
himself and four members of his Cabinet are
denounced more bitterly now by the Fremont
men than they ever were by Democrats. Why
are they allowed to do so? Is it because the ab
surd dogma, "that the Administration is the gov
ernment," is exuloded?
Surely the ees of the people must be opened
now to the ridiculous farce that Butler is playing
south of Richmond, and to the shameless man
ner in which the public has been deceived by bis
dispatches. He has accomplished, and can ac
complish, literally uothing. Ou the 16th the
enemy attacked his troops near Fort Darling,
and defeated them with a heavy loss on our side
The consequence of this defeat is, that Butler
was obliged to abandon the siege of Fort Dar
ling, and to retreat to his entrenchments near
Citv Point. The retreat was conducted with
such precipitat'on that 7 of our best seige guns
were left in the badds of the enemy. X.
The Impossibility of Subjugation
Three years of war, and the logic of events,
as certainly demonstrate the impossibility of
subjugating the South as they do that a re union
of all the States cannot be compelled at the
point of the bayonet. That port:-ti of the peo
ple of Missouri and Kentucky who three years
ago were hostile to the war and the Government,
as administered by Mr. Lincoln, are more thor
oughly disaffected now than then. Two years
ai;o the Federal armies overran the western sec
tions Kentucky and Tennessee, yet only a few
weeks since the partisan Forrest marched at his
pleasure through the same region, and he was
strengthened by the accession of thousaods to
his ranks. The Federals have surrendered all
that they bad wrested from the Confederates
in Florida. Tbey overran both Arkansas and
Mississippi, and to-day they hold insecurely only
Little Rock in the oue State and Vicksburg and
Natchez in the other. The most fertile portions
of Louisiana also became their prize, and so
firmly was the new order of things believed
to be established that the govern ment and laws of
that sovereign State were swept away by an elec
tion which was a mockery and a farce. Having
created a hybrid government, the like of which
was never heard before, and will never be again,
Viceroy Banks proceeded on his Red river expe
dition, to steal negroes and cotton, a: d to expel
the rebels from its borders ; but notwithstanding
these powerful incentives but curious combina
tions of patriotism and plunder, the expedition
was unprofitable and disastrous. The Confed
erates burnt their cotton, and Banks, instead ot
driving Dick Taylor out of the State, or captur
ing him. was caught himself. He is now en
deavoring, with but littie bore, to save the frag
ment of his army. Practically, with the excep
tion of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana
is in the hands of the Confederates. The Fed
erals have lost likewise nearly all they acquired
two years since in North Carolina.
Richmond is now the objective point, to which
the armies under Lieut Gen Grant are c6nverj
ing. It may be successfully defended; or the
Confederates may abandon it when it is no longer
tenable. Other than tbe moral triumph which
thereby would be insured to the Federal arms,
the Confederates will really have lost nothing,
They will have abandoned that part of Virginia
which three years of war has exhausted, aud
made almost a waste and a desert.- A new line
of defense will be chosen south of tbe James
river, and in the interior of Virginia, and tbe
war will interminably go on.
Richmoud has do a'rategic importance, and
without an army is captured with it, a victoty
would prove barreo and fruitless. And these
acquisitions once made, they can no more be se
curely held than those which have been won and
lost in the West and South. The war has been
an abortion and failure heretofore, and will be
none the less so hereafter. Shall it terminate,
or is It to.be recorded on the pages of history
that the people of the North lost their own lib
erties in the wicked attempt to subjugate tbeir
brethren in the South? N. Y. News.
2?" The Cincinnati Gazette rejoices in the
fact that the Methodist Episcopal Church has
forever excluded slavery from ber borders. Sup
pose slaveholders should get to Ileaven, what
will these sainU di ask permission to go to an-
otber place?
'rite Freedom mt the I'retiTbe Cir
cumstance Attending- the Suppres
sion of the Sew York. Journal of
Commerceand The World.
The following facts iu reference to the sup
pression of the New York Journal ot Commerc
and World, we regard of sufficient importance to
reproduce at length. The former paper thus re
counts the circumstances attending the affair :
Dut ing the day on Wednesday the editors of
this paper had been diligently engaged in aiding
General Dix in tracing the authorship of the
forged proclamation, having, in conjunction with
the World, offered a reward of $500 for his de
tection, and in company with Mr. Marble, ot the
World having placed in the hands of the general
such facts aa have subsequently euabled tbe au
thorities to arrest the guilty party, Io the evo
tiing at about nine o'clock, our office was occu
pied by a military force, and officers were dis-
ratched to various parts of the city and Brook
yn with brief and peremptory orders to arrest the
editors and convey tbem to Fort Lafayette by
steamer, which was waiting to receive tbem at
the battery.
These orders came from the President, and no
discretion was allowed to General Dix. We
have the best reason to know that the general
himself was earnestly opposed to the proceeding,
and exerted himself strenuously to induce a sus
pension of the arbitrary act. the highest praise
is due to Oeneral Dix for the course he pursued
in the matter, and we have not tbe slightest
doubt that the correspondence between bim and
the War Department", if it ever sees the light,
will exhibit him in the character of a faithful de
fender of the rights of the person and press in
America.
Two of the editors of the Journal were arrest
ed. One of tbem, Mr. Hallock, was in the office
at tho time of the seizure. Mr Prime, alio had
left but a few moments before and gone up town,
beard, by mere accident, of the orders, and at
ouce finding one o! Gen. Dii's staff, who was
charged with their execution, surrendered him
self and was by him conveyed to headquarters.
He was there received with great courtesy by Gen.
Dix, who informed him that the order for his ar
rest had been suspetided, but that the order to
hold the newppapers remained in force, and he
could not be permitted to enter the office Mr.
Stone having heard at his residence in Brooklyn
that the office was occupied by the military, 'at
once proceeded to New York "to find his asso
ciates and ascertain the nature of the difficulty,
and learning of their arrest he spent the night in
endeavoring to find the officers having them in
charge a search which was unsuccessful until
about three o'clock. Meantime the officers had
visited his house, and informed Mrs. Stone tbat
they were seeking him to convey to Fort Lafay
ette, and she was left through the night In the
deepest anxiety as to his fate. Mr. Hallock was
very kindly allowed to arrange some office mat
ters of importance, and to write a note to his
family, who were of course thrown into the
greatest distress by its receipt. He was then con -veyed
in a carriage to the Battery, where the
countermanding order found him, and he was re
leased. The editorial rc union was, after much
searching and anxiety, finally effected at the of
fice of the Associated Press! at 3 o'clock in the
morning.
From uiue o'clock on Wednesday night till
eleven o'clock on Saturday morning our office
was held by a detachment of soldiers, aud the
people of this city had an excellent opportunity
of seeing that strange sight to American eyes,
bayonets crossed nt the door of a newspaper es
tablishment. During this time we made uo representation or
application of any kind to the United States au
thorities. We contented ourselves with an oc
casional inquiry at headquarters whether any
new orders were received, receiving a negative
reply until Saturday, when an order was given
us requiring the Captain in charge to hand over
the office of the Journal of Commerce to "the
bearer."
We have thus briefly recited the history of the
suspension of the Journal of Commerce and the
arrest of its editors.
We now turn for a moment to the origin of the
fraud which was perpetrated ou us.
The forger has been arrested, and has made
his confession. Our article for Thursday mom
iug pointed to the man.
Mr. Joseph Howard, the guilty individual, was
educated to the newspaper business on the New
York Times, and is familiarly kuown as "How
ard of the Times." He was a thorough news
paper man, familiar with all the facts necessary
to accomplish his purpose. He was a favorite
contributor to the Independent, President of the
First Republican Association in Brooklyn, long
a member Re -Mr Reecho's vliuTvb,
member of the Republican Committee of Kings
county, and employed lately in a subordinate
pobitiou on the Eagle. He is well known in
radical circles, the intimate associate of the
most eminent of tbeir politicians, and it is a
singular circumstance, which we have thought it
our duty to lay before the authorities, that on
Thursday last he stated to one of our resorters
that he had been drinking champagne all tbe
previous night with one of the most prominent
Republican politicians, who is knowu to be a
heavy stock operator. We do not make this
curious catalogue. It is a rem ukable concatena
tion of facts, and we give it as it stands.
This ingenious scamp, for stock operations,
committed the forgery and entrapped the news
papers. We entertain no feelings of animosity toward
the young man. He has done us a great, in some
respects an irreparable injury. We understand
tbat his father aud Rev. Mr. Beecher, and other
prominent gentlemen ot tho radical party, have
waited on Geoetal Dix with earnest representa
tions in his favor, stating that he was misled by
pecuniary misfortunes, or else that he was a weak
tool in the hands of wily men, and that his pun
ishment ought to be light and his release speedy.
Possibly these representations will be successful,
and ii the immense damage done by government
to the innocent, the family suffering inflicted, and
the pecuniary loss caused to us and our contem
porary, should all be credited to the accouut of
the guilty young man, it might be made to ap
pear that the punishment was already nearly ade
quate. But we have nothing to do with the
punishment of the guilty, leaving him to bis po
litical friends who have influence at Washington.
Our present concern relates only to the treat
ment of the innocent.
We were caught, as wore others not the New
York World alone, but other papers, who by pure
accident, and no'.hing else, were enabled to dis
cover the fraud in time to suppress immense
editions already printed, destroy stereotype pages
containing the forgery, and save their reputa
tions. We suffered.
They would not have been punished as we were
had they published it. No one dreams that if the
radical newspapers had been caught, the Admin
istration would have pursued the course they
took. It was one of the accidents of the morn
ing, tbat while only a few hundred copies of the
Herald were sent out containing it, two conserva
tive papers issued it in a Urge part of their edi
tions. Then arose the storm of political hatred
aud partisan auimositv, and the men at Wash
ington went mad.
To the disgrace of American history, au order
was iustantly issued for our suspension and in
carceration in Fort Lafayette. The fullest par
ticulars of the fraud, as full as the public have
to-day, excepting only the name of tbe forger,
were laid before the Rdministrationbp telegraph.
To the disgrace of republican institutions, the
order was reiterated in the face of those facts.
The telegraph wires groaned with dispatches
from "loyal leaguers, friends of "Howard of the
Times," " members of Republican committees
and anti slavery churches, begging the Prejideut
to suppress the copperhead newspapers in New
York. For three days this disgraceful state of
things continued, and the sun Ehone all the
while on tbe land that was cursed with such in
habitants. The press of New York city, excepting only
tbe Tiroes, was frank and outspoken in condemn
ing the whole proceeding. Especially bhould be
noticed that the Tribune, the Post, the Sun, and
tbe Commercial Advertiser, were true to old and
noble principles. We regret that the Post sub
sequenlly lent its columns to a correspondent
whose pen overflowed with folly, falsehoods and
malignity.
What bad we done to be thus delivered over
to ruin?
We call to witness the respectable newspaper
press from Atlantic to Pacific, when we ay it
was impossible, by auy degree of caution, to
prevent such an occurrence. There is not a
newspaper editor in America who, had he been
iu our office, would not applaud the course pur
sued by our foreman, and free him from all
blame. Nor can any living man by any degree
of care or ingenuity make himself or his business
safe against fraud. Show us the mau that dare
boast of such immunity.
Mark this. We have within three years done
more than fifiv thousand dollars worth of gratui
tous advertising for this same Administration,
who have sent us orders innumerable to hunt tip
officers, to announce drafts, to proclaim this or
that, every order coming to us io almost fae
imi of this forged dispatch, a id with no tenS-
catioD whatever. There ia eoreely a bight ia
the year that the War Department does not seed
us. on manifold paper, now in this and now in
that handwriting, at one, two, three, or four
o'clock, some such proclamation or order. If
we should refuse to publish oue of these we
should be denounced as copperheads. If we de
manded verification or pay, we should be booted
at as traitors. Nay, more, we were ourselves ar
rested, and our paper was suppressed, on a sup
posed order from Washington, written out by a
telegraphic operator, which General Dix took on
trust, because he had seen others that resembled
it which were true!
We have no defense of ourselves to make.1
We had done no w rong. We were victims of
fraud, and the President, in a moment of evil
judgment, resolved to punish our misfortune,
and hurled on us tbe mandate of a strong power,
destroying our property, and inflicting uot alone
a vast pecuniary damage, but a greater personal
wrong and injury. WTe have asked uo pardon from
him. The clenched hand of roan that strikes with
passiopate blow on the rock is bruised and csuuot
for long time recover the self inflicted injury.
The arm of authority, when it wields the sword
of anger against the spotless steel of tnuoccuce,
wastes the vigor of its sinews, and turns the
ede of the weapons. The voice of denuncia
tion thundered ever so loudly against the pure
dies feebly on the wind, and its tones become
forever powerless. It is not e that have been
harmed so much as he who has so fiercely struck
at us. WTe are grieved for him He has with
drawn his gracp, aud we are again fiee. And
now for the privnte wrong done us, we find it in
our hearts to forgive him. It was, perhaps, an
error of petulance or a mistake of poor judg
ment. Let it pass for awhile, till he and we can
think it over in calmer times.
The public wrong which iuvolves such mighty
interests the Constitution, the sacred authority
of law, the liberty of the press, the fieedom of
the citizon from unjust search and seizure of his
person or property, the fret dorn from arrest,
except on warrants duly authorized, the right to
be confronts! by accuseis, to trial by jury this
great wrong we have no power to pardon. Two
thousand years ago the Romans enacted the law
of Publius Fortius Lacca, which authorized an
appeal to the Roman people. In the time of
Paul that had been sadly changed to the appeal
to Caesar, for Cscsar had grasped the power of
the people. We possess the law in its original
purity, and by that appeal must this whole act
be judged. '
We thank our friends for their hearty support.
We thank many, very mauy gentlemen of the
Republicau party for their outspoken expressions
of opinion. We leave to their own shame the
contemptible catalogue of men who "stopped"
their papers, excepting out of that list, aud
honoring those wbo on Saturday came boldly to
us and said "we stopped because we thought "you
were wrong, we renew because we know you
were wronged."
Dut what, Americans, wbat is to be said for our
country and her prospects under tbe guidance of
those who can be so erring, so foolish, s weak ?
Does it shake our faith in the future T Does it
open to us any new view of doubt or despair T
In no wise. Patience, patieuce ! On the last
day that we issued our paper we spoke in earnest
tones, beseeching our countrymen to be patient
and faithful. Faithful to the old cause, the old
Union, tbe fid constitution. These men that
lead us in the mad course of radicalism are but
the men of a day. They cannot save our coun
try. They will vanish from our sight ete long.
Their deeds will follow them into oblivion or
shame ; and then by the peaceful recunence of
our national election we hall be placed iu the
position to save the grand old fabric of free in
stitutions.
From the distant battle fields the thunder of
cannon reaches our ears to night, and we know
that our brothers and sons are struggling, not for
a new country, but for the old faith that was
given by our fathers. Let us be patient and
labor, doing our duty here, iu whatever of pain
and persecution, under all the obloquy aud re
proach t'i at tbe men who desire to overthrow
our time honored system may heap ou us. Let
uo personal wrongs or private griefs shake our
faith or lessen our seal for the truth we uphold,
for the principles by which our nation is to be
saved, if saved at all. The majesty of the law
must be revered in our hearts even if violated in
our per sous, and it will yet be triumphant.
It was a sad and somewhat solemn view for an
American, that rush of the busy world along the
street, by the guarded doorway of a suppressed
newspaper. It was not for this, some thought, it
was not for this our bravo buys were dying on
the field. Meu receutly arrived from foreign
lands were unable to explain to themselves the
strange sight. Some citizens went along chuck
ling complacently over the accomplished sup
pression of a free press; but these were few, very
few in New York; and the vast throng, in the
mi-Mi, parsed bj -"ivli eodtUnd COUUteUauCes.
The dim eight of old men was dimmer with
the mist of tears wheu this sorrowful exhibition
of bayonets was made iu our great commercial
street. Tiie exceeding beauty of our national
character was marred ; the splendor of our his
toric freedom was tarnished ; the glory of our
American boast was gone. A man of more than
eighty years, born iu .New York, whose long and
peaceful life had blessed himself and benefited
his country, as he passed along the street, uttered
his sorrowful wish that God had let him die be
fore bis old eyes looked on such a scene. Young
men, strong and earnest, were not moved to
tears, but resolved that henceforth they would
recall the old traditions, restore if they might,
the old laws, And be content when the land was
again, as of old. united and free, to say their
nunc dimittit. Not till theu 1 ' Oh not till then 1
God graut that we may live and work, till this
story is remembered as hideous dream, and
from ocean to ocean the breeze that sweeps down
from our mountains shall again be the breath of
freedom.
i
ICunawajr Officer.
"Mack." writing to the Cincinnati Commer
cial from Washington says :
The city is full of officers and men who ran
away from their commands in the 1st engage
ment in Virginia. There is a much larger pro
portion of ofhsers than of men. Tbe hotels are
full of Colonels, Majors, Captains and Lieuten
ants, who, though severely wounded as they sav,
managed to come here on the double quick, a
distance of some sixty miles. Some of them, I
am confident, would not have stopped even here,
if they had not been reminded bv stumbling
against the Capitol building that tbey were far
enough to the rear. I saw a Major yesterday,
who, I a told by a surgeon, had no wonnd ex
cept a bruise in the forhead, which be had re
ceived by running against a tree in his blind
zeal to get away from the rebel bullets. It may
be set down as a well established fact in surgery
that men who are able to run sixty miles from a
battle field are more scared lhau hurt when they
start. But I am very glad to know that the
cowardice of such officers will meet severe pun
ishment at least, though not the more righteous
penalty of drum-head court martial aud summary
death hat is meted out to sneaks aud runaways
in the armies of other uations. The dismissal of
several has been noted, aud - when the "full re
turns" are iu there will be found plenty of va
cancies for the promotiou of worthy fellows who
bave stood up to the work like meu and soldiers.
The ."New Biahops of the Jlethodlat
Episcopal Church.
Tbe N. Y. Evening Post has the followiug la
regard to the three new Bishops of the M. E.
Church:
Rev. D. W. Clark is at present the editor of
the Ladies' Repository, at Cincinnati. He is a
native of Maine, and has long beeu one of the
most prominent clergy meu of his denomination
in the West.
Rev. Calvin Kingsley is at present editor of
the Western Christian Advocate, Cincinnati. He
is a Pennsylvanian, was for some time at tbe
head of one of the principal Methodist colleges
fh that State, and has for eight yeats acceptably
editei the chief organ of his denomination in the
West.
Rev. Dr. Thompson is at present editor of the
New York Christian Advocate and Journal. He
was for many ycais President of Delaware Col
lege in Ohio, aud is, we believe, an Englishman
by birth.
A lilt on Ilutler
The New York Evening Post, which has been
an admirer of BcTLta. and which is one of
the most radical of the abolition journals, now
says:
The readers of newspapers at this distance
from the seat of war are much purzled to under
stand what is taking place on tbe James River
under General Butler. The extraordinary ad
ministrative ability which that gentleman dis
played in New Orleans, caused great expecta
tions to be entertained ef his success in a military
command.' It is doubtful whether these expect
ations'have been fulfilled. .Private advices'vary
strangelv from the published accounts.
The meaning of this is, that BtTLta has beeu
lying in his official dispatches, claiming successes
be has never gained. . .
' The City Treasurer of Terre Haute reports
a delinquent list this spting of over $16,000
about one-half of the original amount on the tat
duplicate.
, . , n
STATE 1TI..TI.
The Terre Haute Journal saye:
rÄ cil-T paiJ out --lUM)' cd tb county
$G,100 in bountica to the one hundred das
men. Both authorities, had to borrow the
money.
Death or Jiuoc Bckee. We regret to an
nounce the death of Judge Michael F. Burke', at
his residence in Wasbiugtou, Daviess county, on
Sunday morning, the 22J inst. The deceased
was a native of Ireland. He came to this State
in 1819. After attending a course of law Ice
tures at the Bloomingtou University, he entered
upon the practice of his profenion at We.hing
ton, where he baa since been a resident. Judge
Burke was oue of the most prominent men of
Soulhern Indiana, and be was universally re
speotedfor bis ability, lutegiity and public spirit.
In all the relations of life, public and private. It
was liberal and generous to a fault.
In October, 15, be was elected Judge of the
Circuit composed of the couuties of Knox,
Daviess, Martin, Dubois, Pike and Gibson. In
the discharge of the trust confided to bim he ac
quired the reputation, and justly so, of an accom
plished jurist, impartial, honest aud court."ou8.
There were but few more promUing men in ;be
State, and, if he had lived, higher honors awaited
him. Judge Burke died young only thirty or
forty years of ago. He leaves a wife and three
children to mourn Ihe loss of a kind and iudul
gcut husband and father. Peace to bis ashes.
The Shelby ville Volunteer thus ventilates a
political parson:
ClIAFLAlX LOZIEKAX IatTOSTEB. We lat Wetk
briefly referred to the begging tour J Chaplain
Lozier through this county, a repuk agent if
the Sauitary Commission, and warned honest
people to give him a wide berth, or rather give
him nothing at all It was a remarkable fact
that none but abolitionists of the blackest dye
were appointed to solicit contributions they
were instructed to take down the names of every
male resident in the district, place the amount
given opposite their names, or in case they gave
nothing, the reply made to the solicitor. The
commuuitv will be surprised (at least that por
tion not fully posted as to tbe coi summate rascal
ity of the abolition party in eaerat, aud thia
Lozier in particular,; to learn that this canvass
had a double object one to solicit funds to run
the treasonable oath-bound Loyal League, and
the other to make a political classification or
canvass of the locality, the solicitor marking;
each name C. (for Ccpperhead,) U. (for Union),
and so on. Thote who cave in the belief tbat
they were contributing to alleviate the sufferings (
of the sick or wounded soldier were "taken ia (
and done for" the money will never be appro-.
pri.tted to any such purpose.
This Lozier approached a entlemau, suppos
ing him to be sound, and remarked that they
were making a thorough reorganization of the
League, and proposed ascertaining, by a careful
canvans, the exact strength of each party in
every township and county, and that Governor
Morton had pledged his word to procure furloughs
for a sufficient number of soldiers to enrry every
doubtful County for the League (Union as he
termed it) ticket. He also as much as intimated
that the money he was raiding was not fur the
purpose of alleviating the sufferings of tbe soldier
but for political purposes for the benefit of
Gov. Morton's "Bureau uf Finance" aud the
League generally.
Was a more execrable system of fraud, decep
tion, hypocrisy and villiany than this ever con
cocted by human vandals and imposed upon a
people? The devil himself w ould scoru aecneme
so black with villainy and after all a pretended
minister of the gospel is one of its aiders and
abetors aud probably originators. What can
honest men think of a party that resorts to such
means what cau the soldier think ot a class of
men that makes their calamities and sufferings
the pretext for defrauding the people of their
money, partially for their individual benefit and
paitially to advance tbe fell schemes of a cor
rupt, rotten andnreasonable party?
THE Sl'PPHKSSED JOrii.-VAL.
Governor Seymour' Instruction tt
DlMnct . Attorney Hall The Law
to be Vindicated Erery PrrtonT.n
faffed in the Outrage to be I'tin
Islied Warning to the Commercial
I Community The aarue Law for
July Hlotera and for Prcaidentv.
State or Nlw You, )
Exlcvtivk Drr-ARTSIESr.
Albaxt. May 23. 1HJ4 )
To A. Oakty Hall, Esq., District Attorney of
the County tf New Ytrk:
Sir: 1 am advised that on the 19th instant the
office of the Jourual of Commerce and tbat of
the New York World wereenteied by aimed men,
the property of the owners seized, and tbe prem
ises held by force for several days. It is charged
that these acts of violence were done without due
legal procct-s and without the sanction of State
or national laws.
If this be true the offenders must be pun
ished. In the month of July last, .wheu New York
was a scene of violence. I gave waning "that
the laws of the State must be enforced, its'
peace and order maintained, and tbe property of
its citizcus protected at every hazard." The
laws were enforced at a fearful cost of blood and
life.
Tbe declaration I then made w as not intended
merely for that occasion or against any class of
men. It is one of an enduring character, to be
asserted at all times and agaius-t all conditions of
citizens, without favor or distinction. Unless all
are made to bow to the law, it will be respected1
by none. Unless all are made secure io their '
rights of person and property, none can be pro
tected. It the owners of the above named jour
nals have violated state or national lats, they
must be proceeded against and punished by those
laws. Any action against tbem outside of legal
procedures is criminal. At this time of civil war
and disorder, the majesty of tbe law must be
upheld or society will sink into anarchy. Our
soldiers in the field will battle in vain for consti
tuMonal liberty, if persons or property or c;inion
are trampled upon at home. We must not give
up borne freedom, and thus disgrace tbe Ameri
can character, while our citizeus in the army are'
pouring oat their blood to maintain the national
honor. They must not find when they come . '
back that their personal and fireside rights have
been despoiled.
In addition to the general obligation to enforce
the laws of the land, there are local reasons why
they must be upheld iu tbe city of New York.
If tbey are not, its commerce and greatness will
be broken down. If this great center of wealth,
business, and enterprise is thrown into disorder
and baukruptcy, the National Government will
be paralyzed. What makes New York the heart
of our country? Why are ita pulsations felt at
the extremities of our land? Not through its
position alone, but because of the world-wide be
lief tbat property is safe within its lic.dts from,
waste by mobs and from spoliation by Govern
ment. The laborers in tbe workshop, the mine,
and iu the field, on this contioeut and in every
other part of the globe, send to iu merchants,,
for sale or exchange, the products of their toil..
These merchants are made the trustees of the
wealth of millions living in every laud, because
it is believed that in their bands property is sate
under the shield of laws administered upon prin
ciple and according to known usages. This
grcat confidence has grown up, in the course ot
many years, by virtue of a pains-taking, honest
performance of duty by tbe business men of your ,
city. Ia this they bave been aided by tbe en
forcement of laws based upon the solemnly re
corded pledges that "the right of the people to
be secure in tbeir persons, houses, papers aud ef
fects, against unreasonable searches and eeisures,
shall not be violated, aud that no one shall be
deprived pf liberty or property without due pro
cess of law."
For more than eighty years have we as a peo- .
.... . .a
pie been building up this universal laitn in tne
sanctity of our jurisprudence. It is this which
carries our commerce upon every ocean and
brings back to our merchants the wealth of every
clime. It ia nowr charged that, in utter disre
gard of the sensitiveness of that faith, at a mo
ment when tbe national credit is undergoing a
fearful trial, the organs of commerce are seized
and held, in violation of constitutional pledges,
that this act was done in a public mart ef j our
great city, and was thus forced upon the notice
ot the commercial a cents of the world, and tbey
were shown in an offensive way tbat property is
seized by military force and arbitrary orders.
These tilings are more hurtful to the national
honor and strength than the loss of battles. Tbe
world will confound such acts with the princi
ples of our government, and the foily and crimes
of officials will be looked upon as the natural re
sults of the spirit or our Institutions. Our State
aud local authorities must repel this ruinous in
ference. If the merchants of New York are cot
willing to have tbeir harbor sealed u and their-