Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1859-12-02
French Espionage
SO IsfApIIsHID or THB Fs 40
ALTIMORE AND OHIO ROADI

EIZBNS TAhES OUT OF THE CARS BY THE
aEILITARY,5AED THROWN INTO PRISON FOR
THEIR oPISIONs. E
Last evening we received the. following
spatch from Harper's Ferry: j,
"Three passengers by the Western train
ere taken out of the cars on arrival of
e train, by the military, and imprisoned,
pder the following circumstances. The
rites were merchants from Cincinnati,
ho had started for Baltimore. At Graf
n they We're heard. to express themselves
bite freely relative to Brown, expressing
mpathg for him and his family. The
pnversation was heard by man alleged
be spy.2 SIX
We feel it to-bc our duty to take the
pove despatch out from its regular
ace under our Geographic head, and call
pecial attention to it here, in our editorial
Plumns. We want that the public here
I'D elsewhere, should see and read this
espatch, to-day, if they see and read
pthingelse, forit is wellthatthey should
egin to ,realize that the constitutional
Dertics attaching to their citizenship have
cen usurped, and are at this moment at
e mercy of crazy schemer and fanatic
aspirant. We do not exaggeratc. 1t is
zen so. Citizens from abroad, travelling
rough this State, have no rights that
ov. Wise feels himself bound to respect.
wrests from them their constitutional
'ivileges as absolutely as if he were q
espOt del grGtid, instead of being a petty
supper. -
Look at it The Baltimore road is in a
ate of effectual blockade. Not only are
avelers on it liable to be dragged from
cir seats, for tue expression of an opin-
n, but on yesterday there went into
feet an edict that no persons should be
PRINTED toipass over it unless they bore
18th them a certificate duly signed by the
eneral Agent here, to the effect that they
epersons knownt to him rs fitto be abroad
thin the sacred limits of this Common
ealth.. Any person5forswhom he cannot
rtify, is left at the mercy of our usurper's
rench espionage police. They must buy
cir tickets at theriskof being dragged out
their seats or housekeeping berths, at every
alton along theroad, and made to give
account of themselves, to tell their
lsiness, where they came from, and
here they are going. -
This is NO fancy picture. Iii asrcality.
exists right here in this State of yrr-
MIA. It is well that citizens of other
Ives accordingly. It is well that they
ould know that our despotic authorities,
wing, in every section of the State,
We here in the Free Panhandle, succeed
! in abOlishing the liberties of the Press
id of Speech, have next turned themselves
placing the State in the position of
reign power, and of prescribing tests,
I'D establishing passport system against
tizens of other States.
What Tacitus wrote of Domitian is ap-
icable now to the despotism which reigns,
this State: The professors of learning
aying been expelled, aud every liberal
It bqpished- lest anything honorable
poulds confront him, he thought that he
ad abolished the voice of the Roman
eople, the liberty of the Senate, and the
pnscience of the human race. Really, ,ce
gre giOen a great proof Of patience; and as
be old times saw the extreme in liberty,
all freedom of speaking and hearing
eing taken away by prosecutions, 700 no,O
e the extreme Of slavery"