The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-12-16
10. 10.

French Espionage Established
on tIc fsnitlniurc ana ohio
ffOuai--f itiEcns Taken Ouf OF
the Cars by the Military, and
Thrown iutO Prison FOR Their
Opinions.
Last evening we received the following
dispatch from lIarper's Ferry.
"Thrce passengers by the Western
train were taken out Of the cars on arrival
OF the train, hy the military, AID impris-
oned, undor the following circumstances.
! The parties were merchants from Gin
cinnuti, who had started for Baltimore. AZ
Grafton they were heard 20 express them
selves quite freely relative 10 Brown, OK
lprcssiug sympathy Tor him and his family.
The conversation was heard BY q man al
legged 10 be a spy
We feel il our duty 10 take the above
dispatch out Of its regular place under our
Itclrgrlphic head, aud call special atten-
ton 20 il here, in our editorial columns
We want that the public here and else
whore, should see aud read this dis
patch to-day, irthey see and read nothing
else, for II Is well that they should begin
TO realize that the constitutional lihertios
attaching TO their citizenship have been
Iusurped, and are at this moment At tho
mercy Of a crazy schemcr and fanateal
aspirbnt We DO not exaggerete. tits
even 40. Citizens from abroad travelling
through this State, have no rights that
Gov. Wise feels himself bound to regFact.
lie wrcs's from them their constitutional
privileges as absolutely as Il he were a
despot Del Cratic, instead Of being q
petty usurper.
b Look at itl The Baltimore road is in a
+ state Of Cliectuul blockade. Not only
are travellers liable to be dragged rom
their seats, for the expression OF an opin-
ion, but on yesterday thore went into ef-
feet an cdict that no persons should be
, prcmittcd 20 pass over il unloss thoy bore
= with them a certificate fully signed By the
, GCnoral Agent here, 70 the effect that
8 they were persons known TO him as ht 10
be abroad within thc limits Of this Com
monwcalth. Any person for whom no
, cunnot certify, is loft at the mercy Of 0nF
usurpor's French espionage police. They
buy thcir tickuts ut the risk Of being drag
Iged out of their sents or their sleeping
brrths, at every station along tho road,
and made TO give an account OF themselves
, O. tell their business, where they come
, from, and where they are going.
This is no fancy picture. Il is a roali.
ty. ltcN,sts right here in this State oI
/ Virginia. Il 10 well that citizens Of 9th.
or States should know Il, and govern
! themselves accordingly Il is well shat
p they should know that our despotic au.
thortos, having, in every section Of the
State. save hero in the Free Panhandle
succeeded in ubolishng the liberties Of the
Press and of speech, have next turned
themselves TO placing the State in the
! position Of foreign power, and Of pre-
scrihing t'sts, and establishing passport
system against citizens Of other states.-
What Tacitus wrote of DomitiRnis ap.
nlicablo now to the dcspotism which rel gni
IL this State:
"The professors Of Learning have beer
expelled, and every liberal art banshed
lest any thing honorable should confront
him, he thought that he had abolished the
y voice of the Roman people, that liberty o
J the Senate, aud the conscience Of the hu
J man race, Really, zee haUe given a greG
proof Of patience; and as the old times saw
the extreme of liberty, 50 all Freedom o.
speaking and hearing being taken awaI
10y prosecutions, ire nor see he erireml
Of slGUsry.'- Wheeling InteHigeResr,