The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1861-09-19
From the New York Daily News.
Freedom of the Press.

( The copies OF the Dairy News in the
,eharge of the Aaerican Express Company
swerc seized on yesterday by the U. S. Mar
,shal in this city. 1t is impossible to con-
ceive by what authority government can
confiscate, without legal process, private
property which business firm has receiv-
ted in trust for the use of others. AS well
might the same officer. lay violent hands up
ona citizens watch, his purse, or any article
which he has paid for and which belongs
exclusively to him. The Government, if
it has authorized this illegal seizure, has
gone one steptoo far, even to answer its own
psrPcscs. Reaching for shield to cover
itssweakness, it has "o'erlcaped itself and
FALLEN ON the other, side" Ii the Admin
istation will persist in gathering informa-
tion only from the columns of the war press,
it wsal never be awakened to sense to the
danger it is provking until t is too late
OF every hundred voters in the city of
New York seventy-fve are antagonistic to
the harsh and unconstitutional measures
adopted by Mr.. Lincoln aud his advi-
sers, and an equal proportion are absolute
friends of the peace party. The city is
quiet now-calm as a tropical sea when no
breath stirs the Tapping sail; but it is the
calmncss that precedes the hurricane We
are like men here sleeping within "A maga-
zine, where the train is laid aud the bia
-zing torch is at haHd; Que spark may spread
ruin and dcsolatien arcand. If the Ad-
ministration will but pause, look about,
take note of what is the true feeling and
ponder, much that is terrible may be a.
voided.
Such wanton outrages upon rghtand lib
erty rs have been Witnessed in our midst,
would have been sufficient to "stir the stones
0f Rome., to rise aud mutiny." The
WRONGS that precpitatcd the French Rcvo-
LUTON were innocent in comparison. Cit
:zens cast into dungeons without public
charge against them aid without hope OF
trial; private property c. nfscated at the
'bcck of those In power, the humblci thrrat
'ened aud suppressed, or prostitu;cd to
serve the ends OF famaticiSm. What ever
did Louis XVI. So tyr;,nicul and dan. .erouss
and vet he lost his head What ever dad
1srosd Britain so unjust to provoke the in.
diSna'ion OF her colonies: and yet she VI.
icnated them from her forever.
The people here have been nnaccustom.
ed such WRONGS; thcy can yet scarcely
f'N'''' "'N ibi tIt
time being with the quick succession OF
outrages that have been hurled at them,
and they stand silent and motionlc>s like
anen startled by au unexpected blow But
when they do awaken to a sense of injury
to full conception OF what they have
lost and what they are loo,ing-to an un-
derstanding that they arc gliding, by rapid
steps from freedom to bondage, they will
not lack the impulsive action OF the Partisan
his basricadcs, or the resolution OF their
doreiathcrs at Lexington aud Bunker Hill
New York letter Of the 9th says:
The proprietors of the Daily News, fear.
salng an attack upon their establishment Yes
terday applied to the police Superintendent
for protection. a force of 400 police was
held in reserve in the lower stations, but
up till one o'clock this morning their servi.
ces had not been CALLED into reuuistion
1t was reported that forty men, armed with
revoivers, We're retained by the proprietors
of the News, to meet any emergency. The
journal CT Commerce Office was also guar
.de1