Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-16
THE REBEL BANDITTI.

Since this deplorable war began the presi'
dent aud lis advisers have been assailed with
every variety OF threat and appeal, lest they
should infringe upon the rights of property in
the rebel states. The leaders OF the conspir-
acy against the government have at every step
taken advantage of its sensitivencss and eau
ton, and haveplayed the rickpocket while we
have been prudently considering whether it
was wise to check them or moi. The famous
sequeslration act, issued 10y the thieves AT
Richmond, who style their organization the
department of justice" ought 10 have the
effect to convince all loyal people that we are
engaged in war with a desperate and unscru'
pulous foe, who hesitates at no act OF injustice
or dishonur and against whom our hesitation
is both blunder and a crime The act to
which we allude provides for the contiscation
of "the estates. property, and effects OF allen
enemies and persons aiding the same in the
existing war against the United States" The
"aen enemies" whose property and estates
are thus made tributary to the war against
the government are defined by the attur,
Benjamin OF louisiana to be call persons who
have domici within the states with which
this government 1.-THE rebel states) is at war
no matter whether they be citizens or not.
Thus the subjects of Great Britain, France, or
other neutral nations, who have a domicil, or
are carrying on business or traffic within the
states at war with this confederacy, are alien
enemies under the law" The privation and
distress which this atrocious act of robbery
will carry to many household, both at the
north and south, will have no lair parable! in
the history of rebellions. 1t strikes destruc.
tive and deadly blow at public confidence, the
rights of citizenship, the rights of property.
everything which hostile nations have hereto
fore been accustomed to the last extremity to
respect The Baltimore American speaks of
this latest iniquity with just and indig..
nant emphasis, but plucks consolation from
the netlles in the fact that The great
government of the United States is yet
a power--mighty, recognized 10y the ma
lions of the Garth, and is moving upon
this great conspiracy against human rights
with The certainty almost OF fate itself. 1t
may be delayed because it is ponderous, mas
siye-and great bodies move slowly but it
will in the end crush this conspiracy, it will
grind it 10 powder, it will turn the tables upon
these unlicensed plunderers. The region
robbed cannot furnish a fraction OF the spOils
in gold and silver; 1t cannot annihilate titles
TO land it cannot conSummdte its vast wicked
ness. There will come a day of retribution-
day to reinstate-a time when the United
States courts viii sit in judgment upon these
iniquities in their very strongholds. There
will be disgorging OF illgotten plunder;
there will be deserved punishment And let
the Union men join hands anew to make no
terms with so great an evil, so foul an in
justice. They have new motives to exeriion
in the necessity which arises TO rescue Union
men from those who avow no mercy toward
them. Triumphant there, it would turn upon
the Union men in other states with its appe
lite but sharpened for conquest, for plumber,
until only the bounds OF the continent would
crafty its rapacity, its thirst Tor bloodshed
and spoil