Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-29
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The Federal G6tirt at Frankfort has hi.
dicted a number of The citizens of Ken
lucky for treason. =.
Some of these against whom indiet-
ments were preferred are in the Confede-
rate armies, and expect to remain there
until the independence of the, South is
acknowledged and the North have ceased
their war against the right of a free peo-
pie to govern themselves. @fe I1'2 'a'e" -
Others are not in the Southern army,
and in no manner have aided or abetted
the enemies of the usurpation, whose
will the Federal Court enforces to the
extent of its power, regardless of the
oath of the Federal Judge. i..B ,,,a E.
But the question of innocence or guilt
never entered the minds of the Federal
Grand Jury, and was not considered by
them in framing indictments The pri-
vate citizen, pursuing quietly his peace
full avocation, and abstaining from all po-
litical or military movements, if he had
the misfortune to have incurred the en-
nifty of grand juror, or of prominent
Federal sympathizer, was suddenly
held up to the eyes of his astonished
neighbors as a traitor worthy of death,
while the soldier who has left home,
friends, kindred, and is fighting bravely
and heroically for that liberty of which
ABRAHAM LINCOLN seeks to deprive him
by means of his armies and through his
corrupt instruments, who disgrace the
Halls of Justice, having no personal enc
mics in high places, is unnoticed and
passes unscathed.
1t is thus that the alleged necessity for
supporting by violent and illegal means
the tyranny of the usurper is made the
pretext for the qualification of the pri-
yate malice and personal antipathies of
these citizens to sink their manhood in
doing homage to the destroyers of their
liberty HfF .zsF aH.rs1 49,
Thirty-two citizens of Kentucky have
been indicted for high treason. Their
| crime is loyalty to the Constitution of
| the United States and the Constitution
of Kentucky. Their offence consists in
| the efforts they have made and the efforts
they are making to defend the institu-
tions of freedom against the encroach-
ments of a President who has, in grasp
ing after absolute power, violated his
| oath, broken the Constitution, and dis
regarded all the obligations he owed to
his country. The charge laid against
| them is that they considered their allie
| glance due 70. the Constitution and the
| laws, and not to. an administration, and
acted accordingly in the war commenced
| and waged by the President and his par
| ty against that sacred instrument and
the statutes of the nation and all the
decisions of all the tribunals of the land.
''Thc head and front OF their offending
hath this extent no more" For this a
grand jury selected with scrupulous care,
for the work expected of them by a vile
pensioner on the bounty of a tyrant, and
charged by Judges who prefers office and
its emoluments to private station and the
appreciation of the good and the true
and the wise, has indicted them of an
infamous crime, and in SO indicting them
called the attention of the freemen of the
country to the virtues and the courage
which thus made them conspicuous
marks of Federal hate and fit objects for
Federal vengeance.
But in looking over the list of. the names
of those indicted by the Federal Grand
Jury, we are surprised to miss those OF
Ex-Governor MoREHEAp, RKUREN L. Dur
RETT, M. W. BARR, r Il. STANTON, JAMES
H. HALL, B. F. THOMAS, GEo. FoRREsTKR
and others now confined in Forts Lafay-
cite and Warren on the order of the
President. These men, all prominent
Kentuckians, have been arrested, carried
out of the State, immured in the dun.
geons of foreign prisons, and denied all
theirights which they claimed under the
i Constitution and the laws. Why were
they not indicted? If they are guilty Of
any crime against the United States, ii
was the duty of this Grand Jury to pre-
fer ;ndicfmenfs against them. If they