Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-08-27
THE NEWS HERE.

The BALTIMORE EXCHANGE 10 horrined and
lachrymose turns the arrest Of females, and
the suppression Of the publication Of ked treason
resorted to by the Government as means Of de-
Tending the Union az at present assailed. Though
the EIehaHge could see nothing whatever repre-
bensible In any Of the outrages upon legal rights
Of person and property resorted to in behalf of the
cause Of the destruction Of the Union, II was Of
course expected to cry aloud against any resort to
extraordinary measures to defeat the treason Of
the oligarchy, as IL has been constantly protest
ing against any and every thing done up to this
time by any authority, military or civil, to that
end
We state the case against which it complains,
as follows. Viz:
From the moment Secretary Of War Walker
proclaimed a crusade for the capture of Washing
ton, and the Richmond organs Of the oligarchy
proclaimed that when captured II was designed
TO raze Il to the ground, women have been the
most active agents Of the JEFF Davis rebellion in
our midst. They have not only received and con-
cealed spies, and been the bearers Of ira. torous
correspondence, concealed under their clothes, to
and from Washington, but they have been them
selves the writers OF most of such correspondence
that has gone from hence 10 Richmond and Ma
nassas. In fact, the rebel commanders have been
constantly "ploughing with heifers" at this
point. The natural indisposition Of gentlemen to
adopt harsh measures towards any of the other
sex secured them an immunity until very recently,
that rendered all the efforts Of the military and
civil authorities to keep their war plans from the
enemy, entirely futile. Ii at length became appa-
rent that women actively engaged In aiding aud
ahetting the military operations Of the oligarchy
'nHSf be dealt with precisely as men engaged
should be, under the penalty Of the failure of the
xU9 fOPt ha att ~ a.
The authorities are now therefore, taking due
care hatwomen as well as men, shall be restrain
ed from active treachery against the Union
SO. too, In the case of traitor newspapers Under
the mask of the liberty Of the press under our
laws, many newspapers have been fagrantly
laborng to strengthen the cause of the treason of
the times, by the publication Of information of
military movements the PRONUNCIATION of which
was calculated to defeat their success; by the
publication of false statements concerning the
purposes and measures of the Government on
the one hand and OF the ollgarchy on the other;
BY striving to organize treason out of the
seeded States, and, In fine, by a resort to every
possible expedient to embaTrass the due prosecu-
ton Of the war, &c.
1t has become plain that the traitorous sbors Of
such journals HKst be stopped, or the Government
may not reasonably hope to succeed In the war;
cXccpt dt enormous dQQitlondl cost OF treasure and
life above and beyond that which will be neces-
sary IL the traitor-newspaper endorsements be
promptly obviated. So the Government 10 now
vigorously obviating them.
The liberty Of the press for which the Baltimore
EIeAangs and Republican, and the New York
Nstrs and Day Book contend, Ii simply neither
more nor less than license TO incuIcate ana de-
fend treason, to defeat the military measures Of
the Government, and to compass the permanent
destruction Of the Union-unquestioned-by the
authorities.
The country at large, 90 deeply interested in
speedy termination Of the war and In the pressr-
Walton everywhere intact Of all the rights and
Liberties Of the American citizen as existing under
the Constitution and laws, knowing well that the
greatest present drawback to such consumma-
ton 10 the immunity with which the treason has
been aided and abetted by inimical papers In
non-seceded States, hail with joy the Govern.
ments determination to treat hereafter that most
dangerous class Of traitors, AZ public enemies
Their publications should not only be suppressed,
but the persons Of those responsible for their
treacherous teachings should be held with firm
hand, until they may otherwise be no longer able
TO aid In composing the defeat Of the arms of the
United States