New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-11
NUMBER 1862.
as they do now Of petition sent from Haverhill
some twenty years ago to Congress, praying for
the dissolution of the Union,



ANTI-WAR FEELING IN TowA.-In Nebraska a
bushel Of wheat is gi7en in exchange for pound
of coffee. The papers in that Territory are down
heavy upon the direct taxes imposed at the late
session Of Congress. How do they expect war to
be carried on without money, and money to be
raised but by taxation! If they wond avoid the
latter, let them oppose war.
From the Syracuse o. " Courie-.i
FREEboA OF THE Press N THE NoRTH.-What
man, what constitution what law what divinity
has conferred upon Mr.. Lincoln or his Admnistra-
ton the right to limit the reading of the people, to
prescribe their media Of political information /?
Where is the charter Of his Executive power war
rantng that he shall practically forbid 1000 or
90 coo subscribers in these loyal States from read
ing the New York News, the Day Book. the
Journal Of Commerce, the Eagle OF the Freeman's
journal? The freedom Of the press includes three
things freedom to write, freedom to print free
dom to use any or all the channels of circulation.
And yet the Administration so narrows the circn-
lation Of the True American that it is compelled to
suspend its publication. 1t seizes the press and
material of the Christian Observer, published at
Philadelphia, and suspends wholly the publication
of that paper. 1t sezes the Jeferaonian, in West.
chester county, Pennsylvania, and suppresses its
publication. While it does all this without justif-
cation, it finds in the presentment of a rabid and
tanatcaI partisan Grand Jury in New York, pos
sibly packed for that purpose-without trial, with
out even Indictment and without law to war
rant it-an excuse for denying to half dozen
papers in New York their equal right to mail
scfoers their equal right to mail facilities.
1t thus indirectly assumes to prescribe to every
citizen what sentiments he shall read, what reaS-
onings he shall see what opinions he shall alone
form hold, far at least as reading tends to the
formation Of opinion. Thus the Cabinet assumes
not merely to tyrannize over the press but over
the opinions of every citizen in the United States
This Administration directs its march of aggres-
sion against Democratic journals and against the
religious journals which, in obedience to the COM
mands OF their Divine Master, preach peace and
good will among men, But establish this prece-
dent now, and the next usurper may pass by the
Methodist Observer or the Catholic Freeman s
Journal and suppress the Baptist the Unitarian,
the Episcopal or the Presbyterian press. Now it
assas Democratic journals, a few years or months
hence q like usurpation may with equal right
directly or indirectly annihilate the Republican.
From the Detroit Free Press
A CENSORSHIP FOR THE PREss.-Who is to be
| the judge whether newspaper shall be published
| Or not? Who shall determine whether the issues
| of journal shall be carried through the mails
Shall there be censor of the press in every local
| ity where a newspaper is published, or will the
| Administration appoint some one to whom every
article shall be submitted for approval before it is
| published? Must we support with hearty good will
! every measure and act of the Administration
whether think it right, proper and judicious,
| not? Such seems to be the determination of the
| authorities at Washington.
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