New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-20

Of ts dlsaffected spirits. BY single law she
named and ident fed 300 of those who had fed
hey opd her limits and denounced against any
one Of them who should return imprisonment
and transportation, and death for returning Il
second time. BY another act. twenty niue
50 notorious conspiratOrs" were yistef with con-
fscatioD. Two Of these bad been Governors,
ore Lieutenant Governor, one Treasurer. one
AttOrncy- General, one Chief Justice, and four
Commissioners Of Customs. New-HampShire
passed acts similar to these, under which rs Of
her former citizens were prohibited from return
ing, and the estates Of y were forfeited. In
New-York the County Committees could arrest
and decide upon the guilt of persons supposed to
be in correspondence with the enemy, or who had
committed some other specified act. They might
imprison or Danish the guilty Lawyers opposed
to Independence were prohibited from practiclng.
The effects Of 50 persons, three Of whom were
women. were confscated. New Jersey punished
traitors and disatiected persons with severity,
forfciting their personal effects and leasing their
renl estate to Others In Pennsy lvaDia, 81 per
sons were required, by name, to appear in court
aud abide trial for treason, or il default thereof
to stand attaintcd; and, by a subsequent act, 80
others, also designated by name, were subjected
to conGscaton. One of tbese was Galloway,
man of high position and great fortune, who be-
gan BY being Whig but fell of and fled to
England. His coufscated property was worth
E40,O00. Delaware and Mar, land were equally
stringent in their enacImehts. Virginia treated
her dlsafiected as Aliens, and cOhfiscated their
effects. la North Carolina tie ccnfiscatIcn act
contained the names of O. persons and four
mercantile firms. 1t stripped them Of laed', ne
groes, and everything. Georgia adopted sun
liar legislation. South Carolina rank,d
next to Massachusetts in severity. Her small
Offenders, a. in number, were allowed to retain
their estates by paying II per cent OF their
value. When Charleston surrendered TO the Brlt-
ish, 2i0 of her principal inhabitants signed al
address to SIR Henry Clinton. in which they
begged to be readultted to tue character bnd
condition Of British subjects. Of these precious
traitors 63 we're aiterward banshed and lost
their property. Another set Of 20, who had
beld commissions under the Crown, shared
like fate, as DID - others who congratulated
CORVALLIS on defeating the Americans at Can.
den, and Ia more who were what was termed
obnoxious"
This copious summary Of the laws for punish
ing those who were 10 any way disahected 70
the Government shows that every State was
well aware of the necessity for d ,lng so. They
secured the two-iod purpose of banisbipg one
set Of traitors aud spies, and Of mpoyersbing
another whose wealth enabled them to be IL ore
dangerous in consequence. But the laws under
which they we're punished or expelled, in all
probability continue to stand upon the statute
book Many of them, though framed for par
{ cular emergency, must be found applicable to
the treasonabls acts and language Of some who
live in the North, and they should be overhauled
and examined.
If punishment for treason can ever be righte-
ously invoked. the time 10 lDflIct it is now upon
us. Millions Of acres in the rebeliols States
should be confiscated, their traitorous owners
bani.hed, AID their lands sold to Northern immi-
grants whose presence will carry loyalty with it.
A fund from these sales should be raised to in
d,mnify the thousands whom slayeholdng bru-
tally has driven away. Others. whose busl-
Dess has been ruined by the same lawessncss,
should be Unidentified from the same source.
Northern claims on citizens Of Georgia, con-
fscated by the State as they have been, should
be paid by coufscatng the property of Georgia
traitors The leaders of the rebellion should be
outlawed by Congress. and every
thorlzed to hunt them Own. No other law,
unless it be that Of the drum-head, can reach
them. The time for this crushing retaliation will
assuredly come. The nation demands 1t at the
earliest moment. No post-revolutionary flight Of
Torres could equal the begIra of these modern
traitors were such wholesome measures put Wig
orously il force. Then, having failed to destroy
this Government they viii learn that they have
succeeded IN de-troy ing tbeusrlves.