The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-08
Rirtlmnnh Dispatrb.
SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE s, 5, r,Stl 1851
Gen. CadwalIader.

Baltimore, was gentleman, If not soldier. |
Some of the Baltimore journals were disposed |
to congratulate themselves and the public gen |
orally upon the change of masters. II was |
poor business at best, the Baltimore South
well observes, the attempt to reconcile free
people to the injustice and disgrace of their
Acknowledgement, by representing their new
jailor as decent, civil sort of person-as If It
mattered greatly. If they we're to be bound and
scourged, whether the links that composed
their chains should be square or round. or the
cowhide that should be applied to their backs
be green or red. Nevertheless the journals in
question made this attempt, and seemingly
found great comfort In doing so. Gen. Can
wALLADER, they said, was gentleman as well
as soldier; he owned property in Maryland;
he vas personally acquainted with its people:
with many of them he was on terms of person
al friendship and intimacy ne would respect
their feelings and their rights; he would not
violate the laws, or transgress the limits which
they assign to the exercise OF military as well
as civil authority he would not imprison men
without cause, or seize private property with
out warrant of law; or commit any Of the
outrages upon private rights which mad dis
graced the administration of BUTLER. Better
things might be expected from Gen. CADwAL-
LADER-at least SO said, and doubtless thought.
these journals, and many respectable citizens
besides.
How these gratifying expectations have
been disappointed how mistaken this estimate
g tba Oh -oFj jha ~ -
cessary now to say. The South declares that
CADwALLADER will leave a name in Baltimore
as hateful as that of BUTLER for whilst he had
the tact to avoid making himself personally
obnoxious To the citizens, be has contriyed to
make the little finger of his authority heavie
than the loins of his predecessor Whilst
under his administration there has been
neither pr0clamations nor brigade orders
seizures Of public and private property
searches for arms, and the arrest and deten-
ton Of citizens, have proceeded as before.
The South mentious one instance. that of the
seizure and appropriation of q number of
fowling pieces part Of the stock in trade of a
respectable importer, a. robbery which was
more bare-faced, and less defensible, even
under the tyrant's plea of necessity, than any
act of BUTLER's-who confined his seizures to
military arms belonging to the city, or sus-
pected to be actually in course of tranship-
ment to the South.
Upon the crowning outrage of all, that
which will damn CAowALLADER forever in the
estimation of all men who have The faintest ap-
probation of constitutional freedom, the South
has the following forcibie comments, bold ut
terances. which prove that the spirit of liberty
is not yet dead in Maryland:
In the case OF Mr. Merryman, in refusing
TO obey the writ Of h06eas corpus, or to per-
init the service OF the process OF the Court,
General Cadwaiiader has capped the china TX
OF official Outrage, while In his communica-
tons, both oral and written, to the Chief
Justice of the United States, he has tran
scended the utmost license of military inso-
ience. Does anybody, for example, believe
that Gen. Cadwallader told the truth when
he pleaded his engagements at the Fort, as an
excuse Tor not appearing in Court, IN obe-
dience 10 the writ which had been served upon
him Is anybody so simple rs 20 imagine that
the regrets which he commissioned his aid
de caBap TO deliver to the Chief Justice were
9th tnan a subteriuge and a falsehoOd un-
worthy OF an officer and a Gentleman Gen.
CIdwallader had no idea of obeying the writ,
stil less of placing himself in the power Of
the Court 10 answer tor his disobedience.-
ana llleD MS letter 10 the CnieI uStlce, CLOS
ing with the insolent admonition, "that
those who sh Ould cooperate in the present
| trying and painful position in which our
| country is placed, should not, by reason or
| any unnec eSsary want of confidence in
| eacn other, increase our embarrassment is. -
| AS If the venerable and upright magis trate
whom he was addressing, had any other OBJ
| lect Al heart than the yindication of the Con-
| stituton and the Laws whose chief minister
| he is, seeking to "embarrassn the ope
Ia tion Of either The New y ork Tribune APP
| piauds Gen. Cadwallader for this insult to
| the Chief Justice and characterizes 1t rs Il
| t'stinging rebuke,' which "would penetrate
| n less hardened bosom than that of Roger Il.
| Tauey - But it is not the manner of the
deed which constitutes the sum OF CadWaila-
ders intamy. The assumption to suspend the
| writ of habedS corpus at his own discretion,
| or by virtue of ins tructions received from the
President, il violation of the Constitu ton, is,
| without exception or qualification, the great
| est outrage that has been, or can be, Inflicted
| upon the rights of a citizen. Apart from
the injury done to Mr., Merryman, who
| is thus Illegally held and nnprison ed,
| a fatal blow has been struck at the
| liberties of the people-the last, great
est, only bulwark of those liberties has
been pros trated in the dust. The authorities
| which we published yesterday, and which we
| repubiish to-day, upon the subject of the
| writ of hd6edS corpus, show with what jeai-
| Gus care our foreta theirs have sought TO guard
| the right of personal liberty, and how this
high writ was framed TO be its safe guard
| and protection. General Caawallader has
| assumed to do what in England the Queen s
Males W dare not Go-no, not tor the Crown
| to tramsle upon the writ, and upon the rights
| it was Ia tended to defend. For this crime
| there is no punishment that would be too Sc
we're, ana immor tallty OF lnfamy Will be
his due port ton in history General Cadwal-
| lader, We believe, was educated IA lawyer
and IN SHINING has therefore sinned agalns'
light and knowledge: but lawyer or not, M
| Knows that the Constitution is law foi
him rs we'll as for the President; and thai
the President can no more authorize him t6
commit palpable violation of that instru'
ment, than he authorize him to commit
theft and murder. The Presidents instruc
tions afford no greater warrant for act OF
disobedicnce to the writ of hd5edS corpus, fol
the false Imprisonment OF citizen, for
| breach OF the plain letter OF the Con titutiOn
! than for the commission of any other crime
! Whatever may be the final result in the cast
| of Mr.. Merryman, eli ther regards that gen
| tleman indi vidually, or with respect to III,
| vindication OF the great principles of Righ
| and Liberty which have been violated in hi,
| tion of Gen. CadWailader viii be the same =
| Nothing can ever eflace the damning st.a,
which his part in this most tyrannical and in
iquitous proceeding has brought upon hi
| name and which will cieaye TO his memor,
for centuries after his body has rotted in III
grave.
| SOUTHERN BANK CONVENTION. Banl
| Convention of The Confederate States organ
| lied in Atlanta, Ga, on the Sd inst. CT. Il
| Lamar, Esq, tlate of New York city, wa
4 chosen Pres iden /, and j ). Iibbes, Secretary
i writes sHtas Hfa 3 s#eeH z
The business mt the morning session was re
ferred to u commi ttee. The sand committee
| reported atI o'clock p. NJ. The greatest hi.r
inony prevailed. All seemed disposed TO de
. wise and aid in carrying out liberal means ii
| a the Government OF the COnIeue