Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-09-06
The Detective Police.

excellent article in the Post, which,
coming from a Democratic source, will
have great weight:
The Union must be sustained-this is
our great and unaterable purpose. All
means that will honorably advance this
end are iustfable--it is necessary that
all feasible means should be adopted,
without fear, favor, or a silly squeamish-
ness that we shall tread little upon the
skirts OF absolutism. If we are compel
ed to adopt the method of tyrants to the
ends of Justice and liberty let us do it
for Justice and liberty and not for tyr
amy. Davis and Beaure2ard in their
tents, by telegraph wires colored like,
and running through, the leaves OF the
forest, by the aid Of traitor clerks in the
Department of State in Washington,
who were seeking the murder Of that
mother who gave them their daily food
by the aid Of men high in the public con-
fdence as gentlemen and patriots by the
aid of ladies, so called, who were nour-
ished into the pride and splendor Of their
day by that capitol city whose destruct-
ION they were seeking to encompass, and
who did this by using the interminabIe
recesses and holy precincts OF their
neither garments TO convey information;
by spies in most of the great Northern
cities have discovered all our intended
movements, and have coolly calculated
their moves upon the chess board Of war,
to meet and battle them. Secresy is one
of the best principles Of war, but secresy
we have had none. Treason, with her
dark lantern, walked in siIken pomp
through our streets, banqueted at our
hotels, marched in uniform at the heads
of our troops, and clapped sweet soft
hands over princely dinner tables at our
defeats. Reason can no longer endure
this-miIitary skill all goes for nothing
unless it can battle the secret monster Of
sediton.
A new step has been taken. Gov
eminent is resolutely working; it i
adopting means adequate to the ends to
be reached. The detective police system
in Washington and at all proper points
in tue North, will do the work 1t has
commenced work in those places where
the blows will tell 1t strikes in high
places-the lesser vermin shrink cover
ingly to their hiding places. Mayor
Berrett will have to torego the pleasure
of giving jefferson Davis grand recep-
ton and the hospitality Of de city Of
Washington, when the 'conqa.ring hero
comes
The light-mndcd old lady, Miss Win
die, and the accomplished Mrs, Phillips,
with her two daughter bellies. and Mrs,
Greenhow, wife Of the former Librarian
Of the State Department., all duunas OF
BclErayja, can now discourse tousai ho"
sweet a thing it is to be free. They
never understood it before. They begin
to think freedom worth something. Now,
by little reflection j. women who are
capable Of treason are capable of reaec-
ton, they can understand Why the mil
lions of the North are IN arms to support
a reasonable constitutional liberty. They
cry out Star Chamber High Com
mission Hapsburg,' Bourbon Bas-
tile Despolic Espionage as though we
had adopted the systems Of Loyola to
discover, and of Troquemada to torture,
honorable people in high places for the
yilest purposes ola Nero. But we assure
them that if thew will ioin the Commune
RsyoIutionaire' of the North. If tlev will
oroori,o 1Toriannes, and 1IiIitanto.' in
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