New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-13

scf his youth, and anxious to be openly recon.
sled to the true faith of the region OF his birth,
receives no absolutOn, but is delivered over 10
The secular arm for restraint and correction.
Aud even Mr.. William NJ. Browne, who merely
certified to the harmless character of Mr. Hurl-
but found all his services rendered 10 slavery
pLd Secession in Tie Journal Of Commerce ana
@rar Constitution, scarcely sufficient to save him
from the susRicion of being concealed malig-
uant. Invalid Northern women have been driven
from the hospitable South on suspicion of Union
ism. Other women have been scoureed and
tsrred and feathered for the utterance of the
came heresy. Men have been tortured and
murdered by the score and robbed and exiled
by the hundred for simple loyalty to the flag
upder which they were born. And so ei,ectual
has this stringency been, not dissenting voice
dare make itself heard in all the insurgent 70.
eior in expOstulation or in disapproval.
are need not say how different our treatment
soemes has been. We have bettered the
y, 4 extreme doctrines Of Christianity on that
It. Tor no Quaker, we believe, has ever he'd
X be Christian duty to solicit his enemies to
o smuo ulnl VI clluCI ChtNhi unu I'sy HA'"
for the service, and still less to pick up and re-
store the sworl which foe had dropped, and
t. put him into position of yet greater power
of mischief. And yet the Departments have done
these very things in what they have done. and
IN what they have lett uDdone. That the dis
aster at Bull Run was due 70 the advices given
Soc enemy BY known traitors in the pay OF the
NJ 20 .racf Of n frpa0bpr.
Gus or iInbecile commander, is now the deliber-
ate conviction of the nation, and it is not in
frame of mind to suffer these things to be done
over again No Northern man eau put his foot
on Southern soil but at the risk of his lle
while shoals of Secessonists roam at will over
the North, insulting the very flag that protects
them. 1t is affirmed, and we see no reason to
doubt it, that one of Beauregard's aids has been
seen in tds city since the battle in which he
took part What would be the chance Of loyal
Ell Ger to escape detection and punishment who
shoald venture SOuthward No Northern woman
would be allowed to 20 South, or If already
there, permitted to open her lips in criticism or
dissent. While Washington and Baltimore are
mariniog with Rebels in crinoline, who cast
frebrands, arrows, and death from the safe en-
trenchments of their petticOats. Nay, there are
numerous cases of the wives and children of
men In arms against the Nation, sent to
their relatives at the North for orr pro-
lection, while they themselves are fighting
against us. And these women are, undoubtedly,
giving ali the intelligence they can to the enemy,
aaG ohattering treason with all their might.
Now these things may be unavoidable in the
green tree but they cannot be endured In the
dry. AS the war goes on this sort OF thing
must cease We trust, aud are sure, that
we shall never initiate the barbarties Of the
Southern example in this matter; but we hold
that il will be found essential to arrest every
man coming from the South, who cannot give
good account OF himself, and to put all Southern
residents, women as well as men, under the
surveillance of the police of the places where
xaey are found, and to permit them to have no
cor ln,InicatiOn with the enemy that has not un-
Serroue official examination. And all nOn-com-
b.tants will have either to be held as hostages
sor the good treatment of our men who fall
into tae eneny's hands, or else sent back under
escort to help consume his means and to encum-
DER him, not us. Such are some of the incidents
OF state of war. and they must be accepted as
such, az fast as we learn that such state is
existept Otherwise, we shall consent to teht
our enemy With one hand tied behind us, while
he has the fa and unrcstraned use OF both HIS
When patience has ceased to be virtue, 1t
ysrory. very fast into vice and very bad one.
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