Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-11

And article lo1, as explicitly provides the came
thing viz:
'The foregoing articles are to be read and pub
linhed once IN every six months to every garrison,
reeieent troop or company mustered. or to be
mustered in the service of the United States and
are 10 be dy observed and Obeged 6g al officers and
soldiers sho are or shall Sc n said serviee."
Articles SO, in terms, extends the application of
the law to the employees Of the artillery and eng
neer corps and article 81 TO officers and soldiers of
the mlitis or others being mustered and in pay of
e. the United States" But even these last are ex-
empted unless "when Joined or acting in conjunc
ton with the regular forces of the United States"
and they are entitled, even when 30 acting, to
court martial of militia officers exclusively. No
court arta lawfully created under the articles of
war, can have any jurisdiction, except over the
persons thus made subject to those articles and
every member of every court msrtisl is required,
expressly by the 69th article, to swear that he will
be governed by 1.-THE provisions of an act establish
ing rules and articles for the gOvsment Of the ar
g mics of tbs Uaited stdtes"-thst is, the very act
from which these extracts have been taken.
Nay, so strictly has the law guarded the COM
stitutional rights of citizens not members Of the
army or the militia, that even in prescribing the
punishment of spies, universally recognized as the
worst criminals under the rules of war, it gives no
ju7isdiction whatever to the military tribunals over
any except aliens All American citizens, so trans
crossing, are left TO the penalties of the civllaw
as administered by the Courts Section of the
same act of 1906 contains the provision in question:
VIZ:
And be Il tuthsg enacted That in the tine of war,
al persons not citizens Of or o,oig allegiance to- the
UYsted etde Of America, who shall be found lurking
as SPIES in or about the Notifications or encamp
ments of the armies of the United States any of
them, shall suffer DEATH according to the law and
usage OF nations, by sentence of courtmartisl"
Since the LINCOLN Government processes net to
regard the people of Missouri as aliens, it is diff
cult to understand upon what grounds such afro
cious usurpatiOns are placed except that "the
means justify the end, for necessity" cannot be
plead IA justification What citizen of Missouri,
not an sbject slave TO the LINCOLN Dynasty, feels
that he is nov safe from dungeon and felons
fatei The Constitution of the United States pro-
vides that 1.-THE RGBT OF THE people TO KEEP AND
BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED,' yet General
Fremont boldly proclaims to the people of Mis-
souri, that aH persons toho shall be taken i0ih arms
b, their hdndsn within certain described lines,
shall Be tried By court martial and If found gully,
SHALL BE sBoT" What are constitutions and laws
worth when they can be thus set at defiance and
what must be the character of people who sane
ton such unwarranted usurpatonsf The most
despohc Cover. ments the world has ever known
never usurped greater powers than has the LINCOLN
Government du ing its brief existence. Yet there
are those in Missouri Kentucky, Maryland, and
Western Virgnis-and shall we say East Tennessee?
who cling to that despotism with strange in
fatustion. Such thing among free people is an
anomaly the like of which the world never wit
nessed before.