Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1862-04-23

GEN. CAMERON ARREsTED.-The notorious
Pierce Butler, caused warrant to be issued
in Philadelphia on the 18th, for tho arrest of
the Hon. Simon Cameron, a plea of being
falsely imprisoned in Fort Warren by the Sec
retary Of War. In referring to the arrest Of
Gen. Cameron, the Harrisburg Telegraph says:
The arrest OF Gen. Cameron has caused the
profoundest sensation throughout the country,
and the press with few insignificant excep-
tions, regard it new phase of the traitor
sympathy which showed itself with so much
virulenco before Sumter was basely attacked
or our troops at Bull Run SO unaccountably
paDicized. That he was arrested on the charge
of having falsely imprisoned, while Secretary
of War, certain parties, then charged with
secession, does not, lessen this feeling, because
the fact is SO clear that these persons had then
expressed their preferences for the rebel cause.
that the wonder predominates as to why they
were ever released from prison. The whole
affair is one of those ridiculous attempts of
such northern traitors to prove to their south.
ern friends that they are still devoted to their
alliance, and will OF course amount to fail
ure when properly brought before the courts.
The idea of holding cabinet officer iudicially
responsible for the arrest of such miscreants
as Pierce But Ter, is simply ridiculous.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, in
commenting on the same subject remarks:
ssThat there were a large number of noisy
defenders of Secessionism at the North all sum
ner and winter lis just as true as that there were
tories in the Revolutionary war. Whether de-
signedly not those men were in effect rem
dering aid and comfort to the foe, by deludng
him with the idea that he had only to advance
and he would find all the support among us
that he could require. The testimony of him.
dreds of southern rebels is explicit on this
point. All expected anoutburst of the northern
Breckenridge party, with whose aid the task
of Mexicanizing the country would be render
ed easy. We say it deliberately that the
strength of the insurgent army was due TO
this belief-most unfortunately illfounded.
Northern sympathizsrs with disunionism either
meant to render Davis and his fellow conspir-
ators material aid, or they did not. If the
former Imprisonment was far too good for
them, they ought not to censure the govern
ment for confining them, but laud its elem.
ency for their easy escape. If the latter,
they have been guilty Of committing piece
OF most cruel and heartless deception toward
their ga0nddm southern brethren DOW in
arms against the Union.''
The Philadelphia Press, In alluding to the
subjects, uses the following language.
s'Of course, following tie example of Mr..
Pierce Butler, we shall have any number of
suits brought against the officers of the Fed
S'"i w o' "aIous " sno ioIhS Pofft oCSu-
pants of FortW arren, Fort Lafayette, and Fort
McHenry. No better plan could be invented
to keep up the excitement against the Gov
ernment, and to cripple the energies of our
gallant soldiers in battle. We shall have some
rare scenes in our courts when this program
me is fully developed. After all these suspec-
ted gentlemen are vindicated and indemnifed,
Buckner, Tifghman, M'Kall, and all those
caught with arms in their hands, will insist
upon trial by jury; and when We catch Floyd,
Pillow, Cobb and Wise, [and Davis and Breck-
inridge,] these, too, will plead the pretec-
tion of the Constitution and the laws they
deliberately vi0lat ed -