The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-23
From the London Times, Sept. 10.

Arbitrary Arrests in the United States
The Alleged Tyranny OF the Lincoln
Cabinet.
OF all coun tries on the face of the earth.
we should have thought that the United
States Of America, or the Government which
PROCESSES to represent them, would have
possessed the greatest confidence in the truth
of what are called liberal opinions, and the
expediency as we'll the Justice Of liberal
principles. The extraordinary development
of the material prosperity of the United
States has often been ascribed by European
travellers and statesmen to the wonderful
combination of circumstances which have
placed at the command of single people
land the most fertile of any on the face of
the earth. labor supplied in any quantity
and gratuitously by the tceming populations
of overcrowded Europe, and a command
over the powers of nature and an ability TO
dispense with and supply the want of hu-
man labor, such az the advanced physical
science of the nineteenth century alone could
afford. But this has not been the view of
America herself. Without Understanding
her physical advantages, especially those de-
rived from her enormous territorial extent,
America has insisted with no unreasonable
pride, as the highest of her attractions. upon
the possession Of the midest. the most lib
al and the least arbitrary and oppressive
Government on the face of tho earth. In
this happy land we are told reason and feel
Ing 90 together The Chief Magistrate, who
Is really the ssrvant Of the people, is not
erected by a misdirected feeling of LOYALTY
into their master; the sovereignty is really
as well as nomiually In the mass of citizens.
and the agents whom they employ render
them a strict account and conform Vigorously
to the laws which their sovereign has en-
acted for their guidance. x
Mr.. Insersoll and Col. Wall are seized
and sent TO prison, without any legal for
malIty whatever, as guilty of treason 1t is
treason to argue against the exercise by the
Government OF powers which depend upon
particular construction of written instru-
ment. 1t Is treason 10 express a bad opinion
OF the Government. 1t is treason in a Door
man, who makes his bread BIZ castins sb ellis
to express his opinion of the folly of men
who are prevailed upon to enlist in order to
make themselves the sport of these intern al
inventions. l. is treason to saw that the
Union is not worth preserving at the Price
OF the blood and misery that is paid for it
1t IS treason to say that liberty is invaded
or to cal. in question any public act of the
Government. There is not one-tenth par
of the liberty of opinion or discussion in re-
publican America that exists in imperia
France. But this law is interpreted by the
the same wanton caprice which made it
1t seems an established rule that American
treason is crime which can only be com
mitted by the party that is out-bv the
Democrats; but that the same words and
actions which Constitute treason in them
are no treason at all in Republicans. The
merit of having voted for Mr.. Lincoln ha:
given them, by anticipation, the right t.
commit treason with impunity. We car
not tell the amount of dissatisfaction which
these things produce in America. 1t mus
be measured by the degree in which person
al liberty is valued.