New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-03
her arms everywhere triumphant, she was ut

her arms everywhere triumphant, she was ut
terly undOne.
In times of great public peril like the pres
ent. it seems necessary to wink at official acts
of arbitrary power which would not be eli-
dured for moment in n state of peace. We
do not surrender our liberties, but we hold
them in allowance while the Nations fate treIn-
bles in the balance. We are living under
regime not OF Law but Of Force. 81 In war, the
Law is silent" is the gist Of very old maxim.
Any of US may be snapped up at moment's
notice aud immured in prison indefinitely,
without other warrant than some functionary
order. And whoever is must make the best oil
his fate. knowing that oil this is casual aud
transliory. Ia our poor judgment, nine-tenihs
of the arbitrary arrests thus far bad far better
not been made; but we would not deprive the
Government of the power to make them IN
crisis Ike the present Let it be distinctly
made. the subject of rigorous and dlspassiona'e
inquiry after Peace, and that, while 10 one
should suffer Cor his Innocent mistakes III hon.
estly endeay0riug 10 serve aud save his cOun-
try, il Will 90 very hard with any one who Is
proved to have graifed his own malice or his
love OF exercising dcspotlc power, without the
warrant Of public necessity.
What We mainly apprchend however. is not
that individuals shall suGer--tbey always Do
and must suffer in q cOnyulson like this-but
that the sanitary popular instinct which res rds
with iealousy every infringement Of con,liu-
tonal safeguards for Liberty may bc dchaucted
and broken down. We fear there are too man!
patriots this day Who if their hearts were LAID
open, would be willing 70 reward with an i'm
perial crown tue Military genius who should
speedily and utterly crush out the Rebellion.
In view Of TINS tendency, it Is in one sense
fortunate that our struggle has as yet de-
ycloped 10 Cromwell, Napoleon, nor even an
Andrew jackson. Corrupted as public sentl-
meut has become by forty years trucking t.
the Slave Power. too many might be ready to
evince their gratitude 10 the savior of orr Ma
tiouallty BY making bin present OF our
Liberty.
This train of thought is more Immediately
impclled by reading IN a current periodical an
article on /" Lolis NapoeoB-By John :. c.
Abbott the Rev. gentleman who Las laborcd
so uDscrupulously and - prcfiiably 10 Varni-h
over tie more conspicuous crimes and peridics
of The FIRST NAPOLEON, until even the yiainy
which lur,d ferdinand VII. out of ms King
dom by Tie most solemn and reiterated PERU
rirs. ana then deprived hun of his liberty a.
well as his throne, is made 70 LOCK heroic and
yirtuous. The following IL a specimen Of ihc
COO! assurance with which hs later undertaking
is executed:
10 iootle reni.a' o. N.iaeoa .ere lr p'L' ron st
iieen'. .,r Va ,.." 100 ,,.,s
efsml % b,u si' O.. .rsieh 't ttc en ll- is 3D.
prisoner al c,nsrned 70 be cstc ti ~ iic
I'rr hr n'd Ina dfray o'f''ls for 'n S'N' 10 "'5
ltit be cscopcd ~ tie Ral. ~ wYfbu4ai and fsird
ass row r,vuulon in iuLr- snd Lo-i,ll! ICE vas driven
from the thfole ne hsa''o T.. pePi' d''1n ia 40 ~
stey elscsd TO tho Netifs Asty D. ts eon' nc. Of
rs'ia TIM i've m.Di-ns :" g c.''i'.a -. ie 'arl'
.Yf5a.g IRA, abof csh tse Hy4I and ren'ofe nf I'D
o,sc f~ de'p s''n Loai' la on o. %, -. H@t' cop
ysrded him for the decd b. ic,,t.uf tie empire. I'D
p.-en- the lapesia4 cfo"n upon MS ufo"
We do not care 10 comment on these
atrocous assertions. The facts are too recent
aud too glarng. What We are concerned with
is not the INDUSTRIOUS Icryersion OF Tie current
history Of great European nation, but the
lurking disease in our own systcm which r.
betrayed by the patient reception aud read!
liberation OF slch impudent apologies for usurra-
ton by conspiracy and Wholesale murder. lie
sure that tho People who are prepared TO
listen with complaceucy to column after column
OF such excuses for the overthrow by Military
orce OF a sister Republic and the establishment
on its ruins Of an utrs.Asatic despptisrI, are
not too secure in the enjoyment Of their own
liberties.