Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-12-06
siont City 8tgister
SATURDAY, DEC. 6, so.
QUESTION ANSWERED..

of this paper how he likes the election Of
Seymour in New York? We answer that
Seymour will 60 into Office IS Governor
with a dead majority against him Of not
less than $4,000. 1t is the easiest matter
in the world nova days to elect Tory
Governors, when Tories stay at home, and
when 80 per cent Of Republican voters
are off a, the war DISTINGUISHED. A man
must have Stiffness approaching sublimity
who believes that the great States Of the
East would have been carried By the Sey.
mourites, If even half the soldiers Of those
States had been permitted to vote. The
great political revolution in the North
which you talk about SO fippan,ly, is all in
your eye, Mr. Robb! The apparent gain Of
your party grew out of a disreputable ad
vantage which Northern Tories took Of
absent Republican soldiers. Had your
party which pirates Of its Unionism with
the difiuseness OF the Fishmarkct vocabu.
larry, backed up its professions by sending
even 20 per cent Of its voters into the
field, Seymourism, with the Tory tenden
ciss and vauting ambition, would now be
ehrouded. cottined and inferred Are you
answered Bro. Robb p State Register.
Yes, answered as we might expect. 1t
seems impossible for the Republican pa
pers Of this State to speak Of their politi-
cal opponents without descending to low
abuse, and exhausting their vocabulary Of
"Tories,'" Traitors Submissionists,"
etc, etc.
Their sentences would not be full or
their article complete without they con-
tanned goodly number Of these pet terms.
This sort of literature may be pleasing,
and suit the tastes Of those who have been
long in the serrice, or, it may be that BY
some rule or regulation Of the Editorial
fraternity, unknown to inexperienced US.
it 10 required that an Editor shall villify,
denOunce. and call his opponents sll the
hard names to be thought Of. If there is
such rule, We hereby give our brethren
due notice that i. will not be observed BY
the present Editor Of this paper. This at
the risk Of being os:racised.
Blu. really, friend Local o. the Register,
that old tune Of what the result rould
haze been in New York, and other eastern
States, had the soldiers voted, is about
played out. Your fathers Of the N. Y.
Tribune, Times, Post and even the hide
pendent acknowledge the corn,' that
there has been "great political revolu-
ton in the North" and give their reasons
for such revolution, reasons that cannot
be conlroverted. Read and reflect:
: ITO have declared the District Of Col.
umbia in state Of siege and placed al
Maryland under martial law last April,
would have been plainly and amply JUST.
fable while TO seize aud incarcerats men
on the mere warrant Of a Secretary in
New York, Connecticut, and even Yer.
mont, at no time necessary, has for months
been naked and atrocious despo,ism.-
Mind, that we are not questioning the ex-
is,ence or Vaccinations Of traitors, even
in New England, nor disputing the pro
priety of arresting. convic,ing and punish.
ing them but it is a base libel on the
people of the free States to pretend that
tie state of opinion among them has for
months been such as to interpose any OBJ
stacle to the conviction and punishment
Of traitors and their emmisssres accord
ing to the forms of law. 1t is precise
ly because they should be punished l.
and readily may be-that we protest
against treatment which commends them
to popular sympathy when they should, if
found guilty, be exposed to general ds,es
taton. To seize on the one.sided ,esti
nony Of caves troopers and secret inform,
ers, who may be impelled by private NAL.
ice, citizens of thoroughly loyal States,
and hurry them to a military dungeon,
where no process can reach and no proof
Of innocence avail them, is an unwarrant.
ed impeachment of the loyalty of the
communities thus subjected to Austrian
rule, and an implication that their patriot.
ism is no safeguard for their liberties
Tribune.
From the following i. will be seen that
the Times threatened something more dan
gerous than mere "politcal revolution
"An imbecile Administration has given
indispulable proof of the incapacity to
conduct great war. Even its own frie nds
are constrained to confess its impotence,
and are meditatnR its displacement, by
extra constitutional and revolutionary
methods, tending to hopeless divisions in
the North and general anarchy"
But the Erening Post comes GU, openly
and candidly, and gives the milk in the
coca nut
"The second lesson taught (by the
November elections) is that the rights Of
peaceful and loyal citizens-the acknowl.
edged guarantees Of civil liberty--are not
to be triaed with or handled 10 an arbi-
trary manner. We acquit the administra.
ton wholly, in its various arrests Of ind.
viduals and its suppressions Of newspapers,
of the purpose to do wrong. We believe /.
that in the ma jority OF instances in which
they have incarcerated persons it, Fort
Warren or Fort Lafayette, they have done
NO substantial injustice; we hold too. that I
in times of civil war, these exceptional
proceedings are often absolutely necessa.
ry; but we approve and applaud at the
same time the jealousy with which the
popular mind always watches such resorts 4
They should be used only under imnerak