Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-22
Thc Infamou. arrc.,..

namDef O. tottcai prisoners have been released
from their prison IN the old Capitol IN Washing.
ton. Two Judges Of Illinois Courts are among
them, who we're arrested for the impartial dis
charge Of their official dnties We rejoice to see,
likewise. the release o. the gallant ID. A Ma
honey. the able and undaunted editor OF the Du-
buque Daily Herald The arrest Of this gentle
man appears TO haze had Tor iis object - deprive
the Democracy OF Iowa OF the aid OF bis pen aud
his personal influence during the late election
canvass Not that the Iowa election l. over, aud
that il j. declared Aboitionist BY the fraudulent
return OF votes from Iowa regiments, whose rank
and 6ie were Democrats, but their officers /" Re \
publicans," Mr. Maboney j. allowed to return 10
hrs home His business, meantime has been al !
most ruined. and hi- health has suffered from the
rigors Of bis confinement.
Wemay state that We received. Indirectly, /
several communications from him " bile in prison, !
but, as often, withheld them from publication /
knowing the cruel and lawless seventies that
would be multiplied against him, were anything
20 be published from him, without the consent of
his Jaers- We can, now, ouly congratulate Mr.. 3
Mahoney in being again at his post We trust
he has lost of his fire. aud we need not
doubt that his resolution IL as firm as that of the
rest OF US in the interests of justice, and for the
future security Of freedom on this soil to follow
every vioator of law who has outrae Ell our rights
by civil and criminal process, in trial after trial.
before juries of our countrym long the
offenders and we do live.
In the meantime, there are horrible cases Of
wrong still in preparation. within the civil
jurisdiction of the State of New York. The
venerable Dir. Odds, of Ohio, is still supposed to
be immured in the unwholesome dungeons of
Fort Lafayette. and subjected to its specially bru
tai turn KEYS in shoulder straps. 1t is stated that
his health has thereby been seriously perhaps
irreparably. injured Hi. "Ofiense" speech
during the canvass in Ohio, OF the same purport
and nowise in excess. of speeches made in this
city and State in the canvass before our election
Ii was, in his case as in others the caplious freak
OF some hreliDg. that singled him for win
dictiye PRECAUTIONARY once vlctimized, the
recollection of his Imprisonment seems TO have
passed from those by whose unwarranted order it
was made
But why partcularize? If We begin speaking
of names OF men horribly wronged, the list would
fill our columns. There IL Mayor Brown. of
Baltimore. For fourteen months he has Ian
guished in military prisons, dangerous his deli
cate health. What is his history? In The Bati
more riot regarding the Massachusetts, regiment,
he risked his life, and opposed the overwhelming
majority of public opinion in Baltimore. in rescu-
Ing that regiment from the excited mob. He
then visited Washington. and had official in
terview with the President. What did Lincoln
afterwards say of him? he said that he believed
Mayor Brown was an honest man." That he
was more careful than some others about making
promises of what he could and would do, bu, that
he had fulfilled to the letter all he did promise in
regard to Baltimore Why, then, did Lincoln
permit his respectful request to his cold
blooded white livered and propheticaly haluci
mated Secretary of State, Mr.. Seward, to be OF no
etfectl What kind of an "honest old Abel is
that, who requests his clerk to rescnd order
tor the unwarranted Imprisonment of one he
believes to be an honest man." and lets such a
request be used by his clerk as cigar lighter?
And our heart bleeds when think of that
venerable member of the Baltimore bar, L.
Parkin Scott So elevated ami pure is his
character, just "a man is he. that. when all the
/ Catholic Bishops of the United States used to
assemble in Baltimore in Council, they used to
consult especially with him. in regard 10 all their
proposed canons that might have reference 10 the
Constitution and laws of the States or of the
! United States. Such WAS the confidence of the
Catholic Hierarchy 10 his knowledge and ir his
devotion his country and its laws. Never was
there child so gentle and accomplishing as he
in his barbarous Imprisonment. We saw this
accomplished gentleman at Fort Lafay ette, day
| after day, sitting down TO the bad sc ldlers
rations-inferior and badly cooked pork served
on filthy tin plates. accompanied by brown bread
and hot decoction of burnt rye and molasses-
without mk-called. by way OF jest coffee His
and thin straw pallet, iron stretcher.
the guns of the fort. and surrounded by men of
every degree of social culture and every kind of
moral habits. As an old FRIEND and aSDbrother
| Catholic, we had. and enjoy ed full a claim to
| his confidence as any other of the prisoners. But
never did We hear-neverd did any other one hear
one word of wrath. even OF complant-from
this noble confessor He suffered for his coun-
try, and with purity OF intention regretted
we could not emulate. he offered the sacrifice as
a service to his God
We say here, solemnly and advisedly, after
full conversations with Mr. Scott on the ques-
tons in deb ,te-he had done n0thing-contem-
plated nothing not in harmony with the character
of law abiding citizen. Yet, having broken no
law-nor contemplating doing so-but, otherwise,
resolved. AS freeman, to preserve the fundamen-
tai institutions Of his country's freedom--not for
| any oilense. but las matter OF precaution,
this noble Christian patriot was ordered into an
| Imprisonment accompanied with unusual rigor
and insults, by that political failure and verbose
| word artist William II. Seward-who never
knew what patriotism or honesty meant. Mr..
Seward, once on u time, when he vet hoped for
Catholic votes, pretended to have wonderful
love for Catholics. He has prolessed vast re-
/ spect and Difference for some of the Catholic
hierarchy. Now, in the Catholic hierarchy, there
is no Bishop--there can be none--who has not
known and appreciated the worth. the purity, the
honesty, the patriotic intelligence and faith, OF
1 Parkin Scott Some of BishopS-thOugh
not of Mr.. Stewards political brotherhood--have
told that they have represented his case to the
august s,gacity of that prodigious personaton
whom the Reverend Eliphalet Mott. of Union
! College. and Thurlow Weed. OF the Albany
lobby, divide the honors of having transformed
from a village lawyer into Statesman.
/ The result OF all the entreates. ard of all the
representations and of all the Influence" used,
amounts to this:
L. Parkn Scott, in the fifteenth month of his
"precaution AIRY Imprisonment, by order of W m.
II. Seward, without one syllable of lawful charge
| against him, sull draws his rations in Fort War
ren says his prayers. and offers up grievons sui
: ferings TO God We hone that all Catholics,
whether friends of William II. Seward or net,
NAV participate in the merits OF Dir. SCOTS pa
tient endurance for conscience sake.
We must forbear for the present. There are
other dainty themes of grief that viii be forth
coming in their time New York Freeman
f, Journal.
ESCAPE OF AN ILLINOIS SOLDIER FROM CHARLES
TON -The following Is an extract OF a letter re
Gently received by the Rev. Mr. Schrider OF
Washington county. Illinois. from his son, re
Gently prisoner II Charleston:
THE fortunes of war decreei that should be