St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-08-14
IMPORTANT ORDER.

IMPORTANT ORDER.
Those Who o''sec.:s: - Hnl,'smrnt to b.
WASHINGTON, August 8.
The following order authorizing arrest
Of persons discoa1a5iug inlistments has
been issued:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, D. c.. August 8.
Order lst.-1hat all United States
Marsha!s and Superintendants or Chiefs
and they are hereby authorized and direct
ed to arrest and imprison any person or
persons who may be engaged by act or
speech, or writing, in dlscouraging vo1un-
teer enl'stments. or in any way giving aid
aud comfort to the enemy, or in any other
disloyal practice against the United States.
End THAT immedi4te report be made
to Major l.. G. Turner, Judge Advocate,
in order that such persons may be tried
before military commissioner.
3d.-The expenses Of such arrest i'm
prisionments will be certified by the Chief
Of the War Department for settlement
aud payment.
lsigned,l EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Secretary fWsr,
Under this order, we trust, that MI.
Stanton will at once proceed to arrest and
lmprison Abraham Lincoln, who, for the
just punishment Of our national crimes. is
now President Of these disunited States.
No man breathing is doing 50 much, as he,
to discourage volunteer enlstments. BY
act, speech and writing he is constantly
d. couraglng cnlistments. Last week at.
ter We had our paper up, setting forth the
Encouragement to enlistment and warm
ing our citizens to avoid the snare OF the
900, 900 call Of guards for rebel property
the nail brought the news that the Presi
dent had availed himself of the Militia
Act aud resolved to draft 800 900 addi-
tionaI troops. This act authorized him to
arm negroes, aud Gov. -Sprague had called
for 4 Brigade of negroes. COL Forney
said alta public meeting in Philadelphia,
on the 18th ult.
that President Lincoln had told him, before
leaving Washington, that henc:fbrth his policy
should Be as stringent a. the most enthusiastic
could desire. That hereafter there ,ciH be no re-
''riction in the employment Of all men to pm dom
this rebellion. No more doubling about the
con6scation Of Rebel property. No longer
need the Northern people be frightened with
the cry Of Negro Equality and Emancipation.
"He thought II proper to put arms in their
thought We might as we'll terminate the war
to day if it was not TO be fought with the aid
Of the colored men Of the South. Gen. Wash
ington, in the Revolutionary war, used them,
and at the battle Of Red Bank, l777, ne n
Philadelphia, Rhode Island regiment of
blacks turned the fortunes of the day"
Well. all these things being so we con-
cluded that our article on "Voluntcering"
had been written without full knowledge
on the subject and that there really was
change Of policy. s., we wrote two short
articles calling upon everybody to voluu
teer and inserted them in the same paper
giving it very decided want Of decision,
blowing hot and cold in the same breath
Our enthusiasm, for rapid enlistments,
lasted until Saturdays mail came-three
whole days-~when 10 and behold the last
news is that President Lincoln has declar.
ed his unalterable determination not to
arm negroes! He will resign first! God
grant he would do it soon There is no
end to the assertions about the uncon-
querablo frmness of honest old Abe but
wherein his tirmness consists we are una
bic to see, unless it is the unalterable fix
edness with which he contradicts, to. day
all that he said yesterday, and the mulish
determination with. which he stul.,6es
himself every time his Kentucky masters
command him.
Fact Of the business is Mr.. Lincoln is
very good man; and has as much soul
as most men, but it has to diffusc itself
over so much body that there is always
delay and difficulty in summoning couu.
ell Of the faculties. The telegraph wires
between his brain and the extremities are
too long to work well-it takes too long
to hear from the back counties-so, after
be has thought matters over and supposes
his election made, some frontier motive