Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-09-17
Wen Donel

we learn, that day or two since, some Confed-
crate officers brought before Gov Vance couple Of
citizens of Alamance, who had been arrested by
them without civil process. The Governor asked
them for their authority for making the arrest and
holding the citizens referred to as prisoners They
had none Of civil nature He then told them that
neither he nor they had any right to make such ar
rests except in pursuance of the action of the civil
magistrates; and he ordered the prisoners to be re-
leased. He declared it to be his purpose to uphold
the law against the entertainments of military pow.
err and to protect every citizen as far as he could
in his Constitutional rights; and then turning to
the released citizens themselves, he admonished
them sharply of the Importance of so acting as to
avoid just suspicion, and told them that all who vio
lated the law, or disturbed the peace or committed
acts calculated or intended to injure the common
cause, would certainly be punished. But the lao
must have its course, and the military power must
be kept within its appropriate sphere
We give this Us we heard it from gentlemen who
happened to be present Such course on the part
of Gov. Vance will increase his hold on the conf
dence of the people. His face is nAexibly set, not
only against unauthorized assumptions of power by
the military, but against every thing designed or
intended to cripple the Southern cause He be-
lieVes that we can achieve liberty in the contest now
going on with our Northern foes, and at the same
time preserve it intact among ourselves.
GEN. ISAAC E. STEvENs-It is stated that Gen.
Isaac E. Steyens, of Washington Territory, was
slain, among other federal Generals, in the late bat
tie of Manassas. Gen. Stevens had received mill
tary education, and was appointed in 1858 or so,
by Mr.. Buchanan Governor of Washington Terri
tory. He was prominent member of the Charles
ton and Baltimore Conventions, from the Territory
referred to- and the author of the minority re-
port at Baltimore, which preceded the bolt at that
place and the consequent destruction of the Demo-
cratic party. With Caleb Gushing, Gen. B. F. But
Ter, Col. Isaac H. Wright, and others of the New
England States, with several from California and
Oregon, he vas too intensely Southern in his feel
ings to sit in that Convention with tie Douglas
men Of the two sections. He was one of the bolt
ers He got his reward in Brisader Generalship,
and was assigned to the coast of South Carolina,
whence he was called with portion of his COM
rnand to take part in the late battles Benjamin F.
Butler also received his reward in Major General
Ship and has since disgraced himself and his Sec
ton at New Orleans We hope soon to hear that
he has met the same fate. Every Northern bolter
of prominence was either an office holder under Mr.
Buchanan, or received his reward soon afterwards.
That unhappy old man, James Buchanan is largely
responsible for the destruction of the Democratic
party, the consequent dissolution of the Union and
the present war; and he was moved almost entirely
in this bloody and unnatural business, BY his ma
lgnant personal hatred towards Stephen A. Douglas
Gen. Stevens was the leader, in the Convention
referred to- of the 10 Lane party-and this leads to
the inquiry, where is Gen. Joseph Lane? In 1860
he was red hot for the South. His friend Stevens
is in his grave-where is he? He has not yet
drawn his sword for the South, as he promised to
d. and he never will.