New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-09-05
ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
REPUBLICAN PAPER UPON THEM.

From the Now York World, Aug 26.
THE ARREST OF CHARLES J. NIGER
! SOIL
I'VE publish elsewhere the speech de-
livcred by Charles J. Ingersoll at the
Philadelphia democratic meeting on
Saturday last, for which he has been
arrested by order of the government.
It no doubt contains world Of iacen-
diary and disloyal matter, or he would
not have been arrested ; but a great
many honest people will 'cudgel their
brains" without finding it out. He ex
presses doubt as to the wisdom and
honesty of the administration, it is true !;
but then Horace Greeley and Wendell
Philips have done the same thing in n
ffty.fold more offensive manner-yct
the one offender receives respectful
letter sigSed "A Lincoln" and the 9th.
er is sent to Jail.
| 1t is an extraordinary spectacle
which we have witnessed for the last
year-a free people, the freest on earth
tenacious of their rights, ;mpcrious for
the largest liberty, quietly submitting
to the suspension Of their rights and
liberties. to restricted freedom of the
press, the suspension of the hobeas
corpus, imprisonments without trial,
alterations without PREPARATION.
The President of the United States
and his advisers will terribly mistake
the temper of the American people, the
secret of their submission to, Of their
demand for, these stretches of cxecu-
tive power, if they presume to act upon
the presumption that they will tolerate
them for any other end whatever than
the suppression of the rebellion"
We now have the announcement
from Washington that the administra-
ton has the remarkable condesccnsion
to allow the people-the sovereisms -
to criticise the acts Of their ocn chosen
rulers. Is it possible that our govern
ment has drifted so far toward despo-
tism that this constitutional RICH. has
ever been questioned by the admins
trAtion? We clip the following in re-
gard to the temper of these arrests
from the Washington correspondence
of the Chicago Times, under date Of
/ Aug Goth
u Tho s~se->s<D. -. -Al~1ony ia ut pres
ent matter Of some discussion among
his friends and enemies. The fact that
he is an old man has excited considera-
BILE sympathy for his case, even among
his political enemies, and they would
gladly join his friends in endeavoring
to obtain his discharge, were it not
that it is feared that his presence just
now in Iowa mi ght have an unfayora.
bic influence upon the coming Congress
sional election in other words, it is
believed that in keeping the old man
; in the Old Capitol, he will be prevent
ed from getting into the new. In Mis-.
souri, and other border States. overt
traitors are sworn, put under heavy
bonds, and released Should VIC not
be as lcnient with offenders among our
own citizens, particularly when the
crimes with which they are charged arc
not half as heinous as those Of our
Missouri brethren ? 1t is just barely
possible that a persistence in such a
course may subject the parties interest
ed to the unpleasant suspicion Of being
actuated less by patriotism than politi-
cal partisanship. If Gen. Butler at
New Orleans, Schofelj in Missouri,
Johnson in Tennessee, Grant in Mem
phls, and Federal authorities every
where, will receive men who have slain
our soldiers by the score, and, after TAX
ing their oaths and bonds for its OBJ
servance, release them, why cannot we
be equally merciful, and release upon
the same terms paralytic old man,
whose offence, at worst, is that of ''dis-
couraging enlistments" and-bting
nominated for Congress
COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Howard Co., Iowa,
Monday, Sept. LIST, 1867 o'clock.
SEPTEMBER SESSION.