The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1862-09-12
A Warning from New York to the Ad-
mInistration.

A Warning from New York to the Ad- !
m1nistration.
The New York World, Republican
paper, has the manliness TO censure in no
unmistakable terms, the arrest of men in
that city without sufficient cause, and thus
openly warns the Administration to desist
from further outrages of this kind. 1t
asks:
(" Does Secretary Stanton seriously be.
leve that New York city is going tamely
to submit to this outrage! Is it really
his idea that, because he has put a provost
marshal ov.r us, he can 10 with us as he
peasess If he has the glimmer of such
notion, we charge him, for his own sake,
to get clear of it as soon as may be. Its
lure is destruction. This community is
loyal-noue in the land more so. Our
| people have poured out their treasure like
dust and their blood like water to vlnd-
cate the rightful authority Of the govern
ment They intend to do so to the end
But-will Secretary Stanton please to IN
derstand-they do it not as Spartan helots,
!
| iects, but as American freemen. They do
| it not to meet any mans behests, but to
meet their own sense Of duty not because
they are driven to it by power, but be-
cause they are drawn to it by liberty. 1t
is an atrocious insult for Secretary Stanton
to assume that New York city came: be
trusted with the regulation of its own pat
rioIism-that be has got to intrude upon
us an experience of what he dares to do in
the way of tyranny, in order that we NAV
be the more heedful and submissive. We
can tell him that his hardihood will not
serve him. Our people will stand no such
domineerlng. They have gone into this
contest for the sole purpose of preserving
their civil rights, and they no more mean
to surrender them to usurpation in Wash.
ington than to usurpation in Richmond
They are not to be deceived by any pre-
text of state necessity. There is no such
necessity. In the very nature of the case
there can be none, inasmueh as the rcrv
first necessity of this republican govern.
ment Is the preservation Of its essential
principle-which is freedom, regulated BY
law. When that is lost, all is lost. He
who destroys i: is of all public enemies
the worst. lie may call himself friend,
yea guardian and champion, but he is like
him who, when the highwayman is upon
you, defends your purse by taking your
life.
Has Secretary Stanton ever heard Of
the Bastile, whose key hangs at Mount
Vernon E? Has he yet to learn how it was
leveled by hands that could no longer hold
off, and how its stones built the Bridge of
Revolution over the Seine, for the express
purpose that they should be tramped up
on by the feet of the people forever -
What infatuation for him TO imagine that
they can be re-erected in this land of
Washington. The thing is impossible
We warn him not to persist in attempting
it, He would be crushed a thousand
times over sooner than he could begin TO
succeed. But the bare attempt, we will
say the mere semblance of an attempt, is
mischievous. Done in the name of public
authority, it is only calculated to embitter
the people against public authority. Pro
Tossing to establish unity, it only promotes
disrnrd- Pretending to concentrate the
public spi,it, it only distracts and weakens
it. Jealous loyalists are panied and hu
inflated. The lukewarm relapse into apa
thy. The disposed alone are encouraa
ed. These gain defense of strength in
finitely beyond anything they could other
wise command. They give us the lie
when we say that we are fighting for con-
stitutional law, and we have naught to an
swcr. When the controversy touches
2 traitors, we may perhaps dare tell them
that traitors are outaws-that they have
no rights which the government is bound
to respect. But when loyal men are in
:. question-those whose fidelity is clear and
]. indispntable-what can any honest man
rejoin to the thrust that log atty has no Sc
curity, that it, too, is at the mercy Of arbi>
trary will The Secretary Of War might
better supply the rebel cannoneers with
steel pointed shot, than thus furnish the
rel ell advocates with steel tarbed argu-
= ments. Physical force we can overmaster
t but truth and reason never.
a Secretary Stanton must pause, or he will
. soon hear thunders more dread than any
. which are now pealing around Washing
ton. We adjure him for bis Ecourtry's
f. sake, and for his own, to have done with
i this wild crusade and to keep to the land
marks of the Constitution. There alone
lies safety"