New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-08
NORTHERN TREASON.

trict Court of Indiana has performed good
service in fcrretng out secret traitorous
organization in that State. The investigation
has been thorough, and the result presents n
rather startling record. No less than 15,CcO
citizens Of Indiana are banded together IN this
of the infamous X. G. c. order-ior the
avowed purposes of preventing cnl'tment''
resisting taxation, and in the event OF obtain
ing sufficient numerical power, betraylpg our
armies to the enemy. Enough has been dis
covered Of their schemes to show that they are
well laid, and that to some extent they have
been pat in effective operation.
Now the question arises whether the State
Of Indiana is or is not alone in this business.
II we assume that the organization has spread
at all beyond its borders, we find it difficult to
fix the limits of its probable influence. If Ill
teen thousand men in one State have secretly
renowned their allegiance and entered into a
conspiracy for the practical aid Of the Rebel
lion, how can We avoid the suspicion that its
clghbors may also be in gIeater or less de-
gree implicated A few THOUSAND men secret
ly cooperating in each of the Northern and
Western States could work inhuite mischief to
the Union cnusc. We are not sure that they
might not hopelessly imperil it. Acting TO-
ge,her, at any critical moment, they might
produce n panic which, added to the burdens
Of warfare under which the Nation is already
struggling, would PROSTATE the energies OF the
North. 1t is due to our own security that this
possibility of peril DO speedily averted. The
/ United States Courts in other Commonwealth
should immediately follow the example Of the
Indiana Court. and expose fully aud uncoA'
dltonally whatever elements Of danger may lutb
within their Jurisdiction.
In the State Of New.York, especially in thi'
city, we believe tina such on investigation il
| imperatvely needed. The Secession stain mus
be wiped out Of this community. II no secret
rebel organization exists here. it Is because
the precaution Of secrecy ID felt to be needless
and organization becomes requisite only ~ner'
free aud uuimPeded individual action is denie..
In Indiana, the traitors are at least not open.
mou,Led and unsaed. Hero they are both.
But it ia possible, too, that concealed move
meuts may DO in course Of development, either
independently Of, or couutenanced by, the out
spoken Southern ympathizers There is httle
room for doubt that tho recent disgraceful aud
lnhuman riot in Brooklyn oetokened, perhaps
prematurey, an eruptior from this very source.
However that may be. it 10 Of the utmost i'm
portance that the rebclious scum Of this me.
tropvlls should be summary dealt with The
possible alternatives Of few prominent mer-
chants brought TO shame, q few contractor,
purscd of their wicked gains, a noted hotel or
two shorn Of its supporters, theater here
aud there closed in consequence OF the transfer
of the "stock" 10 Fort Lafayette. and stray
bands Of pis.headed. rebellious laborcrs turned
over to that department Of army ditch.diggine
which 10 beneath the negroes. are not so dread
iuI that NO need shrink from them when the
tremendous interests ut stake, the liberty, the
prosperity, aud the peace OF the people for a
quarter Of a century to come, may be put t.
the hazard Of utter shipwreck by lazy con.
fdence aud prolonged apathy.