New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-08
GOV. sEYMOUR,s MESSAGE.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS


doctrine that civil in the South takes away fron the
loyal North the benefit Of one principle Of civil Liberty.
The above paragraph is fair specimen of
the dexterous dishonesty, the impudent though
adroit scphistry, of the demagogue whom COW.
ardice, drunkenness, and masked disloyalty
have, in the absence of One Hundred Thousand
of her mobiles. sons in the defense of their
country, fOsted into tie GovernOrship OF our
State. The fallacy here turks In the slelght-
of.hand whereby "citizens of loyal States"
are juggled into loyal citizens. "Civil war
in tho South" takes away no right from the
"loyal North" but il does and must affect the
rights OF those who, whether in Maine or in
Mississippi, are giving aid and comfort to the
traitors in arms against their and our country
Suppose Gov. Seymour had put his proposition
into alain words and said, $50 long as the
Shareholders Rebellion has no Military force
in any Tree State. the synpaihizers Win that
Rebellion residing or beinS in every such
State may render it every conceivable aid,
by clandestiney sending arrss. munitions,
money, clothing, medicines, &c.,<&c., to its
camps, or by exciting dlsaiiastion and,
distrust among the People, and the, Federal
Government cannot help itself, evayy one
must have seen that the doctrine wac mon.
strous and untenable. But by juggling wife the
terms "loyal States 5" and "the loyal NORM, q"
the Governor seeks to blind bis readers to tie
fact that it is immunity for the disloyal and
the tratorous that he is unfolding. This city
r h.. o. hp
are thousands of voters i'll it who cbuckled over
the Union rout at Bull Run, who constantly
assert that "the South can never be subdued,
who can sec DO merit in any Union General
but Mcclellan, who are very fierce FOR hanging
or mobbing Abolitionists, and very tender OF
the feelings of JEFF. Davis and his fellow
traitors, and who all did their very utmost to
make Horatio Seymour our Governor. He is
repaying their service by pettiiogging their
case to the best Of his ability. He is very
smooth and plausible; but he will deceive no
loyal heart Has he never heard Of one
Andrew jackson and his matured and delibe-
rate opinion, given in his letter to President
Monroe. that if he had been military CON-
mander in New-England in 1914, ho would
have hung the members Of the Hartford Con
vention under the Second Section of the Arti-
ces of War; Whatever may be the terms Of
that section, lie explication and application 10
our State by second Gen. jackson in 1862
would have used up Gov Seymours majority
in short meter.
Let us not be misunderstood We have re-
GREETED and ceusured some Of the arrests made
on the orders of the Seeretaries,of State and
War-Or rather, the failure to follow those
arrest, by indictment and trial. Take The case
of George p. Kane, the Baltimore Marshal of
after the Massachusetts Volunteers were
butehered in the streets of Baltimore, when
they did not even suspect that they were in
hostile region, proceeded to break up the rail-
roads and sever the telegraph.wires connecting
that city with the North, so as to completely
cut of Washington from all communication
with the loyal States. At the same time he
telegraphed to Bradley L. johnson, notorious
traitor ct Frederick, (who soon after led a
band of Rebels to join the Rebel army in Viz
ginia,) as follows;
Thank you FOR your of.r Bring your men BY the aIs,
expresses the mountains and valleys Of Maryland and
pg'H,a for the Iihenea to come without delay t,e.h
CT die. OEO r. NAME
Johnson Immediately pacarded the above at
Frederick, with the addition:
AN men who will 10 with vii report Themselves
possible. providing themeves with ouch arms and
sccoutTements a. they can Doabobseled 'hosuns and
buckshot are efficient"
And johnson and his followers did go accord
| ingiy, and were taken into the service Of the
Mayor and Board Of Police, then holding Bal
timorc by military force in an attitude Of dan
gerOus hostility to the Union Government,
stopping all reenforcements and supplies flow.
ing TO the capital from the loyal North. And
now this traitor is let out Of prison, after q
long detention, without even an attempt to
iidict him for bis fragrant treason, and is
accorded the use Of the columns of the Sey-
mourte organ in this city to assail aud befoul
the Administration for its treatment of himself
and his fellOw.traltOrs Three-ioUrtbs Of all
who have been arrested are essentially such az
he is, and have richly earned the penalty Of
the law Gov. Seymour has no word OF re-
proach for their treason, while he overllows
with protests against the violations Of their
rights. We hold that it is not the vigor shown
IN arrestng them, but the weakness evinced
in letting them off without trial, which has
impaired the confidence of the country in ts
rulers.
| SLAVERY AND REBELLION.
A third part of our country is now in fla