The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1863-06-05

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t;on NTH all its objects, outrages, and nm
c.v nst;tnt;onal purposes. We call upon tho
,n.nhers Of this city to publicly disavow it OF
ne shall disayow them.
4 Rasolved That in view of this attempt ct
4 lh.nv . 70 Mace the Democratic party Of the
o. s = : false nosition as favoring the con-
.t;nnance Of the war, IRE are glad to learn that
Tho masses CONFUSING the Democratic party
MI, meet IN State Convention at an early
San - the end that they may express q eir
os:,, on;n;ona unon this great question, indie
nsndept Of the selfish CLIQUE which has -
fonr rpled and ruined the party organization
of t5e Emn;ra State.
s Hon .Jamas Brooks raid be fhoughts q orr
s;s had risen n nnblic affairs III which itsi
no e,s for eyery man, as oftsnqas posibs,
70 sbov himself in public in order y fSbote
the ar;stino Administration. y Whsn q distin-
guished public man whom he knew vel,
Whoa, MANY Of them knew well, whom Ne all
loved and reyered. distinguished fer his elo-
n,ance. his learning. his high attainments;
distinguished above ali for his moral heroiim
'-physical heroes are abundant but moral
heroes are few and far between when such
: man had been arrested, be had felt it his
duty to appear here and join in q general ex-
preston Of public opinion Mr.. Brooks ~
lated the circumstances of Mr.. Vallandie-
hams arrest The doors Of bis house had
been battered down at 8 O clock in the morn
ing by q company of Abolition soldiers arm
ed with muskets, and He was arrested, kid
mapped from his wife and house, sbdueted.
carried of to Cincinnati, and incarceratsd
there lawlessly, tyranically, wickedly. BY tie
minions in power. No outrage on earth can
be 90 great as that No King in Europe, .noe
Napoleon on his throne, or the Gar Of Rus
STA even, dare violate the sacredness Of, q .pri-
vate citizens home, and the principle il 10
high and holy in English Jaw that for five
hundred wears the King Of England has not
dared to violate it. A mans house is his. cas-
tie. The doors Of this man house have besn
broken into BY q lawless soldiery in the hoar
approaching morning, when man alumbsrs
most heavily, cruelty alarming his vita and
family. If such q, thing were done il. Eng
land, not only the peasant and labofeef, Bot
the aristocrat himself, would rise in indignA-
ton to overrun an administration that dsted
be guilty Of snch on outrage. s lApplapse.l
Here, and here alone, has the thing been Ct
tempted, in order to alright and oyeraws the
Democracy Of Ohio. Twenty-Five years am,
whom Napoleon was laying out the beautiful
garden 0f. the Iulll0rleS IN kaIl6 Ter the graft.
fcation Of the French nation, . miserable Int,
dirty shanty, was held some two hundred
yards from the palace Of the, first and august
Nanoleon. Who had sir hnndred' thonssra
bayonets under his control. by, An .hnmhle
FreDchman. Who. on beiny asked = all =.
fused, and the august NAPOLEON never .d.rsd
to break open the: door Of that little hnt. 10
sacred was this right, even in France = IAn-
planse.) five do not resist this nov, IS NH
soon be too late to resist Il. 1--we do not sro-
test against it from the beoinninr and an
every occasion. the. manaales of Ge:rof;..r =,
will be soon SO unclaimed upon az thss 40 ii.
man power. can bear them !. w should. ksre-
fully. within the bounds 81 isx.' erests Ia
W. aio1Ss VIZ. ", pcoPiSs sha aWakeh fnem1 20
les m we snonla present petitions, -
wen rs EemonSIralco6s 70 the pE0Sl6entr,<fur