The weekly Butte record., 1863-06-20

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changed. By our noble President. to ,ha, o:
being sent through our lines. His arrest aud
trial, by court martial. was in violation Of the
law Of Congress passed last winter. and design.
ed 10 cover inst such charges as were made
against him. Judge Leavitt, By issuing a
wit Of ha5sas corpus. could have brought him
before the courts. where he could have been
legally tried bat be has relieved Jefi7ios Of the
universal odium that has attached TO him. bv
declining to issue the writ. and acknow ledginr.
in answer to a question from Mr. Pugh. that
be TaS not cognizant Of the law Of Congress.
Nearly the entire press of New York barl
their anathemas upon these proceedings with
an energy almost frightful No such arrests
will occur in New York, while Seymour is
Governor, without q glorious viudcation Of
the ciiizens' rights under the Constitution of
the United States as well as those of New
York.
l make the following extracts from a sol
diers letter Published here. in order TO show
your readers what the soldiers think Of the
war. 1t is from Millikens Bend, La, under
date of April -, and from Michigan soldier.
The greatest injustice was done yeaste7day
to some of the men. The boys had got some
goods from home few days before thev came
here into camp anl they brought them along
with them. They had cans Of home made mo
asses butter apple butter, and dried fruit.
and cherries, etc. Yesterday an order was is
sued 10 gather up everything they could find
and they took it all from the boys even down
TO lemon and if one of them is caught with
lemon he is to be bucked and gagged Non.
these things are sent to the sick soldiers ex
press'y; but they must not have them because
the officers want them. They eat all the sani
tary stores sent by the Soldiers Aid Soeie-
lies, and that is not enough. but they must
take what little the soldier happens to receive
There are thousands of boxes sent to the sol
dlers, and they only get them when some one
comes with them and that Is not often. The
most of them are smuggled TO the officers ard
suffers. \ few days since sick soldier pad
the Suller two dollars for can Of irllv. and
found his wife's name on the bottom of the can
Another bought can of peaches of suiler,
found his own and wi.es name on it. | was
sitting one morning in the Surgeons tent. ana
there saw can OF tomatoes for member of
oUr company. That is Wat becomes Of these
things tie people are at 50 mu.h trouble to
send to the soldiers, as they snrf7se.
In the first despatch that left Chickasaw
bayou was language as follows a. The battle
went off glorious. 1t was perfect show To
see our men cut to pieces, must have been the
show AMI the negroes in the rebel rife~pits.
shooting at our men, must have been what was
so glorious about it. (Cau you understand
that :? 1t tries mans patriotism alter he
has been in the army awhile. If the conScrip-
tion brings you, of course You will have
chance to see for yourself | cannot advise
you to come, otherwise, unless you are an abo
litionist. 50. | can welcome you cheeruIly
would like to see every abolitionst in Gods
universe in the ranks of the army They are
the very men that ought to fill the ranks Of
this army that abounds with deception fraud
and corruption. The Administration is as
corrupt as can be, and you can't expect the
army to be any better. According to the
good Book, and it holds good in this respect
q" When the wicked rule the people mourn"
am no longer a Republican, aud they have
turned by thousands in the army since they
the picture. They see for themselves what
our abolition preachers of the North have so
long preached against in ignorance and wick
edness. have not room to give you the prin-
cipal reasons of this change. | want to know
if you are still a Republican? am sorry that
| ever supported that party. Had | known
that it was 81 swallowed up with abolition
ism would never have cast vote for it
bpD m do ,.,4
You ever supported that corrupt party. The
abollonists are just as much to blame as the
rebels are, aud they are Just as big secession
lists as any of the rebels, and | would Just as
soon meet them in battle as the rebels. and
shou'd think was doing my country as good
service. Oh, for six months of the patriotic
rule of the Old hero, Jackson, that we might
have Generals who cared f,r the welfare OF
their men, that the conduct of this war against
rebellion might exhibit the integrity and force
Of exalted patriotism. and the faith and rccti
tule of a pure christianity. Yours truly.
It appears that tie Federal and rebel armies
in Virginia, since the recent battles have been
in friendly contlb, swapping jack knives, trad
ing coffee for tobacco, &c. The rebel pckets
made a proposition that their army should
hang JEFF. Davis, if ours would hang Abe Lin
coin, and thus secure peace. Hang our noble
President-never. They may hang JEFF. Da-
Wis, as soon as they please, and that will do as
much 10 bring peace as it would TO commit
murder by hanging Lincoln. 1t amt c0ns,i-
tutonal. If our pickcts had only compro-
missed and made it JEFF Davis and Wade and
Chandler, it would have been all right, and
they might have thrown 10 Greely and Phil
lips and two or three specimens Of aboltionists
from Butte county. Hookers campign failed
because Ilaack was not with him in person
to strike terror to the rebel hearts by the re-
fulgent rays of his military genius, and this
proposition of the rebel picke's was lost be-
cause We were not there to offer them boot
enough in politicians to induce them to permit
President Lincoln to serve out his consti;u-
tional term. g. II. c.