Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-03-26
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Fourteen Montbs In the Bnstiiss Of AmeEieas
su:h is the title of bulky pamphlet which lies be-
fore u.s. Its author is Mr.. F. *. Howard, OF Baltimore
late EDITOR of the Baltimore Exchange. is very
yaua bic contribution the annals of taese times and
will be referred to in the future interesting mem
oria Of the Reign of Terror in the United States in
1861 and 1862 Its suggestive title would have as
onished ancestors of ll76 and 1885, who as soon
lard az the Inauguration of BasteS punish men for
their opinions and sentiments. They the ponder
GUS key of the Bastie of France, in Paris, sent to
Washington by lafayette, because he believed that In
this land tyrants and depots would be able to re-
rain it. and that it would be considered reict sim
ply of ga extinct desposm. 1t may now be taken rom
the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, for who
cal about looking at key that has become common
10 all perts of the United States. Strange to say, the
principal leader n the movement which destroyed the
French Baste, and who sent the Key to Washington,
has been iusulted in his memory by baviDg neaner
Bastle called by his name-the patriotic Lafayette
Not stone left upon another to tell oil the enor-
mites of the French Bastie and We hope to live to see
the day when an indignant people will level the Amerl-
can to the earth, and build monuments to liberty
upon the spots which mark their ruins!
The writer of this book under review is the grand
son of Francis S. Key, the author of the beautiful and
patriotic ode to natoual flag scalled " The Star
SpaDg!ed Banner" Forty seven years. exactly t. q
day. after the latr wrote it, In admiration OF the prn-
cples that that lag the emblem OF bis grand child
was illegally seized and kidnapped, and carried to the
same Fort Mc1eny the observation of which inspire ed
| MIR. Key 10 his immortal lines. Those who claim to
be The peculiar friends of the f.gwho pretend to be
wrapped all Ger in the Star Spangled Banner, were
guilty of this outrage upon bis descendant not only in
| Blood but in patrotism7 What materials for his
tory!
The party pledged to free press in its party plat
fCrm made it lis first business after its assumption OF
power to destroy its liberty More than forty papers
it destroyed by Illegal mob and Government violence
and the rest put under French aud Austrian cen
sorshp The friends OF free speech oxt of power made
free speech crime whe in power, TO be pnnshed by
incarceration 10 dungeon 1t throws its thousands
of victims into the filthy prisons for the same reason
that The heather Roman Empe cast the Christians
into the dens Of wild beasts and into devouring Ane
because it disagreed with their opinion. ln malice
its heart black aud full of bate TO every one
that siss"ned from its views the Roman En-
perors spd if his power had been absolute it would
wond probably have detained them to worse fate.
The faction that n2ugurated the reign of terror in
the United States, which embarked earnestly in a
domestic that has cost the nation hundreds Of
thousands OF valuable liv;s and seas of blood and
appalled, the world by its horrors the peace hu
nlanitsrian pbantbropic party when out Of power
Like the leaders of the French Jacobins, who were
opposed to capital punishment, and who created
the guillontine, upon viii ID shed the best
blood of France our Jacobins protested philan-
hropiss and urged forward the most cruel scheme of
persecution they could devise in the of humanity
Just they destroyed free speech and free press in
the name of liberty. No despot SO dangerous
to liberty and its pro1esse friends, tyrants were
ever so cruel as our humanitarian phiiantbroDis g.