Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-07-18

KERR on OH RYE.-That prince of humorists
and satirsts, Orpheus C. Kerr, furnishes numer-
ous thrusts of sarcasm in the following;
GAS YOU now stand on the Arlington side of
the Potomac, on any of these fair May days, and
look around you in any direction, there ia a
beauty even about the tracks of war which en-
abcs you TO comprehend why so many Of our
brass buttoned generals are fond Of staying in
one spot so long Behind you arise Arlington
Higbis, which are disliked by our excellent Ma
tional Democratic organization, only because
they wear covering Of Liucoln green in sum
mer before you, and across the Potomac is the
Capitol of our distracted country looking like
an ambitious marble yard on its way out of town
aud close beside you is one Of our national troops
extracting certain wonders of the insect king gdom
from Government biscuit. On Tuesday, was
standing with the Conservative Kentucky chap
near Long Bridge, surveying this scene, and
says
Behold, my Nestor, how the scars left upon
Natures face by the charot-whees Of war are
turning into dimples, and all the twinklng curves
Of placed smile"
Eyes" says he, hastily picking up the Jack
Of Diamonds WHICH be had accidentally drawn
from his pocket with his handkerchief, Z" the
scene is somewhat pleasant but not equal to
Kentucky, where there is more rye
Here the Kentucky chap became so deeply af-
fected that he was compelled to smell cork
which be took from his vest pocket, aud says he
q Kentucky raised great deal of rye before
the breaking out of this fatal war with the
Southern Confederacy with whom Kentucky is
connected by marriage she raised it by the bot
tie, in which form it becomes, as it were, the
crowning glory of agriculture. "Ah y says the
Conservative Kentucky chap, stirring an in-
visible beverage with an imaginary spoon, how
softly on my senses steals Kentucky's national
anthem-
If body meet a body
Comm through the rye.
And The Old Rye of Kentucky is famous for its
body" The Kentucky chap hc coughed at the
bare recollection of the thing. and says he: But
we can 10 longer say that the bloom is on the
rye for this unnatural war has killed the agri
culture Of Kentucky aud broken many of her
bottles. 0 Kentucky Kentucky how thirsty
am"
After this speech, my boy, I could no longer
profane the glory Of Gods beautiful picture by
talking about it to a chap who could see nothing
in "a landscape but rye fields And yet it is but
natural for any Conservative chap to talk thus,
after all for have found it to be peculiarly
of nearly all our Conservative felow-be beings, that
Old Rye is forever running in their heads"
HABEAs CoRPps.-President Lincoln in his ad,
mrable answer to the Albany, N. Y, resolutions
relative to the arrest of Yallandigham, says;
"Ours is case of rebelion-so called by the
resolutions before me-in fact q clear, fragrant
and gigantic case of rebellion aud the pro
vision of the Constitution that the privilege of
the writ Of hG6eds corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when, in cases Of rebellion or invasion
the public safety may require it, is the provision
which specially applies to our present case
This provision plainly atests the understanding
of those who made the Constitution, that ordi-
nary courts Of justice are inadequate to cases
Of rebellion, ,-attests their purpose that in such
cases, men may be held in custody whom the
courts, acting Oh ordinary rules, would discharge.
The man who stands by and
says nothing when the peril Of his Government
is discussed, cannot be misunderstood. GIIcar
that, you Copperheads] If not hindered, be is
sure to help the enemy much more if he talks
ambiguous y-talks for his country with butts
and ifs ; and lands Hear agan.l OF how
little value tue constitutional provisions | have
quoted will be rendered, if arrests shall never be
made until defined crimes shall have been com
mitted, may be illustrated by few notable eX
amplea General John c. Brecknridge, Gen
Robert Z. Lee, Gen. Joseph L. Johnston, Gen.
John D. Magruder Gen. VIM 3. Preston, Gen.
Simon B. Buckner, and Commodore Franklin
Buchanan now occupying the very highest places
in the rebel war service, were all within the
power of the Government since the rebellion
began, and nearly as well known to be
traitors then as now unquestionably, if we had
seized and held them, the insurgent cause would
have been much weaker. But no one Of them
had then committed any crime defined in the
law. Every one of them, if arrested, would have
been discharged on habeas corpus. were the writ
allowed to operate. In view Of these and simi
lar cases, think the time not unlikely to come
when | shall be blamed for having made too few
arrests rather than too many" THAT time is
low here.]