Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-02
NEWS OF TalE DAY.


Some person has stolen from the White
House package containing the manu-
script copies of all the Presidents MESA
ges and proclamations. From the bottom
of our heart we pity the thief.
A number of journals, says the New
York World, throughout the country are
calling upon the coming Congress to raise
President Lincoln's salary, forgetting that
there is constitutional provision which
forbids any such increase until after the
expiration of the term Of office to which
the person interested has been chosen.
Constitutional provisions, however, in the
language of an eminent civilian, do not
amount to "pig tracks" in these fast times.
The last news from Warsaw announces
an increase of the arbitrary rule of Russia.
Thousands Of iuen and women have been
seized, stripped naked to their skin, and
whipped. Does this account for the admi-
ration Of Lincoln 4 Co., for the Muscovite
sailors now in our harbors.
A clergyman who has been for eight
months doomed to close confinement in
the society of the vermin Of tho Old Capt.
tol prison, for refusing to pray for Old
Abe, has written to him that he now re-
lents, and prays for him every night, on
the ground that the Bible enjoys us to
spray for our enemies" And he adds, if
you let me out l will preach for your bene-
fit sermon from this text: The Prince
that wanteth understanding is also great
oppressor'
The Boston AduertiSer (Abolilion) adj
mits that as far as the controversy relating
to the exchange of prisoners has gone, the
rebels have the best of it, and that our gov
ernment can do no better than to adopt
the rebel Commissioner proposition,
"that all officers and men, on both sides,
be released in conformity with the provi-
sions Of the cartel, the excess on one side
or the other to be parole"
"Ihe Administration is the Govern
ment," says Abolitionism We have
been accustomed to regard our Govern
ment as the chest the world ever saw"
Is that good Government which tram
pies down State sovereignty, debases the
currency, imposes test oaths, controls
elections by prohibiting the right of suf-
frage, and banishes or imprisons men for
no offense and without trial? Is his
the "best Government the world ever
saw ?''
Time was when struggling liberty in
the Old World excited the sympathy and
had the moral support Of those who ad-
ministered our Government at Washing
ton, albeit they were said to be the repre-
sentative of the "slave power" We all
rerember the Hungarian struggle, its defeat
by Russian interposition, our popular
sympathies, the action Of our national an
thorities in bringing Kossuth to this coun-
try in national vessel, and his reception
by those authorities and the people. Con-
trast the eveuts Of this remembrance with
recent events. Poland-her heroic strug-
giles for freedom-her Oppression by Rus
sia-the mconcealed sympathies of the
Washington authorities with the oppress-
or, and the ovations in the Eastern cities
under official patronage to Russian naval
officers, the representatives of the Czar.
These are among the fruits of abolition
ism.-the party of "huuiRn freedom"
Joseph johnson, a Hartford soldier
who had been taken prisoner by the Con.
federOtes, and put on his parole, was had
up the other day in New Orleans, and put
on his trial for using seditious language
1t seems (aoeording to the local reporter
of the New Orleans Picaystne) that Joe
went in citizens dress to see the "Ghost'
at the Academy of Music and during the
performance made volunteer answer to
conundrum, which led to his arrest .Th,
conundrum was--"Why is the Presiden
of the United States like an owl in the da,
. ttme?" The true answer is---"Because h,
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