Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-09
The Raid upon the Chicago
Times

Most of our readers are already apprised |
ofthe late military raid upon the Chicago
Times. However, we give the orders, to.
day, connected with the affair; and it may
not be improper to briefly Eeherse the facts
attending this outrage upon the constitu-
tional rights of the people.
% Tuesday evening last, the publishers
Of the Chicago Times were notified by tele-
graph by Gen. Burnside, o. mmander Of the
military department for the Northwest, thi t
he bad that day issued an order for the
suppression ofthe publication of their pa
per, and directing them to act accordingly
They however paid no attention to the or
der, when Gen. Ammen, commander ofthe
department for Illinois, ordered the militia.
~ commander at Camp Douglas to nforce
it, which he did by taking forcible posses.
sion of the Office and placing a strong guard
of soldiers about the doors.
At this jun cture of the proceedings the
publishers of the Times applied to Judge
DrummOnd, Of the U. S District Court, for
an injunction to restrain the military from
their wanton violation of law and civil
rights. The Judge without stopping TO
examine into the case, granted a Temporal
~ rescrip OF to the military to desist until the
legal question involved could be determin-
ed. The military paid no attention to this
writ of the Court, and still held possession
Of the Office during Wednesday and most Of
Thursday.
90 Wednesday evening an immense
crowd assembled in the Court House square
to protest against this wanton outrage Of
law and the rights of the people, sud to
take measure to redress the wrong. 1t is
estimated that the meeting was attended
by ten Thousand men who we're determined
that the civil authority should be respected
Atls. eloquent and patriotic speeches were
made by w. Fuller, Gen. Singleton, Gov.
McCcmas. and others, and resolutions
adopted firmly assuring the ''pOwers that
be" that the military must be "subordinate
to the civil" authority, in that city at least
At this stage Of the proceeding, the Re-
publicaDs Of Chicago became alarmed. A
meeting was held by the leaders, and a
committee sent to request Judge Drum
mond to withhold his decision until the
Presiden: could be induced 10 rescind the
obnoxious order. The Judge agreed to do
this, and forthwith the President was no.
tilted that be could not trample upaA the
freedom Of the press in lllinois-an9 with
lightning speed. the offensive order wat
Internationally annulled, and the Time.
Cfice was speedily delivered to its Lawful
owners.
Thus the President, by backing ont o.
his despotic edict, issued through q subor.
!, dinate. saved Chicago from destruction, anC
the whole loyal North from becoming thu
scene Of internecine strife and carnage -
For had the order not been rescinded, arc
the decision of the United States judge
not been respected, who doubts that ciyi
war amongst US would have been the con-
: sequence ?
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decentralization of their determination not
to be reduced to AFFECT slavery by the
, military authorities. The President has
been given to understand that the people OF
Illinois will not submit to the complete
suljugatinn of their constitutional liberties
The arrest Of our citizens without Lawful
authority, and the general usurpations Of
civil rights that have taken place in tine
t Western military department within thu
last few months, have awakened people t.
l a realization of the dangers that surround
them. Let the Administration understand
from the events of the past weak, tina
while the people Of the Northwest are vii,
ling to sustain it in all lawful acts, they
will not submit to the establishment over
them of military dcspOtism.
The profrietors of the Chicago Times have
reason to congratulate themselves that they
reside in a law-abiding community, whC
will not permit their paper to be suppress
sed SO long as it pursues its wonted patriot
ic course. The Times is a firm and able
exponent Of the constitutional rights of tn,
people, and they will not desert it wher
assailed by unlawful acts of tyranny.