New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-02
TuE ARREST OF B0MEAU.

EditOr, AiDert ~. DOHcbut nos sihO" oc"n
arrested By order of Gen. Scbenck, Military
Commandant of the District, and confined in
Fort McHenry. Although Mr.. Boileau is
released, we print it as part of the
history of the times, and in order to give our
readers n fair specimen of what our Demo
cratic cotenporaries consider loyal and FIT
utterances in time like this. This Ereaing
Journal is the leading Democratic organ in
Philadelphia, and its Editor prominent Dem
Ocratic politician. He sent to our Judge
Dean" the exulting dispatch announcing Buck
alew's election as u. S. Senator from Penn
sylvania, and was answered by Dean that our
Democracy in the Assembly were holding the
pass Of Thermopyle, by voting steadily for his
Honor for Speaker. And it is highly probable
that one of these teegraphic correspondents is
just as loyal as the other.
Boileau, as editor of a public journal, in.
forms his readers that JEFF. Davis's late Mes.
cage (Which he herewith prints) is in every
respect superior document to President Lin
coins, especially in regard to its truth. He
analyses Jeff.'s performance thoroughly and adj
miringy, quotes from it literally, and finds in
it not suggestion to disapprove. not even that
which proposes, in revenge for the Prociama.
tion of Freedom, the Wholesale massacre Of
our officers who MAY be captured. He prints
twice over Jeff.'s ayerment that the war is
waged on the part Of the Union 4" for no other
purpose than revenge. and thirst for blood and
piunder of private property and says, " This
is absolutely true, and cannot escape history
any moro than Mr.. Lincoln himself can" In
short, this Democratic organ reechoes aud ap-
plauds Jefi.'s positions throughout, exactly as
if JEFF. were to-day the Democratic President
of q reconstructed Union and Lincoln fugitive
in Canada on his way to European exile
And Democracy says this is proper. and Boleau
a martyr to Free Discussion
We do not approve of the manner of Mr..
Boileau', arrest We think be should have
been expressly charged with treason, aud there.
upon arraigned for trial before some competent
and loyal tribunal sitting in Philadelphia. If q
civil tribunal is blocked by the disloynity of
CopPerhesd jurors, proclaim martial law, and
try by drUm-head cOurt-martnl. TO arrest
without charges, and imprison without examin-
alton is at once perilous and mistaken. The
Government has more TO gain even by the ac-
quttal Of such a man before Judicial tribunal
than by bis arbitrary incarceration. Try him
and prove the ohense; then let the Copper.
heads clear him by a jury disagreement, as
they did the Democrats who piloted the Rebel
guerrillas over from Kentucky to capture and
parole the Union soldiers in hospital at New.
burg Indiana. There is very much to gain by
placing them thus squarey on the record
Had such an article eulOgizing President
LincoIn's Message appeared as editorial in any
journal published under the fag of the Slave
holders Confederacy, the Editor would have
been shot, and his Office torn down with az little
ceremony AS is usually observed in killing
rattlesnake. Neither would have survived its
publication single hour. Yet in Jefidom they
are said to have Constitutional guarantees, pub.
lie liberty, and all that; while here we are
living under Gan Abolition despotsm." One
of our City journals most grieved at the sup
preston of all liberty in The loyal States, but
especially all Liberty Of the Press, on Satar-
day commenced its daily diatribe against the
" Abolition despOtism" in the following mild
and decorous language:
- Blu yoA AssULLiSG TnE CoSs1trrTiov We pub
n IA another column bill which passed the Senate
TUESDAY sHd declaring void The Constitution Of
tle Ussa states IL u tHe most hen'handed baefAeed
sId lan.ous sfont that has offered to the
esie OF borti- by the false snd Peursd party
hss eotrol Toe Covernent livery Senator who voted
IL an
u pAase. The other House (Which !, Wild and receives the
az acc Tor tho cab drspotism IN those free
happy United states and ,hs rom tho people the pro
tecion cf the Constitution"
The journal which thus illustrates the utter
denial of all Liberty to the Democratic press Of
this country by the "Abotion despotism,"
proceeds to stigmatize B0ileau's arrest as al
"infamous assault upon the most sacred rights
of thought and of speech though it is candid
enough to add that
all tnAt males the Union dear aud the Constitution
worthy te pteeious blood aeady spilled IA It's defense uay
or lsy bsve been udicious may may not
have done than justice TO tho nero aoHy Of Jefferson
oon But whatever the opinions this point any
he would deserve the scoTlo hone. OF ali parties
socoes wrops upon I'll that American soeSo real 10
ia mo- sioh OF oyy' or d.oyal that raised by hi.
msoT IL aqueaon VI the value OF loyalty and Of e posi-
bnty Of di.loyaliy"
THAT last phrase has laundering aptness
which it's author never intended. "The
possibility of disloyaty" is the very point at
issue. For if it be possible to write dsloyal
nay, thoroughly traitorous-article, then
that Of Boileau on JEFF. Dayis's Message is
such a one. 1t is thoroughly surcharged with
| the virus Of treason. Ii is such an article as
De Bow or George Sanders might have