Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-11-05

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| condno, ID States army, were u
svauI1, ssa1a Rio. 'he censorship OF
stsis, Dngs' .o "a himself on
privates Of the Uni. m -,5, sSh hIa
secretly sc,utinized by . X
man Truesdail, who 80 pFiu ,,g,'-a.l
success In cheating and robbinh
he had tire stupid efffontery to pu.
fanny tdl q world in o gilt.backed b.
bellIshGl With steel engravings! Army OF u
Cumberland, what think you Of your Censor
Morum7
Even this was not all of tho gigantic web
work OF iesuitical Intrigue. A proposition was
actually made to Governor johnson TO proclaim
martial laa over tho whole State, so far as our
lines extended, and 10 have Military Ttium-
vlrate established, which should begin forwith
the work of indiecrlmlnate confsoatlon, exile,
imprisonment and execution. They assured
the Governor that matters would progress much
more rapidly under this arrangement than they
could by endeavoring to re-sstabllsh the ma
chineiy OF the courts, and the supremacy Of
civil law Governor Johnson Indignantly re.
sponded TO the impudent and Infamous propo-
sal that he had no power to proclaim martial
law, and that If he had he would not exercise
1t, and 10 was his sole aim to restore civil au-
thntity as soon as IL could be safely done. Be-
Of plunder aud bloodshed into Tennessee, under
tho veil of O mysterious inqnialtion, such as
would have delighted Philip IL of Spain, aud
his ministers OF death, Cardinal Granville and
Dnke DeAlva, during the devastation Of the
Netherlands. The rebel Vigilance Committee
OF Nashville expands and risea TO something
Of decency, Justice and dignity by the side Of
Truesdail's proposed Triumvrs.e, uhioh would
bave been q greater ecourge to our State than
war, psslilence aud famine" This triple.
headed Cerbsrus, a lnesl whelp of "the three.
headed dog Of hell" would have bathed its
faDgs in the blood of all classes of society, and
made Tennessee from Nashville to Chattanco-
ga hideOus with its unearthly hovllngs
That the Army Police did no good to the ma
Iional cause is The belief of all candid and dis.
passionate loyal men, and that it benefited the
rebels greatly is equally certain. IL is not at
all unlikely that many of the vsunted spies
were the paid emisssries of Bragg. Besides,
II was continually festering thorn in tho side
Of Unionism, which blushed for very shame at
the simple mention Of the name OF Truesdail's
Army Police. Il has been our Tstumbl;na
stone and rock Of offence in the Department
of the Cumberland, and we thank God deyout-
ly In behalf Of oppressed loyalty for ita aboli
ton. An investigation into its action will
show that among It's favorites we're some of the
mos! odi0us rebels in Middle Tennessee. Trad
Ing and speculation, like misCry, make strange
bed fellows.
In conclusion We will say that eecrst in
qulsitorisl organization must always be danger
ous and oppressive to free people, but when Il
10 armed with military pcsaIe, snd shielded by
strong military patronage, 1t becomes The most
appalling engine OF tyrOnny and corruption of
which the Imagination can conceive Neither
our loyal citizens nor our brave soldiers are the
men to be dosged, black -msiIed and slandsred
By hungry pack Of bloodhound informe.e,
Whoso muses. are keen to snuff the prey, and
whose tongues are ever ready to lap the blood
Of the innocent as well as the guilty. A secret
iuquisitoriel police In the hands of an honest
man is exossd.ss!y dangerous; and in the hsnds
of knsve itis utterly disbolical. no; r, r