The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-09-24
Men Punished Without Trial by Arbi-
trary Power.

RESTED AND SENT SOUTH.
yesterday afternoon, about hall f-past one
O'Clock, two Government dectives appeared
at the Office of the Republican, Baltimore
street. one door west Of Gay, and arrested
Mr.. Frank A Richardson, Celdest son of Mr..
Beale II. Richardson, } and Mr.. Stephen II.
Joyce. Mr.. Joyce is the editor and part
owner of the Republican. Mr.. F. A. Rich
ardson is also part owner of the paper
They were both taken to the military Pro-
vost M arsh aPs office and locked up. About
half-past two o'clock, Mr.. Beale II. Rich
ardson, the senior proprietor of the Republ,-
can, was arrested at his dwelling house, in
the western section of the city. He was
also taken to the Provost Marshsl's office
and locked up. Last night, at half-past
eight O'Clock, the three paIties named were
! taken to the Camden. street depot and placed
in the Western passenger train, under q
guard of several soldiers. They will be
conveyed to Harper's Ferry, and from thence
| to Winchester, and then to the Southern
picket lines, where they will be set free. If
they return during the war they will be
treated as Confederate spies. The charges
against them are disloy atty and publishing
reasonable articles in their journal, one of
which was specified as having been publish
ed on Thursday evening last, viz: "A Poem
The Southern Cross
"After they were arrested, no commuuica-
tion was allowed with them, until just be-
fore they left the prison for the depot, when
Mr.. Joyce and several of the female mem
bers of the Richardson family were granted
an interview. Each of the prisoners were
allowed fifty dollars in money and some ex-
ira wearing apparel.
Mr.. Beale 81. Richardson is about seventy
years of age, and has wife and children re-
siding here. Mr.. Frank A. Richardson has
a wife, and Mr.. Joyce has a wife and five
children, all of whom are residing in this
city.
"The publication of the Republican was
prohibited yesterday afternoon, and The
counting-room and composition-room were
locked up, and the keys taken possession of
by the officers and carried to the Provost
Marsh abs office. The publication of the
paper hereafter is positively forbidden.
THE orders for the arrest and disposition
of the three parties named. and also for the
suppression of the paper, were issued by
Major General Scheuck, and Captain French
Colonel Fish being sick) received special
orders in regard to seeing them strictly
carried out"
The above is from the Baltimore Sun, an
ind dependent, or rather neutral, paper of
character and position. We invite our
readers to peruse it once and again. The
| Republican is the old Democratic organ of
the State OF Maryland. and has been in ex-
istence for m any years, and always advocated
the only principles that could save this
Government from destruction. This journal
is ssummarly suppressed by military officer,
and its editors and publishers bsnish ed from
their native State, perhaps forever, under
severe and oppressive penalties. The paper
was suppressed without any hearing or trial,
and its proprietors and editors were banish-
ed in the same manner. 1t was simply the
will of the military COMMUNICATIVE was
not even a citizen of the State, but men,
Der Of Congress from the State OF Ohio. In
Baltimore the Courts were all open and un-
obstructed-perfectq quiet tprevailed-and the
civil process is as much respected as it is IN
Boston. If those M en- had committed any
crime or misdeanor, why were they not
brought before the Courts? Why were they
abducted or punished thus arbitrarily? We
will answer. They had committed no crime
or offense. They had published nothing that
they had not right to publish under the
Constitution of the United States, which the
military officer had sworn to support. The
Constitution says Congress shall make no
law abridgiug the liberty of speech or the
press; yet this man Scheuck, a military Of
ficer, a creature of the President, who him
self has no power except to execute such
laws as Congress passes assumes to stop all
speaking or printing that is not satisfactory
to him, the Lord of all ! He assumes pow
ers that are forbidden both to the President
and the Congress.
Can any American boast of this being
land of liberty when such an outrage is per-
petrated? What liberty can man enjoy
when he is liable to have his property con-
iscated, and his liberty or life taken at the
arbitrary whim and pleasure of one man,
without trial or form Of trial? The man
who boasts of liberty now. when such an
occurrence passes unrebuked, boasts OF
mockery aud lie! There is more liberty
even in Paris. No journal is ever suppress
ed in despotical France, or Austria, or
Prussia. until three written warnings have
been given it, and then, we believe, here is
some form of trial! Here there was none.
1t was a pure, simple and naked act of des-
potism. No English General thet ever lived
no monarch that has been on the English
throne for one hundred years-would dare
to suppress paper in England. and punish
its editors in the manner that Schenck has
served the Republican In Baltimore. The
General or the King who should attempt it
would lose his head on she scaffold, or be
sent into exile with the Charles and the
James. No Englishman would consent to
live for one moment with his life, liberty or
property at the pleasure OF Irresponsible,
lswless aud arbitrary power.
Three years ago. had the tidings of such
an act reached our shores from Europe, the
whole country would have rung with indis-
| nation at the tyranny, and many would have
been the homilies upon our good fortune in
this free Republic. where such an act could
not take place. Now the news goes from
America to Europe, and General Scherok's
proceedings will create astonishment even In
imperial Vienna aud St. Petersburg. There
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