The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-05-20


dency Of the market In favor OF shippers
The market for beef cattle ruled very buoyant at al
advance In prices Of half cent per pound over last week.
quotations The supply light bu, 800 to 1000 hea'
detained the Erie Railroad and will not reacl
this city until this Wednesday, afternoon tomorrow
Prices ranged from &C. &c.,. but scarcely any sold b-
low Ill.,. while tho bulk sold az lie. 12c Ono droy
averaged l2c. The general average was shout l1kc
Mich COWS were active and ga IS per head higher
Sales varied from $50 $40 500. veas were active
full prices-4kc to Tc. Bobs sold at 81 So. sheep
and lambs dul and steadily declining. Prices range
from a 70 s. rs each. sheared sheep vary from ave.
10 exc. SWINE steady at last weeks prices The
total receipts were 1905 beef CATTLE LII cows GIL sa
4,2SS sheep and lambs and . 600 swine
| The Late COpperhead Meeting in Union
sQuarc-Drffting TO Civil War.
| The proceedings Of the democratic mass
meeting of Monday evening in Union square
were very remarkable and significant. Ac-
cording to its resolutions, the special object OF
the meeting was the denunciation Of 1.-The ar
rest of Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, and his
trial and sen tence by military commission, as
a startling outrage upon the hitherto sacred
rights of American citizenship" although some
Of the speakers on the occasion launched of
into all sorts Of absurd revolutionary excuses
None Of the recognized leaders of the de-
mocracy took an active part in these proceed
ings. They all had their convenient excuses
for keeping in tho background. They lacked
the moral courage to face the music They put
forward the lesser lights and tf,omore reckless
orators of the party by way Of an experiment,
and these too highly inflated individuals
availed themselves Of their privileges to
the fullest extent. Take. for example,
the speech Of Mr.. J. A. McMaster,
who forgets the broader issues Of the public
safety in his personal inspirations from Fort
Lafayette He said that "there was but one
way to bring back the Union, and that was to
put stop TO this accursed war;" that "the
question here was not about the freedom Of the
South" but ''the liberties Of the people of the
North. And how were they to maintain their
liberties! By fighting. But not by street fight
ing or disorganized opposition. They should
organize by tens and hundreds, BY companies
and regiments, and they should send TO their
Governor and ask him for commissions as soon
as they had their regiments formed. They
should keep their arms, and il they had them
not they should get them, and be ready under
their gallant Governor to defend the liberties
Of their State" These are the rawlings of. .
madman; but when such revolutionary utter
ances are applauded by crowd Of listeners
there is mischief in the wind, and some positive
existing cause for public discomfort.
Whence arises this revolutionary excitement
In the very heart Of this loyal metropoliss 1t
springs from these late military proceedings
against civilian Of Ohio, depriving him of
his personal liberty and subjecting him
to the penalties OF military court.
The public journals Of this city, without
distinction Of party, and almost without an
exception. have pronounced against these pro-
ceedings as unnecessary, unlawful, unwise and
| dangerous. The military are still held 70 be
subordinate to the civil authorities in the loyal
States and especially in al such cases as this
| of Vallandigham. Under the exigencies Of q
continental war, the people of the loyal States
do not expect all the immuaities and exemp-
tions of reign of peace; but they do expect
that in every case within their borders where an
individual not in the military service is accused
Of crime against the general government he
will be called to account, not by the military,
but by the civil authorities, to which the jurs-
diction over the case constitutionally belongs.
In the fifth article Of the amendments Of the
constitution of the United States it is declared
that "no person shall he held to answer for CAPT
tai, or otherwise Infamous crime, unless ON pre-
sentiment or indictment of grand jury, except
in cases arising in the land and naval forces. or
in the militia, when in actual service in time OF
war or public danger" Clearly we may con.
strue This clause of the supreme law Of the land
as meaning that in the loyal States at least
even in this time Of war and public danger, only
cases Of offence committed within the limits Of
the military service can be brought under the
jurisdction of the military authorities, and that
all offending civilians, such as Vallandigham
are still within the dominion Of the civil law.
II General Burnside ON his own responsible
| ty initiated these late military proceeding
against Mr.. vallandigham, he has foolishly
dashed himself against q stone wall much more
difficult to carry than that along the heights Of
Fredericksburg. If be has acted under instruc
tons from Warrington, the administration hal
committed the grave mistake. In either
event it is within the power Of Presidsn
Lincoln to reverse these proceedings and to turf
over the party accused to the civil authorities
The Northern elections eflast autumn involved
serious warning from the loyal State
against these arbitrary arrests-a warning
which, it was hoped, had put an end to them
Under this conviction the people Of the severa
States concerned in our late spring election
rose up to sustain the administration and tn
war against all the peace clamors Of the cop
perheads. In Connecticut, where these agts
tors were the most numerous and violent, the
were most signally defeated. But this vallar