Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-07-01

aITc capacity Oh Tue EullOEiaI department.
of the Kntel!igsncer has been devoted TO
iabored articles in review of paragraphs
that have appeared in our columns. In
their issue of the 10th ult, long article
is commenced with a personal allusion to
Us, IN the following words
'.For the editor of the Tribune, both as
man and neighbor, we entertain the highest
respect He has been known at times to rise
above the constrsints of mere party dictation,
and do acts worthy of commedation by all
who respect independence of thought and
freedom of speech.
The compliment contained in the first
sentence of this paragraph is most fully
and cheerfully reciprocated but viewed
in q political light, if the latter sentence
ever applied to our neigh Dor it must have
been so long ago that the memory of man
extendeth rot the time
The IHteliig>ncer labors most assiduous-
" to exculpate the Democratic Party from
!instigation of resistance TO law As party
we ar, not aware of having preferred
charge of such g nature against them, nor
+ do We believe such to be The case, but thai
the teachings of many leading Democrats
have tended 10 produce such q result We
do not believe can be disproyed Wat
but the teaching of DAVIS, T0oABs. SLT-
/ DELL, and other prominent southern Dem
ocrats melted the Southern mind to re
bellion against the laws of the United
States? But 70 bring the natter nearer
home, and make application to the i'atet-
+ ligeJscer itself Every one that reads that
sheet will bear testimony that Il has often
accused President LIsCoLN Of tram ping
upon the Constitution and Laws of the
land Ia the number Of that aper of the
20th ult we find the following sentence.
- If the President may trampIe upon the
/ Constitution, the conscript may with Just Al
much justification resist the law which
F. quires him 10 20 the battlefield"
Who dare deny that such teachings
prompt resistance to law Again to justify
outrages committed by party friends, the
I InteiIjgeHccr saws, IF Senator Sumntr had
been a gentleman he never would have
/ been assaulted d" be was struck down like
a dog &c, and it talks about his refusing
to give the satisfaction that any gentleman
has right To ask Of another. Has the
/ writer of the article in the IRte{tigencer,
in throwing off the more exalted robe 10
! eater for the columns Of a political news
paper, come 10 approve of duelhpg2 We
can hardly believe it and yet no other in
ference can be drawn from the language
of the article in question.
The TRtc{ligucer goes to considerable
length into the history of the Riot at Al
ton in 1897, which he gives from memory
aud In the exact language in which it il
recorded in Ford 9 History of Illinois,
omttInC. several important sentences,
and particularly that which says Of the
mob that, by far the greater number re-
tired t. the neighboring grog shops TO re
inforce their courage and then returned
to the assault with their hot blood made
hotter still by the power Of intoxication,
Now, we do not pretend that the Demo
cratic party committed that outrage upon
the freedom Of the press, but we do say,
and we challenge the memory of the Ed
itor cf the IHtelHgencer, or Ford S Histo-
lry, to contradict the fact, that the instiga-
tors of that mob were Democrats. and their
course wa. justified by a very large per
centage of the Democratic papers then
printed in the United States
The difficulty with our neighbor is sim
plv this when Democrats have committed
outraces for freedom of the press or free
dom of speech. he iustifies it on the plea
/ Of the abuse of those sacred rights, he
being the Judge BY this rule all outrages
would be iustifable, in the eyes Of those
who desire TO excuse them, either from
personal or political motives.
In the last number of the Tateiitgencer
tae Editor labors through a long article
, in justification of Gen JACKSON in the ar
rest of Lovoeller ior abuse of the freedom
Of the press.) and for his refusal to obey
the writ o. hebedS rpuS. As an evidence
E-.- Of
, we need only cay that with the facts fully
before US our first vote was cast for that
old Hero for the highest office IN the gift
of 3 free people But the Iute}}jqe7lcer
argues that Jackson was iustihable on the
grouudof being IN the midst of danger from
surrounding enemy and claims that Pres
ident LINCOLN Is not SO situated with re
gard 10 the arrests made BY his authority
In the Northern States. Had our neigh
Dor followed the history Of Gen. JACKSON
a little further he would have iound that
this same spirit Of determination and what
Is termed arbitrary authority at this day
was exhibited not only against military
lsw but in time of peace
During the Seminole war. in 1917, one
Ambristo, British subject was charged,
with stirring up the Indians 10 war
: against the United States He was tried
: bv a court-martial and sentenced 10 be
whipped and imprisoned But General
. JACKSON hung him on his own responsi-
bility General JACKSON was appointed
Governor Of Florida IN 1921. Wtilc Gov
ernor of that Teraitory dispute arose
between Jackson and Col CoLLAvA. rsla-
t:ae 10 certain judiciol papers, which re-
suited in the imprisonment OF CaIiaya.-
Judge Fremontin granted him habeas
corpus. which Gen. Jackson not only dis
regarded. but summoned the Judge before
him And yet the American people JUS
: tilted Jackson. and afterwards elected him
President What act of the present Ad-
ministratiou has exceeded these In point
: of arbitrary rule, even in the eyes OF the
Editor of the IHtel}igencer
II President LINCOLN has failed in the
dIschaTge ii his duty towards disloyal
men, it has been in a lack of severity-a
!, failure 70 act upon the principles carried
: ouf hy Gen JACSsaS through his rhols