Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-05-07

gal and unconstitutional powers which 1t had assumed
They were confident that at all events after the frat Of
January next on which day the newyelected Governor
would come into ONCE the suspension Of the writ of habeas
corpus could not be practically maintained They seemed
TO Do that the result Of the elections would be
accepted by the President declaration OF the will OF
the eoplo that he would the moderate and
sentative element in the Cabinet that he would seek TO
terminate the war, not to push it to extremity that he
would endeayor to effect reconciliation with the people
OF the South and the idea Of subugating
Terminating them"
Such, then, were the general political views Of
the New York Democrats when "exuting in the
browning success achieved by the party in that
State" These views were we'll known to Others
because universally proclaimed at the time, on the
hustiDgs and in the press, and what they rejoiced
in "above all /" was deemed so little reasonable,
after The election, that the sentiment was equally
shared by such Republican papers as the Evening
Post. Immediately after the election that journal
said
The second lesson taught (by the November slectons
10 that the rights Of peaceful and loyal ctzensthe
kn0weded guarantees Of civil lbertyars not be tfed
Oh or handled in arbitrary manmer. Wc>acqut the
Administration wholly in its various arrests Of Individuals
and it's suppressiOns OF newspapers # the purpose 10 do
wrong We believe that in the majority OF instances in
which they have ncarcerated persons in Fort Warren
Fsr Lafayette they have done substantial Djustice
we hold too that in times Of civil these exceptional
proceedings often absolutely
and applaud at the time the jealousy soih ,rhich the
popular mind aoays patches such They should be
used only under imperative crcumstAnces the for
them should be made public whenever that 10 possible
and they should BIZ suffered to color OF
price of personal within. While poor country editor
for instance whose sheet does not reach thousand
suddenly hauled by the officers Of the law for
ncautous expression of treason, the rich city editor who
speaks to hundreds Of thousands who lies without scrupe
and who boldly promotes anarchy invites military despo
tism and vifes every officer Of the Government should
not 60 scot ree Such shoto that the
rather voluntary than imperatUe h they strengthen
and enbter the natural loi ioich eUery
interference Nth the operations # courts Of justice is
gGraed.
The Naturalization ,ciA b in time noe hope
By the results Of the recent elections is late
repair the past Al the requisite pooer is sM ia its hands
The people good still They hare chastised not
so much in anger as IN hope"
It is Of men whose political views would thus
seem, at least in one most important respect to
have derived countenance from the Evening Post,
that that journal now holds the following language:
Surprising this grauitous defence of the British
Minister by the National Inelgencer u.s. it is not more so
than the singular omissions of that article which contains
word Of rebuke TO the unnatural who could sneak
into the presence of the British Minister and regardless
of the correspondence then going to the
strucon and equipment of praca steamers to destroy
pour into his their spite against
the country with the intent Of sinking in the esteem
of foreign Power, just lowering between imperfect
neutrality and war. In all the three columns of
apology for the Minister find single word of
tempt for bis Instruments Miserable traitors they
ready to PROSTATE their country at the foot of
hereditary and ambitious rival the leading newspaper at
the seat of the Government has nothing but approving
silence for them and honeyed words for the Minister who
encourages their misconduct"
1t is well known that we have frequently warned
the Democratic leaders against "the perils of poll
tical reactions" We have no traditions that would
lead us to engage in the defence of party to
which, on past issues, we have been 80 frequently
opposed But we do not for this reason feel called
to make oil political dissent on the part of the De-
mocracy Synonymous with treason. Their views
as to the mode in which or the objects for which
the war should be carried on may have been
short-sighted, and their suggestions in depreca-
tion Of foreign Intervention may have lacked
emphasis, but nobody suspected Mr.. Greeley of
being consciously " miserable traitor" because
at one time he opened correspondence with the
French Minister, or because in January last he
proposed, under certain circumstances, to make
" the best attainabe peace" or because he has in
voked the mediation of Switzerland to settle our
difficulties At least we do not remember to have
seen him rebuked as "mserable traitor or an
" unnatural man" in the columns of the Evening
Post
Our own views as to the inadmissibility of for
eign Intervention at any time are so well known
that we are not in any danger of having them mis-
taken because we do not modulate our " rebukes"
after the tones of the Post, which may feel it ne
cessary to hold at present very high and naughty
language against England, our hereditary and
ambitious rival, to atone for the zeal and constan-
cy with which it espoused the British cause in the
war Of 1872, even to the extent Of expressing
the hope, in the closing year of that just and
cessary war, that ono true friend of his country
would be found among the subscribers to the loan"
for which Mr.. Gallatn, the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, issued proposals in 1914, in order to enable
the President to maintain the honor of the flag
against British assumptions. Such was the sup
port which the Post gave to the Administration Of
Mr.. Madison, 10 memory Of which, we suppose, its
present conductors assume to lee ture the "Demo-
cratic leaders" Of New York, who, as it says,
conversed with Lord Lyons freely Of their desire
to bring this war to an end, who expressed to him
their feelings of hostility to the Administration,
denouncDg its acts and prophesying its overthrow,
and who counseled him to the course the British
Government ought TO pursue in the matter of in