Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-04-10

Times, under date Of April ID, 1868:
| AT the great Union meeting raeenily
held in the Capitol (Houso of Representa-
tives,) a resolution was passed applauding
Ito the echo the course General
Schenck has pursued, and is pursuing ii Ma.
ryland, and which Cen Burnside has iuauga-
rated at Cincinnati As there is no know
ing how soon satrap or pro-oonsul, with nn,
limited powers, may be appointed for Illinois,
it may De well for your readers TO familiarize
themselves with the mode in which the "hli.
tary Governors Of loyal States exercise
their functions, that they may be ready to
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee be-
fore some man of the Wendell Phillips stripe,
who will be sent to rule over them, as Scheuck
rules over the heretofore free citizens Of Ma
ryland and Pennsylvania, as Burnside has
been sent TO rule over the free citizens OF
! Ohio.
Schenok, who is n politician of the ultra
radical school, knows no more of military
science aud the art of war than an intelligent
private in the ranks, yet he has been made BY
the administration {. Major General, the high
est rank in the service This was done that
he might carry out the tyranny of the admin
istration to its full extent in the two great
States over which he is made the ruler
| The rule which he'has laid down u.s. that 10y
atty consists in blind and unquestioned ac-
quiesscence in all the acts and measures of
the Administrations that whoever dares TO
think that any of those acts are unwise or in
| judicious, or to speak disrespectfully Of any
military officer Of the government (meaniug
Sehenck and his undersrappers( is dis
| loyal and a traitor; and that ali disloyal per
sons or traitors, whether men women or chill
dren shall be banished from their country
In enforcing this rule, the constitution Of the
United States aud the laws of Maryland have
beeR equally disregarded, and Schenck has
committed outrages on the rights Of the peo-
| pie Of that State for which, at some day, he
will have to answer His minions have fore
ed themselves into the houses of peaceful oiti-
zens whose only crime was that they have re-
latives in the South, and not into their hous-
es alone, but into the private apartments Of the
ladies' and they have even gone the length Of
causing the persons Of ladies to be rudey
searched From the person OF a lady sub
jected to this brutal treatment, folded paper
was drawn. Pronounced at once "trensou
able document" it was carried TO Schenck
and, when opened, it was found to be "a
PRAYER Foa PEACE" Nor is this nl Deli
cate ladies are torn from their homes and from
their families, guarded by soldiers with fixed
bayonets, transported to Harpers Ferry, and
sent thence, through snow storms, rain, and
sleet, and in miserable ox.carts, through the
Federal lines and across the mountains, TO
Stanton and Richmond. Their crime was
that they would not take the oath to speak dis
respectfully Of Schenck
| Your readers need not be ihcredulous abo1t
the story of JEFF Davis boots and Mrs Da-
vic Imam nio oht.gntvpu haoutifuliu arnhrot1.
cred 1t is literally true. The villiant
hero (2) of Vienna actually nosed out the ex
istence of these articles, and wayad and
captured them, and now exhibits them in tri,
umph, AlthOugh it is said he is going 10 pre-
sent them to Mrs Lincoln Oh heroic ex.
plot Does not the achievement deserve to
live in history2 1t is facts of this kind
which show the ridiculous lengths to which
the administration has gone, Suppose, after
having vindieated his prowess in capturing
these articles, Schenck had forwarded them to
their destination, as any chiyalrous soldier
would have done, by flag Of truce. Would
the cause Of the Union have suffered by the
act2 Win the possession of those night
gowns in his family give Mr.. Lincoln any
aid in crushing the rebellion? If Schenck
had sent them to their proper owner would
not the courtesy have been recprocated by
the release Of some prisoner nj Richmond 2
Is Sohenck determined that, so far as he is
concerned, the ferocity of the war shall be
mitigated by none of those amenities on which
the pen of the future historian will love 10
dwell2 What is it that gives the charm to
the brilliant chronicles OF the wars or the
Middle Ages, and even to those of more
modern times, but those little courteses be-
tween the combatauts, which prove that the
finer feelings Of mans nature will assert then
supremacy, even amid the shock OF arms IL
those feelings, however, Schencb is evidently
q stranger