St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-09-24


| Ifany man has. i. right to vote, it is he
who has shown himself willing and able
ty6ght for the government Of his choice.
The men and sho party who would de-
)ptive spch men Is Lieutenant Freeman,
instance, ofsifs vote, are dangerous to
the very spirit Of selfgovernment Let
the people of Minnesota remember that
the so-called Denoeraticl party har every
where opposed and voted against the SOL
der right to 4 voice uths,ehoiee Of OIL
GERS and in tho making IF laws be was
sworn to maintain at The peril If bis life.
But, Lieut.. Freeman !! What . harvest
Death is gathering from the small circle
of ny pefsohsl ffiSends = 81 CLOUD could
better have spared = dozen ordinary men
than that one staunch, upright, Chriistiah
soldier. His name will surely never be
spoken there without profound respect,
and to be honest as Ambrose Freemat
may we'll be reputation any nan. night
be ambitious to win. The manner of his
death is another illustration Of the insane
folly of fighting Indians by the rules Of
civilized warfare. a people who use the
flag of tiuce;as means Of getting near
enough their victim TO murder him, ara
strange animals to be treated as prisoners
of:war. Had the rebels done so, even
President Lincoln would have felt the ne
cessity of meeting them on their own
ground. -rai..a Sc >,%.tl...5
WASHINGTON AND THE coNF1scArIoN
There are bit two trades in Washing
ton that are zealously followed just now,
Office hunting aud house hunting. It is
a mystery where the people are going to
stay when Congress meets, for the houses
are all full nov. The Firet Minnesota is
gone to New York and it is said will be
stationed on Governors Island. I saw
picture of Fort Sumter from photo
graph, showing it mass Of ruins with the
rebel flag floating over them. A great
sale Of con6scated property was to have
come off few Jays ago = 4 crowd Of
thousands had assembled, but il was post
poned and they dispersed IN bad humor.
learned from what I thought good au-
thority some time ago that the Co.6sca-
ton Act was to be construed TO mean
something and that. property seized and
sold during the life of the rebel owner
was finally alienated as completely as his
own act of sale could ALLEVIATE it; but this
would have been too sure and short way
Of ending the: rebellion. To avoid that
catastrophe, Congress passed bill as
kind of primogenitive enactment to secure
to the heirs of traitors the estate which
might otherwise have passed out of the
family and so have wounded the feeling
of the F. F. VS., and their intshtion is
to be strictly carried out. The sales
therefore Of con6scated property are only
for the lifetime Of the rebel owner, and
when the rebel heir chooses to swear him
self iuto the estate he has only to ''take
the oath" which the entire eonfederacy
prides itself on taking and tbreaking when
ever there is any hope OF making any
thing hy i. It is no difficult matter to
get some one to swear that the "old man"
is dead. In some cases the rents or pro-
ceeds Of SALE during Tho time Of con6sca-
ton, will be handed over to the heirs, aud
Brother Jonathan will pay expenses
This act and its enforcement is grand
swindle on the loyal people who are 10
foot the bill of this war. - 4>,-,< <ssA
I The streets and open spaces in Wash.
ingtonl are plentilhlly:: besprinkled with
dead horses, dead dogs, Gals, rats, rubbish
and refuse Of all kinds. Many thousand
horses are buried in the immediate vicini-
ty Of the city some Eve Of six inches deep.
The street in front Of the Presidents
house and War Department has the gut.
ter heaped dp p' 4alff p bA,k, roa.e. ,aaa< a
foot deep and worth fdfte sasaat5x cart load load
for manure: Il appears to be matter ma Of
national pride that the President is TO-
have more mud, and bl.cker mud, and
fiithier mud in front Of his door than an !
other man can afford Five Points, when
l saw it, sxasgolean: compared to Peuusyl-
vania Avenue :ia front Of the Executive
mansion whilo the statue Of Washing ton