, 1863-06-08

Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune. !
DETROIT, June s, 1863.
1t is hard to decide whether the loyal peo-
pie Of this city were the most gratiied at the
order of Gen. Burnside, suppressing the Chi
cago Times, or surprised at the decision Of
the President, rcvoking TINT order and prac.
tica1ly licensing that infamous sheet to con-
tinue its REASONABLE war upon the Govern
ment.
Wilbur r. Storey md his whole course, not
only since the war begun, but from the very
day the South commenced their preparations
Tor oycrthrowing the Union, are thoroughly
known to our citizens. They know that he
Is the traitor who, while editor OF tho Detroit
Free Press, originated and proclaimed the
atrocious " tire-iu-the-rear'' doctrine, and that
he declared, through its columns, that If
there was to be q war, ssit should be
here on the soil Of Michigan They
know him to be the editor whose
sentiments we're so openly reasonable,
that q Democrat Of this city gave
him warning that unless he changed
The whole issue Of his paper, It would be
thrown into the Detroit River; and him with
It, and that In consequence Of this warning be
hastily disposed Of his establishment and
ekulked off to Chicago; They know that since
he removed to this city, he has not ceased for
single day to wage most relentless war
against the Government and every measure 1t
has felt called upon to adopt with view Of
putting down the rebellion, that he has labor.
ed with the malignity Of f1cnd to corrupt
public sentiment, to create disaffection among
the people. md to give practical aid and COM.
fort to the conspirators in arms against 1t,
They know that from the day the first rebel
cannon was fired upon Fort Sumter, to the
present hour, he has not said an encouraging
word in support ofthe Government, nor utter
ed one word Of dcnunciation against the
Southern rebels, but that all his abuse has been
bestowed upon the former and all his
encouragements upon the latter. They
knoW that so strong has been
his desire to mid the rebels
that mosts II not all, his correspondents with
the army hare been 80 clearly in the interest
Of the confederacy, that three Of them, at
least, have been arrested by our Generals, Us
spies and lDformer5. They know in short,
that his whole heart and soul has been with
the South from the start, and bitterly, malig-
nantly. untiring against his own Govern
ment-
All these things are facts proved by the col.
umus Of his paper, here and in Chicago, and
Of their truth there Is no more doubt than
there is that jeff Davis Is. traitor to his
country: There is not a number Of the TINES
Or the Free Ptess, while under his charge, from
the day the election Of Lincoln was known to
the present, that does not contain enough
proof to hang him for treason In any nation
under heaven but our own. But infamonsly
atrocious as this evidence proves his course
to be, we believe that it does not show tho |
full enormity ?f his guilt. We believe that
erto aesasainate Mr.. Lincoln to prevent his
Inauguration, and thus throw tic Govern. |
ment into the hands Of the conspirators.
Their reason for believing so is, that his bo-
som friend and comrnde in this city proposed |
to bet a Republican one hundred dollars, Just |
before the 9TH Of March, 1861. that he would |
never be inaugurated, md the fact that his |
whole character and teachings are in har-
mony with just such m act as that I have |
not the slightest donbt that If the consplrators
Of that contemplate and thoroughly matured |
crime shall ever be brought to light, the name |
Of Wilbur F. Storey wfl figure prominently |
in the list.
Such being the past courte and present po-
s1tion and designs of The editor Of the Times,
It Is not strange that the real friends and sup
porters of the Government here are even in
dignant Us well as surprised that the measures
gerous enemy Of the Union, and this bold and /
shameless organ of jeff. Davis, should not
only be thwarted by the President, but his
REASONABLE course virtually sanctioned by
linn. If there Is man in the whole West
upon whom the strong hand Of the Govern
ment shon1d be laid, Wilbur F. Storey Is that
man. Mahoney, the Iowa Copperhead editor,
james ". Wall, and even Vallandigham, are
loyal men compared with this vile and ulalig-
Dant traitor. - And the opinion is almost uni
Versal here that since the President has re-
yoked the order suppressing his paper and
licensed him to proceed in his efforts to cre-
ate - are.in. .the-rear" Of our army. he is
humanity, to pardon not only Vallandigham,
hut every other political offender now under
arrest. If Storey is not traitor, Val1andig.
ham Is vastly less one indeed. he is genuine
loyalist In comparison. The President
|a Ias no right to Discriminate against
latter has made only now and then
J reasonable speech to a few hundred Cop
perheads. The former has been preaching
treason to the Government, open resistance
to the laws, and sympathy and encouragement
TO the rebels, to thousands Of people daily for
two years and half Storey has addressed
more people. and talked more treason, and in
fictcd upon the Government more injury in
any single week OF his infamous career, than
Vallandigham has since the war began. And
set the course OF The former has been off,
ciallJ sanctioned by the President, while he
has sent the latter into exile.
Can you think it strange that this weak,
or vaecillating, or discriminating policy
whichever you may choose to callis-h1s pro.
duced, OF Is producing, want Of confidence
In the courage, firmness and consistency Of
the President, most injurious to him, nud Of
course to tie Union carse7 It may display
our ierarance Of military matters, and
Of TIE effect of It's course upon the
public interests, to distrust this policy. But
The loyal people In this quarter haye notion
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