The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-05-27
,,.rnyrsD1YnORHINo. NAY %, 1858.

.....rnaa a . violation Of the Constitution
s.a,.vs Of the United States. The resolu
-. IN which this conclusion is asserted
~. ~ the formally adopted opi. ions Of i'm
...nss msstinge. as which sentiments stronger
49,, ,hoss in the resolutions themselves wsrs
...,r ct,sred sentiments, Indeed, more VIC
-, and offsnslvs to the Federal Executive
,s., those uttered BY vallsndigham, for which
!. h.. been cant to Fort Warren Letters ad
s,..,sd 70 the officers Of the meeting, sspsci.
Al, .Aas Of Governor SEYMOUR, assert that
= The croesediogs in valisndigham's case 70.
cain n the judgment and final decision by the
aav.rnmens, that they have beyond question
.,,.ady established at. the North . complete
Military despotism. The New York Herald
,h,ea has bssn playing fast and loose, sndea
vo,ius TO keep with the Administration and the
,.apse ,ooLhsving very great consideration
e, hath s editorial neck and it, editorial fisc-
!. eou.,rsinsd to declare its own disapproba.
,on Of tho course Of the Governments in regard
ovsh ldishAn. Il is, no doubt, forced 70
N. by popuhr feeling sswsll asths sentiment
~ The press. The Herald could MT withhold
q, aisspprova of snch high-handed exercise
s mower, when eve1 the Tribune and tho
rgsias Posi-, negro.worshipping Black Re-
n,b,;csn.. declared their opinions decidedly in
.u,osjuon to it. The following expression
,h.r,ou, from the Herald of the 2Osh, may bs
uksu IS indicative of the popular view Of this
pst,sr 9. least 10 New York:
nIf General Burnside on his own reeponsi.
b;fty initiated these late military proceedings
sSsi1s, Mr VaIlsndigham. he has foolishly
ds,bsd himself against . stone wall much
more difficult to carry than that along the
ssisb,s Of Fredericksburg. If he has acted
nndsr instructions from Washington, the Ad-
mn;..r,,on mas committed the grave mistake.
In sihsr event il is within the power of Pres
ian, Iiiacoll to rsvarse tbese proceedings,
and to ,urn over the accused 10 the civil au-
,hortes Tas Northern elections of last au-
tnuu involved a serious warning from the
loysl S;s;es against these arbitrary arres.s-a
wsrsing which, it was hoped, had put an end
to them Under this conviction the people of
the ssveral ctstss conceSned in our spring
elections ross up to sustain the Adniuissra alton
erd tie war against al the peace clamors of
the Co2perheads. In Connection, where
tnoss sgiia.ors were ths mosH numerous and
yol.n,. theY were most siynally defeated
Bat this Vallaudigham affair furnishes the
ysry ca3ial TO tnese Democratic radicals
which they have 30 mach desired, and Iuss
,asm in a Constitutional position from which
,aey canno: De displaced. Tae pubic senti.
uea. Of New York, and OF all the loy.l States,
on this point ia with them, and the Admins.
ts,ion must quash these military proceedings
against Vsllaniigham, and recognize the vi
Eli1y OF Inc civil law in the loyal States, or
there will be civil war In the North
Will Lincoln "quash" them and prevent
civil war; according to the Herald or, if he
viii not "qua.h" them, viii "civil war"
ensus If We could reason about Yankee
ss We can about other men, We would ssy
that Liueola would be compelled to "quash "
thesentsnce or to 10 on with his arrests, and to
put in his bastiles not only the small man who
nsds the excited speeches in New York city
on the 10Th, bat Governor Seymour and
Washington Hunt and their brother sympa-
th;sers generally. II eedition is to be put
down BY arbitrary arrests, then those arrests
uusl 60 on. II he absndons that policy, then
he must let loose Vallandigham. TO keep him
10 prison and arrest no more men, would be but
showing his own hesitation and fear of the
eonssquences To refuse to iberate him will
only continue the cause of the excitement and
ths. immunity to ssditious declaimers which
his failure to arrsst them gives. Lincoln has
mos. assuredly now difficult road to travel
Hesitation is dangerous. To keep Vallandig-
ham lin prison aad arrest NO more man, will only
raise the storm Of popular feeling higher, and
Isy elsct him Governor of Ohio, and then
comes troublesome issue. TO 60 on consist
emily, with high hand, like true despot, as
he dssires to be, he must arrest all the leading
gupathizsrs, and, if the psople rise, put them
down with The bsyonss- But would they rise 7
Again, were they like other people, we could
sy that they would. But the Yankees are 90
peculiar, aud have 90 often disappointed all
reasonable human expectations, that we would
not hazard an opinion upon the subject. We
sll mus. wait the Issue Of the present storm,
whether it be teapot tempest or not.
since the foregoing article was in type, lit
having been deferred for some days.) news
has been received that the Federal Dictator
has commused the sentence Of Mr. Vallandig.
hsm to transportation through the lines Of his
military occupation to the South The Dicta-
tor evidently falters. He hopes to esc ape a
p'saible Issue with a part of the Northern
paopie by exiling his victim. But the subter.
fuse will not avail him if thoss who have
taken action against his summary military
proceedings are sincere and courageous His
attempt to avoid an issue will, in that case,
but the more strongly determine them to press
it The New York Herald sees this, svi.
dsnily for it declares, in its date Of the ga,
taa. the modification of the penalty imposed
on Valiandigham makes the crime of his ar
rect and trial a still greater crime" 1t pro.
es%ds: The Governm snt has only aggravated
" ''s fault II it had right to commnte pun
"iahment it had right to inhict il, which is
tbs point in dispute. Tne tyrannicai prfvi-
"issss assumed by Burns:ds are restirmsd by
"a variation Of the sentence, which violates
'Jass az g'arngly the constitutional rights of
the citizen. This is an aggrava.ion instead
oi palliation Of tbs biuadsr already com
misad, aud will tend to multiply the difisul.
.uss By which the Adminjs.sssion is already
"bssst.o
Also. since the article above referred 10 was
'a!pe, We have the proceedings Of another
asennz Id New York, whose resolves sre
s0iasr and more ds8an. than any yet adopted
W Northern uestings. They increase the
sn'sffassrsnts Of Lincoln and press more do.
Sasoiy upon him the necessity Of carrying ont
~ Polcy OF military arrests for sedition, Or
s'snioning them altogether. He can
A'''asr quiet clsmor BY sxillpg ysalandighan