The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-03-20
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lishment. The JOB press was entirely dcs-
! troyed, whilst the large press, on which the
JeiIer .onian was printed, can be repaired at
cost of about s25. Eight hundred or one
thousand dollars. will place the office in as
good fix, il not better, than it was.
These soldiers were fresh from the army
Of the Cnmberland--msny of whom had
been wounded and taken prisoners at the
battle OF Stone River. and had endured the
privations and cruelty OF Southern prison.
and the brutal treatment bestowed By the
rebels on Union soldiers. and had no great
love for either them or their Northern cop
perhead bretherea. One of our most res
pectable citizens say he heard soldier ex
press himself as determined to put stop TO
the "6iing -in-the-rear." that they (ihe sol
diers) were experiencing from such papers
as the Jfersonian, il every one had TO be
destroyed, aud the sentiment was echoed by
his brother soldiers. He 1.-THE soldier) said
further that he had foruerly published
democratic paper in Illinois up to the time
the war broke out, ard supported Stephen
A. Douglas for the Presidency. He had
been in the service for the past two years.
and expected to fight traitors wherever he
could find them, and he who was not for the
vigorous prosecution Of this war up to
the good hour when the traitors should un-
co additionally surrender, was his enemy, and
the enemy Of the country. He wanted it
distinctly Understood that no citizen Of Rich
mond had had finger in the pi' of the
Jeffersonian. in melting the soldiers or as
sisling them to estroy it.
While we cannot justify this summary
fer having the constituted authorities to deal
with every press that aims, ike the Je6er
sonian has constantly and persistently done.
to discourage our soldiers, incite them to
mutny and desertion. ard. by This means
break up the armJ; yet, this demonstration
has lis lesson. going clearly and uneqsivo.
cally to show, that the Indignant resolutions
passed by the Army Of the cumberland,
that were Transmitted 10 the copperhead
Legislature of Indiana, meart something |
the soldier despises "a sneaking traitor in
tie rear more than he does rebel in front"
We are no admirer of the course pursued
by tine Jefersonian. butwe deprecate mobs
or mob violence. to remedy evils that can be
cured by civil or martial law. or by pursu-
ing a Getting alone course. The law
sometimes has its tedious perple kites, its
glorious uncertainties, but where it can be
enforced. with a reasonable hope Of success
full correction being administered through
its aid, we are always in favor of resorting
to it as the only remedy. Cases do occur.
particularly in these times that "try mems
SOULS" wherein a resort to civil law would
be simply foolshness-a waste of precious
time. When, as in the case of the LETTER
sonian. the boosted 'liberty of the press
eliminated into iiceLtiousness-its whole
influence was being used TO disparage all
the Efforts of the General Government to
put down this wicked and causeless rebel
lion-its advocacy Of an armistice and COM
promise with armed traitors, evidently to {
laid and comfort its southern brethren-, .
its publication of letters, purpor,ing to have ,
been written by soldiers, full of outrageous /,
lies, calculated to discourage and dishearten
soldiers and the friends of soldiers at home,
which we're evidently gotten up an this city
to order, for the purpose OF producing dis
and desertion-w we say,
all this was done, and evil influences, and
only evil. was continually dripping from its .
foul and loathsome pages, then was the time I
for martial law to lay its restraining hand
on the thing and dry it up, until its editor 1
should give forth fruits meet for repentance, {
for his tory utterances and traitor sympa-
thes. Civil affairs cannot 60 on as usual Il
in time of war. a. Blackstone, the most
eminent of commentators on law, fully en-
dorses the sentiment: Laws are silent.
amid arms We are fighting for law. Ii
law were undisturbed. and the Constitution :,
not violated by rebels. there would be no a
occasion for civil war. There is a law which.
when the existence Of nation is threaten r
ed, supercedes all others: 1T Is THE LAW OF b
SELF PRESENTATIONS" What would be en- t
dured as the croakipg of an ultra psrtizan, !
and regarded as mere claptrap to keep {
party together, in time of peace, is looked S
on in different light when the red hand Of ,
war is stretched forth 10 smite down our
cherished institutions, and for tho destruc- G
truction Of our glorious Union. We believe /
it is the duty of the Government TO suppress G
all such sheets as the Jef,rsonian wss but !.
il the Government UM not act. for The Iea- =
son. probably. that it might tend TO making i
its editor blessed martyr" and because b
OF his utter iusisni6eance being mere G
satellite to other dog-star luminsries of
greater magnitude. then it becomes The du- 2
y of every good and loyal citizen TO try the i,
power of Isfting him alone in every social
nd commercial L alstion--follnx strictlr The /