The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-05-27
we Know No Party, !but the
Party Of the Constitution.
Suppression.

.na ,na forgery of the bogus proclamation
and the suppression Of thh newspapers,
,,c,s which are familiar to the country,
.,v.: alNIl t0hF6-YaaaS
Ne we're caught, as were others-not the
v,v York World alone, but other papers,
,.s, by pure accident and nothing slse,
,r'r, enabled to discover the fraud IN time
?, .uopress immense editions already print
81 destroy stereotype pages containing
n. lorgery, aud save their regulations, We
suffered
They would not have beea punsheda as We
were had they published it. No oned dreams
that If tue radical newspapers bad been
c,nrtt, the Administration would have
nur,ued the course they took 1t was ono
&C the accidents of the morning, that while
oIl, a few hundred copiss OF the Herald
,.r, seat nut containing II, two conserva>
tive papers issued it in large part oi their
eiitiuns Tacn arose the storm OF political
haired ard partisan animosity, and the men
ar Washington went mad.
To the disgrace If Americal hi>tTy an
order va, instantly issued for our suspsn
SION and in, arcera tiun 10 Fort Lafayette.
The fullest pertculars Of the fraud, rs full
as the public have to day, excepting only
tho name of the forger, wer laid before
the Administration by telegraph 10 the
DISGRACE vi Republican institutions, The or :
DR. Was reiterated IN the lace OF these iacts.
The telegraph wires groaned with dispatch
es from loyal leagueis, friends oi "howard
Oft Times" membsrstof Republican com
mirtees and anti slavery churches, begging
the President TO suppress the copperhead
newspapers in New York. For three days
this disgraceful state Of things continued,
and the sun shone all the while on the land
that vas cursed with such Inhabitants.
We call 10 witness the respectable news
paoer press from Atlantic to Pacific when
We say it was impossible, by any degree OF
caution to prevent such an occurrence
There is not d newspaper editor IN Amert-
CT who, had he been III our ut1ce, would
rot applaud the course pursued by our lore
D,aa, aud Tree him from all blame, Nor can
any living mao by any degree or care or
ingenuity make himself or his business sale
against fraud. Show US the man that dare
toast OF such Immunity.
Mail; thi. We have within three years
done m ne tLan fifty thousand dollars worth
cratu,tous advertising for this same Ad'
r.injstration who have sent Us orders lnnn
usrabe to hunt up officers TO announce
traits. {, proclaim rhis ur thar, every or
jcf coming 10 us in a most Jdc Sinaae ot
,his forged dispatch, and with no verihcs'
.;o3 ,;LateyeI. There is scarcely night
IL IN : year that the War Department dues
not send us, on manifold paper, now in this
add now in that handwriting, at one, two,
,hreo or four o'clock, some such proclams
t,un or order Il We should refuse to pub
ljsl one of these We should be denounced as
c.operheads If we demand vtrl1cstlon or
~, we should be ho)ted az as traitors
Nny. more. we ware ourselves arrested ahu
oar paper suppresson, on supposed order
nom Washing on, written out by tele'
graphic operator, which Gen Dix took on
tril,s. bees he had seen Others that re
Sambled it which were true!
We have no defence uf ourselves 70 make.
We had done no wrong. We were Victims
vi fraud, and the President, IN moment
og evil Judgment, resolved to pun'sh our
,,;st,rtnne. and hurled on us The mandate
of A strong power, destroying our property,
a
.,.c but greater personal wrong ana injury.
We have asked no pardon from him. Inc
ciencuei maud ot man that strikes Win
passionate blow on the rJck Is bruised, aRd
cannot for long time recover the sell innlct
d injury The army Of authority when it
yields tie sword of anger against the spot
less s,eel OF Innocence wastes the Vlgor ol
its s;news and turas Tue edge ol the wesp-
en-. The voice Ut denunciation thundefed
ever so loudly against the pure dies feeoly
ru the wind and ITS tones become forever
Doyprless Ii - not We that have ben
harmed So much as be who has 80 hercely
struc6 atus. We arc greved for him lie
has withdrawn his grasp, and we are again
free. And NOV for the private wrong done
Us, We Tn il in our hearts to forgive nlm'
1t was, perhaps, an error OF petulan; 20 or
mistake Of poor judgment Lat !. 'ss lot
awhile, till he and wescan think lt over 10
calmer time
Tue puhlic wrong wh,ca involves sucn
u5i,bty inrcrests-the Constitution, the So
crsd authority of law, the liberty OF tue
press. the Fl eedom Of the citizen fron unJus'
>earcl and SEIZURE of his person anu pro
o.fty. the freedum from arrest, except oa
warrants duly authorized, the right to De
confront ted by aecusers, GO trial by jury
tbi, Great wrong We have no power 70 par
don. Two thousand years ago the Romans
enacted the law Of Publ'us Port,us L@ca'
which authorized al appeal 10 the Roman
people In the time OF Paul that hao oeen
sadly changed to the appeal to o@sar, tor
Ce;ar had grasped the power of che eople
We possess the law in its original purity,
aud by that appeal must this whole act be
judged. ~ :
We thank oar friends f'f their hearty
support. We thank many, very many gen
ilcmen Of the Republican party Tor tnslr
o4tspoken expressions Of opinion We
Iesye to Their own shame the 'contemptible
es,aogus Of man who stopped" .hsir P.
pets, Excepting out of that list, and honor
ios those who on Saturday came boldly "