Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-22

Arbitrary Arrests and military
Outrages---Seu ara ana Linz
COin's "HeIi" Played Out In
Ntw York.
The most encouraging sign we have vet
Feen comes from New York. General Dix
has succumbed and agrees N submit to an
order from the civil courts 70 try HIM and his
suhordinstes for illegal and arbitrary acts,
committed on citizens Of New York, by order
Of Lincoln and Seward That "beH,' which
Seward bossted OF TO Lord Lyons more pow
eriul than any Monarch's orders in Europe,
has rung about its last ring in New York
Governor Seymour has finally resolved that
it shall stop II It takes the whole military pow
er of that State to stop IT,
The Courts have ably sustained Governor
Seymour ia demanding the arrest of General
DIX Marshall marry, and others, aud although
Lincoln and Seward offered to protect them
IN resisting The process of the Courts, Gen
eral Dix refuses 10 enter upon the perilous un-
derlaking and gave his personal recognisance
to appear for trial
Ia the meantime Governor Seymour is or
ganizng the State Militia, and will be pre-
pared at all hazards, 40 see that the civil
law is sustained
General John Green, one Of the ablest
aud cerest headed men in the whole coun-
try issues tnis general order" from his
"headquarters' in Syracuse; the closing para
graph Of which reads as follows:
& The importance Of the present crisis
will, it IS sincerely believed impress itself
upon the officers Of the several regiments
and companies within this district IL is
hoped no State draft will be necessary in
Onoudaga and OswegO counties, but that
their citizens will enjoy the distinction OF
having promptly filed up the National Guard
TO the maximum by volunteering within the
limited time The National Guard OF this
STATE is intended to be the bulwark and de-
Tense OF law and order-of liberty aud prop
erty the guaranty ofpesce and safety TO our
c,iZers The Constitution OF the United
States declares a well regulated militia to be
necessary to the security Of free State and
the Constitution Of Now York has provided
that the militia shall at all times be armed and
disciplined and in readiness for service His
EXcelrncy, the Governor, has set forth in his
proclamation the necessity for an immediate
and full organization of our National Guards
In addition to the dangers of invasion from
without, and Of popular dscoutents at home,
we have been warned by recent events of the
still greater danger OF arbitrary encroach-
hlNhio pui' bul ilDclllts us GllNtuS, ne laws
OF New York have already been set at def
ance Men have been incarcerated without
warrant of law their properly seized the
freedom OF the press has been unlawfully re-
strained by the armed hand and the dearest
and most sacred Of those civil rights which
our revolutionary fathers won for us through
suffering and blood, have been wantonly vio-
IA ed Owe must be prepared for all emergen-
c'es, while there is yet time The power which
ou- people may have suffered to be exercised
in the hope of the restoration of the Union,
must not be permitted to be usurped to the
overthrow Of our Constitution and laws, and
OF our freedom at home Every citizen who
values that freedom, and would maintain the
Constitution, should be at all times prepared
to defend them against all assailants,
JoHN A GREEN, Jr,
Brigadier General Com 9 oath Brigade
This reads like earnest, and we hope it will
be a warning to Seward and Lincoln that they
have pressed their arbitrary measures about
as far free people will bear Wepresume
they wanted to knew how much pressure d
people born to freedom would stand before
they would show gus Of disapprobaton. If
they will take this gentle hint all may yet be
we'll, and the night sentinels on the rounds
may cry "a clear and starlight morning." as
was the olden custom il not, then the cry
will be dark and cloudy weather - Colun-
bus Crisis,