Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-14
The Radical German Press ON
Burnside.

The st. Louis Anzeiger cites the order OF
Gen. Rosecrans, prohibiting the circulation
of the Metropolitan Record and New York
Vindicator, and his latest Order No.. z, pro-
hobiting the circulation of such books as
"Pollard's Southern History Of the War;"
"Life of SToNEwALL JACKSON" etc. The
An. siger then proceeds to remark:
This last order goes further than any other
measure which has ever been undertaken
in Missouri, even when civil war ragged in
all parts of our State, and when from all
sides danger threatened constitutional order
According to this order, even the republica-
ton of articles and reports from Southern
papers, which may be necessary to get a
correct understanding of Southern affairs,
and which have been republished by all
Northern papers heretofore, exposes the
publisher to the danger of imprisonment
and contiscation. That we do not exagge-
rate, let our readers see from the order itself:
HEADQUARTERS Dept OF MIssoURL)
OFFICE OF THE p. M. GENERAL,
ST. LOUIS, March 20, 1864.
General Orders No.7.]
/. The sale, distribution or circulation of
such books as "POllard's Southern History
of the War;" Confederate Official Reports" +"
"Iife of Stonewall Jackson" adventures
of Morgan and his Men," and all other pub
Hcations based upon rebel views and repre-
sentations, being forbidden by the General
Commanding, will be suppressed by Pro-
vost Marshals, by seizing the same, and
arresting the parties, who, knowingly, sell,
dispose or circulate the same.
j. p. SANDERsoN,
Provost Marshal General.
We ask in vain, what has induced such an
extraordinary measure. Military necessity
for it there is none more here than in New
: York, or Wheeling, or Baltimore. or Wash
ington City, for the war in Missouri is alb
solutely at, an end, and there is nowhere
danger of new secesh insurrectiOn in Mis-
souri, or of new raid into our State by
the rebels, who have now been driven back
to the boundaries. of Texas.
Instead of finstituting new, w,unnecessary,a ar
bitrary measures against the press which
have never been heard of in any other State
of the Union, it would now be time to ask
whether longer continuance of martial
law in Missouriisno superfluous, and hence
totally unjustitied. ..-- .-- .....--
In the largest portion of our State, mar
tial law has become getherunnecessary,
and if this formal ''condition of war" is still
to continue, why not extend it to that por-
ton of the State which is still disturbed by
guerrillas and robbers. In all other districts
the civil law and authorities are sufficient.
We take the liberty, until we hear better
arguments in support of such measure,
to protest against it, and to recall the fact,
that the freedom of the press must not be
suspended by any General, except where
actual war, or imminent danger of war,
hence actual military necessity, makes such
a proceeding necessary, in that district, and
in those places where it becomes neces-
sary. q rrr. r.r rxr u
The time for such danger for Missouri
Is past and the time has arrived, when reg
ular, constitutional order should again as
sumo the place of military arbitrariness,
unless the people are to be accustomed and
habituated to unrepublican ideas.