Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-06-16
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New Assaults en- the Liberty Of the Press.
From the New York Metropolitan Record, Ssth uItl
For being vicEimized by an abolition disciple
Of Bssehsr's, and publishing bis forgery. pre-
Tossing TO be q Lincoln proclamation, the Offices
of the JosTAGl Of Commerce and Of the World
were seized by the military, and tie issues Of
those papers suppressed for EeveTsl days. It
was Eot for originating, but for passing and Civ
ing Importance to the forgery, that these papers
were so Tudely violated in their imprescriptible
riEhtG.
The whisky-dTinking utterer Of sophomorie
bslderdEah who occupies the position Of Sscre-
tsry Of State in the FEDERAL coneern-Wm. Il.
Seward By nsme-stO0d, s lew months ago, in
the same position that the Journal of C0mnsres
and the World did, last Wsek--With this differ
ence, that the hoax on those papers was played
when the responsible editors were A-bed, while
ii Seward was indeed hosxed, and rot & SGrti-
cops criuiais, either before or after the fact-iE
Wss he, the principal, who gsve, ia his dispatch
TO the British Government, official importance to
the miserable forgery on the ConfederEts Sacre-
taTy Of the Navy, perpetrstsd by the New York
SHz Newspaper. But; GUAM SIT dispGT eIitEs :
Secretary Seward, assuming the airs of an IN
principled pedAgogue e~xcEsing some freak Of q
tavoTite pupil, and unconscious Of how III such
airs become one in POSITION that supposes q grave
statesman, says, when forced to explain 70 the
Brtiah Government, that "ths gentleman who
perpetrated the forgery, did it as a IKE, and de-
ceivsd him-SeEard In tbs latter case the
gentleman" who pHrpetrsted the Joke, is sent
70 Fort Lsfsyesis. And the proprietors Of the
papers whose subordinAtes only, were duped-
instead Of heing accommodated to assume the
easy exeuse yet fresh from Stewards "
mouih-Ere severely mulcted by \ disruption Of
their business and publications, sud were or
deEed TO be sent 70 Fort Lsfsyette-though this
latter order Was not carried out
Yet the forgery on the Confsderass Secretary
was total and material. The forgery on Lincoln
WAS formal, rather than material. It IS proved
50 fer TO be, az 70 have excited & doubt whether
its grsvamen WAS not the having, = little pre-
matrrely, betrayed q Stats secret, The forgery
called Tor q new draft of 400, 600 men. The
Secretary Of War says such 4 draft viii be
INSIDE, the first Of next July, for 800, 900! The
same pull, somewhat reduced in size. The forg-
cry says; Grants campaign is, virtually, at an
END. That It viii be before the frat Of July
Il is 8 mere difference in point Of tins. The
forgery calls fer Thanksgiving humiliation
etc, Thst is enc Of Ahe3s hse=>
said; "the Lord don't listen 10 him, because tae
Lord knows be is always joking"
We are bound, on principle, 70 dsnouncs this
nsw outrage OF the press Of New York. We
would do so, equally, if the papers suppressed
had been The TribHSs and the Tines. there is
no place, except BY brutsl usurpation, for the
war power" in New York! Tbs law is: Chat
at all times lin wal as in psace,) the military
should be under strict s~ubordiuation to the civil
power" Only by complisucs with this condi-
ton is New York State q member Of the FEEDER
q Union. Vide the act Of accession, July 9Th.
L1oc, signed BY George Clinton, as president Of
The State Convention, and duly sttssted.
WIN the BorId newspaper, we have no more
IN common than with the TFi5use. They are
both advocates Of Lincoln's war. But inteffer-
sncs with either, OF with TIA most daRitious con
ceIvRble press, "a deAied TO the Federal Govern
ment-Ieserved to the State Government.