, 1864-02-27

ANOTHER "HERo."-A correspondent writing from
hard, under an evident lack of knowledge in cor
rectly writing his mother tongue to convince "the
whole world and the rest of mankind, of the topZof
tiness of his intellect. Having first raised his imag
inaton beyond all sublunary things, he scars away
into the fowery fields of eoquence," and then sud
denly draps down to burlesque, to assist us, as he
says, in making hero of Col. Steinberger I" He
cites the Nanny hGbeaS corpus case (Which was before
che public few weeks ago. and by laborious argument
and pettifo9ging techncalities pro0es to his oaun
satisfaction that the Colonel did wrong in obeyng
the Presidents proclamation suspending the Hwrit'
by not delivering Nanny up to the civil authorities
in complain with the writ sued out at the instance
of prisoners attorneys hence he is a "herol" Now,
this is more than claimed for the Colonel
but, though not admirer of the idea of suspendng
the 'writ' in States Territories not in rebellion
we still admire the officer whoever or whatever he
may be- who obeys his orders the best of his ab-
ity and understanding Of them,--even though his le
gal lore be insufficient to enable him, in the opin-
ion of SoonS. to return an answer in conformity
with The strict letter of the law. If his idea of the
general meaning of the law be correct we fail to
see that the omission of an 'if'' or an SAM makes
him culpable and especially so in a where the
only point sought to be gained by those who OBJ
ject to such omissionis the release of a murderer
from durance 0ile. The correspondent who has all
at once become magnanimous signs himself ''Dem-
ocrat,' and, we presume, claims to be one and il
we may judge from his style of reasoning, is possibly
just such an one as jeff Davis would be proud ef
The "wrt" has been suspended here, and whether
" +I,oc
tents aud purposes The law of the land and we have
no more confidence in the Democrat who would con.
denim and seek to make capital against an officer for
obeying it than we have in the Republican who would
seek to effect the removal of such officer for purely
personal partzan reasons. One would incite re.
beion by encouraging disobedience of the "powers
that be, and the other would do the thing by
trying to force conformity to his individual wishes
prejudices In fact, are just charitable enough
to think that to the genuineness of the principle
involved between 'Democratn and the otber man
there is only distinction without difference. The
American people have always had better plan for
rghtng wrongs than the acts of either suggest and
we have confidence enough in the patriotism of the
to believe that regardless of the ipSe dipits
of exciters either side they will not depart from
the good old way. The "writ" has been suspended
in certain cases, by the President and with the sane
tion of Congress, and we say duty demands that the
action should be sustained by every loyal citizen un-
til the people, through the ballot box say it shall be
suspended no longer. 1t is not probable now that
those whose acts place them above reproach will be
caused to suffer by the suspension.
But Nanny; Democrats" wronged outraged
murderer has escaped, and shown a contempt for the
suspension of the writ and the officer who retained
him equaling that of his Democratic" admirer
and now the erudite scrbbler forthe Union can sit
down and write another letter, proclaming Nanny q
" hero' and himself whatever he pleases.