The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-06-10
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Is Treason Dead (?


.iasiza Is Treason DeadP s. llsT &
igFhe head OF Rebellion has been crushed, but
It's venom stiliqremains.. Organized Treason is
broken up, -but.f&dividual hostility has not been
sGbdued.. Active traitors have laid down their
arms and pressed the sacred Bible to their lips
in Evidence of their loyalty, with their hearts
nneenverted and their opinions unchanged jeff,
Davis isda1 pHsoner1 and the .ConRederacy has
f66Ad its last litch; syet the country is full of
men who have learned nothing from its fate and
whose hearts are to-day as callous to every patri
etic impulse as when The Rebel rag 'floated from
eYery, citadel of theSouth. rea fa,9 ga,iasz n
But of all perverted intelleets upon which the
logic of the past four years has been brought to
bear those Of the Copperheads, Peace men and
semi-Rebels ofthe loyal states have learned the
least. Opposition to the government has becot4e
such habit with them, that it is an Involuntary
second nature. 1t is the element IN which they
live. They take TO it as, naturally as most of
them take to their 1whfkey. No matter what
theeAdmiustration does; no matter what policy
1t adopts nolnat terwhich side ola question it
asSames,, these men stfaitway open their bate
ries omit, They take advantage of every oppor-
tunity to yilify Public officers, and weaken their
Influence with the people Some watchdog
mastiff raises a howl of indignation over some
assumed act ofvillainy in the administration,
andiimmediately every copperhead puppy in the
land is yelping on the same key. They disre-
gard truth as we'll as reason. They ignore the
peculiar circumstances of the country, brought
on by Rebellion. They find fault with none but
those who have saved the nation. dIna a late
number of the sIoylestosom & Pa9 j. Democrat
which is editedaby man who formerly held a
commission under the same administration which
he now abuses and which probably didn't pro-
mote him as rapidly as he wished, we, find the
following . siTr veae assI D, I'D. 3e3-}
sd The Inquisition at Washington
ii The most disgracefnl proceeding ever witness
ed inthe United States isthe trial of the conspi
sRators now going mat Washington. The Gov
eminent has organized a military court compos-
ed of ownrcreatures, men whose position does
not allow them to be Independent, TO try the al
legged conspirators against the late President and
Secretary of State These men are in no way
of all violations of the rights of free people to
try them before such tribunal. Neitber-they nor
the President nor the Secretary of State was in
the military service. What makes it much worse
Ia that the court sits with closed doors, and all
eng aged in the Internal transaction are sworn to
secrecy. This IS the Star Chamber over again
in the nineteenth century. The Inquisition new
er did more. The proceeding is infamous of it
= sell disgraeefuI 10 the age and country, and
must cause the administration to stink in, the
anostrils of the American people Neither AIS
.tria or Spain, in this enlightened age, dare b
guilty, Of such an act of tyranny, ~ =; Inn
Ds Almost the prisoners are but guilty of murder.
They are entitled to public trial by an impair
9ialjury of the district where the offence was
committed :, . Their offence must be weighed by
the law, and if upon proof of the facts they can
3 moi, be convicted they should be acquitted. If
the law does not reach their case, have it chang
ed, but don t send them before tribunal that
sis bound to convict in spite of both law and facts
II these men are guilty what harm can it do to
try them before jury in open court and ifthey
are not guilty, to try them before packed COM
missien and send them to the gallows is murder
Does Mr., Stanton fear they willnot all be hang
ed unless tried before his Star Chamber court
. Has he their death warrants made out in advance,
and hates to- waste paper? Hereafter, we will
blush when we talk of the inquisition, thumb
screws, Star Chambers and other surroundings
that the tyranny Of Europe called around it in
past ages. ~ ,a,~. ~. -, --''' Ni''.
Inc The trial Of these persons is so outrageous Of
itself that the public loses sight of the personal
treatment they receive. Not only are they hea-
fYily ,manacled, but a new method Of torture has
been invented in the shape of an iron basket
over their heads Why don't Stanton order a
setof thumb screws, and lash the prisoners to
\ the rack at once, and extort confession instead
of being troubled BY, a trial at all 2 The brutal
treatment Of the mangled remains of Booth show
the Secretary1s taste for blood, and the public
mind is prepared for any species of cruelty to be
practiced by the Bureau Of Military Justice. y
We leave our readers to draw their own conclu-
sions. They are ablesto form their own opinions
of the man who would disgrace his profession as
''a'public journalist by writing snch an article.
They can see for themselves how much regard he
has for Truth. The malignity of its language,
athe false hood Of its Statements are too palpable
to need any comment 4f bore OF .goss5s
ID From this example you may know the whole
Copperhead1 brotherhood. 1t was precisely the
same spirit that actuated Judge Fisher of York,
Pa, when he refused to put up flag Of rejoic-
ing over the fall of Richmond. + was the same
in the Copperhead Commissioners ofthat county.
80 foul with ignorance and treason,9 when they
refused to have the Court House draped in mourn
ing at the death Of President Lincoln. It was
the same in the scopperhead members of the late
New Jersey. Legislature, who moved to strike out
of certain Bill, the words s'unholy rebellion, y
and substitute the words righteous rebellion. p
We have evidence of the same spirit in our own
midst. With the close of the war and the re-
moval of military authority, it is beginning to
break out here and there. Let the people beware
'Ofthe men who display this spirit and whose
hearts areas black with Treason to-day as they
have always BEEN They take advantage of ev-.
cry opportunity to gain influence and power. =
They mean to wrest from the Union people the
control of county and State affairs. They will
leave no stone putnrped in the accomplishment
Of this purpose They are at. work now -
Watch them.0n1a III avlfo SKI 80 a0n5 (
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