New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-15

| MILITARY JUSTICE" AGAIN.
Col. Fl. S. OlcOtt, who writes us etter. else.
where published, is one Of the "nine officers
twenty servants, one photographer and thirty.
four horses" who compose the Doubleday
Court Martial-hc being Colonel on Detective
business of the War Department. We shall
briefly answer his points.
1. If the expenses of the Doubleday Court.
Martial are paid out of the amount reserved
from Cozzens's contracts, who pays the expen-
SEES of the United States Circuit and District
Courts, in Philadelphia, and the further expen-
SEES of officers of the army, who are doing work
which these "nine officers, twenty servants,
one photographer and thirty -four horses" should
be doingl
III. According to Col Olcott, the Government
makes enough out of Cozzcns to pay the Court,
If there were no Court, would not all this he
clear gain' The money goes, and no adequate
return comes from it, and, so far as debt and
unnecessary expense are concerned, it might as
well be in Cozzens's pocket as in that of the
Court The money most certainly does not 90
to the Treasury, where it belongs.
| III. Col. Olcott explains Judge Thompson's
decision. That decision was plain. Cozzens
was arrested "by order Of the Secretary Of
War;" and discharged by the same Secretary in
Difference to the gathering wrath Of Pennsyl.
vania. There was no appeal to arms, for thu
War Secretary showed great discretion. Col.
Olcott intimstes that any future haJeas corpus
will be "ressted with arms" Colonel, you
are mistaken, as well as injudicious in such al
intimation. Not musket will be raised
against the writ. The people have had enough
of musketry.
| w. As to the item OF forage, to which Col.
OlcOtt objects, We cannot amend it.. We have
better evidence than that Of correspondent.
This forage is allowed; and when Government
allowance is made, the officers always find some
way of drawing it, The only way 20 controvert
our bill is to send us the Courts payroll.
| We have now answered Col Olcott's state
ments; and in doing so, the labored defense Of
The Press in reply to The TRIBUNE. But Col.
Olcott and tn. Press make this mistake: We
do not attack the Doubleday Court-Martia!,
but the rhols system Of Military Courts Assem-.
bling in peaceful States and presuming to adj
minister justice. We take that Court as an
|example-to show the people the folly of the
practice. The anxiety of the members of this
Court-their extreme senstivcness about tho
just and dispassionate comments of THE
TRIBUNE-can only be accounted for on the
law of Nature, which makes the barnacle cling
to the ship or the reptile to the bloOd-yielding
body. We do not sssail them: but the syS-
tenn of which they are, We had always hoped,
obcdient but unwilling members. Court.M
tial pay is good, and the work is easy, and
particularly in ThOmpsons bailiwick) there
il no harm to be dreaded. But it is expensive
and absurd. Let the War Department put its
"nne officers twenty servants one phono-
grapher and thirty-four horses" at some war
duty OF muster them out Of the service. Tie
Press reminds us that these officers are gallant,
and some OF them have been wounded.
Granted! But there are ten thousand other
soldiers quite as gallant and as severely
wounded. Must they be made into Court-Mar-
tails If these Courts are intended as military
hospitals or " Homes" let it be announced, and
We shall rot say nay. As the whole business
stands now, it is scandal-an extravaganza
and an absurdity. Try man 40 dayS--spend
s20, 675 s3 in the WORK, and have him released
in spite of your power-and then 20 on to try
another man, who will probably cost another
SGT, 600 and be released. If Col. OlcotI or
The Press can match this In rare humor, va
should like TO see it. II certainly is very funny,
and we would be glad to enjoy ii; bnt, unfor-
tunately, it costs SO much, and looks absurd,
even il il were not mischieyous.
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