The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-16
HEADa'Rs DrsrRIcr OF INDIANA, I

INDIANAPOLIS, may ., iooo' }
General Orders No. 81
/. In accordance with general court martial
orders No. 2l4, dated war department. adjutant
generals office, Washington, May ?, 1865, to- wit ::
.
William A. Bowles citizen of the state of Ind-
ana, will be hanged by the neck until he be dead
Friday, the nineteenth day of May, 1865, be-
tween the hours OF II O'Clock M, and O'Clock
p. M, on the parade ground between Camp
Morton and Burnside Barracks, near the city of
Indianapolis, Indiana. Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. A.
Stevens, commanding Camp Morton and Burnside
Barracks, is charged with the execution of this
order, and will make report thereof to the COM
handing general. ...
Lambdin P. MiIligan citizen of the state of
Indiana, will be hanged by the neck until ne be
dead, on Friday, the nineteenth day of May, 1865,
between the hours of II O'Clock NJ. and O'Clock
p. NJ, on the parade ground between Camp
Morton and Burnside Barracks, near the city of
Indianapolis, Indiana. Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. A..
Stevens, commanding Camp Morton and Burnside
Barracks, is charged with the execution of this
order, and will make report thereof to the com,
handing general.
Stephen Horsey, citizen of the state of indiana
will be hanged by the neck until he be dead, on
Friday, the nineteenth day OF May, 1865, between
the hours of IL O'Clock NJ, and O'Clock p M,
the parade ground betweea Camp Morton and
Burnside Barracks, near the city OF IndIauapolis,
Indiana. Bvt. Brig. Gen. A. A. Stevens, COM
handing Camp Morton and Burnside Barrcks, is
charged with the execution OF this order, and will
make report thereofto the commanding general.
From the Cincinnati Gazette (rePublican) May IL.
In time of civil war, whose extent, both
territorial and personal. is inde6nable; when
secret conspiracies aid and comfor. open war
fare; when the conditions of peace, fidelity
tc law, and respect for government, which
are requisite to the administration of Justice
by the liberal method OF trial by jury, are
wanting, the public danger may warrant the
stretch of military power to punish those
whe do not strictly come within the iurisdic.
ton of military law. But the Justification of
such penalties exist only during the public
danger. While that continues such tribunals
may be justified in inhicting capital punish
ment. But to execute the death penalty up
on such persons, by the judgements of mill
tary tribunal, after the public danger is past,
which called for summary powers, would
shock the public sense. And although it
may be thought q light matter in the excite
ment of the hour, and may be encouraged by
some who make up the lack of general stabil.
ity and of sound principles by a temporary
ferocity, or by demanding a victim, such ex-
ecutions would certainly bring reaction up
on calmer reflection. Men would forget the
offence in the death of the Victims; and in
the absence of the verdict which the popular
mind holds sacred and unouestionabls. its
belief in their guilt will be easily shaker. and
so the political offenders may make them
into political martyrs-the seed of a bad par
ty.
We felt shock at the announcement that
an order has been issued for the execution of
the Indiana conspirators-Bowles, Milligan
and Horsey, on tho 10Th, and BY it we Judge
sne sensations OF the rejecting generally.-l