Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-29
"Ths Bureau Of military Jas-
fIcp.

unknown 10 thlS country, IL IL an lnstl-
tution managed chiefly by one Joseph Holt
formerly OF the once great State Of Ken
tucky, and Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary
of War, and hbeler and dsfamer of the
greatest General Of the war, w. T. Sher-
man. 1t is an institution unknown to
and unauthorized by the laws of the land.
II is an institution moulded from the pat
tern of the "Star Chamber Court" of
Charles the First's reign.
The "Stsr Chamber" Of the Stuarts has
come down to us in history, stamping all
who had any connection with il as IN
famoas. 1t needs no demonstration TO
show that the Bureau of Military JUS
tice" is as infamous, il not more 80, than
the "Star Chamber" and that it will go
down in history to future generations,
stamped with as much infsmy and base
ness and bloodthirstiness.
Those who managed the "Star Cham
Der" were and are erecrdted by all good
men and women. Lord Stafford, Loud
and Charles l., when reason and justice
obtained the ascendency in England, had
their heads cut off for their management t
of the bloody "Star Chamber" usurpation.
1t was an institution unknown to and un-
authorized by the laws of England, and
those men who were responsible for the
Judgments Of death which issued from
this infamous and monstrous usurpation,
were justly considered the murderers of its
victims, and they justly suffered the pen
atty due such crime.
Where, we ask, is the authority for this
"Buresu of Military Justice ?" Authority
for it in either reason or justice will be
searched for in vain. Yet it exists. People
are dragged before it to answer for offences
unknown to the civil law, by their lives
and liberties. People have been sentenced
and suffered death by the DEGREES of this
infamous usurpation, and Of the guilt Of
some of whom, to say the least, there are
grave and serious doubts. People have
been dragged before this illegal, unautho-
rized tribunal, with heads eovered a1iM
padded caps, and aolh arms and legs
heavily manacled with chains-a mon
strous cruelty and barbarism that has not
been heard of in any tribunal duly autho-
rized by law for ages. In the case of
criminal tried before Justice Holt, of Eng
land, (not of Kentucky,) who was impi-
Gated in an assassination, that great Judge
whose name is venerated by lawyers and
all lovers of enlightened jurisprudence.
put an end to what Lord Campbell terms
"the revolving practice of trying prisoners
in letters" Holt, hearing the clanking
of chains, (no complaint aUas made 10 hiDa)
said : 81 should like to know why the
prisoner is brought in ironed. Let them
be instantly knocked off When pris-
oners are tried they should stand at their
ease" This criminal was not poor, weak
woman either.
Yet whilst all these acts of cruelty nd
usurpation are being practiced in the Ca
pital of the nation, every court of national
and State jurisdiction, courts legally con-
stituted in the loyal States, are in full and
undisturbed operation by any body or cir"
cumstance, save and except by those who
manage this Bureau of Military Justice" :"
There is no war in these States now the
war is over but Notwithstanding these
usurpations continue, overriding the laws
Of the land. A weak woman is, by the
authority of this Bureau Of Military JUS
tice," sentenced to suffer an ignoninious
death, and when the law stepped in to test
the question of her guilt or innocence, the
President of this free, Repu6iica" Govern
ment denied her this privilege, and hur-
ried her to the gallows SO heavily ironed
that "lwo men were required to sup
port her."
1t is evident, it is Enthusiastically true,
that the lawless, Puritanical faction that
had its birth up in pious Massachusetts,
that used to burn innocent men and wom-
en- at the stake, that got up the memorable
Hartford Convention, and all the isms
with which the country has been cursed,
20 ,,onoa;no, tba 0Rureau of Military