The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-29
sOMETHINC MUST BE DONE ABOUT

The Cambridge, Henry county. chron'c9e
of the 23d inst. published at the ''huo Oh 'ne
universe" brings us the startling inseiiigencs
that there is an old man in that town VINO,
the other day, actually had the 'emefi'Y 70
saw which newspaper in Chicago he thought
tho has, and most truthful! The Chronicle
also says:
on,v this morning, he took particular care 10
express his opinion in regard 10 the
spiracy being all sham, the trial OF the assassns
ofthe president az entirely wrong ana "hcoHst""
fional and such other expressions alike treasoha-
BILE and contemplate.
And for this s.owdacious" crime the Chron-
icle says:
It would be well for him to keep his tongue 20
himself, or he may be called upon 10 ma .
awav from home that will not be 30 Pieasans'
traitor never gets too old to be punlsheo, anu 'o
h.,r.rce will soon cease TO be virtue In his case,
at least How long must our citizens submit 70
the hearing of such language from a nAh %Ho
cunning enough to know that his old age 'hieio'
him from just punishment
Whv. what ian orfup' old reprobate that
"old Teller" must be. Express his opinion as
to which he considers the best and most
truthful newspaper! Who ever heard oil
such piece of daring? Say that the mica
co conspiracy case was "a sham ~ why,
what a sacrilegious old rat We think ne
omitted the letter sc" from the word, tor the
thing was a sshame" to those who got IL up
and conducted it, and republican newspapers
90 stigmatized it. The belief is that IL was
got up to make COL Sweet brigadier' ana
to make party capital against the democrats.
The trial showed that the society-"oons OF
Liberty" or knights of the u. T." or wna'
ever it was called, was organized only as an
Offset to the Union Leagues" and only TOR
the purpose of protecting democrats in their
persons and property. No such society eyer
ought to have benn organized, nor no secret
political society of any sort, but the objects
of the society, IS revealed on that trlai' were
as praiseworthy as those of the Union
Leagues" In fact we think the Union
Leagues" -. Loyal Leagues, Us. BIS" eject
era, were the worst, and were the dlrect
cause of ell the murders of editors and demo-
Gratis, and the mobbing of newspapers, and
are ten times more guilty and Infamous than
all the ''Sons of Liberty" or *. G. C.'s' In
the land.
And then that ''old Teller" over in Cam
bridge capped the climax by saying he
thought''the trial of the assasslns OF the pres
ident entirely wrong and unconstitutional
and other expressions alike reasonable and
contemplate"
Then it unreasonable, "over in Cambridge,
is it, for man to express his opinion as TO
the best and most truthful newspaper and
as to public trials of absorbing interest =
And for doing this, an old man Is publcly
threatened with dire punishment and to be
driven from the town. II he hadn't alluded
to the constitution, he might have saved his
bacon" To black republican there is no
crime 30 Infamous as for a man to refer to the
constitution or show any respect for IT'S pro-
visions. And 70, doing 80 this ''otd traitor
fthat's what the Chronicle calls hisl-must
be punished and driven from home. Well,
well-that is q funny town to live IN.
To be sure the old man, whoever he is,
might quote, as follows, from the constitution
of the United States:
q captal or otherwise Infamous crime, unless on q
preseatment indictment Of grdndJurg, except
in seS arising an the land and nduGlt forces, OF an
the militia 1Uhen in actual serrace In time OF
public danger.
Arr VI In all criminal prosecutions, the ac-
cused shall enjoy the right to aspeedy and public
trial by an impartial jury OF the state and district
wherein the crime shall have been ommitted.
The old man might have made these quo
ta,ions-but then, don't he know that the
constitution was suspended, long ago, and
that Military Necessity Stanton runs the
machine? That "old Teller" over In Cam
bridge must be "a awful bad man. To be
sure he might have turned to the New York
Tribune ('loyal' paper) of the llth inst. aud
read that
There isa curious old document in existence.
known as the constitution OF the I'm ted States,
which formerly had the force and effect of law
in that portion of our country not especially DOM
mated by the slave power. Under the rule OF our
present cabinet, il seems to have gone out o.
fashion: and since Mr.. Stanton's accession to the
control of the department, it has become
practically obsolete. Loyal citizens did not much
mind this while civil war convulsed the country,
threatening the permanent overthrow of our lib
erty and nationality; but, now that the war
practically ended, il seems high time that the old
parchment were exhumed and treated with some
show of respect. We all who take
any voluntary part in these strange proceedings
that the rebellion is suspended, the at N end
and the right to suspend the privilege of habeas
corpus and make the will of a secretary of war
the supreme law of the land, has expired. If our
present secretary cannot be made to realize these
grave truths, it il high time he had successor j;
and if our attorney general believes the assalant
of Secretary Seward now s'legable triable before
military commission he badly needs his own
time for the completion of his legal studies, while
the government needs new law officer. There
may be potter ways of setting forth these convic-
tinns. but none OF these would do them Justice.