Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-01-18

municipal law. The misdemeanor you'd DC com
pete without the help of any convention
4 between the two Governments. IL IS mconceiVa'
! BILE, therefore, that the ''raiders should nave
been set al liberty, if only inaSnslch as they MAD
committed a misdemoanor at common law. Inc
treaty however went step further, and provided
for the surrender Of depredators to the government
at Washington. Ii never, Of course, contemplated
such this arising when II was sighed, put
nevertheless, il is certain all belgerehts lose tier
belligerent character from the moment that they
seek the ASYLUM of neutral States. They are then
amenabe to the municipal law of such States and
this condition appears clearly to bring them III the
present instance under the Extradtion Treaty:
In the meantime the vague accounts We receive OF
tie Federal Congress having entertained these
grievances in an acrimonious spirit, must De taken
with great deal of reserve. That they should have
referred the quesiol-to the Committees OF the Sen
ate for Foreign Affairs is natural enough ior TINS
committee is the only diplomatic authority IN ,he
Congress; and questions oil TINS KIM are
il almost rs a matter of course, without ndlcahng
any opinion being arrived at on the part OF the House
of Representatives. The committee, however, IL
NAV be presumed are TO great extent III the hahds
of the Washington Government both they ana our
selves are equally anxious to prevent recurrence OF
such breaches of the peace on the long ana eXteh-
sve frontier of the two countries, and also to have
justice done in the present case. The promptitude
OF the Canadian Government in ordering the rearrest
of the Confederate raiders, is substantial testimony
10 its own good faith. and the next man VIII doubt
less bring us the reaSSurng effect at Washington and
New York OF this act OF justice and energy ON the
part Of Lord Monc%.
CENSORSHIP OF THE PRESS.
In the Yankee House of Representatives, on Fri
day, Mr.. Kasson presented the following memorial
The undersigned represent - o the Congress OF the
United States tfat.he is the Washington editor Of
the New York Tribune that, as such, he sent in
three different DAYS within the current week TO the
officers OF tin American Telegraph Company in this
city for transmission to the Tribune III New York,
kilograms announcing the removal ofGcneral Butler
from the command of the Army of the James that
the kilograms were not sent, but were suppressed
that your petitioner hay been informed that they
were suppressed by an order from the az Depart
mcnt that your petitioner has reason to believe that
censorship of newspaper kilograms has been estab
Iisbcd in the CITY ri Washington without law, and
that the same is exercised therein without RESPONSE
bli(v in violation of the freedom of the
press, to the INJURY Of lawful business, IN
violation of the rights of property and
notification at law, Your petitioner further repre-
SCENTS that this suppression of the news OF the re-
moyal of General Butler extended 10 and included
the kilograms announcing the same, and IN all the
newspapers in the Northern and western States by
their representatives resident IN Washington, and
that while this censorship aud suppression are in
force at Washington, the agent of one of the New
York newspapers at the headquarters OF the Army
OF the Potomac lad free let and license accorded To
him send to his paper full accounts OF the said re-
moval OF General Butler aud extended comments
thereon, which license he improved, and thereby
secured for aud gave To his paper monopoly ofsaid
news all the papers of the United States, to the
unjust interference with business and the violation
of equity tour petitioner, therefore, praNs for the
passage of law that shall place the right to the
telegraph the same ground with the right TO use
the mails, and that shall punish interference with,
aud interruption suppression of this right, now
law Furnishes the suppression interruption of and
Interference with the right to use the. mails Of the
United States. SAMUEL WILKINSON.
The petition was referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary.