Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1866-01-17
B ~IMPUDENCE.

l ne following Is u cooi piece vi ieo'
ell impotence. Of course the reconstruct
ed Rebels should at once be re-admitted,
and damages paid them for injuries done
by the Union armies during the war, on
the principle that treason is no crime.
WASHINGTON, Jan. SIN the fall of
1861, while Gen. Sickles was in command
down in Maryland, near Leona.dtown, he
found that disloyal people in Maryland
kept up a regular army in Virginia that
all his movements were spied out, and val
liable storeswere struggled across the Pc
tomac. Determined to break it up he ar
rested a number Of farmers who were
suspected of disloyal practices, and those
who would not take the oath we're sent to
Washington and confined in the Old Cap.
itol. a 51t 1
Among them was Joseph H. Maddox,
who at length agreed. to take the oath,
and was released. He soon disappeared,
and was next found coming through the
Rebel lines, and being arrested by one Of
Gen. Bakers detectives, he was found to
have just returned from q smuggling ex.
petition 20 Richmond, and had upon him
a regularly executed contract with the
Rebel Navy Department for supplying a
large amount of stores that were scarce
and valuable. He was again brought to
his former quarters in the Old Capital.
After confinement of some months, he
again took the oath and was again releas-
ed, disappearing from the annals of the
army police for about a year.
He was next caught by one of BAKERS
steamiug patrols taking q small schooper
load Of goods across the Potomac. The
principle portion of the cargo was twelve
barrels of whiskey.
Gran. was Their in front of Richmond
and Petersburg, and the Rebel army was
in great need Of medicine and stimulents
as we'll as provision. He was brought to
Washington and again consigned to bis
old quarters in the Old Capital.
The information of Illicit traffic then
in progress via the Rappahannook and
fredericksburg, led to the sudden descent
of cava Try and gun-boats upon the Rebels
who were running large amounts of to
bac,o North in exchange for bacon and
medicines; and the destruction of one
vessel going up the Rappahanuock River
loaded with stores ana Of large amounts
of tobacco in Fredericksbu re-, and stored
at a point south of there, and also of two
railroad trains caught in the act Of SNUG
Cling more Northward. While this wac
goin; on Maddox was in prison, and on
his subsequently, again taking the oath he
was released, but before he vas out twen-
t.. four hours he violated that oath, but
was not again arrested.
He now appears 10 New York, asking
dam ages Of Secretary Stanton for his pro-
pective amount of profits upon his con-
traband trade broken up by the army, aud
asks to be paid for his imprisonm ent.
1t is said he bases his hopes on the plea
that treason is not a crime. He ia q
brother of the rebel DR.. Maddox, who as
a%ssinated Psymaster Dixon, United States
Army, a few weeks since, in Alexandra,
and whom a reconstructed Judge released.
Unless Congress passes a law Of ipdem-
nifty, every man who has been in the Uni
on service, from the Secretary Of War
down, is liable to arrest and punishment
from late Rebels, traitors aud thieves,
who have been bafled in their designs
anon fhe life and Durse If the nation.