Bloomsburg democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1867-1869, 1867-11-20
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We heartily agree with the proposition
that citizens who have been persocutcd,
banishod, or thrown into bastiles by the
Lincoln despatism should meet in the city
Of New York on the 22d Of Fcbruury--his.
toric day To organize society whose pur.
pose viii be tho vindication Of law and just
leo, and the prosecution Of the Infamous
tools Of the accused tyranny under which
the country groancd for four long and wenry
years. Tho day Of justice, thank Heaven
is coming when the wrong shall be righted,
and the pimps and spics and petty thieves
aud radical house. breakers will receive
their deserts. IF law Is over again to be re-
Spected in this land, these ready instruments
Of law.breaking, CONSTITUTIONS violating
faction must be dragged before the courts
aud made examples for all coming time.
We are glad to see that ex-senator Wall,
Of New Sersey, has come out earnestly in
support Of the proposition, and in the bold,
manly and fearless STYLE so characteristic Of
the man, exposes some Of the atrocities per.
petrated during the Reign Of Terror. lie
suggests the society, to be organized on
the 22d of February, should be called 'The
Conf,uteyaitv of State Prisoners from the
Lincoln B,siilss."
Ia his letter on this subject, Mr.. Wall
pictures the .ortures, msutal and physical,
to which prisoners in the Lincoln Bastiles
were subjected, as follows
Then will be made manifest to shud.
dering community, how political prisoners,
when they were dying, were refused the
consultations Of religion, and even the pres.
cnce Of their near relatives, by express or
ders Of William IL. Seward. then, M nov,
Secretary OF State. How living men wcr.
tllrus. into dark dungeons, several feet un-
der water, dank with green mould, fit only
for toads to gender in, and there confined
for days without light or fire. with nothing
to auench the thirst but sinking water.--
Then, too, will be shown how men imprison.
ed without cause or accusation, lost their
reason beneath the terrors Of such imprs-
onment, and died mving maniacs within
those walls that were intended to be the
bulwarks Of the nation safety and liberty,
but were turned into bastiies to hide from
the world The victims Of tie political perse-
cutions of Lincoln and his associates. Then
will be disclosed how orders went forth from
the Office Of the Secretary Of State and
rromulgat in every prisoner scell: THAT
the employment O: counsel would be co,,-
si.lcrcd an aggrayatinn Of their cases, and
in every instance would subject the party
who was bold enough to hazard it to much
longer Imprisonment.
As yet the American people have only the
iaintest conception of the fiendish cruelties
shameful outrages and ndignities to which
State prisoners were subjected, either by
the direct orders of the Lincoln government,
0rhy its implied ac9Wcsccncc in not furnishing
the authors when disclosed. This insolence
Of power and attrocicus cruelty will all he laid
bare through the agency Of the association
we have named. There is consolation in the
fact that such tyirany has always its sNemesis
behind it,
the eternal law,
That where guilt is sorrow shall answer it. ~
Justice 10 the guilty justice ~ a warn
ing to w1uld-be tyrants justice rs prcce.
dent for future times this is what We want !;
this is what We must have, for law and tiitt-
erty will never be secure if the violators of
our rights, the conspirators against the
Constitution, the enemies and pottcrs
against popular freedom, are permitted to
escape. Treason must be punished if We
would be safe hereaiter-that treason of
which Stanton and Holt and their associates
in crime have been guilty treason against
the rights fcitizons-trcason that trampled
down law, aud at the tinkle Of bell con
signed thousands Of American fre,men to
the dungeon or to exile We shall reach the
real traitors yet, if they don't get out of the
way in time. BY all means, then, let The
Confraterna'y Of State Prisoners from the
: Lincoln Bas,iles" be organized, ,--New lori
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