The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-11-12

Though the officer in command had not
tYentured himself to enter. Half ascore
of muskets were pointed instantly at
him, whereupon he said: You have now
broken open my house and overpowered
lme by superior force, and I am obliged
to surrender"
And, men of Knox, is it not one of
those almost mysterious condolences of
History, that four years and six months
later, the then Secretary of War, Edwin
NJ. Stanton, should bimself have. been
iobliged in the self-same words. to oexclaim,
in the bitterness of reluctant exit, from
1.-THE department to which he had so long
Iclang with the tenacity of death, sI yield
new to superior forceP' How striking
and significant, too, in the light Of this
incident, is the invocation Of the great
tpoet of passion: sgss.g
no, thou, who never yet of human wrong,
LEFT the unbalanced scale, great Nemesis!"
HE then passed through the shattered
panels of his doors into the street; the
Ebugle sounded the recall, and surrounded
by soldiery, he was marched to the de-
tpot, and thence carried by the cars to
Cincinnati, where, soon after daylight, he
was taken to the military prison! !Kemper
Barracks. Here he remained till eyen-i
ing, when, by order of Burnside, who had
become greatly alarmed lest there should
be a popular outbreak and rescue, he was
hurried across the river to Newport Bar
racks, and there locked up for the night.
Next morning he was, obliged to witness
from his window the roll-call at reveille,
with thest and stripes waving over
him and the band playing aHail Colum-
bia, Happy Landl' Soon after he was ia
ken again across into Cincinnati, and
thrust before the military commission,
upon charge and specification setting
forth that in violation of Order 38, at
Mount Vernon, on the 1st of May, in a
public speech to the people, he had de-
clared the war to be cruel, and unneces-
sarJ; not waged for the. preservation of
! the Union, but for the purpose of crush
| ing out liberty and erecting a despotism
Ia war for the freedom of the blacks,
and the enslavement of the whites; that
he had denounced Order 38 as a usurpa-
tion Of power, and declared that the soon
er the people should inform the minions
of usurped power, that they would not
submit to such restrictions upon their
liberties, the better; and had asserted that
he.was at all times aid upon all occasions
resolved to do what he could to defeat
the attempts which were being made to
build up monarchy on the ruins Of free
ae4e-nmenf Snch Was the Crime and
none other, and no more, upon which he
was to be mocked with a trial Denying
the authority and jurisdiction of the mil :
itary commission, ,he refused to plea H. but
the case was ordered to proceed. One
only of the members was a citizen Of
Ohio; one was an unnaturalized foreign
adYeniurer; another had been conyic ted
|of being the keeper of a .disreputable
house, Laughter ] while the Judge Ad-
vocate subsequently pleaded guilty to
certain snimble eaperingg at the transom-
light ofba lady's bed chamber in the Bur-
net House. Laughter,] They had been
fifty selected for their work, and they did
Fit accordingly. Two days were spent
lnominallys in the 'trial;' at the end Of
which Mr. ". presented a brief and peint-
| ed protest.. repeating his denial Of, the
| Jurisdiction of the, Court, demanding q
judicial trial by jury, and viniicating his
right to make the speech for which osten-
sibly he had been affessed. Beyond this
| he deelined to- submit any thing The
finding aud sentence of the military corns
mission were notmadc public till thesl8th.
Meantime he had been removed to. the
Burnet House (Burnside's headquarters, }
where ,iiu room i246,' n;the attic, he was
kept under strong guard whowere or,
dered, in case.of any attempt at rescue or
escape, to put him to- death, !, ii Similar or.
detss had been issued to his eaptors,q pre-,
tIvious to his arrest. eisblsaFo afsila ane
During the few hours he was in Kem-
pei .Barrack, Prison, Nj. Vallandigham
4 wrote brief address to the Democrats of
Ohio, and found means to pass it out for
iIpublication.7 He knewthat the object OF
his arrest was to'strike aerror into others,
and he was anxious to make it known
that he himself was calm and unmosed,
land to- enjo DIN upon his friends to stand
/ firm and faltersnotsfor an instant. The
Eday ofshis arrest was one of intense ex-
tcitementin Dayton. Thousands throng
led the Streets and atnightfall, the agita-
tied mass broke out into violence. But
meantime, Burnside in great alarm; HAD
! sent up several companies of soldiers to
suppress the disturbance, and the next
day declared martial law throughout the
leounty. More than thirty citizens were
ARRESTED and dragged down to the militia.
Try prisons at Cincinnati; and for six weeks
every Democrat was at the mercy of an
inebriate military commandant. Burn.
iside's own brutal conduct toward the pris.
oners was consistent with his real charac.
tier. he visited them more than once and
with oaths and curses, and in one instance
with blows, vented his rage upon them
During the whole time that Mr.. Vallan-
digham was in his custody he was in con
slant fear of assassination, or, at least, Of
a popular outbreak and rescue; and while
his prisoner enjoyed calm and ,unbreker
81 slumbers aloft, the TAILOR trembled be.
low, afraid for the terror by night. A
siguafd of soldiers, with fixed bayonets and
loaded muskets, marched with Mr., ". tc
d and from the commission, and squad
of ten regulars kept watch, day and night
over his room, while sentinels paced the
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