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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Lincoln 5 Path
Be:et With Treason

Calm reinsurance may be derived
from the triumph of Lincoln over the
-eopperheads,7 the "butternuts," the
Sons Of Liberty" the "anti-abolition-
ists," "the Peace Democrats" the Con
aintionalists' and the populous brood
Of "fre-in-the-rear pacifsts in the
North.
For if Lincoln caused the nation to
emerge successfully from so terrible a
diseord where one-third Of the North
ern people openly sympathized with the
Southern rebels. how much more easily
may the Wilson Administration dis
somft the little minority OF Hohen-
iollern illusionists who are already re-
lueed 70 having recourse 10 rumor!
When President Lincoln came upon
the stage, 10 was already set with trea-
son bombs. sedition fuses, disloyalty
plots and political party mines. lie
vas elected by a strictly sectional and
minority vote. President Buchanan
gave the cue 20 the seditlonlsts IN his
party message which James @. Blaine
In bis Twenty Years in Congress
calls a "mischievous and deplorable
message because il fixed in the minds
o. Northern men who were opposed TO
the Republican party the belief that
the South was justified IN taking steps
70 seeede. If what they termed a war
On Southern institutions should be
continued
b. Losing says Of this initial state
q Affairs.
~The division of counsels, the. at
lacks from within. the sneers from
Eiihout-that faith seemed gone and
patriotism deadi In the Northern
states there was vehement opposition
70 the war policy Of the government
from lis inception"
And the extreme abolitionl5t5 them
selves increased Lincoln's diihcultles'
inpOrtunng him TO make war, not LOT
The preservation Of the Union, but for
the liberation Of the slaves, and 10
forthwith liberate the slaves regard
less Of the military or political as
advantage 10 the North
representative Conway rose IN the
House and advocated submission 10
the will Of the secessiOnists. Never
vas a statesman confronted with sedi-
ton in more gigantic shape than TINS
colossal fabric Of treason which all Dut
enmeshed Lineoln's government.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

in Lake Erie, and, placing their armed
forces a. the head of these released
rebels, to march through Ohio and In
diana into Kentucky. Sterling Price
and Charles A. Hunt, of st. LOUIS, were
the prime Southern agents, and val.
landigham the Northern chieftain Oh
the order. -
Lincoln used General Burnside -
the scourge and the whip against these
scorpions. The Burnside drive against
sedition is comparable with Sherman's
drive through Georgia; it was a drive
Of grim necessity. undertaken In sor'
row but with resolute purposes drive
of determination.
Peace plottings were not unknown
either. At least four definite peace:
commissions set out on the emprlse OF
peace, some of them conceived In dis
LOYALTY and in cowardice, others not
without official recognition. But, as rr
the authorized Hampton Roads peace
conference, Lincoln's prime condition
was victory, a condition which the
South was not quite ready to accept.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Founders Have Discovered Secret of Rest From Business
in Change of Scenery and Freedom From Home
Restraint-Allow Men to Work There

ing when you whistle. You note with
approval their cleanness and fatness.
Leo, the big collie, the pet OF ne
household, pilots you on your tour %
inspection. He Is friendly and ahable
and adds to the conversation a staceato
word now and then, or dashes off madly
in hot pursuit of an imaginary marau-
der.
The board Of directors has two male
Notwithstanding gentlemen, who
after all are only permitted TO handle
the money and audit the accounts
and nearly all the house servants are
men-because they "are more reliable,
and do not get so dissatisfied and lone
ly living in the country" Even mascu-
line friends of the guests are allowed,
provided they come properly chaper-
oned.
The Haven Club is for working WON
en-, clerks, stenographers, office mana
gers, nurses, teachers, women in every
sort of gainful occupation, FOR week
ends or long rests-the length OF stay
is unlimited. Indeed, the house has
one guest who makes il her hcadquar-
tiers, and it would have no objection to
five or six more. 1t has room for
fortytwo persons, and these quarters
can be stretched 70 hold sixty. You
may have a single or double room with
bath privileges, small room or a very
large one with private bath. You may
live just as cheaply-but always COM
fortably-or as extensively as your
tastes and your pocketbook dictate.
The rates are from $40 to s25 n week.
including your board. There age plenty
Of the lower priced rooms.
II is not difficult TO join the club.
You may even get yourself asked up
for week end, on your own applica-
tion or as the guest of friend. You
can look the place over, and you your
self will come in for a little friendly
scrutiny II the club fills a real need
in your life you are the sort Of person
they want in il. You may become an
active member on the payment Of s.
initiation fee and 81 year dues.
Whenever you 90 to the club \ friend
may so with you, or you may send one,
but not the same friend more than
once in year Your mother il al any
time an honored guest either with you
or unaecompanied. IL is place where
mothers are welcomed.
For small sum locker may be
rented in which to put your weekend
paraphernalia, and then you need not
bother with even a bag.
The house is open all the year round.
and II you are alone in the city II
offers on holidays, In fact at all times.
what IT'S name signifies, a haven Of
good cheer, pleasant good fellowship
and quiet restfulness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Seditionists Head
100000 Armed Men

The Knights Of the Golden Circle,
or, as they were better known in the
North, the Sons Of Liberty, served as
a secret order TO knit together the dis
loyal and further the propaganda
Of sedtion. Judge Advocate Holt, who
was appointed by President Lincoln TO
make a secret investigation and pub
lie report upon the methods and aims
Of organized treason. credited the body
with 100000 members in the North, OF
whom some hundred thousand were
secretly armed.
The arrest and prosecution Of Dodd'
Bowles and Bullitt in Indianapolis re-
vealed the extent OF the canker late in
1864. The "hre-in-the-rear' followers
were styled by themselves Butter
Nuts" and "Copperheads," which EN-
blems they openly psraded. Their plan
was to seize the government arsenal al
Indianapolis and 10 release the prison.
ers at Camp Douglas in Illinois; at
Camp Morton in Indiana; at Camp
Chase in Ohio, and on Johnson's Island
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Sabotage Won't Help
Labor, Declares Wilson
Secretary Tells Workers This
Is No Time to Torment
Trouble

TACOMA, Wash, Dec. s.-Sabotage
was touched on by Secretary Of Labor
W. B. Wilson in a speech here last
night TO an audience composed largely
of labor
Those" he said, "who have argued
to render property valueless by sabot-
age methods and give workers a chance
20 operate IL themselves fail 70 read
history. They fail TO realiez that In
the days OF handwork profits were
made in the same proportion as they
are now. Such methods would succeed
in destroying the standards Of living
now, the highest in the world"
There are those among u.s." he con-
tinucd, who advocate taking advan-
tage Of conditions TO help themselves
at the expense OF employers. But when
proiiteering on the part Of the en-
ployer or demands on the part Of en-
ployes is equivalent TO saying 10 our
boys at the front that their necessities
will be held Up, then | say that those
persons have not made the sacrifice
that a freedom-loving people should
make for their liberties"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Treason Was in
CESSATION Thirty Years

Disloyslty and opposition were mueh
more acute then than now, because the
Civil War had been the climax OF q
hirty-yesr political issue. The Demo
cratic partisans in the North had TO
make shift 20 be loyal as war Demo-
Gratis, but in the shift so many re-
NAMED peace Democrats that finally
"a 1884, with the Un.on apparently IN
we throeS Of complete dissolution,
General Mcclellan, lately commander
" the Northern forces, himself
sharged with being a Southern SYM
Alhiler, and by the more reckless
Win being traitor. had the temerlty
70 oppose Lincolu's reelection, ana
zane amazingly near 20 defeating him.
seeing that the South did not par
HelpAte in the election.
Treason was in CESSATION for thirty
years. The Civil War was war
SgainSi treason.
New York was a hotbed Of pro-
southern agitation. Governor oey-
meur, the Democratic Governor OF the
HS'e, gave comfort 70 the enemy, as:
wMoeed did Mayor Fernando WOOD OF
asW York City. One need not examine
1t border states, where sedition ana
goeing naturally abounded. ONO
threatened 20 elect Nallandigham, the
,iieh eonspirstor. as us Governor. The
.ssl.latares Of Illinois and Iowa were
sS.hly friendly 70 peace and eompro-
sse' The Northwest conspiracy took
~ IN the dark days Of 1868 the pro-
ssfIons Of counter revolution. And
e eisloysl order Of Knights Of the
Soloen Circle or Sons Of Liberty num-
so 100000 members in the North
,sI 100000 Of whom were secretly
S'Lec, awaited the signal from Nallan-
Sthsm 10 unite with an invading
vSS,,eern army from Kentucky.
iais. was literally Lineoln's back.
s.oshd, Here the 'hres-in-the-resr"
, ere III, Here the "eopperheads" -four
aes. Desertions from the Northern
hm,es rose TO hundreds Of thousands
iveasse Of the sedition, the undermin-
s u the morale. The Indiana units
s'Sla scarcely be kept in the field.
\ 'eoitson In the North became nearly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Nallandigham
Sentenced to Death

Vallandigham was arrested by Burn
side at Dayton, given military trial at
Cincinnati and sentenced 20 be shot
Lincoln, with characteristic touch OF
irony as well as of humanity, changed
the sentence and ordered him to be
sent into the Southern lines. Nallan-
digham was hailed as a hero in the
South. and presently reappeared on the
Canadian border az Niagara, supposed
lv 10 cooperate with Governor Seymour
Of New York when that Peace Demo
GRAFT" was thought TO be about to make
General Lees invasion Of New York
easy. Governor Seymour gave utter
ance 10 many embarrassing sentl-
ments. On July 4, 1868, Governor Sey-
mour made this pubic threat;
Remember this, that the bloody
and REASONABLE and revolutionary
doctrine Of public necessity lin
coins words can be proclaimed By a
mob as we'll as by government"
VAllandigham's arrival on the
Canadian border, Lees move toward
New York. Seymour's speech and the
New York and Boston draft riots
were all timed for coincidence early
in July, although some of the infer
ences may be unjust 10 Seymour.
The disloyal element in New York
State, where more than l,lO0 casual
ties occurred in anti-Lineoln riots
met in convention az Albany and
formally denounced Lincoln. thou
sand voices cried their treason wares.
feeling that the Constitution was, in
time OF war. a sufficient cloak for
their indulRences. IL was an hour Of
great soul travail for the President.
Governor Seymour, at Albany. at
tempting 10 make capital out Of the
suspension OF hAbeas corpus, asked,
with his tongue in his check:
"Are we waging war upon the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
1t Seemed as if
Lincoln Were on Trial

Grand juries In session suggested
the suppression of specific newspapers
and a New York jury voluntarily de-
nounced "the conduct of this disloyal
press, which is condemned and alb
horred by all loyal men" On the other
hand, mob Of seditonists destroyed
"The Dayton (0hio) Journal" as re-
Duke to the administration for the
arrest of their leader, Clement l.. Val
landigham, by General Burnside.
The virulent issue Of Northern sedi-
tion expressed itself in the political
contests of 1862, and so powerful were
the peace Democrat influences that 1t
seemed as if President Lincoln and his
suspension Of habeas corpus were on
trial and not secession or slavery.
Lincoln addressed himself TO this stu
alton with q strong right arm.
Former Representative Clement L..
Vallandigham, Of Dayton, Ohio, the
avowed leader of sedition in the North,
and later head of the disloyal order
of the Sons of Liberty and candidate
for Governor Of Ohio, became the sym
Dol Of treason and the example of its
suppression. President Lincoln avow-
edlv struck at treason through the
pompous and the powerful Vallandig-
ham, the La Toilette of the Civil War.
General Burnside aimed his depart
ment orders directly at Vallandigham's
head.
Vallandigham and the peace Demo-
cratic press Of the North used cunning
methods. not in open sympathy with
the secession of the South, hut by in
direction damning the war of preser-
walton. RETAINING from upholding re-
bellion. but denouncing Lincoln for
suppressinP rebellion; frankly up
holding slavery, yet joining with the
extreme aholitionists in their criticism
Of the administration.
II was difficult to skin these eel-like
seditionists, who swOre loudly by the
Constitution, which Southerners pro-
fessed TO revere so highly that they
couldn't abide its Interpretation TO
their personal disadvantage. They
caught up the word Union" as some
thing still more sacred, far too sacred
TO enforce with arms. They shouted
for freedom and styled themselves
"Sons Of Liberty" regarding these as
being much too good for black men.
Their emblem, worn in the lapel Of
their coats, was the Liberty head, cut
from copper cents, and their adopted
nickname. therefore, "copperheads."
But Lincoln was a skilful contender,
and his Albany and his Dayton letters
justifying his suspension Of habeas
corpus and his crushing of treason IN
the South and in the North are won
derful human documents, as well as
being remarkable state papers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
President Squelches
Ohio Seditionists

Lincoln added to this state paper,
which may we'll serve the world in 1917
as its guarantee Of an efficient democ-
racy, a letter to the Ohio seditionists,
In which he said:
81 certainly do not know that Mr..
Vallandigham has. specifically and oy
direct language advised against en-
listments and in favor OF desertions
and resistance to drafting. me
letter goes on to show how by indi-
rection Vallandigham had produced
great disafTection in the ranks IN the
Northwest) You declare your pur-
pose TO be to sustain the Union by
all constitutional means. You omit
to intimate that the army is con'
stitutional means or saving tne
Union against rebellion. You do not
intimate that you are conscious OF
an existing rebellion. At the same
time you declare against the use OF
an army to suppress the rebellion
The mouthers of the Constitution
came out second best in this great
controversy with Lincoln, who not only
defeated them by force OF his clarlfy-
inc logic but proceeded to defeat them
in any case By military force. Sec ,,
tionists were jagged by scores and
given summary military justice, erpe-
cially in the Northwest, where the con
spiracy. the counter revolution, vas
crushed not moment too soon.
None felt the humiliation of the
"fre-in-the-rear" more keenly than the
soldiers on the front, and none sensed
ia dangerous character better. General
Uoyey felt called upon TO rebuke lndi-
ana sedition in a speech 20 his offlcers
in which he said:
"The rebels Of the South are rely
ing upon the Northern Peace Demo
Gratis for support and opposition 70
the Administration is giving aid and
comfort to the enemy" =,
Colonel G.. L. Durham, OF the I'd
Indiana Brigade, awake to the havoc
that sedition at home was causing
among the rank and file Of the army,
wrote:
"yigorous measures must be adopt
ed or our army, under the influence
OF the seoundrels and traitors at
home who are by letters scattering
discomfort among our soldiers, VIII
be demoralized and destroyed"
The Illinois officers met in the neid
al Corinth on January 80, 1868, and
sent resolutions to Governor Yates,
denouncing the Legislature for opgos-
inging the suppression of THE Chi
cago Times" in these words:
ave have watched the traitorous
conduct Of those members of the
Legislature of the State Of Illinois
who have been proposing a cessation
OF war. These are damnable deeds
OF treason" .,
Other resolutions by soldiers in the
field denounced "the wickedness and
baseness of those citizens Of the North
who by disloyal practices and other
wise impart hope and comfort to the
rebels in arms" The men who were
fighting felt both the insult of cop.
perheadism" and the enervating eheet
- ~ unon the conduct Of the war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
Brazil Adopts Rules
To Curb Enemy Aliens
All Suspected Germans To Be
informed for the Period
of the War

RIO De JANEIRo, Dec. s.-Ihe Bra
lillian Cabinet, at a meeting last night
decided upon the following regulations
with regard to German subjects IN
Brazil:
To prohibit all commercial relations
direc. or indirect, between foreign ma
tionals resident in Brazil and enemy
subjects in foreign countries.
To suspend the expectation Of all
kinds of goods belonging TO the enemy.
Special powers viii be given to the
authorities TO control enemy enter
prises and to put an end to such oper-
atoms.
To intern In concentration camps or
elsewhere suspected enemy subjects.
To cancel all public land contracts
and concessions. with due regard to
the rights Of settlers and proprietors
already located.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
What Is Going Oh To-Day

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auspices o. Brooklyn CIVIC Forum. p
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

as great a problem as did the seces-
sion Of the South. And in 1864, with
Lee marching upon the disatfected State
of New York. the Enemies Within near
~ broke Lincoln'5 back upon the wheel.
So much for the disorder; now for
the remedy Lincoln's cure was a dras-
tic one. The gentle heart and the dem
ocrat in him were pilloried as a cruel
and despotic monster. But he laid his
hand to the task.
The New York Journal of Com
nerce" complained in 1864 that "a list
of the names Of the editors and other
citizens arrested by Lincoln under mar
tial process and with denial Of the writ
of habeas corpus would fiji eighteen
columns of this newspaper"
The compilation of a complete list OF
the newspapers suppressed by Lincoln
because they gave aid and comfort 10
the enemy is not possible, because IN
some states, like Kentucky, the entire
Democratic Party press was forbidden
circulation. The policy Of one depart
ment commander excluding the circula-
ton of disloyal newspapers from his
district because of the peculiar suscep-
tibility Of the district resulted IN nu-
merous partial suspensions. For exam
rle, The New York World" was not al
lowed by the military authorities to
circulate in Baltimore.
"The Metropolitan Record" On. "
was suppressed in 1863 for printing the
following among other denunciations
Of President Lincoln:
you have been tried aud found
wanting You have been given the op-
pOrtunity of saving a nation, but you
have stabbed it to the heart. You were
born in the freest country under the
sun, but you have converted it into
despotism. You have violated your
oath; you have betrayed the trust re-
posed in you and TO the outraged JUS
tice of your countrymen ! now leave
you with the brand Of 'Tyrant' upon
your brow
In the partial list compiled are in
cluded many newspapers whose present
relation with the Civil War policies
consists in the continuation OF the
name only. Powerful newspapers like
"The Brooklyn Eagle" "The New YORK
World" and The Chicago Times were
temporarily Suppressed by Llnco.n.
They were the outstanding Democrat &c
party organs and saw fit to bitterly OPP
pose and to hamper Lincoln, not as
avowed advocates of secession. but, Dor
rowing the phrases Of the South, under
cover of "Constitutionalism!
In most cases Of suppression the edl-
tors were imprisoned. The following
newspapers were suppressed for print
ing seditiOus matter:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09
po,serfuI Newspapers Sup
messed for Aiding Seces-
.;onists During Civil War
end Thousands Arrested
by Military Authorities
New York's Governor and
Mayor Both Disafected
While Northwest Con-
suiracy Nearly Brok e
Power of Unionists
BY William J. Black

~rOW President Lincoln routed
n treason and oyercame the sedi-
L tous press Of 1s6l-'65, how
II, Great lawgivcr Of the Anglo-SaXon
~.-,s eircumvented the enemies with
While battling desperately enemies
-,,hopt. is Of acute interest now that
a. var.succcssor, President Wilson, is
in IKE case.
The mastery Of Lincoln's internal
s.tt 70 save democracy becomes an
,ioouent parallel text, especially since
a. repression Of periodicals like "The
Vases" "Thc Call" and "Bull" and
,ls prosecution Of some of their edi-
,,-s is known TO be an executive policy
inspired by those resOlute Lincoln
methods.
The Wilson Administration, in this
natter Of yanquishing the disloyal
vi,hin and stamping out the "fre-in-
,be.rar" lighted by German sympa-
,birers and by mistaken pacifsts, is
70, laying out any new paths. For
Lincoln has left complete survey
With al the roads and the stealthy
,syerts and the likely ambuscades and
.As crafty pitfalls charted.
The public records Of the military
srrests for sedition, Of the newspaper
impressions for treason, Of the i'm
rrsOnments for disloyal speech-mak-
irg and Of the two years bitter con-
.sr;ion over the suspension of habeas
corpus by President Lincoln offer to
President Wilson a complete hand
hook for the crushing of unfriendly
var influences, with a dozen prece-
dents for each case.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

draft riots were giving the government
great difficulty. 1.-THE World" and "The
Journal Of Commerce" were Temporal
rily suppressed for being deceived by
the false telegraph dispatch. The tele-
graph wires groaned with dispatches
from Loyal Leaguers urging the Presi-
dent to suppress the copperhead news
papers.
What the Lincoln Administration left
undone in the way of suppressing dis
loyalty, sedition, treason and pacifsm
in the press the public, sometimes con-
stituted of soldier mobs and sometimes
of civilian mobs, took into its own
hands. The following newspaper plants
were wrecked by citizens:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-09

Beyond the garden are two hard clay
tennis courts, and further still a We
vety meadow, with soft eyed Jersey
cows which furnish the milk and cream
for the house. There are plgA, too.
lively tame fellows, who come scainper-