Year: 1863

From the London Times, May 2S


If we would conceive the earnest long,
ING OF the northern people after their lost
Union, We must consider the outrages and
indignities 10 which they vii. submi, from
those who promise to restore H. Although
the government OF Mr. Lincoln confes edly
has the respect Of no body of men in the
country; though he himsslf is person of
neither ability nor dignity; though some
among his chief advisers are known to
have misbehaved themselves in manner
which any other country would punish by
expulsion not only from Office but also
from society; though the military com
ma7ders are incapable, and the war Ian
gulShes and ,he men desert through want
OF confidence Ill their leaders, yet the
maj lprity of the North shrinkS SO much
from The Prospect of divided rrpublic
that it will allow people whom 1t looks
upon and talks about As imbeciles and Job
bers and braggarts to commit any act of
tyranny under the pretencc of maintain
ing the Union. 1t does not believe in
them; it would be glad to get rid of them
and replace them by better men; but they
are in power; they stand as the represen
tatives, however unworthy, Of the United
States, and, hoping against hope, the peo-
PIE of the North obey them because op-
position might seem ike an abandonment
of a cherished design. We do not th nk
that in the days of Englands ferccst
struggle with the French Republic the
government OF Pitt would have ventured
OH such an nc. as the trial by court mar


nal OF a private person for making a
speech against the war, and recommending
his hearers to agitate constituiionally for
the overthrow OF the Ministry. Yet it was
for all offence precisely similar that Mr..
Nallandlgham, one Of The most prominent
politicians Of the West, has been sentenced
to two years banlshment to a miserable
islet sentence graciousy commutcd by
the President into expulsion from his
home and from the limits of the northern
States.


The details of this affair are So extraor
Jinsry, the violation ali law and Daiura
right is So tlssrant, and the sentence WAS
50 plainly an act of vengepce Oh an adverse
politician, that the who.e is worthey of
notice in this country as showing to what
excesses of tyranny on one side and servili-
ty Oh the other the Federal States have
been brought through carrying on this
war of ambition. Never was there case
in which it was SO evidently the purpose
of government 10 ruin political enemy
aud to territy party by showing that no
,ersonai eminence aud no caution in keep
my within constitutional bounds can avail
any one who presumes to oppose the plans
Of those in power. Some time since Gen.
Burnside, who after his failure AT Fred
ercksburg had been transferred to the COM
mand OF the Department Of the Ohio,
published General Order No. So. Ill
rected against those who ''declare their
sympathies for those in arms against the
government OF the United States, and
express di~Ioya sentiments and opinions
with the object and purpose of weakening
the power Of the government in It's efforts
to suppress an unlawful rebellion. I'm
der this order some persons have been
already seized. tried by court martial, and
punished in various WAYS, in contempt OF
the regular tribunals, the authority Of
which over ali those not engaged in the
military service OF the United States can
not coustitutionaly be set aside. But no
victim OF eminence had been found before
Mr.. Nalland CHAM. THIS gentleman.
however, having made him m,et conspic
uous for a long time by criticisms on the
government. was evidently closely
watched There was TO be meeting on
the lst of My. at Mount Vernon, Knox
county. Ohio, TO take into consideration
the policy of the government and the
manner in which the war had been con
Quoted 1t was in iact an ordinary dem
ocratic meeting. like many that have TAX
en- place in New York and elsewhere,
without any interference or subsequent
prosecution on the part Of the government.
But when it was known that Mr.. Val
laudigham was to speak. it was determined
to make an example. The proceedings
Of the military authorize. We're IN like
those of European soldiers. Cont'netai
commanders might employ spies to take
down the words of suspected revolution
ist, but they would hardly sid their own
officers on such disgraceful service, or
find officers to take such duty. But tie
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