ilfllftfTilt 8 I H la 41 e iit 1 1 if 4-1 ii- if.- IJI Ji- TIIE CLESSIXG1 Of UOVER.YMEST, LIKE THE DEHS OF HEAVES, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE. VPOX THE HIGH ...VD THE UK. THE RICH ASDT,l7 POOR. NEW SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1863 VOL . 10 NO. 8. Tr, ni the X. Y. Caucasian") Free pcccli and Free ITess .. i T Ti" V . . . -- 1 TV a are v ry many ora e men now more a freeman, over these numerous kindly, gladsome faces, now upturne-d to - I greet and ch.er mo, Acre not been able to ,-, torn irhfil those dmrqe.t are I have in ;e ivi:Ic, bv a verdict administer- vain demanded of the Government the ; , - buke to the Administration. Dut na til X.-X i t history of the times. the speech delivered by i i .... v-;.-i V:i!!, upon the reception given y- J.r the citizens of l'urlington, N. J., Fort Ii Favette. -. Kl's return from e W. wa the first man, too, to rebuke j Po:Un:ister tTeneral lor his unconsti Hut I nature of the charges, and claim the Con , ve j stitutional privilege of Imng informed of the nature and cause of this accusation, and to be conirr,t.-d with the witnesses against me. Hut up to this hour, the grave couM not have been more silent. Great Heavens! is it 'Kissi'de that such l thing can Vie under a Constitution -whose triel to convince him by reason and argu- j incnt, but the rustic happening to hint a ' doubt as to the truth and propriety some thing which the god had advanced, Jupiter immediately threatened him with his tbunderliolts. Now, said the country- j man, you threaten me with your thunder, ! I know you must le wrong; as long as! you resort to reason, you may be right, ; but whenever you appeal to thunder, I j know you are wrong. ' There is a moral in this pleasant little fable, which the Government would uo- gl rJ ifUoii in regard to interfering ! boat it has been that it w:s for the pro- ! wdl to lay at he-irt. As lo! - ii August. lS'il, he wrote as follows Your iwi't high-har.ded, unconstitu - n u a "t. in stopping certain newspartors ig as it rca- :cv-paper? in the mails. On the , teetion of the iiriiienabie rights of men sons with the p-?ople, and endeavors within against all oppression ! It this lnust Las j Us constitutional limits to use all the cn-iHH-n in vain, thon it h?cs 'but a name to j ergies of the Suite in this prese nt war, it -m i'i:vz cir'ul:iteit m tne mans, will j io uecene a rv: lam i. a;t iKnes, the indignant pro- ; luisii, painting i! v.-..: t-vf-rv ir.-eman. If the proscribeil pieys.' n mter s- ennnir. to li pple. upon iiitl . mi'v retain tne rontulenoi :unl co-4i?)era- a hectic tion oftliat people, but the iuMai.t it com- j it i ni nees to lainn-h its tuundeis aaiiiSt ciu i-K uiMin wjucn it i nil nees to tainn-li its tuunJeis a?r:iiiist the ! riIit.- of i Tstmal liU rtv, the riirht of five The liberty I claim tnnl. r that Con- i ili.-eu.-sion and a five nrcss. that limiiii nt nnistfation. tiuy nan a ngui- so to no i miuiuwi, imiih ine uriy oi licenuous- ; liie nvlings ot ttie jieople revolt, anl like Kt-j-.iiltlie, where it has been our ness it is the liberty united with law, the count rvnian with Jupiter, "thev know- it is in the wrong. It is bad enough to .r? !,;;e p. ilci ted severely upon the :i.-rs I ni.iv receive. .a the Cim-litutior. i r'g'it U V . and it I cvo.-e to subscrile or write fr :i j.iuniftl in favor of peae, voukw nhi fori id it. Iain in ;.H..r at a ??evuv ne?.,r. and opposel . to cruel fr.iteni;il irit and I will work r it. write t'.-r it. jiray for it. do aytfii;; '.'V'-'.''" " '' ' detiance of ail the im n:U uk.-w that mav hf- snt forth from Aa-iiinrt.n. Do vou intend also to I.T v.-.ir ajaiiisi jn-ace loving citizens of u-cth. '.vi;(e nu!v crime i.-, iu loving ' IT? '. (' n-nuitk.n so well, that thev ,,it u?s-s t'aeir sou Is in patience, win n j Ciniicating th -ill to the Siate. fie:i-;.l the tar-ia:. iitnt''fi ia its place letter ed 'higher law' not be crossed by inqulsiti-n and Inquiry. The perianal fivedom of the citizen from all illegal anvst ; the freedom of his lv.'rthstone from arbitrary invasion, and i"tj freedom of conscience froiu all man ner of restraint ; these con-titue tlie Urrim and lliummin, the bre;ustplate of light and truth round the heart of an American citizen in the time of trial i.nd danger: and when he demands rights that have not let n conecetM to him. thej- will im part a rich eloquence tj his tongue, the wisdom of authority, and the might v pathos of invaded justice t. his lip. I, far my part, come weal or woe, will de mand at the hands of the Ie;.l trILur.ali f my country, full reurss l.r ail the wrongs and outrag- s that I have b-en made to sutr. Tli.:re aiv .la-trd!v wretc!:i's in your mid-t, who. I nn lerstan'l have lfii inirumental in this arrest, and for whom I have no regard, and utterly despise. They will b; sheltered by I heir own iiiMgniticane ; but there are" others who M.all b.', made to answer Iefore the tribunal the law has erected for the re dress of injuries. I know that there are many pseudo patriots in your midst, whose stilish regard f--r their jvrsonal safety has kept them close at home to spit their spite and venom uion other men, ami with whom, as A ritophancs describes the Athenians, " Xn matter what the oflcnee, Jle't great or small. The cry is treason and cinpiracy" lliese unprincipled politicians are wait ing for chances when they can fasten like vampires on the flanks of the t Govern ment, and suck sustenance from this war, ami not death. In order to ingratiate themselves with the Administration, they ppend their time, like novious spiders, in spinning webs whose threads are spun from their own fabricating brain? with which to catch and entangle the unwary. the Administration beware of these Johnny Hooks, the. sho.ldv patriots they are -nemies to this Government. To those of you who are nallv and honestly loyal to the Constitution and the I'nion, who, in times past, have struirL'led ment fortre-s, the sam- in:n late, only i for 7Wy V s ii 1 Iu I. Hy t!iis word j ,or l''1''" ation, and are still 1 !nng to TUvuu-i!,, thislH.M primate meant th,.,- xm im- " 1,1 mi.lstot all the trials i.jh absolutism in the crown, thorn.,.,!, :u"1 dangers that seem to be threatening i ne overt 1 1 row ot Constitutional liberty: oh ! have an abid'unr faith in the future. Ker.icniber, that tlrmgh lilrty may be -Vrjar.' ojkii to the most rigid scrutiny, i by law-; ai;d that kind of liberty is guar I::'i t. die right of examining into the I anteed to every man. rich or KKr, high l.-u:t.rff our public servants, and j or low, proud or humble, under all exi xii.i. iiting freely upon their public con- j gencies, whether in peacj or war, and is t Le sentinel standing at the door, whether that war is foreign, or the State r.itifcciiially guarding every other right, j ! in the fearful throes of civil strife. If i:'ie people relinquish this, they richly j the obligations we enter into to part with i-iero to'lw slaves." j a (xu-tion ot our absolute rights when we T.e leitr gues.-n to invite the atten- j assume the bonds of civil society, be not tin; l'osiUKister General to the i complied with, the State must enforce her Ta!:i:vii' efl.is lather and father-in-law, renielies against the citizen can be de- 1-a-t, upon the Frmlora of the j priveil of his life, his lilierty or his proper- i'-'anl lis sanctitv, and closes with the ! ty 'without uue pro-ess ot law lie may v; vinsr : be made to part w ith all three by the Now, bv vour edict, vou have as- f ower of the State, but that power must in wuai politiCiil j see 10 ii, mai m n- xenaso il uoi's noi From what clause j overstep the limits in which it is apjoint j vou derive this ed to move. If it does, it becomes des- It I am in favor of peace, I have i jwtic ; r.nl tiirn. amrg men who know thi ir rights, resistant" follows as natu rally as light succeed to darkii'-ss. If. by a simple mand.'te ofany Cabin et offi cer, in a State loyal to the I'nion as thi has 1k.h'!i. and wh.-n the eoums of "aw- are open, you or I may lie torn from our homes, without cause, shown, nr.d con signed to the eloomv walls of a Govern- liave the Executive sjinctioning violations i of the Constitution, but to have Judges ' in the land vieing with each other who j can le the most senile in sanctioninsr i such usuqations, is only reviving the ! memory of those corrupt judges who gave j a judgement for the crown in the matter ' of ship money, in the time of the said Charles. Said Ju-tice Cawley, of the Common l'leas " the laws know no King yoking policy " the law in it self is an old and trusty sen ant of the King it is his instrument. I never heard ! that lex was rex, but it is common and most true that rex is lex." Vernon, an other disgrace to the ermine, gave his opinion in these servile words: "The King iru bona jiul.'ico. may charge his subjects for the safety and defence of the realm, notwithstanding any act of luli ment, and he may ev en dispense the laws in case of n'-ecssitv."' It would appear that we have Vernon's and Crawley's in our day. In the days of Charh -, to. they had " Tin ." For th State and its exigencies, t'oikini1 v,;', nbton, I am altered in its j hraeoliv, may consign u immediately into the hands of the execu tioner or deprive us of ur properties. I he rrht i::-i I ne otter that the New l ..rk Kn u:i"ed as "the most insolent Vll utterance that ihev had vet tin ! !int of the terrified Abolition j ti;.i to the legislature setting tl.O Oiltrr.e. rinil ileniMnliii.T tlmt t n 'y should take some action bv to have o:tr hvrs secure against u:t i rcnee without 'due process of law-,' is j equaiiy giiarar.lee-l in the sa-iie clause i that protects our lib. : iy and o.ir propi rly. ! Do you knaw, r.iv fri nd.-, how oM these privileges ai-e '. Th'v :n trace their vils called " for the arrest of the. trai- lineage back lo the days of the mail-clad A week afterwards he. was anvs- ! Uaruns, and these feet have stt- l rever i il cuntinvd in Fort Ia Fayette, and entiaily upon the -as.-y lawns of liuime nliasil after two weeks confinement. ! mede, v here those ureal privileges were -u' joined speech was delivered at ; 1hj;h more tlian six hundred years ago. .;i."u.ii eiven him on his return to his I They were extorted bv the rebellious Ilar- ha.-t winter he addressed alencrthv i ons. then and there from the tyrant John. and uttered in flowing language that has cftine down to us through the long vista of ages, and is still sounding in our ears 1 protest against this invasion of the ' as the swiftest note that ever came from -:? i'v tli ' ojn.vrs of the Fleral Gov- i the clarion of freedom. listen to its mu- nt : but the Committee having the : sic, strong and sweet as it sounded in the -t-r in charge were not equal to the j sole 2m ir.idnight, ctnturies ago: 'Xo -" i.. an i tney parsed it by, giving it j treeniaii shall Ik? s ize i or imprisoned, or ' 1 s'n. .al l. r. The recent elections disseize! or omiawed, or In ajiy way de- f-'f F':; a hack bone into some men. j strove!, nor w ill we go upon hini or stnd l "ving is the speech referred to: 'upon bins, except by the judgment of " hJIitir r(,', -, : My heart is full i his peers or bv the I.i.vs of 1 lie laud.' -o full that I can scarce give ' Keep in remembrance that there is no expression to the deep emotions J saving of th- Kings perogative in Magna x cjwl upon me as I look upon this i Charta. As Sir Edward CKk to King -!'it demonM ration. What a stri- 1 Charles I; 'Jf.ijHn CinrrUt is surf, a fellow that It-; mil wre no sn -;.' Therefore all this nonsense about the necessities cf the hour justifying these high-handed outrages upon the lilerty of the subject, may as well cease, or those who resort to such ju: titlcaiion are cither knaves or fools. Th.; freeman who se cure! their Petition of Kight from Charles in 1G2-H, compre!iended this fully, and they never ceased their importunities until they made the King confess: "My maxim i, thaV the people's liberties strengthen the King's jerogative, and the King's Derogative is to defend the people's liberties;" and so it is with State's peroga tive it can only le used to deiend and strengthen our lilserties, vot to destroy. The instant you make the admission that the perogative of the State is more po tent than the liberties of the people ; that moment the very vitality of your govern ment is destroyed, and ycu beeonic the slaves of a vile despotism. Constraint is the natural parent "of resistance, and this doctrine is by no means novel. It is a? old as the davs of Lucian. The pleasant ''"'ation upon my fair fame as a ! story in that fable of his has its moral in "'ntrait to the melancholy scene, a fonnight ago, when I was drag- 1 J:i'iessi- from these steps, tore rner froni the clinging embraces of the ir.f at home, and consigned to the t m. rclrs of the brutal military des : ,tn that rules w ith iron swav within Sorny walls of the American Has- itu enthusiastic! reeention. mv these shouts of welcome; these -ll and happy faces ; these beautiful trevn in my pathway by such "an.i.: tiie cheering light of these - . . . muzzling t the press upon the lic-nse of the lilierty of tongue ti'firoiiyl, checks ' the tongue, and i til' subject. The h ,' still. 1 with hot t , nvir.giy you Ix-ar me in j-our hearts. L , a Option is the more crateful to -aus- it wears a double significan- ll a.?;ires nie. in th. tirf ilar-.- t ilium r 2i.iiu iiieuuB, . ""'"ii nave gone in and out so ,J -Par?' lvply sympathise with me VokJ an outras to which I bsn 5,'jected. In tlie second place, V ,mani,cstation 'strong as Holy 'nat you believe that 1 am wholly rnt('' any charges of dislovaltv. or all unite to convince me 1 k in n 1 1 ! 1 . t . . . 1 . ... r 1 , inii cuizen. vnanres: our lime, .juimn ui luumiiiiwn lavf . , i . -.1 t ..1 ... ii- ' - ' my lrientls woula you j were conversing wiin encn oiner wun ite 11 trm the hour that I was ta- ' familiarity upon the subject of Heaven m my home, through the long and and Earth. . The countryman listened 'jays ot my imprisonment, up to with creat attention, and aquiescerl in ! land recognizes there 1 " moment when I look out, one Jupiter's -entlments as long us Jupiter j fyry scorching iron and the sin of libeling the State, by cropping the cars of the offender. My friends, we have just such men all around us to-day. They are here in your midst, listening to the word that fail from my lips men who reason now just as Iaud and Stratford reasoned then lust as Cardinal Granville and the i infamous Duke of Alva reasoned before ! them. And what was the result of j Iaud's and Stratford's plotting against j the liberties of the subject ? Uoth per ished on the scaffold and lVir.ne with stumps of " his ixior lost ears" rooted out by laud's knife and his check bran- i leil with glowing iron for his libels upon the Senate, yet lived to coi.d.ict the im peachment against the. pmud prelate, ofj whose relentless power he had lecn so j often the ictim. Tvrannv, like unv I other vice, has it day ot retribution, and J will sooner or later p n.-h wit-i its victims, Jlememlxr that our Constitution is only a formal I X-ci '.ration nf principles held to be true centuries ago. The Constitution created no new principles. "There are certain primary rights," says Kent, j "which, under our Constitution, the gov- ernnient cannot in aiuf ruirr-fcwii arbitrurihf i interfere uit,; among these are the liberty of the person, the liberty of speech and of the prcs. These are rights inestimable to freeman only." Our fathers caught the inspiring strain from Mngna Charta, and it was prolonged in those sonorous tones sounding forth from our ow n glorious Constitution ; "A'o one shall le deravl of tii t!j or jrojt- J crty without oV.' y rmv. oj'tatr."' Cherish, j my friends, these great rights thus sua ran- j teed to you by your Constitution ; Never surrender them ; never allow them to le j j compromised or piinsayed, for they con stitute the Keystone ot the Arch of I- ree dom. Once destroyed, and the sun of lilierty is extinguished in your sky, and the dark and horrid night of Desjotisui will wrap you in its gloomy embrace for ever. We only call that government free, which not only shelters its subjects from the injustice of the many, but the tyranny j of the one or the few. We, as a people, are free, because ; from ancient times there camo laws writ- i ten as if with the finger of the highest. ! Free, because to us, in this day, it was thought conscience and opinion were five . ' It is a great thought that the law of the. a part about . .V" 1 - . . man s aiiairs iai-r'i mat it must crushed to the earth for a time, and wear the. garments of heaviness, that the hour must come when she shall assert her su premacy onee again, put on her glorious apparel, gird her sword upon her thigh, and jnake oppression and disloyalty take rcfug? in their d. ns. Have an abiding faith in the stem truth expressed in those gloviou lines of P.ryant : Truth, er-i-h -1 to earth. s".i "! risa ag-in. TIi -t rn.i! years cf ('on -tr. h- rs ; liii' f-'Ti-r. w ni'id-tJ. writing w.th .n, Ani iies a;n j'ig her worvVrpp-Ts.'" I bid you amostafi'ectiona'egooJ ni-i-.t. The ( ac ur Ir. ll. Dr. Edson IJ. OI-I-. revntly n lease.! from imprisonment in l rt I-itayi tte, had a grand reception at Lsn'atcr, Ohio, his place of residence on Saiurdav. the 20th u!t. No less t! an 12,''l;) jK-ople participate! in the ovation. Mr. C. 1). Martin made the wcleo.nivg sp.vc'i, to which Dr. Olds rep!i"d at length. From the Doctor's remarks we extract the fol lowing: On the 12lh of August last, after lO o'chx-k at night, my house w:is forciblv enten-! by three govenunent miliar,?, who, with violence, seized my wrsoii, and. holding a revolver at my hea 1, deaian 1I my surrender. During the time they were making such repeated and violent ellorts ts burst open my door, they gave me n imima tion that they were Government t fiiccrs, r that they had any Govenunent author ity for my arrest. 'IT.ey came like assits sins and robbers, they ljehaved like as sassins and roblie-rs; and, had I not lxvn inlonned by the Ao-tfw.; of o-rtai.i Aloli tionisls that a'didavits deslgne-d tt cause my arrest had bvn rrwarlil to the War DejKU-tinent, I should tiist undoubt.iliy have takn th"?c Govcniment rutHans for midnight robbers. When, after my capture, I demanded to know by what authority they had thus rudely broken into my room, and by w hat authority they had thus scize-d my erson, they very grumbingly informed me that they were acting under authority of the War Department. I then demanded to lie shown their warrant. They informed that I had no right to make any such de mand that the order which they he-Id wjis for their protef tion, ami not for my gratification. They permitted me to see it. ,The document was signed by the As sistant Secretary of War wa dated at Washington City. August 2d. lS-V?. It wa directed to . H. Scott, and ropi- inissloned him to take with him one assis tant, ar.d to proceed to Imcasu-r, Ohie. atid arrest Edsein IJ. Olds and to convey him to Xew York, and to deliver him to the commanding e-t!ie-er r.t Fort Iifayettc: ani thr-t, if lie was nsisieil in the execu tion of the order, he was directed to call upon Gov. Todd, of Ohio, for such assist- ! ance as might be necessary i 'I he order co!itain-I no intimation ef the "nature arid cause" of the aceusaiien i against me ; it i:harg-d me with the ce-m-misiiou of no tier.i'e whatever: andw-lan ! I demanded of my csptors what were the 1 charges against me-, they replied they "did ! not krow." " j I have no doubt Int what the ruffians had called i'pjti Gv. Todd f.r assiitanc' : before proceeding to I--ncaater to excute their order, as they had with them a lig ' douJiIe-listetl bu'lj- from Columbus, who ' informed me that his name was !hss, j and that he had once belonged to tlie Democratic party, and that he had met I me in Denncratieeonveritii:sat Columbus. ; These goven;m( nt ruliians w. re dine- ; ted to "peefably" arn st me. Yet with violence they burst opn the loor f luv iitn. and with a revolver at my head they arrested mo. Thry came at the hour ; usually sidected by rob'mTs and assassins j to break into men's houses and commit I deeds of violence . and had I been armed j I should have shot them down as robbers and assassins. I have rcflectd mue-h on the manner of my arrest, and I have conic calmly and dehlx'nKely to the conclusion i that I should have be n justified, U:h bv the laws ef G-m an ! man. ha! I have killcl these ruffie.ns wl.iiit breaking into ; my room, a I most assure illy would have done had I been sirmed, and as I certainly ! would do, had the act to b-? djne over again. It would have taught Mr. Uu- coin and his minions that, w hen they set ,' aside the laws j4n 1 the Constitution, the j rifle, the reveilvcr and the bowie kr.ife at on beoome th supreme law e f the land. Thus, my fri. n is, was I dragged frcrn ! a sick bed, for I wa, at that lini", and I for many long and vcay ilax and nights i aftirwanls, seriously. atiliciol with an at- j tack, of the h!ely llux. Ia tin's ce.n.lition ; I was hurri -1 into a carriage, and, during the remainder of the right, driven to CoIiiui'kis, a?;d just at daylight placed iijku th cars and taken i;. mv sick and exhauste ! condition, w ithoat a mein ill's delay, to Fort Li!n t!e Th rdrfor invamst charg.il me with t'-e conimisi;i eif no -riiiK' known to any law of my country. Nav, more, it charged nie with no crime whatever. You may weii imagine, then, my surprise and inlignatiou wh. n. on ;i!Tiing :it Fe;rt Lafayette. I w ord -iv l to st- ip m s. !f, th;.! 1 m'.J.t I' -ca '.ched. To make, if .-;-:! tie, su.-h an in.-ult reat-.-r t a free born AnKik-aii citiz n. I wa- iaeii iut-i a si ro.m, wh- :v aroi?Td mo lav in heaps nianiclc, ch..ias, and l.and'-utj-. With sii'.h surrounii-igs I was stj-qcr.-d uikI san-hed, and my watch, my m.iney, niv spettacl.'S, my shaving :j pa1:-!!-, and even n;y nv-liciues. were ad taken from me. 1 was i.ot p- rrnitt. d to jetuia -vn an oM iiewspap.-r, r a bit ef wasle j-r.p r if r.uy kind. Alter this degr.idii.g ejn raiii-n Jmd bee:i performed, and h top, cendis-tng me Irotn lie cor.iniaiKlat.'.'s toe-in to toy Jnd-n. alt the other prise-ncr a'K.a:! the fit v.ere l cki-l into their rjn, that I might net Ik; se-u and recigni-.ed, lest, jialvtnTun, iif irmation might In given to the world and my friends e.f my w!ier-:iln'iits, ani th? ci Uvlti-s a!out t lx pn.c:ivvd upm me. OiK of the prisoaTs. having IihhiI a few d-iys utii-nvarl-, thrvugh the n:e!ium of tie newspaper-, who tlie mys terious strange-r was. wrote to a friend of his "that D-. O'.ds. of Ohie. ha! Ivhu brought to Fert Iefnette a:id pla.xil in somary etiufinomen!." His let.er was :v tunitil to him by the ounma:! u t. re q.iiri.ig him to rtrik .t m mu-Ji of it as leferred to thr cr.s. ef Dr. Olds. "Sly dangcoa was oa the g-ound. with a I ti-k jsivime:ij ir t? o- oer about otte half of it : and so grut w: tlie dampness that in a vety short time a moaU world gather titen anv jirtii le le-ft i:p.i:i ih li r. My bed wa an ir Ti stretcher. w i;h a very thin husk matvs st-vtch! uia it so thin, iuleiJ, that you could feel every iron slat in it th-' moment you lay down upon it. The brick l!eor, with ali its dampn ss. wouhl have lcen fur more comfortable tlum this iron and husk bcl, had it not b in for the rats and tiie .ermin that infestel the room. I had also in my room a brok n table and a chair. A chunk of Government bread, with an eild, stinking, rusty tin of I-iiu-oln coffee, with a slice of loi!il salted jxirk was my fare. My only drink, other tha.i their nactv ovll-e. wa mn wafer. I wa fnniished with n fo.-l. iiitb.r could could I induce r.:y je.ilo-? la W roe hav9 a e-andic during my lwg. ttdions sick nights. No tntreaty eoa'.d rocure Sot me the return ef th- mMieine wta.-h hai been tkeu frcm me when I wa searcheil Again an 1 aguln I l--ggI fir the Uttl? bit of opium to relieve my sorE-ring, shah had lxvn taken oet of lay pocket with my other medicine, but all in vain. After ten days of such treatment and such suiTerlng, Lite one night, the sergeant of the guard brought me some Tnedicin which, he informed. Tne, the Surgeon at Fori Hamilton had sont :r.e. "l"his Sur geon knew r.oih'.ng alout my ca?", having never st-n iw, t liecn inform! y nio of my condition. With no light in my c:ll, with no 'ne to give me even a drink of my rain water, you can wll i'ng'ne tlsit I wiuld not take the medi-nne. I did not know but that my jailors dsigjK-d t ;iuisoi mi Their prceious treatme-nt justitied snch an op'iiion. I made up tot mind that if I died in Fort Lafayette, I would die a natural death, unless indeed Lincoln or I. red me to Ire tried by drum head court martial and shot, which I fell he had ji.st as much right to do as Lo had to am t and imprison ine in the manner he had don. I'nder such treatment, and by this time, you may well imagine that I had got a i:i" on mo : and this, I think, h.oljd to save my life, for th- truth is, I Lad got to le too mad to die, and no thanks to Lincoln, b-it, under a kind Providence, I began to get better from that time en. You can well imagine that atier such treatment, when my son w;es pomiitted to i.-it nie, he faund me ' emaciated and caw worn. 1"he only wonder is that l.u found mo alive. If anything could add to the cn:Isy in llicie.l upon ra? durirg these dava and nights of my sickn ss r.ivl suilt-ring, it was the refu;al of the Ccmmantant u aiiow in.- the us? eif a Fib!e. Iay &fter day I lagged th sergeant to proem: oni forme. His constant answer v.-as, "tlv" commnn-ling etnee r says you shan't hav. one." I begged him to remind tlie coni- i manding el!ivr that we lived in a CI ris tian, an ! not in a heathen land that I I was an AnieriVan citizen. avl n; t a con demned felon. Still lh? answer n-a, ' the commanding otficer ai s you !:ant have one, and you need ne'-i ask any laore : aiid it w:us not until after sixteen days of such more than lieathenish treat nn nt that C-I. Uurke, of Fort Hamilton, njmn the import imlty if my son, sent an r!er t- the IV'tiunatnLint of Fort Lriik :te to let 1110 have a liible. It w:; upon the sixtocr.th dty of my lonely iniprisi nm nt. that mj. Svn, upon 'il r ef the Ser ti.ry of War, to p.rm"tti '1 to so me. vol in ray lonely eel", but in the Ci:iim.T:.d.ints room and pres ikv. It wa-wl:ii r.vrh !;.:1i a'.:y that, even at that tiii.. I was all- to wa'lc lrm my cell to the CVmni-uidant's room. "1'tiis wa- the tirst time during my impris onment, that I had !k n tiMe to (itain an interview with the Conimanilant. In Lis weekly 5iisp-ctli.:i oftho prisoners, he had ran fs:Iv r.voideil r.y thing-oi. Xo kiiidly ni"s-:eg- or inquiry fis to my wants and ee-ndltion liad e ver rvaeliod nie from him. 1 si iz d ujwui this c.pjrtai!i;y to let him know that I was a he man being, and, as such. .tit!ed to hi:i!:an trcatmont that ach u thing p? rc-ni-In7 a r-ris-anr a lilbic was ui.kno.vn in any ciilki oomniauity. HIs answer w?.s, thjit he was itoI pnnit l -l. under Lis orJers. tc h t me Lave one. I lu.d gneat reason to be theJikfal tlint my vi."s visit pie in an opport'jnity to e the e:iiiii;uid;ir.. lor from that time, although kept it Military confnemciit, tay coiKtitin w:s m:le iikjtt roma.rtaliIo. A Lvttcr mattress vs ujxjti ray bed, occii.si.i:iaiiv a raw 0L..011 or a tomato was :.iii I'll to my tliieier, r.n l t .vic, I !eicve, soiue pl. kl'il lext were S4.nl t rc: fro-n the ceik roia. My v:i was c 'roj elh. d to v I.-it Wash : ingten city and obtain iioiii ti?e S-etary cf War iiii order to lliat ctTi-ct bjfure fce could see :n. As son as Le learned how I had lx-on treatexL Le n tamed im mediately lo Washington, and. with th? as-i-tancv of a cry kind friend, procured an o;It from Secretary Sianton. for my release from s-ii;iry c ontiiiecint, and that I should !.ae a!! t1 e privileges ar-co-d d lo the .ther iis.ne:s. And thu. :ifter f.v.ntv-tvro days I this loaihsouie and Wvirsi than !i'-a:!ii!i-h treatment, ray dar.geon door was- tihkokeL an.1 I ai nnitfi.-il tolr.'l l intercourse with my i-l-lo'.v prisen'rs. Su h, my friends, is a pla'ti stutc-nxnt of tlu- n-aoix r if my arrst. and the treat ni'i't I reviviil during lh twmty-two ; d ivs of mv solitary coi.fiin'ment. If it affonls anv gratilieation t those repiibJi ' cat's who i-mii1 my arrest, th y are wol : oni'r to it. Tieirtujii -A id Cfm -.in j anT ent'iat prcoa.v r in-:. Nith da , J i
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