u 1 H . 4 lit THE ItBSWfiS OF GOVEXMEVT.- LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVES, SHOULD BE DISTRlBUrsb ALIKE, VPOS THE HIGH ASD THE LOW. THE RICH A.1D THE POOR. EV SERIES. Lgt Insurrection In Poland. CULAHS OF TI1E REVOLT bUSES OF THE OUTBREAK &c. EBENSBURG, PA. .WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1863. VOL . 10 NO. 13. fie. jhe roust i isairmtEcnox. j!-3V and Telegraphic communica- ,-.th w arsaw nan oeen again inter- Ui The railway was lorn up by the F n th. -20th nt lVrrikan. ks13 -rjncation was soon resumed, liow- Cind an J according to Warsaw dis- Ujof the 20tu via St. Petersburg, for was perfectly quiet, and the I livn otfpotrt? in tlio ces - without hinderance. A de- -jiit cf Cossacks had made a suc- 00 insurgents and taking 42 Warsaw, Jan." 28. srpntj hae received considerable Kfinent from the better classes of :tr, including many "";I5llre ; ana numberless petitions were daily addressed to his highness imploring his attention to it. All was in vain Get ritl of these troublesome and unruly men I will, was his answer, and in it he remained inflexible. For a time it was thought that this law would be modified, from the silence purposely observed re specting it But what was the surprise of the people on learning that a secret circular had been dispatched to the governor of the provinces containing, among others, the following instruction : " The main object,' said the circular, of-this conscription is to rid the country of all the individuals apt to disturb pub lic tranquillity." lists were ordered to be prepared of the names of all persons suspected, without any regard to their bodily health or family circumstances, with a view of ridding; not the country, but the Kussian government, of those from Warsaw. wno wcrc most conspicuous in the late insurgents captured soms troops FIo-.v, including two Russian who were immediately shot. Sr. Pctkikburg, Jan. 30- xjjtrrtj! at St. PtUrsbourj of this a detailed account of 5e?.t5 which have taken place in Po- rjput'us-iics TV.b lamenting, the large participation if cI-ttv- in the revolt, the writer rc- s at the abstinence of the majority of s;;'fcnts. m hundred arid fifty insurgents, who at Hialystok, hat! crossed irc-m Po- i i:o the district of Bielsk. General ioukin h?.? concentrated a detachment lialrstok. Th railway station at -a, th first in the kingdom, has been :ricJ by troops. Flying columns have int to protect the railway at Kovno Wierzbonow (ty, and to dislodge the rits from the environs of Brest Hrah. Colonel Suckow attacked Uebls yesterday in the wood3 of Kostelnoi, Mroumianska. anl znv. Tne rebels were put to flight, .nz 3i prisoner? rne a priest, the .yipa! instigate- of the movement in district. cersrs. on rut issur-nEc-nos. n (;: rsiv Crwnond -net of the rim D.iiJy :.. Jan. 20" Li Ulrgrams will have already in- s' l jou of the enforced conscription, i'.a-,r piovriDtion, whicn was ciiected .? c:n an t vvuieii is a fresh instance :? relentless system of tvrannv nur- :ty th? Czar in this unhappy country. o recruiting has taken place in either ::aor Poland since 1856 ; but in the "M of last year a decree was pro ;ifed, regulating the manner of the option for 18G3, so much at variance it..c previous modes that it was offi : styled an exceptional measure, i w it proved to be, for instead of the Asking drafted from all parts of Filiation, they are exclusively limi K the studonis, the trades, and the -"Muring classes in fact, to the 5 luteliigcrit part of the community. :-' umlcd proprietors and tic peas- j were exenipteil from conscription on i rund that new relations introduced ien thcrn bv tl.f irmvmmcnt vfr. - o .Tf! settled, and would be impaired by raK-en, thus given to this new i certain liberal character. But, reaily were the cause of this ex- v'-wn, why was it- not extended to 'J provinces of the Itussian empire, those relations arc much more diifl 1 toJ complicated ? And it would oeen better at once to have decided amount of the contingent to be fur 1 W the kingdom of I'oland, which ' '"'-korities were careful to avoid. It ?t'irc became evident that this new' urc had for its object to excite jeal ?baween the dilTerent classes of the ation, if not to set the one against Mother a policy so familiar to the government and to throw the e weight of conscription upon those ' "4-1 provi'd tVininK-f nbrnTirii3 trt authorities daring the last few years. ;rka5cof 1830, signed by the reign- Jnporo.-, which decided tliat rccruit- ugh-ut the whole empire should 7 lot, and made it peculiary appU- 2 to Poland, was, in the present in entirely disregarded, and an arbi 7 lfsiOTaiion of persons substituted ' lh.i! conduct natiirnllv tvritpl ' c. Inll?nalion, and even caused great is'-action among the members of- the of State appointed by the govern J. district councils, who were "TV0 " delagatea to the authori al ar.d to help them in carrying out the P'wn, refused their co-oieration ; ' Municipal bodies protested against it ; 2 Reputations waited on the Grand ' tonantine to snnnw him of th j n 'irfy to aria, from xo nnjast events; or, in other words, to decimate the young generation, and to deprive the national cause of its most active defenders. Nothing could have been more calculated to provoke a feeling of revenge than such dastardly conduct of the government, ac companied as it was by acts o? the vi lest atrocity. It was to SI. Sigisraund Wielopolski, as president of the municipal council (son of the Marquis Wielopolski), that the execution, of this measure in Warsaw was confided. Fearing a popu lar outbreak the government inreas-d the garrison of Warsaw to fifty thousand men, and the wives and families of the Kusan otlicer had quietly the day be fore the recruiting been removed to the citadel. All was suspense and expecta tion ; the doomed day was unknown, though the incessant movement of troops indicated its approach. At 11 o'clock p. m. of the llth instant all the streets were occupied by the regiments of the guard, the cavalry having taken posses sion of the principal issues and making the patrols during the night. At mid night the police, accompanied by soldiers, all carrying lanterns, iutoxicated with an extra allowance cf spirits, suddenly rushed into the houses previously noted terrifying the inmates, who were soundly asleep, and carrying li" with them the victims designed on the fatal list Wherever the person so designated to have been ab.-cnt or made his escape, his father or brother was taken as a hostage, The Jews shared the fate of the Chris- ! tians, and, cs they were mostly married men, their lut is more pitiful. They were all conducted to the Town-hall, amid the shrieks, weeping and lamenta tions of their wives, children, and parents, from whence, in batches of twenty to twenty-live, they were transferred hand cuffed to the citadel, to be sent to Silieria or the Caucasus. There was but little resistance offered, and this was soon put down, the greater part of them having submitted for the sake of their country to the ignominious lot. This was recom mended them by a farewell appeal ad dressed to those " airccted by the pro scription." "The country," continued the appeal, "demands from you this sac rifice the country who loses in -ou its most cherished children. The greatest proof of the devotion you can give is not to compromise its future by a premature effort. It is painful, we know, to drag, far from your fatherland, a life of which every day is a terrible sacrifice ; but you, who love so much your country, will find it easy. You will serve your country by infusing sentiments of freedom and humanity into the hearts of the Itussian soldiers." The number lodged in the citadel is said to be 2,000, and the loss of so many hands to the trades and manufactories here is most inconveniently felt. All business is at'a standstill, and the gloom, the execrations of the people, eral aged men, fathers of families, have been mistaken for the young and had to pay heavy bribes in order to obtain their liberty. the rAKTICULAES OF THE REVOLT. From the Warsaw correspondence of ?.erlin National Zeitun. Jan. 25.1 I can only confirm my account of yes terday, that the country is in complete revolt. According- to the arrangements of the revolutionary party, the outbreak was not take place . until Slay, but the government themselves have hastened the catastrophe by the unhappy recruiting movement. From all parts of the country come bad reports, one following the other. In Kiele and in ISiedlic provisionary gov ernments arc established. Finhtin? has taken place at many points with varied results. All the telegraph lines are bro ken, and on the Warsaw and St. Peters burg and the Warsaw and Vienna rail ways the rails arc torn up and carried off. Oa the Warsaw and St. Peters-burg linj the insurgents have burnt a bridge. All the lines have become insecure, and it will cost the government rauclu trouble to become master of the movement. The insurgents seem to le about to carry on a guerrilla warfare. Already a givat part of the Warsaw garrison have left the city. Here all still quiet, but who can say for how long? The express post from Siedlic arrived here yesterday, and brought the entrails of Gen. Tscherkassof, who was killed by the rebels oil the road hither from Seidiitt. The conductor rejwrted that some miles from Siedlie, not far from Btala, a col umn of about 1 ,000 men armed with pikes and revolvers, showed ! Russian rule as soaiething inevitable, or are from Russian sources, show that the imperial troops have met with a firce re sistance wherever they have endeavored to disperse the rebels. Warsaw is, indeed kept quiet, but this city is the headquar ters of the Kussian army, and garrisoned by a force probably as large as that which is dispersed through all England and Wales- But away from the capital it dx?s not appear that tranquility has any where, been restored. At Plock and Sied!i, towns far distant from each other, there Lave been collisions between the army rand the insurgents, and in other places the Hussians are said to have been compelled to retreat. Allowing, however, that in a short time these desperate bands will be. driven from the neighborhood of the towns and from the open country, and compelled to carry on an irregular warfare from the shelter of the forests, it may be asked, wliat will the II us sum government have gained ? When the teletrranh an- o i nounces that the rcleHir.n has been sup pressed," that "order" reign in this or that city, and that the misguided leaders of the revolt have perished by the rope or bullet, or arc dragging themselves chained two and two through the wastes of Bus?ia to the unknown land from which they are never to return, how far will the position of the Czar be better than it was on the eve of the insurrection ? There will be only a few thousand Poles the less, and in exchange for this advantage there will be another dreadful memory between the conquerors and the conquered. If any thing has been heretofore done in the way of conciliation, if any portion of the peo ple have leen induced to acquiesce In eral Government had he been permitted, as provided by our Constitution, to meet his accusers face to face, with the oppor tunity of repelling their charges had he been allowed to summon witnesses in his favor-j-if those constitutional safeguards which we all regard as sacred, had been respected we would have had no right to complain. If Mr. Boileau be guilty of treason, or any other oflence under the laws, try hlni as a traitor, and execute him as a traitor. But, sir, how are these matters to get before the courts! Why was not the matter taken before the judicial tribunals that have cognizance of it I Why, sir, we" all know that in cases of these aibilra ry arrests heretofore, every tfibrt on the part of the courts to obtain cognizance and control of the case has failed. Does not the gentleman know that in the case divided people. Everything should bo done by the Administration to make ths north a unit in this great struggle. Wo cannot afford to be divided at home. Yet I say that the course which the Federal Administration is pursuing, is calculated to make the north a divided people to excite feelings (I do not say this in"a spirit of bravado, I say it in a spirit of sonow) which may yet lead to bloodshed may yet lead to revolution in the north. Why, sir, we appear to be retrograding; instead of advancing. You remember that, when Paul waa a prisoner in tha power of Festus, ho appealed to the Em peror of Home ; and Festus -brought him before Agrippa for examination, " bo cause," said he, it Seemcth unreasonable to send a prisoner and not withal signify tlic charges that are laid against him. Now, sir. that was a noble set.tlment. of one person imprisoned in Fort Warren, I Yet what that heathen in a heathen ag themselves and called cm him to stop. As he obeyed the summons, they demanded his list of passengers. When they saw the name of Gen. Tscherkassof, they cried out " This i.s the man we want." -Thev then opened the door and announced to the General, who was sitting within the carriage, that he was sentenced to die by me nanonai committee, ani immediately i one cf them fired his revolver at the Gen- j eral. The ba!? crashed through his head. They then dragged the lody from the coach, cut out the stomach, tore out the entrails threw them into the coach, and said to the conductor: "Take these to Prince Constantino, hut we will keep the Ixxly to show our chief tlsat we have faith tu'.y earned out their orders. I can ) jioor. on:y nail tr.at i.Tencral J sciiCi Ka-sot was nominated by the" Prince to serve on the court-martial on the men accused of the murder at .Chelm, and that he igned the sentence of death upon them. Such cvnents occur daily. On the other hand. the; general intendant of tho army, Gener- i al Sinelniskcff, who had 100,000 roubvls ' with him, was met bv the rebels, who fell ! upon him and sadly ill-used him They disarmed the General, requested him to deliver the money, and gave him a receipt signed by the National Committee. So far the rebels ; but more important is it for the extension of the revolt that all the landlords have declared to their peasants that thoy desire no rent from them, and that all the ground they hold is given to them for the future. The "country people now begin to waver, and at many places they already make common cause with the rebels. Altogether it is estimated that 200,000 rebels arc in the country. There has been fighting in the streets at Plock, and over night the Poles had taken pos session of the town. In the morning, however, the surprised troops took courage and seized a number of the revolters. Thkeir leader, an advocate named Zegrzda, shot himself. At Czcnstochau the rebels met an escort of Cossacks, who had ten even io iook upon ti;c citizenship ot a great Empire as some equivalent for the los of nationality, a new revolt, sup pressed with more bloodshed, and pun ched, with greater seventy than usual, must for years a'icniate them from the sovereign who only rppears to them as a foreign enslaver. Speech of 31 r. I'crsiilugr. Dt'rxred in Vie Ifotie of Jlfjire&HtittU'ef, January oVtfi lbG3, in furor of the Kititje oj' Resolutions ajavut Arbitrary A rrrgti?, ic.'iicu tee pullisJicd some time ojo. Mi:. Persuing. I must express my survri-e at the manner in which this reso lution is met bv senile gentlemen on this It is true that the Question does. as suggested by the gentlemen from Lan caster, assume to som: and ot another confined in Fort Lafay ette, the writ of hrtbccw cvrjuis was disi-e-earded bv the military authority, and the judkjary, being the feeblest department ot the government, and having no power to enforce its authority, was compelled to yield to the superior strength of the milita ry power. Sir, I would adc what is government thai tolerates these things worth to me what is the government worth to me, if I can be accused by somebody in secret some malicious fellow, who from some motive of personal animosity or revenge, may make accusations against me accu sations which may be true or false, possi bly false it I can thus be accused in se cret, and be arrested in the night, and imprisoned in a fortress somewhere, with out being allowed a hearing, civil or mili tary, or an opportunity to produce those witnesses by whom I might be able to establish my innocence. For, sir, it is a fact that not one man of all those who have been imprisoned under this system of arbitrary arrests, has ever yet had a trial of any kind not one. If ever a military trial were allowed, there I would be Sjorao aiicviatioii of the outrage. Not one of these men has ha I even a military trial. They are confined without a hear ing, and they ask ia tain what they have done. Gentlemen here say, " we do not know what this man ha done : we are ignorant of the w hole matter." Strange as it may seem, a citizen is dragged from the Slate, taken we know not where, and not a man under a despotic rovernment, was ashamed to do, Christian men under a Christian government ami free institutions axe doing every day. We are ab.-Klutely retrogra ding, instead of advancing, in reference to this question of individual riirhts- i Now, sir, with regard to this subject of" j illegal arrests, there arc, I know, gentle men on this floor whose judgment con demns those arrests, but who fel con strained by the spirit of puty to withhold their support from such a resolution its this. In this view, I am sorry that tha question has taken a party torn. I know that those gentlemen, having aided to bring the Administration into power, ca turally feci a desire that it shonld In suc cessful. Thai spirit is entirely commend able ; it is the luUural feeling of any niaa in such circumstances. Those gentlemen, therefore, whose judgment condemns thesa arbitrary arrests, feci constrained, by tho spirit of party, to interposo objection to resolution of this nature. I am ready to admit that the phraseology of the lesolu tion might bo improved, bat tlx? question is net as to ths phraseologv but the. subject matter. Arc genturmcn opos?d to tho phni gy and in luvor of the object contemplated by the rrsobuiors? or arc th1- opposed to the object itself! I am phi'', sir, to find that able and leading men t f the BcpuLIican party ar begifjiiir.g to condemn thec arbitrary ar- prisoner?, disarmed them and released the prisoners. ihe Cossacks stripped them and let them go. the sight of the old men, females, and children crying and despairing, presents at once a touching and f. most lugubrious soectacle. In the. midst of this scene the Grand Duke Constantine rolled in his carnage through the streets of the city, bestow in" his smiles upon these unfortunate be ings, as if to Intimate that his " will had been done," no matter at what cost of human suffering. What shocks us most in this barbarous conduct of the government is the official announcement in the Gazette that the men taken displayed the greatest will ingness to fill tho Bussian ranks, and that some even volunteered into the service without being liable to it. This is a piece of barefaced hypocrisy which noth ing ran justify. Yesterday and to-day the proscription was renewed in the broad daylight by the rx)liccinen and soldiers, who arrested every young man in the streets, and who ! re ain ail-powerful in th city, fiev- Frdm the London Times, Jan. SO. Everything that reaches us from Poland shows that the importance of the insur rection has not been exaggerated. That it may lc put down by overwhelming mil itarv force we do not pretend to den. But it will be not the loss the furious ri sing of a people maddened by oppression against a government which, besides being that of the stranger, has carried into our reflective and humane age the policy by which fifty years ago it was thought le gitimate to overawe and exhaust diseon- C tented prov inces. The facts, as given by telegraph, shows that this is no mere local disturbance, the offspring of some' ima gined grievance, or, as the Emperor would have it, the effect of revolutionary preach ing among the more hotheaded of the peo ple. Simultaneously, from one end of the country to the other, there has been a rising against IJussian authority, and the fighting has been such as to prove that the Hnsurgents, though they may despair ot extent a party n?iect. It is true that, out of the trans actions which have come to our knowl edge political capital may be made. I hoi p, fir tna political capital will be made out of them. But, if this should be the case, ujion whom rasts the responsi bility ? Whose fault is it that this ques tion assumes a partisan aspect ? Sir, it is the fault of the National Administra tion, by reason of the course which it has pursued. There is no man w ho can re gret more than I do that the Administra tion has seen proper, in repeated instances, to indulge in those arbitrary arrests; be cause, sir, the practice is fraught with very greal danger it is not warranted by the Constitution or laws it is calcu lated to bring the General Government into collision with the States. This is shown by the very fact that public feeling has become so much aroused on this sub ject that these arrests arc now made in the hours of the night. Why ? Either because the Government understand. that in acts of this character it is doing tha,t which is wrong a mortally wrong and legally wrong ; or else it tears to meet the people in their indignation when it thus arrests men without authority. Ln le.-s one or the other of these reasons in fluences the Administration in this matter, why select the night for this purpose? Now, sir, we have made it the boast of our government that it, more than any other government that ever existed, pro tects the individual rights of the citizen ; and it docs that in the manner indicated bv the learned gentleman from Lancaster, by a separation of the legislative, the exe cutive and the judicial departments, each being independent of the other, each ex cising its own functions in its appropriate sphere. But it must be understood (and this is laid down a a principle by ail our public writers, that of those three depart ments the judicial is -the feeblest. This results from a variety of reasons, the most important of which is the fact that there is no political power attached to that de-' part men t. Now, sir, had the agents of the govern ment pursued the course indicated by the gentleman from Lancaster, and taken Sir. Boileau before the courts if some person had gone, before the proper authority and made affidavit that Sir. Boileau had been guilty of some wrong, had perpetrated on tins floor can tell what offence is al leged ngainst him. Evtrv man asks, wiiat has he den;? ? of w hat crime he been piilty Nobody aole to an?.wcr. And this ignorance of the na ture of the offence or supposed offence, is urged upon this floor as a reason w hy these re?.'lutioiis ought not to iass. (en tlemen say that they cannot supjort the resolutions, because they do not know anything about the" matter. Why that is the strongest reason why the resolutions ought to pass just because we do not know of what tins man lias been guiUv, or with what he is charged just because rests- bull, such of Iiiinoi nun, lor instance, as Trum- whose Kepu bli ear.i ;m cannot be doubted. 1 1 ale, of New I Linip shirc, has ido raised his voice agahtst them : and John Shvnuxn, of QLio, ha recently made a n.-liie sieech in support has j of the rights i f the citizens. A gentleman beside me suggests ulso the ranw of Jui,p Curtis, whose legal attainment j are r.Z know'.edgii throughout the land Now, sir, I do nut intend to detain tho House by leading extracts, but I will call attention to the language used by Sir. Sh?in;a;i. a few weeks ago: "If theso cases," said he, " are not tried before tho proper tribunals, they will be tried be fore th-; jKX pIe, and to the damage of th Administration :hev will be tried some where." Yes, sir, you may deprive thes guaran tee vital question as to the liberty ot the i raen cf .c rvi:t ,. trijl by jury citizen rises far above the individual im- j tecj i,y ti,e Constitution i you may sbut portancc of Sir. Boileau just because a tiCm lIO ju your batiks, "without allow--.- .i i . : i i !. . . . citizen ot the rtate lias notoriously ueen dragged from his home and his business, and carried outside of the confines of the State, and nol dy knows for what. That is tha very reason why we should taae action on this matter. The gentleman from Incaslcr has said very animjpriatelr, that the different de- liartme-iits of this government ought to be j " Sir, this is a kept separate and distinct. I sav so too ; , rest thould be n but does the President keep them separate j loyal State, unless iharc is no remedy, and distinct? Does the President, in the i and an immediate arrest i deniandel by exercise of his power, "iay any re.-pect to j the public auf, ty." W hy, sir. Low the judicial authority I Docs he not ar- i mistake? have l?een committed in this rotate to himself both executive and judi- J matter known ar.d acknowledged mis cial function ? What is the need of a i takes known and acknowledge u i non judicial department, if any executive can j ces of wrongful arrest and imprisonment, thus encroach upon it at his mere plea- j Not long incc an cge.l commander of oar sure ? Why, sir, it is cmpeae hing the in- army was relieved frm the command c f teritv of toe judiciary of Pennsylvania, j his department at B;ltimerc, for the rca piiiinnn" the nconle of our State with ! son i'uat he had arrested a number of - - i i . . . . j ing tlicm to know pf vri U they are accn sou ; out ii lesc cases uui ec ineu some where they will be brought before the great tribunal of the people at the ballot box unless the ballot box should also be taken from us. Sir. Sherman goes .n to say ll think this is Lis very language. because I do not wish to misquote him) fearful power. .o ax- made of r.nv citizen in a dUlovaltv. when we are not permitted to try within our own borders "our own citi zens against w hom any cri.me may have been alleged. I las our judiciary elone anything to warrant this imputation upon them Will anybody undertake to say that the neop'.o e.t 1 eunsvlvania are a is- loval citizens men whose loj-ality was established beyond doubt and had sect them to Fort Delaware without trial. How l.ng I it since a respectable citizen of this town was arrestHl in just the same way and impri-oned without triil? How long are the-.-c things tf continue, loval ! Will that charge be made by any j and how are we to obtain a remedy ? A representative on this floor? Yet is it not virtually made bv the course of the ad ministration ? Is not disloyalty charged j defianev. resort to the courts is denied us. 1 ill interposition of judical authority is Kt at upon the whole State, anel are not the ju dicial triburuds impeached as derelict to their eluty, when our citizens are dragged away an 1 not permitted to have a public trial, as provided by law 1 It appears to me that our rulers, in reference to this matter, are struck with iudicial blindnesk Thev are doing that victory, are determined on revenge. The guilty of some wrong, fca-l perpctratea j juoiciai w.naness, i ncy o.0 , apaiches, wWch H must be rrb.1 ' Jam wr pinst h Stt or th- Crcn- j which is ra!cn!tr4 nxike lb, nrtb a nr-ram. In ce.nreeii'jn with tins subject, I may sav a word in reference to the suspension of the writ of Itfthcas eorjws. I know that the lVesi-icnt has issued Ids proebv-ma'-iem by which he r.ssumcs to suspend the privileges of that writ. But I take it th:U the writ of ar? rfya wr.s in tended to n Viv the citicn from illegal T5 w, tit
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