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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
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