Show r tho efficiency of I mul aill tary tary arrette arrests especially hen conducted ion ducted on tho the swear and let lct em ein go pj is especially demonstrated in the case of C lt II lV aveller eller after his hi s rele release aft individual wal waa sure bure faded by a copperhead club and he ruapon fed ded as follows follow fellow democrate Demo crata 1 I am glad to meet you here tonight the compliment you have paid rne me rests on other and holier moti motives vez than respect for or me you thereby manifest your devotion to the principles or af liberty and e equal q hial rights cheers Yati before you tonight to night a free american citizen lust rv released leased however from a dungeon n t to abich lie he ged by military tyranny and injustice you have in your midst a power erected which i is 3 subverting all your rights the blow which struck me struck also each of you and with you it remains whether that power shall continue A k vol voice ee we ve will put plit it dow down in ninety days you have seen tile the sacred of i citizen creatures of that tyranny disguised in the 6 dresa ess of gentlemen they tore me from my family for no ottense but making a speech upon the principles of democracy they had no warrant or authority they put me into a small unsafe row bout boat and we floated about on this bay in a san francisco fog cold and wet all night vainly seeking to find that island where on stands the horrid bastile of alcatraz there lie he was shut up and had bad been for some hours deprived of food but his stomach was now full and ana when it was properly digested lie ho would pour out a flood of wrath upon general mcdowell there were some wrongs which the h heart eart would treasure up and lie he should treasure tit this is outrage 6 against his libert liberty yand and his family till the hour came which is coming gon mcdowell should account to him firall he has done lie he said that his arrest would stand forever as one of the most st startling artlin proofs of the infamy of this ad ministration administration he said also that ho he had not by his oath or his bonds compromised any right belonging to a freeman lie he could and would still preach the glorious principles of the democracy INbe whenever nover and wherever called upon cheers tonight to night my house is free from froin the invasion I 1 am not iu in that horrid prison lie he believed gen Dowells Mc intention at first was to keep him in prison till after the presidential election but said he be you made your indignation manifest and he dare not keep cp me longer 22 comment is unnecessary sacramento 0 see bee august |