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Congressional War Measures
A bill has passed both houses, providing for the punishment of crimes against the United States. It visits with imprisonment and fines any one who enlists persons, white or black, to aid the rebellion, as well as those enlisted.
Another bill debars the owner of a slave who employs him in similar service, for any claim for his recovery, thus freeing the slave from his disloyal master.
Through the efforts of Gen. Sickles, an important provision has been adopted. All volunteers accepted by the President and mustered into service for one, two, or three years, or during the war, are to be paid from that time without waiting until they reach the rendezvous.
The increased pay of $4 per month to volunteers involves an additional yearly expenditure from the treasury of about $20,000,000. This has been embodied in the form of law.
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Venomous Treason
“Our report elsewhere shows that there was a meeting at Bloomfield, on Monday evening of men who ought to be in camp at Manassas, blacking the boots of traitor officers, bringing water to the negroes at work on entrenchments, or the keener-scented among them, detailed to catch runaways. It would be more manly for these Eatonians to walk straight down to Manassas and put their necks under the yoke. They are alien to the soil of Connecticut. There are no hot jungles here whose steaming and pestilent air nourishes such creatures. They are false to their allegiance, to the state and the nation. They are false to every page of Connecticut history. As for liberty, they know nothing of it.
Their cowardice is not their least prominent characteristic. They carefully keep themselves just an inch beyond the reach of law. They dare not put into action the infamous sentiments that they express. They have studied law enough to know that the gibbet and the halter must wait till they commit the “over act.” They are safer from the rebels, for they are not in arms. They are safer than union men in the slave states, for we do not mob people here. Tar and feathers and scourges are the weapons that such men as Eaton and Miller use as they get where Lynch law reigns. In a community where such fellows rule, no union man lives in peace. Here we only warn them to confine themselves to vaporous words, for the gallows will grow quickly when they get caught in the actual deed.”
Citation: Hartford Evening Press. Hartford, 6 August 1861. Gift of Steven and Susan Raab. AN. H328