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Muzzling the press.
The Northern journals entertain their readers with periodical essays upon the peculiar characteristics of free speech and a free press which distinguish American civilization, and are sorely exercised over the restriction imposed upon the press of France.
We venture to say that a more complete despotism was never exerted over the minds, tongues and pens of men than has prevailed from the beginning of this war in most of the Northern cities.--Some men have been shot down in the streets for expressing opinions in favor of Secession.
If a Northern man ventures to say, as thousands of them, Fillmore among the number, said, before the war, "If I were a Southerner, as I am a Northerner, I would never be ruled over by a sectional despotism," it is denounced as high treason.
How long will it be before a people who are thus intimidated from giving utterance to their thoughts, will cease to think at all, and become the ready slaves of any aspiring military genius who