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er is proposed, whatever is advocated that does not meet the views of the war newspapers, is treason. There are exceptions, it is true. It depends very much on who says the thing.--Thus, for a republican editor to propose to "supersede the President," is not treason.--For a man of the same sort to say that Gen. Scott is too old and too slow, and that we want John C. Fremont, or some such man in his place, and that we want the Pennsylvanians to march on Harper's Ferry, without waiting for Washington orders — this is not objectionable. For an out and out abolition shoot to print daily in its head-line that "the Constitution of the United States is a covenant with hell," is not treason. For the republican papers to argue that in war times the letter of the Constitution is to be disregarded, and the President of the United States ought to assume and exercise the powers of a dictator, is not treason. We might extend the Illustrations, but these are sufficient. Instead of the forme