The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Tribulations of the Yankee Press.

‘ Of the condition of affairs in regard to the army of the Potomac, even if it were known to us, it would be manifestly impolitic to speak. President Lincoln has admonished us, in his little way-side speech at Jersey City, that ‘--Secretary Stanton holds a tight rein over the Press,"’ and we have had, still more recently, a local illustration of the same important fact in the arrest and imprisonment of the editor and proprietor of the Baltimore American, who has been wounded in the house of his friends for having ‘"done that which he ought to have done."’ in what particular this, the humblest servant of the Government, hag offended, we are not informed; but we are quite sure that the error which led to his introduction to the Provost Marshal is not to be found in the telegram to the New York Press announcing that ‘"we have the grandest military triumph over the enemy, and Richmond must fall."’ That most jubilant declaration certainly could not have given ‘"aid and comfort"’ to the enemy. To be sent for by special train on Sunday to communicate with the President," and on Monday to be summarily hauled off to Fort McHenry, presents so sharp a contrast as may well afford our sorely afflicted contemporary an abundant supply of that sort of mixed nutriment which is to be found in ‘"chewing the cud of sweet and bitter fancies."’

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