Burnside's infamous order.
--Annexed we give the infamous and bloody order recently issued by Gen. Burnside, the Federal commander in the West. Vallandigham was arrested under it:Headq'rs Department of Ohio,
Cincinnati, April 13, 1863.
The commanding General publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country, will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.
This order includes the following class of persons:
Carriers of secret mails.
Secret recruiting officers within the lines.
Persons who have entered into an agreement to pass our lines for the purpose of joining the rebels.
Persons found concealed within our lines belonging to the service of the enemy, and in fact all persons found improperly within our lines who would give private information to the enemy.
All persons within our lines who harbor, protect, conceal, feed, clothe, or in any way aid the enemies of our country.
The habit of declaring sympathy for the enemy will no longer be tolerated in this department.
Persons committing such offences will at once be arrested, with a view of being tried as above stated, or sent beyond our lines into the lines of their friends.
It must be distinctly understood that treason expressed or implied will not be tolerated in this department.
All officers and soldiers are strictly charged with the execution of the order. By command of
(Official,) Maj. Gen. Burnside.
(Official,) Maj. Gen. Burnside.
Brig. Gen. Hassell, of the district of Indiana, has also issued an order in which he informs his subjects that he intends rigidly to force the above order of Burnside. The following extract is sufficient. The latter sentence will attract the reader's attention. All newspapers and speakers that counsel or encourage resistance to the conscription act, or any other law of Congress passed as a war measure, or that endeavor to bring the war policy of the Government into disrepute, will be considered as having violated the order above alluded to, and treated accordingly.--The country will have to be saved or lost during the time that this Administration remains in power, and therefore he who is factiously and actively opposed to the war policy of the Administration is as much opposed to his Government.
