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To: Non-Sequitur
Was anyone actually arrested?

Not that I could find. Apparently excluding the National Zeitung from the mails had the effect of shutting the paper down so the editors weren't arrested. It ceased publication shortly after being excluded from the mails.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, September 14, 1861.

Honorable WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.

SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your notes of the 12th and 14th instant and to inform you that on the day of the receipt of your first note an order was made excluding the National Zeitung from the mails and the postmaster of New York instructed to execute the order. The circulation through the mails of the Staats Zeitung has not been prohibited.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN A. KASSSON,
Acting Postmaster-General

I take it that this is the sort of thing you are looking for:

WASHINGTON, September 2, 1861.

ROBERT MURRAY, U. S. Marshal:

Arrest the editor of the Greenport Republican Watchman and send him to Fort Lafayette and deliver him into the custody of Colonel Martin Burke. If he has left home for Syracuse arrest him anywhere on the road where he can be found.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

72 posted on 11/28/2005 8:35:06 AM PST by rustbucket
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To: rustbucket
I take it that this is the sort of thing you are looking for..

Depends. Arrest him for what? Mere criticizm of the government should not be grounds for arrest and it wasn't, regardless of what you all would have us believe. And that is what you are all implying, that Lincoln shut down papers that disagreed with him. And there is little evidence to support such claims. But treason, sedition, printing military secrets, and financial fraud are all different matters, and areas where the publication of a newspaper may be suspended. Even you should be able to see that.

86 posted on 11/28/2005 2:34:30 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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