The Daily Phoenix

Who Were With Us?
The Freeman's Journal, (New York,) noticing a remark of a Southern paper respecting the few Northern journals that remained faithful to the principles of the Constitution during the terrors of the war, gives us the following reminiscence:
In 1861, of the papers named, those that were not applauding "our gallant volunteers" in the war for putting negroes in control of the South, were the Freeman's Journal and News, the Day Book, and the Courier des Etats Unis. The French paper, following the example of the Journal of Commerce, subsided; when Lincoln, Seward and Blair made war on the liberty of the press. It changed editors and tone. The Freeman's Journal and News, and the Day Book, remained suppressed.
The editor of the Freeman's Journal made his arrangements for the worst, and commenced the issue of a smaller sheet—the Freeman's Appeal which he thought he had secured the means of issuing and distributing, even if he were, as he had warning he would be, arrested, if he persevered. Despite the perjury of Mr. Montgomery Blair, in forbidding this "mailable matter" going through the mails; and despite the recreancy of the express companies that refused to carry our paper because Seward forbade them: within two weeks, heavy bundles of the Freeman's Appeal were carried by the express companies. Noble-hearted women were plenty, and in those days calico was cheap. Wrapped in cheap calico, and addressed to female names, the express companies did their work for the Freeman without meaning it! But after the third issue, the editor was seized and carried to Fort Lafayette, by order of Seward's "little bell."