[CHAP. XXVIII.

Question. What, in your opinion, has been the effect of that policy everywhere wherever it has been faithfully executed, and what the effect of a policy which denied that the people had any rights, which deprived them of their liberties without some positive and individual offense against the authority of the Government and impoverished them?

In my opinion the policy announced in that order is the true policy of the Government, and of course I think its effects must be good everywhere wherever it is carried out. The policy of depriving people of their rights and impoverishing them, depriving them of their liberties, arresting them without having committed positive offenses, I consider tyrannical and a bad policy, and that its effect must be bad among such a people as ours.

Commission adjourned to meet March 3.

CINCINNATI, Tuesday, March 3, 1863.

The Commission met pursuant to adjournment. All the members present; also the judge-advocate and General Buell.

Examination of General CRITTENDEN continued.

By General BUELL:

Question. Have you any recollection of the visit which I paid to the camp of your division and other divisions near Pelham in the month of August last?

I remember your being at Pelham, and my division, General McCook's division, and General Schoepf's division were there; in the latter part of August I think it was.

Question. Did you, subsequent to that visit or about that time, hear any comments upon any particular incident connected with that visit? If so, please state what you heard and all you know about it, and particularly an incident connected with my visit to the division of which Brigadier-General Schoepf was at that time in command.

I remember being at General Schoepf's headquarters the day after General Buell's arrival at Pelham, which I think took place at night, if I remember correctly, and to have heard as I rode to General Schoepf's headquarters that he had been arrested.

The JUDGE-ADVOCATE. Mr. President, before this question goes any further I think it would be proper for General Buell to state what he expects to prove by this line of examination that he is now entering upon.

General BUELL. I should like to inquire, Mr. President, by what right or upon what ground the judge-advocate requires me to explain the object of the evidence I introduce here any more than he should be required to explain the object of any question he may think proper to put. The explanation which he proposes I should be required to make might defeat the very object of the evidence itself. I can imagine no good reason for his objection.

The JUDGE-ADVOCATE. If I were to ask any question the answer to which traveled apparently outside of the issue or beyond the line of investigation called for by the Government and incumbent upon us to follow it would be proper for General Buell to ask me what I expected to prove by it. A great deal of time would be necessarily lost if we permitted the introduction of subjects, however interesting they might be, outside of what we are called upon to investigate. I cannot see myself the object of the question nor what the evidence has to do with the investigation under consideration.

General BUELL. I do not know that it is necessary that the judge advocate should see what the tendency of this evidence may be. I think