The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-17 00:00:00

MERCY FOR MURDERERS !

The Fenian campaign of 1870 may now be said to be
over. It has been a short and, to the invaders, a most
inglorious one. We are not, however, in the ridicule with
which our enemies have managed to surround themselves,
to forget the atrocity and rnmitigated wickedness of the
whole proceeding. For years these men have been la-
bouring, with a zeal worthy of a better cause, to organise
an armed expedition against a peaceful people who are
not even charged with having done any of them wrong .
or with having, in any way, given a colourable excuse for
such murderous and predatory designs—except in being
connected with the British Empire and owning the autho-
rity of the British Queen. Had their programme been
carried out according to their wishes, blood would have
flowed in torrents, peaceful, .prosperous homes would have,
been laid desolate, and many of Canada's daughters would
have been insulted and outraged. If things are moving
on to-day as quietly as before, no thanks to them.
They have done their best or their worst to make the state
of affairs very different. There is not one extenuating
circumstance in their whole conduct which can by any
means be discovered. A few of the cut-throats have
fallen into our hands, and they have scarcely had time to
learn the character of their prison accommodation before
we have homilies on mercy read to us by. the Americay.
press. Nay, we actually hear of efforts 'being made b3.l'
influential Fenians (save the mark !) to enlist the Prot
dent of the United States in their favour ; and the talk
goes that already the Secretary of State is in communica-
tion with the British Minister on the subject. The force
of impudence could no farther go. There is not a felon 11_
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any of our gaols but has a better plea for being dq,ll
gently with than they have. No doubt it would be quite
in keeping with the late miserable conduct of Minister
Thornton to have the whole affair gravely discussed, and?
strong appeal made to the Imperial authorities to use their
good offices with Canada ;—but it is to be hoped
things will not come to that pass. These men
are prisoners, charged for the second time with
lugh crimes and misdemeanours ; and we have in Canada,
tribunals perfectly competent to deal with them. To
these tribunals let them go. What may be their decisions
we seek neither to anticipate nor in any way to influence.,
Let the ruffians have justice, fair, full, and complete; and
let every outside influence, seeking to sway that, be repu-
diated with indignation. Leniency was carried to a NTry
undue extent in 1866. The liberty of men like priest
M`Mahon was sought and obtained on the plea that they
had no connection with Fenianism ; but the conduct of
that priest in this second raid, is the best commentary on
the true position and the solemn asseverations of him and
his associates. There must be an end put, once and for
all, to the idea so prevalent among even those who should
know better, that a Fenian incursion into Canada for the
purposes of plunder and bloodshed, is no more than a ples,;
sant summer jaunt; and that, after it is over, the "boys
have merely to be patted on the shoulder and told to g°
home quietly. People must be taught that such proceed-
ings are crimes of the deepest dye, and that it is intolerable
impudence to seek to excuse or justify them under the plea
that they are mere political offences. A horse thief
or an area sneak, a burglar or a brigand, may have each.
some peculiar argument to palliate his war against society,
but the force of his argument has not generally been aP
preciated ; and he who urges it has not passed into the
ranks of the innocent or the heroic, except in the pages
of a novel or within the circle of his own predatory assc"
mates. There are times when mercy is the very reversg
of mercy, and when lenity is only regarded as prompted
by timidity and a sense of weakness. We, as a nation,
are the very reverse of terrified, and have no need to Press
for undue harshness in the punishment of the Oil
But, if any criminals ever deserved to be left to e
simple, unbiassed course of the ordinary administration.
of justice, these marauding Fenian are such persons
and if there ever was a body of men who shut themselves
out totally from giving their neighbours advice as to the
,
extension of clemency to convicts, it is the conductor? °I
the New York Tribune, and that portion of the America/
Press who encouraged the Fenians in their work, WI
shed mawkishly sentimental tears over the failure
their attack, and now have the unparalleled audacity t°
read us homilies on mercy and forgiveness.—Toronto
Globe.

The Baltimore American states that Jerome Bolt'
parte has for some months been confined to his house -""
that city by cancer in the throat, but that for a few days
past he has been much better than he had been for some
time previous.
The Enterprise says six Fenian recruits from
Canada, who were ordered to report there, arrived in 001
a few days, disguised as labouring men. Their destine'
tion was the Red River country. They were powerfully
built fellows, and looked as though they might co
some service, either in the Red River expedition or in
the battle of pork and beans. They did not prolong that.
stay.

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BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst., Mrs. Reginald Freke Willams, of a (laugh-

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On the 13th inst., at 30, Gunter-grove, Brompion, Mrs. •• T• J.
Chapman, of a daughter.

.MARRIAGEB.
On the 14th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. Henry Keeb
New Cross, to Clara Jane Tone-, the eldest daughter °,.
James Tong, Esq., of Bank House, Harriestham, Ilea"

Maidstone. . _
On the 14th inst., at St. Dnnstan's, Cheam, Thos. Turnef!
of Lime-stree
the fourth son of the late John Pickering,
square and New-cross, to Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter
of Charles S. Hogg, of The Elms, North Cheam.

DEATHS
On the 12th inst., at 90, Westhourne-terrace' Major-General
Sir Archibald Bogle, Kt, H.M.'s Indian Army.
On the tsth inst., at 5, Tothill street, Westminster, James
Bower, aged 88.

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Middleesx.—Friday, June 17, 1870.