Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-22

81 feel that not one drop of the blood
shed in this war is on my hands; l can
look up to my God and say this"
So said JEFF. Davis to Col. Jacques in the
conversation already published.
1t ia difficult to reconcile such declara.
ton made by man who, like Stonewall
Jackson, has always been reported to be
almost religious recluse, with even fair
degree of moral consciousness. Jefferson
Davis not responsible for a drop of the
blood that has been shed in this war?
Pray who is respousible2 If we remem-
Der right it was one of the declarations of
old John Brown, after his capture at Hsr-
pers's Ferry, that he was not responsible
for the blood shed in his capture. And he
too, boosted very stringent religious faith,
and did actually enjoy a religious reputa-
ton among his peighbors. Still no body,
except persous of the same ilk, hesitated
to believe John Brown guilty of blood
He may have persuaded himself that he
was not responsible and probably by the
same ratiocination that Jefferson Davis hae
employed. If John Brown had been let
alone-as the rebels wish to be-and had
been allowed to over-run Virginia and free
all the slaves and carry out all his aims,
and no body had resisted him, doubtless
no blood would have been shed. But he
was resisted-eVen by bayonets-and blood
was shed in the resistance-and John
Brown stands responsible to all the world
for that blood. And 30 does, and 80 will,
Jefferson Davis, for the blood shed in this
rebellion. If he and his coufederated rebels
had been allowed to dissolve the Union
and capture all the forts, dock yards, ar
senals, public buildings, &C., without resist
anoe, no blood would have been shed. And
30 if the Duke of Monmouth had been allow
ed peaceably to usurp the English throne,
no blood would have been shed. And 30
with all usurpers and rebels the world
over. And so, we might say, with every
robber who stops a traveller on the high
way and demands his money or his life.-
A rebel is a malefactor under the laws oil
all nations, and ia denounced as such
under the severest penalties; and, further
more, is held directly and personally re-
sponsible for all the blood shed in his sup.
preston. England holds all persons who
have guilty knowledge of tres-
son as capital offenders, and, as such, re-
sponsibIe for the shedding of blood. JEFF.
Davis for years was guilty of misprision
of treason. His captured correspondence
showed that secret interchange of opin.
ion had been going on between him and
the conspicuous precipitators of the rebel
lion for long time, and it also failed to
show any single word of his against seces-
sion. The President of the rebellion is
too able a man, too we'll read in history
and political ethics, to have ever expected
that public opinion, outside of his coad-
TUTORS, would hold him guiltless of the
blood shed in an attempt to break up the
Union of these States. Already has he
threatened North Carolina with the shed.
ding of her blood if she attempts to inter-
pose herself between Virginia and South
Carolina, as even neutral territory. He
has warned her Governor that such thing
will in no event be permitted. Who would
be responsible for the shedding of blood
in that event2 The man stands self stuI-
tilted and self-convicted by the mere state
ment of his position.