Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-09
THE JEFF DArIs MEETING IN N. Y.

THE JEFF DATES MEETING INN '
Robert Brown, who attended the recent
meeting of sympathizers with JEFF Davis
in New York, has sworn to o detailed
statement of the things said and done
there. The previous account of the meet
ing is more than confirmed. Nearly all
present avowed themselves to be disunion-
lists. Mr.. Brown says:-
"Mr. Cutler declared the Declaration Of
independence to be the Magma Charta of
humaa liberty, and quoted it to prove
that the southern states had the right to
secede.
"Another person. one of the New York
ers, remarked that the state Of New York
refused to enter the federal Union except
the right was assured to her to withdraw
if che thought proper. The proceedings
and debates Of the convention were refer
red to in confirmation of this statement.
Another of the New Workers declared
that even in Massachusetts, every officer
taking the oath of Office, swore that he
owed allegiance to the state paramount to
every other obligation of fealty. Mr..
Robert NJ. Livingstone, of Mobile, Ala
bama. remarked how few people had ever
read the constitutions of the different
states. He had read them, and found in
several of the constitutions of free states
the expressed right to secede. A running
conversation followed this statement in
which it was said that the effect of trial
of Davis would be a revolution Of senti-
ment everywhere, in the South. 1t would
be proved on the trial that the secession
cause was right, and entitled to the SYM
pathies of the world.
Zone Of the company, Mr.. Cutler, if I
remember rightly, quoted a passage from
Burke, to show that a state cannot be
guilty of treason. Mr.. Livingstone, now
wrought up to a high pitch of enthusiasm
made the declaration /; In twenty-years
the man that now accuses the South of
having committed treason, will be looked
upon as a madman and a fool He re-
pcated this declaration, saying that in fifty
years the revolution in popular sonti-
ment would be so great that such a maj
would be looked upon as a mailman or a
fool.
"Oue Of the New Workers denounced
the execution of Mrs. Suratt as a cold, de-
liberate murder. Another declared that
she was convicted upon forged testimony.
A third (Martine) asserted that the court
by which she was tried had no legal ju.
risdiction, and that the execution was a
deliberate murder. Mr.. Livingstone said
that he had conversed with a number of
Englishmen in regard to this brutal muir
der They told him that it would send a
thrill Of horror throughout Europe, and
the howl Of indignation that will be sent
back would SO cover and terrify the Amer
lean government, hat it will be afraid to
bring Mr.. Davis to trial. He believed
that the intention was TO keep him lin
gering in prison till he died. without
bringing him to trial. The friends Of
Mr.. Davis must keep such an agitation Of
the matter stirring, that the government
would be forced to put him on trial with
out further delay.
"Mr. Cutler said that he had been of
opinion that the government would bring
Davis to trial before the district court Of
Columbia. But it had been ascertaiued
that a democrat Judge Wylie) had been
appointed INT Of the judges and hence
the government would not dare let him
be tried there. 1t was probable that Mr..
Chase would hold the court"