Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-03

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The ST. Albans ,Raiders-A War;
| rant for their! iRe-arrcstA X bel
| symPnthixers In Canada Hndig-
| nant.
| TORONTO, CANADA, April IA dispatch
| from Montreal says the money voted by
| Parliament has been paid the st. Albans
| banks. #.l =. ...,...n lsi is
The Leaderthis morning has information,
which Is claimed as authentic, that a war
| rant is to be issued in st. Catharines charg-
ing the st. Albans raiders with breach Of
the neutrality act, when they will be
brought to st. Catharipes. This charge
will be then dropped and the prisoners will
be brought before the Toronto Judges on a
demand for eextradition on the expectation
that they will reverse the decision lately
given by Judge Smith, of Montreal. z u
MONTREAL, April l.-Southern rebels and
rebel sympathizers are having alively time
here to-day. Their leading organ has is
sued the following extra, and they are cir
culating it throughout the city: is.
INFAMOUS CONSPIRACY or THEPRovINCIAL
EXECUTIVE FOR THE EXTRADmIoN OF THE
ST. ALBANS RAIDERS.
Through one of those extraordinary in-
terventions by which persons frequently
defeat or reveal great crimes, we have been
placed in possession of incontrovertible
evidence of the intention of the Provincial
Executive to commit an infamy unknown
to modern times, and of the means by
which it is hoped to accomplish it. Aston
ishing and almost incredible as is the state
ment we are about to make, we not only
pledge ourselves to it, but we challenge the
Executive to deny it. 1t will be relnem-
bered that the charge against the st. Al
bans raiders, disposed of by Judge Smith,
was only one Of several, but the Judgment
of the court declaring the accused to be law
full belligerents engaged in all act of war
not cognizable by the tribunals of neutral
State, virtually disposes of all the charges
which arose out of the st. Albaus raid, and
were Incidents of it. The accused were re-
manded until to-day for the purpose of the
prosecution proceeding with or abandoning
other charges, among which is one of mur-
der. They were also arrested on warrant
charging them with n breach Of neutrality,
and upon this they were formally remanded
for examination until Monday next. The
Government are probably aware there is
little prospect of obtaininga conviction on
this accusation, as Judge Smith remarked
in his Judgment there is no evidence of q
breach of neutrality having been commit
ted. Having failed to obtain extradition
of the accused by legal means before an i'm
partial tribunal, they have determined to at
tempt it bya conspiracy which the designa-
ton "infamous" is too mild to qualify.
| Last evening Mr.. Cortier dispatched Mr..
Schiller from this city for Toronto with
| instructions to there obtain the assistance
of Mr.. Harrison, the barrister, and 30 pro-
ceed with him to st. Catharines, and there
nh at htrO ONty ms an af oil nvl, n
warrant from some local magistrate for the
arrest of the st. Albans raiders now con
| fined here on charge of breach of neu-
tralitY, and to return this warrant to
Montreal as rapidly as possible. In OBJ
tanning this warrant we presume Mr..
Schiller will make any little atlidavitneces-
sary. The warrant is to include the name
of Mr.. G. G.. Clay, although it is notorious
that he left the province some weeks ago.
| When the case of the St. Albans raiders
comes up this morning, it has been arranged
| that the prosecution will decline to proceed
| in the other charges, so that the prisoners
may be remanded without bail or the bene-
| fit of hdbedS corpus until Wednesday next.
| BY that time it is expected the st. Catha-
rines warrant will have arrived. The
| charge for breach OF neutrality here
will be withdrawn and the accused
thority will be secretly removed to- St.
| Catharnies. The charge of breach of neu-
| trality there will fail. There is no evidence,
and there will be no effort made to procure
any; neither do the instructions to Mr..
| Schiller or Mr.. Harrison as much as hint at
| evidence or witnesses. But the moment
the accused are discharged they will be re-
arrested on demand for eXtradition, on
| the charge now pending and abandoned
against them here, and they will be carried
for examination and committed before the
Toronto Judges, who eXtradited Burley,
and who are considered to be so far COM
mitted by their ruling in that case and by
their expressed opinion in this. that they
will obey with alacrity the orders of the
| government. The St. Catharines warrant
is in fact the cunning contrivance by which
the adjudication of the remainder of the
charges against the raiders is to be trans
| ferred from pure to a corrupt tribunal,
and from judge who refused to be tool
of foreign enemy, at the dictation of the
Executive, to judges willing to pollute the
| judicial ermine by such subservience, and
to prostitute their office, by viher conduct
than has been Witnessed on the British
bench since the days of Jeffrys.
| Whether the timely discovery and eX-
posure of this most Infamous plot will pre-
vent its being carried out in its entirety, we
know not; but such is the conspiracy that
| the Executive of Canada is now engaged in,
and such is the means they are taking to
effect the cowardly and cruel end they have
in view-the murder of these unfortunate
young men, declared free of all guilt by the
tribunals here, before which they have had
so long, so patient and so thorough eXami-
nation. Such an outrage upon Justice, such
/ a mir nf ~ l.
ness, such trampling in the mire OF the
honor and good name of the country, can be
attributed to nothing short of madness,
which requires and should receive restraint.
! 1t is the duty of the people of this city to
/ prevent its preparation, If possible, or ii
that fails it will be their duty to punish it,.
If they fail in these regards, the innocent
blood which their rulers are plotting to
shed, will be on their heads and on those of
their children forever-a triple curse of
Cain.