Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-04


utive 20 Deliver mp the st, AIhREs
Rafders 20 the united states.
TIL following telegram from Montreal
was recived'On Saturday evening, but wss
crowded out by the pressure of later and
more important tslegrsphic matter. Ii
gives an entire article from the leading Sc
cesh organ of Montreal, charging that the
Canadian executive is making an arrange
ment to take the st. Albsns raiders before
8 Toronto court, where they can obtain 8
hearing before judges less bitterly partizsn
in their hatred of the United States. Of
course the sscessionists in Canada are ter
ribly indignant st this step. We want no
other proof its rightfulness than this very
fact.
MONTREAL, April 1.
Southern refugees and their sympathizers
are having lively time here to-day. Their
leading organ has issued the following ex-
ira, and they are circulating it throughout
the city:
INFAMOUS CONSPIRACY OF THE PROVINCIAL
EXECUTIVE FOR THE ExTRADtTtoN OF THE ST.
ALBAEs' RAIDERs.-By one of those extraor-
dinary interventions by which persons fire.
quently defeat or reveal great crimes, we
have been placed in possession of incontro-
Vertble evidence of the intention of the
Provincial Executive 10 commit an infamy
unknown 10 modern times, and Of themsans
by which It is hoped 10 accomplish it. As
tonishing and almost incredible as is the
statement we are about to make, we not on
ly pledge ourselves to it, but challenge the
Executive to deny it.
It will be remembered that the charge
against the st. Albans raiders, disposed Of
by Judge Smith, was only one of several,
but the Judgment of the court, declaring the
accused to be lawful belligerents engaged
in an act of war not cognizable By the tri-
bunals of neutral state, virtual disposes
Of all the charges which arise out ol the St.
Adams raids.
The accused were remsnded until to-day
for the purpose of the prosecution proceed
ing with, or abandoning the other charges,
among which is one ofmurder. They were
also arrested on warrant charging them
with breach of neutrality, and on this
they were formally remanded for examina-
tion until Wednesday next. The govern
ment are probably aware that there is lit |
tie prospect of Obtaining a conviction on |
thls accusation, for, as Judge Smith re-
marked in his Judgment, there is no evil |
dence of a breach of neutrality having been |
committed. Having failed to obtain the |
extradition Of the accused by legal means
before an impartial tribunal, they have de- |
termined to attempt it by conspiracy |
which the designation Infamous "is too |
mild to qualify.
Laste7ening Mr.. Cartier dispatched Mr..
Schiller from this city for Toronto, with /
tOa nhf -, e
Mr.. Harrison, the barrister, and to proceed |
with him TO st. GATHERINGS and there obtain,
by any means and at all hazards, warrant |
from some local magistrate for the arrest of
the st. Adams raiders, now confined here
on charge Of violation of neutrality, and |
10 return This warrant TO Montreal as rapid
ly as possible.
In obtaining this warrant, we presume
Mr.. Schiller will make any little affidavit
necessary. The warrant is to include the
name OF Z. Z. Clay, although it is q notcri-
Gus TACT that he left the province some
weeks ago, When the case of the st. Al
bans raiders comes up this morning, it
has been arranged that the prosecution will
decline to proceed on the other charges, so
hat the prisoners may be remanded with
nut bail or the benefit of Habeas Corpus uu-
IL Wednesday next. By that time it
8 expected the st. GATHERINGS warrant will
lave arrived. The charge for breach of neu-
rallty here Will be withdrawn, and the
lccused, arrested under the substituted au-
hority1 will be secretly removed TO st. Cath
rlnes. The charge Of breach of neutral
" there will fail. There is no evidence,
md there will be no effort made to procure
my. Neither do the instructions of Mr..
schiller or Mr.. Harrison as much as hint at
,vldence or witnesses. But the moment
hot nen aaA. - I
'e re-arrested on a demand for extradition
N the charge now pending, and abandoned
gslnst them here, and they will be carried
or examination and cOmmittsI before the
'oronto judges who extradited Burley, and
Tho are considered to be 80 far committed
y their ruling in this that they will obey
nth alacrity the orders of the Government.
The st. Catharines warrant is, in fact, the
unnIng contriYsnce by which the adiudi-
atlon of the remainder of the charges
gdInst the raiders is to be transferred from
pure TO corrupt tribunal, and from a
Udge who refused to be the tool of foreign
nemy at the dictatioa Of the executive, 10
Judges willing TO pOllute the judicial ermine
y such subseryience, and to prostitute their
fice by vilPr conduct than has been wit
lessed on the British bench since the days
f Jeffreys. Whether the timely discovery
nd exposure of this most infamous and
amnable plot will preventits being carried
ut IA its entirety, We know not, but such is
he conspiracy that the Executive of Cana
g is now engaged in, and such the means
hey are taking to effect the cowardly and
ruel end they have in view.
The murder Of these unfortunate young
1en, declared free ofall guilt by the tribu-
SJs here, before which they have had so
ong, SO patient, and so thorough an exam
nation, and such an outrage upon justice,
ueh piece of superlstive and reckless
such a trsmpling in the mire
f the honor and good name of the country,
an be attributed to nothing short of mad
less, which requires and should receive re-
traint. It is the duty of the people of this
ity TO prevent its preparation, if possible,
t any cost, or, if that fails, it will be their
Iuty TO punish il, If they fail in these re-
ards, the innocent blood, which their
ulers are plotting to shed, will DO on their
leads and on those Of their children for
ver-s triple curse Of Cain.