The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-06-22
|. ooMpLIclrY IN rHE AssAssr.


OF ALL CoMPLICITY IN THE AssAssI.
NATION.
The charge Of complctyin the assassi.
nation, made against Mr.. 1avis, was re.
ceived In Europe with ndredulity and
horror. We give some extracts upon
this point
Translated from the Paris Pays.]
1t we may credit a despatch received
from London, Mr.. johnson has frankly
admitted that he committed an error in
accusing Mr.. Davis of COM Plicity in the
terrible crime ofthe l4th ofApril. mol
Jefferson Davis, a man who was once a
United States senator and Cabinet min.
lister, and who, before the war enioyed
the esteem OF his fellow citizens in the
North, and subsequently that of the
Southerners, in connection with Stone.
wall jackson, Lee and Johnston, cannot
be an assassin. His former life con.
tounds such an accusation, and the law
of nations will not allow hun to be treat.
ed otherwise than as a vandu shed and
disarmed enemy
A letter from Paris, says:
THE Proclamation of President j. ohm.
son, duplicating Mr.. Davis III the assassi.
nation plot provoked storm pfincredulity
on one side, and ofviolent ddnegations on
the other. The Patrte, the journal which
appears to take the defeat of its south.
(,,, L.. al I j..
The period of reaction, the reign of ter.
ror, has at last commenced The long
looked for unchaining of official passion
seems at length arrivedp
A letter from London, May Goth,
says;
"For four years all Englishmeu,
whether they sympathizod with his
cause or not, have professed to admire
the personal character, of Mr.. Davis,
and they willnos without overwhelm.
ing proof believe him to be an assassin" "
A Paris letter of the same date makes
this comment on the matter:
president Johnson's proclamation
charging Jefferson Davis and others
with full completely with Booth, has
produced a most painful impression here
not so.mnch upon our enemies as upon
our friends. Il,
Every manis innocent till he is proved
guilty on formal trial. Suppose that on
trial Davis should not be proved guilty.
Has the chief magistrate, the official
representative of a great notion himself
been guilty land involved the nation in
the disgrace) of lowering the dignity Of
his great Office by this act, hastily done
under the influence Of febrile suspicion,
morbid excitement passion, party pas
sions." 81.
The London Saturday Reuiew, in an
.article on the subject says:
Cromwell, Washington, Larochejac.
qucline, Kossuth and Garibaldi COM
mitted treason in the same sense in
which tits declared by Mr.. Johnson to
be worse than murder but with the
exception of.the great American patriot,
not one of the number was entitled to
Immunity so fully as Mr.. Jefferson Davis.
1t is to this moment doubtful whether
secession was illegal, and it is certain
that it was approved by greatand free
community. If the elected ruler Of a
State which has assumed independence is
put to death by the authority Of a con.
queror, question may arise whether
the assassination of Mr. Lincoln was
more criminal than the tvindictive slaugh-
ter of Mr.. Jefferson Davis. Booth at
least sacrificed his life with unainching
andacity, while Mr.. Johnson, by fnl6lling
his threats would risk only his own
reputation, the honor of this country,
and the respectand esteem Of the civilized
world.
A REBEL THEoLosIcAL Ssa,NARY
I'm A BAD Wharf.-The Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Columbia, 8.
c., ,-of which the late DR.. Thorswell was
the shining night and of whichDr. Pal.
mer hardly less able and eqdly rebel
lious,, ,hasTecently been chief tprofessor,