The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-17
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PIe---InterVIew OF her Delegation
with the FecEitient--InteFesti Ile.
pOrtTor the CONFERENCE.-The. Sen
Davis ,SaFOmnn Of strong ReelInR,l
She writes the President aIis IN.
terestInE Letter, ~ zli'.if5395st tssi
-Ns WAsIiISsToN, Oct. l4th.ll.
Judge Ward1n@, Alfred Hueer and
Col. DnwSins,s of South Carolina tlIis
afternoon had nm interview by appoint.
meht with President johnson. They
We're accompanied by w. II. Prescott
Esq, who isstieteS6fI business. rs fySS eT,
utiSe agent Of that State.
III The President dfben Itha1 customary
pr9llminariesU of receipt ion, invited them
to bo, seated, when Mt once the conyer.
saton coInmenecd by Judge WardiaIy
infnrming him that they5Were, a deloga,
Io tioh rom the state Conventl6 on Of, South
Carolina, sent hither TO present certain
imemoEhtls of TINT body. These,neIllo
rials Ind been YER careftiIiy " cousid.
erred in the Convention, md he belieVed
they told the truth. The President int
i quired the object of tho memorials.
l Judge Wnrdlaw informed him that ono
was in behalf of Jefferson Davis, A. II.
stephens, George A. TTenholiii and
Governor Nfagrath. TheyI said they
had understood that by the lnte inter
/ ference of the President, Messrs. Ste
phens and Trenholm had already been
released from close confinement and
| permitted to return to their homes,
They would ask for Governor AIngrnth
1 either n pardon or that he might be re-
leased on parole. They could assure
the President that no harm would fe-
suit from such0siota of elsmeney. The
President replied that all could not be
4 pardoned at once. The business must
90 proceeded with gradually, and effort
made to e1ecute the laws. "A discrimi-
nation was necessary as we went along,
1t was q too common expression, by
way Of argument in regard TO clemency,
that such ono had been pnrdOned, and
that ne was just 9s bad as another who
hnuno5 peen pnrdoned. 81 i-sT al = =
| Judge WarJlaw replied that the del-
egation presented no such argument as
that.
The President said sometimes the pc
cpliar locality had much to do with par
dons, Like thany other things in hu-
man inti trs5 We cannot have a fixed
rule. Idch depends ON dIsetetiOniaf and
circumstances. II we know ourselves
we want to do what is just, and TO slow
q proper degree of humanity on tho
tfaFt OF the, ,GOv0fnment Judge NNrtls
law repaaFSa1 they had not come hi it6er
to XpreSs then own hopes and Siesires.
but delegates from the South Carolina
Sonyennom to present tSmemorialsT of
that body in Il formal Innnner ktO the
president. We will, gentlemen, extend
I All tncilitiea and coprtesi les which ques-
taons require. We should prefer to par
don twenty men than refuse one
Judge w. replied ltli6y did not design
70 say anything in reference to Cover
nor Magrnth, further than tlley beliey-
ed much good would fpsult by the e&er-
else of nm executive Clemency toward
nl nim. Coll. .DaWl lSins, tseid, II NC, get
Governor MRgruth paroled, It would -be
q great RELIEF to him at the present
time. Judge WnrdInw thanked the
President for having released Stnphens
and Trenholm. Tho President saws,
we have thdt far then idnticipdted your
mem aotiAl'll Mt: HuRer said Mr.. Tren-
holm was one of their most useful men.
and there 'was'no doubt heavouId exert
all his power with u view to creating
Government. 49, 20
Tho President replied that lie. under
stood that was so, adding that II trea-
son was committed there ought to be
some test to determine the poWeriof tho
IGovernment to punish the crime. He
was free 10 say IL was not a mere com
test between Political PARTIES Or queAz
ton us to de fnctO GovernmentsiI 1ookl
ing at the Government ns.yve do. The
lnWBl We're ytolnted 9nil an Tpttampt
made at the life of tho nation. There
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