The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-10


lous figure which Eng ishmen cut when
preaching to us about moderation in
the use Of our victory over the men
who have been seeking to overthrow
our Government. Among these is Mr..
Paul ]. Corbett, said to be son of the
famous William Corbett, who has writ
ten letter to the London Star, emu
merating large number of instances
of British leniency, British faith tow
ards prisoners of war, etc. After show
ing that the British advisers of "high-
ly conservative policy on the part of
the United States, perceive tho neces-
! sity of condemning the Stuarts," and
that they draw their line at the end Of
the English civil wars "between all the
past admitted seventies and n supposed
new era of nothing but tenderness" he
asks:
"But, sir, what of the hanging of
I. Governor Wall, and what of the shoot
/ ing of Admiral Byng2 What of the
/ international act of dragging home
! Napier Tandy, to send him to the scat
| fold? What of the inhumnn treatment
j! of Mr.. Muir and his companions in suf-
fering, and Pitts endeavOr against the
lives of TOoke and Hardy? Washing
| ton was called murderer by thousands
of pens and tongues for the hanging of
Major Andre; but how absolutely right
was deed like that when compared
with the hanging of the poor sailor
| eastman, in 1917, and the transporting
of the Dorchester laborers, and the eX-
ecution of Henry Cook, of Hampshire,
in 1885, or, again, the putting to death
of those sailors who were unlawfullV
taken from the American ship Chesa-
peake?"
A little further on he gives n tender
thrust between the ribs OF n distinguish
ed English functionary, who has been
disagreeably obtrusive in his bestownl
of good advice, illustrating his asser-
ton that the English national charac-
ter may fairly bcrogarded ''as combin-
ing more Of the Samg1TmaYy along 1rith
the hypocTiticaI than any other nation
tolerated by Providence" as follows:
eve have of late years been not only
most severe punishers of State crimf-.
nails, but even the promoters of crime,
for the purpose of obtaining victims to
make examples of. You may remem-
Der that instance, SO worthy of renown,
IN IUhtch Lord BrOWghdnl volunteered his
Justification, Of the employment Of spies
yOA Tue uIlCudWy " tIeuSOWs
Apropos of the assertion that our
government cannot punish tho rebels,
because it has treated with them, he
refers the advisers of "highly con-
sentative policy" to the following
"modern instances"
''There was, indeed, guarantee
given, and by an English officer, to
save the lives of the garrison of st. Ell
mo, Mt Naples, when they surrcndered:
nevertheless they were put to death,
and on that occasion Prince CarracioE,
to the shame of England and Nelson,
was hung to the yard-arm. There was
also general amnesty by Louis XVIII
on his restoration; but Marshal New
was shot, although the allies at that
moment, withsthe Duke of Wellington,
were in fnct the masters of all things in
Franco, and it was our boast that the
French King held his throne as the
mere nominee of the English Prince
Regent.
'"There are some people unfit to have
anything to say on any question of
mercy or mRgnanimity. The Times
newspaper bawled out Justify for the
putting of the First Napoleon to death,
1t said that caging him for life was not
sutnclent; that our own safety could
never DE insured If he were suffered to
live. hear that this paper has now
boon making an ugly turn against the
eN-Prcsident. That is Characteristic OF
its practice. In abandoning the cause
of those who come to misfortune, it
commonly helps the weight of the fall
by n baclI-hnnded blow from lis own
fist. The Standard, in january of 1889
pointedly recommended the assassinn-
ton of Mr.. O'Conpell. Such an act, il
declared, would not be without honored
authority. 1t exhorted in the words
Of the Scivth Psalm, Lord God, to
screamed out, How long, mercifIli
I God! arc we to endure this man? And,
If thy thunders sleep, is there no other
Eagency of thy justice?'"
Senator SDITI,o- 10. - 7.L