Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-13
The EngIiah and French Press %
the Capture OF JeR. Davis. rsa

the CapGufe OF JetIs Davis. rHf
The Euglish7 and French journals, in
announcing the capture Of JEFF. Davis, in.
dulge in different styles of comment. The
London Tines discovers that the people OF
England "heye little reason to sympaA
thizs with Mi. Jefferson Davis,h but de-
clares that his capture will "produce d
feeling of upeRsiness and anxiety in every
country in Europe.n The Times is uuable
to End any better reason for this appre-
hensiOn than that It ia extremely impolitic
to shed the blood of ia man whom a
little success would have transformed from
an sttainted traitor into something very
ike successful monarch" The London
Post thinks that success would have made
Davis a second Washington
The liberal English press, naturally de
void of sympathy for rebels and traitors,
almost believes Davis an accomplice in
the assassination of the President. The
London .NsWs ssyE:-.s d ga ~
elf he were ansWerabIe for nothing
worse than the great sacrifice Of life
caused by the rejection, Of Mr.. Lincoln e
proposals at Hampton aRoads, the weight
of such load of responsibility might
we'll break down the stoutestl heart. His
language and acts during the nine months
preceding HE flight from Richmond sufici.
emily disclosed the ruin of bis hopes. Un.
til then habit of self.restraiDt had con
oealed to great extent his real character.
Bnt from the, time he visited Georgia after
I6R fall nf Atlanta md Nnl1nH
Brown q. scoundTel in pubIicr speech,
down TO the address of March last, in
which he referred to Grant and Sherman
as spaniels whom he would whip, the
coarseness OF the mans nature has been
apparent. 1t was about the time of the
reckless Macon speech that he began to
authorize those atrocious outrages which
have made it less difficult to believe in his
completely with the plot which resulted in.
Mr.. Lincoln's death."y LA = FS;S
The Paris Temps lie inclined to disbelieve
that Davis Was an accomplies ipfthe assas.
sination; La France takes similar view,
and hopes that'he will be .lenisptly dealt
with; the Opinion NatiOpqle is of the opip.
ion that bis capture will produce "morhF
embarrassments;" and the Pays scouts
the idea that he is an assassin. The
Patris, however, takea somewhat different
ground, remarking that IH
"Although, this last triumph Of the
North must be deploredr in view of the
principle of populsr liberty, still it should
be regarded as a proVidentiAl event for the
future of the southern States. In fact,
the; demsgogic party has got itself into a
position antaRonistic to every sentiment
of humaoity. justice and generosity, and
the death of Mr.. Davis by violence would
cover the VIctors with shRmet and ruin
them morally.", ,p.e Et..raaT i- ,sff
The utter ruin of the rebellion aud the
downfall Of its chief, seem to have dazed
these foreign Journalists, who never 10
their lives heard of such a sudden col,
lapse, and evidently don't know what to
make of it.
a calmer, more rational discussion of
the whole question appears in the columns
of the London Spectator. We quote few
interesting passages:
"The English ruling class have made one
great blunder about the power add temper
of the United States of which even It's
greatest organs are obviously conscious.-
Public opinion sin the educated classes'
pronounced decisively on the merits and
Issue of the great conflict there, and is now
conscious, that it pronounced wong, 1t
sees no such conflict d PoUtrGnee aa it pre-.
dicted, and none of that disposition in the
South to prOlong the war BY those despet-
ate methods familiar in history, by which
the passionate sentiment of genuiue.pat-
riotlsm manitests itself to. the last In the
teeth of fer. more formidable difficulties
than the South now sees. On the other
hand, even the most preiudiced of EnRlish
lsouiherners can detect little OF nothing OF
that bloodtbirsty feelihgin. the cohquerors
by which they expected to be stirred in
spirit it what they thought the wrong cause
should win. They are beginning to under
stand that they have been blinded, by pre-.
judtce to both the spirit and the power OF
the free states Of the North aud to realize
somewhat more distinctly how, disastrous
blunder they might have made hadsthey
been governed by the impulses Of the more
violent among them 81 @ %
The Family OF the Late President.
The New York ZFa.es thinks that it may
be proper, now that the subject is ''before
the people" 70 say that ex President Lin
ooln carried to Washington the simple
manners and inexpensive habits Of his