The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-03
Traitors becoming Imuudently Bold.

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The Richmond Times of recent date men
tions the arrival in that city of "Hon. Charles
Faulkner" This individual, presumed 70 De
Charles j. Faulkner, is precious scouhurei'
and If one traitor alive deserves the hemp II
is he. The New York Evening Post suggests
that if somebody, according to PRESIDENT
johnson. is to be made an example of, Faulk
ner affords good chance for such example.
During the administration Of Mr.. Buchanan,
he was minister to France, and such perfect
ret was he with the Democratic party that he
was usually spoken of by the politicians as
CharLev Faulkner. His treason was revealed
while representing our national flag and au-
thofity at that court. By his treachery in
Paris he helped very much to induce France
and England to grant belligerent rights to the
rebels, without delay. He was also engaged
In purchasing arms for JEFF, Davis in Europe.
When he returned to the United States, he
did so as an open and undisguised enemy of the
government he had just ceased representing
at foreign court. He refused to take the
oath of allegiance, proclaimed his hatred Of
the Union, and declared himself a Confeder-
ate. As such our government held him in
prison, until it effected an exchange between
him and Mr.. Ely, member of Congress, who
was confined in the Libby prison. A
When Faulkner entered Richmond in Dec.
1851, he was greeted as a martyr had pub
lie reception; and made speech in which
he encouraged his hearers to hope for the
speedy downfall of the Union cause, and in
dulged in the coarsest abuse of Mr.. Lincoln
and the Northern people.
One Of Faulkner's first acts, on returning
to Virginia, was to crafty public enmity of
his own, He led a party Of rebels to the
house Of Judge Strother, one of his neigh
bors, and an eminent citizen of Virginia, aud,
himself helped to turn the aged man into the
road, and set fire to his house, stables and out
houses. Before Faulkner left the place he
caused 1t to be thoroughly destroyed-fences
were burned, animals were killed or carried
away, buildings burned, and furniture destroy
ed; and Judge Strother, an aged and bed
ridden man, was left to shift for himself He
died of the exposure and brutal treatment.
His son, Colonel Strother, better known as
"Porte Cray0n," was then In the Union army,
and the father was also loyal to the flag. 1t
was ont of hatred to them, for their faithful
ness to their country, that Faulkner destroyed
their property assas5 q s.5.o
Sand now, says the EUening Post, this per-
jured criminal, this malignant rebel, cody
walks into Richmond and lets his arrival be
announced in the papersl Surely, impudence
could go no further than this.
Faulkner cannot claim that he was part Of
Lees army, for he did not serve as soldier
but only acted as guide when the rebel fore.
eswere operating in the part of the country
he knew, and where he could lead destroy
ing party to the house of some Union loving
neighbor. II Faulkner may walk the streets
OF any place where our flag floats, then JEFF.
Davis and Wigfall, and Mason and Hunter,
and Slidell and Benjamin, have equal rights
Such men as this ought to be made to under
stand that President johnson was in earnest
when he said treason is crime and must be
punished" on s,i .,. '.'a