Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-05-01

aad consciousness eomplete np to the
very moment Of dissolution.
Nearly all the parties directly impliea-
ted are now in custody.
Paine, the Seward assassin. il a broth.
i er Of the Sc. Adams raider. There are
/ ak brothers, all reckless and daring.
Two we're with Walker in Nicaragua.
Edwin Booth arrived to day to ask for
bis brothers body The request will rot
/ be granted. de5rh
! The Herald Richmond correspondent
reconnts an inferyiew he has had with
/ Gen. Lee. He called on him to obtain
I his political views and lay them before
the public. On informing Gen. Lee of
che object, the latter said:
an . paroged prisoner, and added,
have never been q politician and knoE
bat little Of political leaders / am q
soldier he farther said be was ready
10 make sacrifices OF perform any honor
able daty thar would tend to the restora-
ton Of peace and tranquility to the
country. He said that - leader in
State Rights, be had considered bis ale
glance due primarily to bis native State.
He had opposed secession, bat when has
State went out be ensidered Il has dnGy
to 90 with it When be accepted COM
maad under the rebel Government, be
considered he was serving bis State. He
regarded bis surrender of military, not
political, significance, and not q surren-
der Of the doctFine of State Rights.
Wien the South was wholly subdusd
only, would the doctrine, Of Stats Rights
be surrendered The surrender Of
single srmy was only a military nsess4
sity.
when the sooef surreaders all It's
forces and returns ,e the Union, then
only will ahe surrender her favorite doc
tEins Of secession; that the prinei pie
viii then be settled by military power
On this qaeski0n OF State Sovereignty,
be contends exists legitimate easlts
betH The question was left unsettled
by the Constitution forming the organic
law, and rs the war Is destined TO settle
il, therefore the war raised on this issue
cannot be called treason. lf the South
10 forced to submit, il, Of course, can
only be looked upon as the triumph Of
Federal power over States Rights, and
the forcing nnnihilation of The latter.
The South has net been, nor Is not yet,
prepared to beg for terms but are ready
20 accept fair and honorable terms
There are political views being con-
sidered as to slavery. Iheyscnnsider il
dead, and the best msn have long been
willing TO do away with il. He explicit
ly expressed the opinion that should ar
bitrAry or yindictive qualities or poll.
eies be adopted, the end was not yet.
He. regarded the assassination Of
President Lincoln as crime beyond ex-
ecrAtion. 1t could not be approved by
ary good man from any conceivable
stand point son
AS to the terms of peace, in.aaswer to
the suggestion that the political leaders
only should be held 20 strict accounta-
bility, he replied would that be Just
What has Mr.. Davis done more than any
other Southerner, that he should be
punishedi II is true, he has occupied a
prominent portion, as agent, for the
whole people; that has made him no
more or less rebel than the rest His
acts we're the acts Of the whole people,
and the acts Of the whole people were
his acts. He is not accountable for the
commencement Of the struggle On the
contrary, be was one OF the last to give
his adhsarsncea to the secession move
ment-haVing Bsrenuously opposed it
from the outset, and portrayed its rninous
consequences by speeches and by writ