Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-06-22
John Mitchell.

This notorious individual now about
afty years old, was born in the North of
Ireland, his father being Presbyterian
clergyman. He was educated at Trinity
College, Dublin, studied law, and subse-
quently became associate editor of the
"Nation," in which paper he urged, as
the climax Of all his tart illusions, that
sulphuric acid should be showered from
the windows upon the soldiers Of the
regular army. His trial and conviction
for sedition soon followed, and he was
sentenced to transportation to Australia
for fourteen years.
He succeeded in effecting his escape
therefrom, and arrived in New York in
1858, where he was received with the
greatest enthusiasm. He soon com
menced the publication of the "Citizen,"
a weekly journal of politics and litera-
ture, in which he displayed great ability
and vigor. After while some cores
pondent from Dublin having requested
his opinion on the subject of slavery, he
replied that for his own part he would
like to possess good plantation in Ala
bama, and lot Of good fat nfggers to
work it, From that time the Citizen
was doomed. Mitchell sold out for a
trife, tried plantation" life in Tennes-
see without success-then commenced
the publication of the "Southern Citi-
zen" in which he advocated the reopen
ing Of the African Slave Trade-then
removed with his paper to Washington
without prospecting there-and then he
went to Paris, as correspondent of
Repeal newspaper in Dublin, and Of one
or two journals in the South. Immedi-
ately after the rebellion broke out, he
obtained the editorship of the Richmond
Examiner, in which capacity he labored
with an energy and perseverance worthy
of better cause, until the capture of
Richmond by the Union army. He has
given two, If not three Of his sons to
the rebel service, and at least one Of
them has died on the battlefield. He
was the ablest advocate of the mock
government Of which crinoline Davis
was the head, and allowed no opportu-
nl.y 70 pass of villifying ana i.;i'"i's'
the Union cause and its loyal support
ers-civil and military. He hasalways
been audacious and impudent, but the
greatest impudence, it will be admitted,
was his planting his chair, rescued with
great difficulty from the Examiner office,
Richmond, in the editorial sanctum OF
the Daily News at New York. This
mans culture has been considerable, but
his morale is small, No greater anom-
ally was ever presented than that of
man, exiled because he sought to win
freedom for his own wronged native
Ireland, becoming the hireling cham
pion of slavery in America. II he was
guilty of sedition at home, he has con-
sistently written any quantity Of trea-
son in Richmond.
What our government will 40 with
him remains to be seen. Our own opin-
ion would be that he is not worthy the
honor of a governmental hanging. We
would recommend that they exercise to-
wards him the same benevolent forbear-
ance that Uncle Toby did to the fly that
had been for long time annoying him
Having at last caught the insect in his
fingers, he let it loose again, saying,
go, poor devil the world is big
enough for me and thee" A much
worse punishment than hanging would
be to turn him loose, and give opportu.
nifty to each one Of the eighteen mil
lion bores," and upwards, that despist
him, to give him kick.