Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-12-28
JEFF. DAVIS.

committee on the trial ano punfsn'
ment Of jeff. Davis, who, through the
Committee on Federal Relations, made an
elaborate report, from which we make the
following extract 1t Is very decided on
the question Of hanging the arch traitor.
As our Nevada Esgisistdfe meets in afew
days, the loyalpeople Of this State expect
some expressions Of sentiment upon the
same subject. AS affairs regarding the
disposal of ~Jeff.'srcase are going on in a
very dilatory style at Washington, the
people, through their Legislatures, may as
wsIl.express their sentiments in terms not
to be mistaken at headquarters. a'7 Read the
following:
A war which has en,ailed on our com-
mon country, billions of debt; swept
FROM the oceans u commerce, causing
vast armle to move through our country
devastating the land; rendering houSeless
and homeless its thousands; depopulatrng
and burning towns and cities ; causing
brother to rise up against brother; the son
to turn against his father, and, the father
against his son (; murder, rapine anderson
to run riot in the land. causing, armies to
be raised with their hundreds Of thou
sands; an hundred battlefields with their
thousands dead and dying, with their
other thousands of MANNED and wounded,
whose limbless forms yet testify as to the
wanton cruelty of treason, and appeal to
us for justice and the vindication Of law.
A land covered with refugees, seeking
safety by flight from their homes against.
the demon followers of this arch traitor /;
q country filed with widows and orphans
whose cries ascend to God for justice and
the punishment of the guilty instigators Of
this horid crime. yyrygFasu
A once happy land rent into factions
and covered with woe, demand Of us5the
trial and execution Of the head Of this
great and nameless wrong. While your
Committee Look with horror at the deeds
of cruelty committed by the rebellion,
they turn to Mr.. Davis to see as q last re-
sort some act Of kindness, or mitigating
circumstance from the arch traitor, that
by the humane might be pleaded in ex-
tenuation of his guilt ; some act of gal
lantry or chivalry, that might redeem his
name from universal reprobation and
obloquy.
But alas ! no such act can be found.
Educated and honored by his Govern
ment, he raised his parricidal hand and
tore down the proud emblem Of her
greatness and glory" .n r'.o. n.'
nd xphan nyar nor .nanu1rafnH Nyn
find his stern mandate the law here i'm
prisoning and hanging the loyal and pat
riotic, there driving from home the opulent
and poor alike to seek an asylum in pow
erty and rags, for no other cause than
the love Of the glorious flag Of their
country. saIE 81 aEE.sE. .sy.G
Amidst the scenes of carnage invoking
the wild savage to murder and scalp the
wounded and dying on the battlefield,
protecting the marauder in his cruel2and
relentless rapine and midnight murder
and plumber, sending his emissaries to
prey upon the commerce Of our rivers and
lakes, and murder non-combatants and
innocent women and children, to burn our
towns and cities, and with torpedoes blow
up our public buildings filled with women
and children.
Nor is this all. He has protected his
tools and menials in the violation Of all
the rules Of war-carrying the flag and
wearing the uniforms Of his enemy that
might more securely and cowardly muir
der the Federal soldiers. ,.r. ...r
He has protected his soldiers in muir
dering their prisoners of war.
He violated the cartel in the exchange
Of prisoners, fand'then silently 'acquiesced
in the robbing, starving, ~wounding, and
killing of thousands Of Federal soldiers in
the filthy, stenchly, cooped-up prison pens
Of the South, that he might the more sure
ly disable them from fighting against his
unholy rebellion.
In vain VIC look for any provision Of the
law of nations, or the rules of war that
Mr.. Davis has not violated to consummate
his reasonable designs. And in vain we
look for one act of humanity or mercy OF.
his, toward any Federal prisoner or any
one who had violated the mandate Of this
autocrat-the unhappy victim was brought
before the drum-head court martial or q
military inquisition, and in a few hours
despatched by the bullet or the hangman.
If we try Mr.. Davis by his W rule,
we will most surely hang him, for it was
not in him to End mercy, or humanely
Judge any one. Such are the facts your
Committee are compelled to find, and from
these facts and others which your Com
mittee have not time nor space to emu
merate, public sentiment and the human
christian feeling Of the nation have tried
and convicted Mr.. Davis of the darkest
treason in the most bloody rebellion Of
the worlds history, and it only remains
for the legally constituted authorities to
give him the trial and protection Of the
Constitution and laws, and for the pro-
lection of society, the majesty Of the law,
and the dignity of the Government, exc
cute the sentence Of God and man, that
" he that sheddeth mans blood. by man
shall his blood be she'd" We n
close this report without expressing u
utmost confidence in the ability, patriot
ism and integrity of President johnson,
and believe that his policy Of reconstruc-
rion, 20 an experiment in the rebel States,
will in the end be proven to be eminently
wise and proper. w
And 1t is not for the want Of faith in
the wisdom and integrity of$Ar. Johnson
that we deem it expedient toexpress the
views of this body, but that justice to two
hundred thousand soldiers who, have so
nobly sustained the reputation Of our gall
liant State and the flag Of our country, de-
mand that the head and embodiment OF
the cause of all their s~ufferings, hardshipS,
and the death Of the thousands Of lndl-
ana's noble sons, shouldPnot go free, but
be punished and receive the doom he so
richly merits. '.l'n" -" De 'r .
Agricultural and Mechanical College:
At a meeting Of the Commissioners for
the establishment Of ar Agricultural and
Mechanical College, in Washoe county,
a q of.-s-.N-l H.