The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-30
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ord of English dealings with traitors. 7
is by'J. Paul OorSett, Esq: s'
."The history Of the United States hal
shown that, in point Of humanity, the
Americans are about the same sort of peo
! pie as ourselves. To anticipate a want oi
thst quail y 10 them by speeches in. on
Parliament, and Virulence in our press, can
be Of no service to individuals, in peril,
and will, to certainty, add t0that heap Of
mischief which has slresdy been made be-
tween the two countries. VIA
"Lsw, justice and eIpedieney (taking
the last of these in an honest sense) are
the three thiBgs, which cur Government in
scores of cases, has had 10 consider What
as to either of these, have we to say, why
the American Government should not be
let alone? Our advocates of q highly
conservative policy perceive the necessity
of cOndemning the ways of the Stusrts.=
| They admit IL TO have been outrageous to
force Sir Archibald Johnstone out Of France
and Miles COrbet Colonel Okey and Colo.
mel BaTkstesd out OF Holland, and 20 exc
cute these. They have no excuse for
| Charles the Seconds attempt to kill Lud-
low in Switzerland, CT for the actual kill
ing of Leslie at Lausanne, No; but then
they draw their line st the end OfOur civil
wars, between all the past admitted severi-
ties and supposed new era of nothing but
tenderness
"But, sir, what of the hanging of Gov
ernor Wall, and whist of the shooting of
Admiral Byng2 What of the internstion-
81 act of dragging homo Napper TAndy to
send him to the scsffoid2 What Of the in
human treatment of Mr.. Muir and his
companions in suffering, and Pitts endeav-
or against the lives of ToOke and Hardy
Washington was called murderer by thou.
sends of pens and tongues, for the hanging
Of MsjOr Andre; but how sbsolutely right
was q deed like that when compared with
the hanging of the poor sailor CushmAn in
1917, and tFe transportation Of the Dor
chester laboreTs, and the execution OF Henry
Cook of Hampshire, in 1881 I; or, again, the
putting to death of those sailors who were
unlsWfully taken from the American ship
Chesapeake
"Wby, an impartial spectator, viewing
many things we do, and hearing all we
pretend to, might net unnaturslly reg ard us
as combining more of the sangninSTy along
with the hypocrtieal than any other ma
tiOn tolerated by Providence. We have of
late years been not only most severe pun
ishers of State criminals, but even tile pro-
moters of crime for the purpose ct obtaining |
victims TO make example of. You may re-
membert that instance, Sc worthy of rsnown,
in which Lord Broughsm volunteered his |
Justification of the employment of spies for !
the hstching of treasons We are 80 vastly |
liberal too, in this kind of work that (if =
h,kH
ters of tho Russisn Government had any |
truth in it, those Ministers had reason to
con ngrsiulate themselves on the fact that our
we're undertaking TO. use our
police force in the Sffiee of detecting and
betraying foreign political conspiracies. .
"There is SO much wildness in the.rAge
against the American President that we
read, almost in same sentence, denInois-
ions of his savsgeness as Sconqueror along
with warnings 10 him that the rebellion is
till alive and not without hope. Here is
! happy sort Of logic by which TO inspire
mercy for the rebel in the heart OF the
.ulerl
at is said, again, in the same kind Of
that Mr.. Davis cannot rightiully
% held to be criminal because he has been
treated with by the Union government,
y : LlSois VH Shis part of the law have said
nAt governments sAaN,.-lA- esp s-Sa FaiLh
wen with subjects in rebellion that is, in
10 the extent which il makes
agreements with them. But to what ex-
ent has the North trest0d with the Con-
ederates2 Have cur Ministers been in
ny way treating with the latter, while
Ioing the same with Mr.. Adams, as the
of the whole United States Q
There was, indeed, q guarantee given, and
y an English officer, to save the Lives of 4
he garrison OF st. Elmo at Naples, when
hey surrendered; nevertheless, they were
,ut TO death; and on that occasion Prince '
Jarraciloli, TO the shame of England and
olson, was hung at the yard arm. There
vas also a general amnesty by Louis !
WILL on his restoration +; but Marshal
ley was shot, although the allies at that
lounent, with the Duke of Wellington,
lere in fact the masters of all things in
rance, and it was our boast that the
french King held his throne as the mere
ominee of the English Prince Regent. -s
HThere are some people unfit to have
nYthing 20 ssy on any question OF mercy
T magnanimity. The Times newspaper
awled out Justify for the putting of the
'irst Napoleon to death. It said that the !
aging him for life was no sufficient securi-
y; that our own safety could never be in
lred if he we're suffered 70 live hear y
nat this paper has now been making an I
gly turn against the ex- President That
Characteristic of IFS practice, In sban-
oning the cause of those who have come
D misfortune, it commonly helps the
Yeight of the fall By back handed blow "A
,om its own fist. The StaSpIards in Jsnu-
~, 1885, pointedly recommended the as
assinatiOn of Mr. O'COnnelL 'Such an
et,5 it declared, would not be without
onored authority It exhorted, in the
lords Of the xiVth Psalm, Hofd (4Od, TO
lhOm vengeance belongeth, 60 It scream
d out, Slow long, merciful God are we
D endure this msn2 And, if thy thunders
leer, is there no other agency Of thy jus
ceH
'fNot wishing to be included in the large
of our mistaken prophets l will
ot venture to forestall what views Of eK-
edency, or what feeling in the way of
the Government or the people
f The United States msy exhibit in the
ase of Mr.. Davis. But, sssuredly no in-
inustions of inhumanity, mach less insults
rom cur side, will bs of any service TO
im."