The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-08-30
From Europe.
THr FAT lyT THE CoNspIRAToRs

LEE 4 Al W ARE SOaSPlRATO6Ss
Juece has ueIorei thls eA,culeu on'the "a
aecompIices OF Booth, the assassin OF president
coin. They have bequ convicted at last by a H..
martial, alter trial so protraced as 10 exhaust Il
thence OF the American pueblo. Whatever u,s-
alleged against the ] rSdction of this military
MISSION its proceedings were certainly not too
mary, for they lasted. over many weeks, and srs
to be embodied in a. pages OF tedious manu>.
No less than S6l witnesses we're examined and II
the credit of the government that the expense
those called for this defensive have been deiraypq
OF the public funds OF course, until the evider
published, we can form 10 opinion upon the fair
OF the verdict, but othing that has yet trauspre
fords any reason for imp gHi it. II Was h.
doubted, we beliese,i by ely competent pers,
America that the charge OF conspiracy had
| brought home 10 all the prisoners; The question
rather as TO the various degrees of their euIt w.,
proper appointment of punishment. Ii ap,eers
the court, WITH The presidents approval has di,.
them INTO three claB,es. Payne Harold Atzpr,,,
Mrs Surratt have been placed in the first of n
and were TO be hung ,at Washington on the Nm
/ DR. Mudd, Arnold and Laughlln constituted rL.
ond class, and were to be imprisoned for life with
labor, while SpangeH vas to be imprisoned in,
years, with hard labor, in Albany penitentiary. 40,
the severity OF these shntences not,a word can he
Inc lives at BOOTH and his fellow conspirators g,
most justly forfeited. Human judges eau recocu2
excuse for assassination. It tyranuicde can pv.
justified as appeal 10 higher law, it must be il
fed before higher tribunal than any earthly n
ment seat. london Times, July II
Thus ends one of the most striking episodes in M
history. IN the homt steads Of the reDuhIc .
story will often be told he8 the rational forces -
umphed over the rebellion; how Richmond the r.
capital, iei, and the army OF Lee was captured bv,
indomitable energy OF Gen. Grant, and how. in
hour Of triumph, there tell great shadow over m
land The president, who had stood firm and unshal
throughout the wild cpmmoiion-the e. az hberaf
who called four MILLIONS OF slaves 81 freedom
gentle and genial soul, who was eager 50 hold ia
the hand OF reconciliation to his erring brethren Of
south so soon as the s& ord vas wreurhed srom III
grasp was reaorseless}y and basely slain by fan,
cal admirer of southern slavery and southern rigL
in the very moment Of victory. Then the pursuit
Booth will be narrated, and how he died ike a "
beast in his lair when it is tracked by the aveng
huntsmen. The sequel of the tragedy is no
gkastly--the leading forth OF four wFetches under
blazing of July and solemnly melting out TO tn.
that awful punishment OF death which still darkt
the code of civilized cations We cannot help fe
ing that the quadruple execution is ominous for j.
Davis. There Is, OF course, n6 similarity between
case Of the chief of rebellion and that Of the fana
who has committed i political assassination.
when we remember that Kennedy and BeaIe were t.
ecuted for attempting to set fire to New York and
upset trains on northern railroads, although they pf
iuced their commissions from JEFF Davis as havu
been commissioned to execute irregular military eut,
prises, and thar special efforts were made to show I'll
Davis was not ignorant of the plots against the pre-
dent, it appears not Improbable that he may be rr
and found guilty up0n'Gome OF these charges where
questions Of policy as 10 the treatment OF co ouer
rebels will not be permitted to interfere. We do nr
share IN the belief that the government is po>tpOuiu
he trial with the view of permitting the angry et
ngs of the people to subsde SO give the arch-re
| better chance to escape Any man@uVering of tn
Kind would be discouatenanced by all the leading Of
'ials from the president downward who are too mun
mbued with respect tor the law to trife with its G.
lctments. Mr. Davis will no doubt be tried with gre
olennity upon Indictment carefully and elaborate
prepared, and while the law win not be strained agan
him. its requirements will not be set aside to save hi
rom any Of IT'S merited penalties.
London Star, July 10.
The work Of pacihcation still goes on slowly b..
more steadily than any could have predicted -
The FIRST Ster ia the appointment OF provisional gov
rnors in the southern States, and Mr. Johnson vs.
inspected Of an intention TO perpetuate anarchy i,
south Carolina by leaving her without any central au
horitV. He has, however included that State in hi
ysem OF restoration, and nominated Mr. Perry az
governor Florida is now the only southern St4te il
which no organized local government exists Ordero
therefore, may be said to reign again throughout the
erritores of the United States, bit confidence and
Prosperity be re-estabshed 20 easily as order
many districts the suffer- Of the popua ion are
escribed as pitiablc The linee of Shernan's march
particular is marked by widespread desolatlon and
ne of the most pressing anxetes of the government
10 provide against famine IN Mississippi and Geor
Ia. 10 TINS urgent question the negro-suaage ques
itself is subordinate, and will probably be wears
efore even American energy can rep ,ir the prodi.
ous waste which the northern armies have wrought.
ne Of our New York CONTEMPORARIES boasts that al
,ady the telegraph runs from New York to New Or.
ans; steamboats, 60 down the Mississippi and never
'ceive shot; every day there is a Union governor
opointed chosen Tor some southern State, and
orthern are sending plogs into the south where
tely they sent PARROTS aid II FOUNDERS" These
cts prove, indeed the completeness of the conquest
1t they prove little more. Where the task of con.
lest ends, the difficult task of reconstruction
ID reconciliation begins.
[L0ndon Times, july Il.