The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-13

@ITS.1,s6 asd french Press on the
-T~ratment 10 be Meted out 10 zen
1sDSFfS.
By the recent foreign arrivals We are fur
nisbed with the comments Of the English
and French press on the capture Of Jsf
DAVIS, and the deposition that should 20
made Of him. OF course they al put in-A
most piteons appeal to our Governments 70
he -msgnspimgus and merciful TO the arch
traitor. They draw s NEST affecting picture
Of he moral grandeur our people would at
t,in by joi1iDg the "UnivsrlAl Forgiveness
3 cis,v . fhs probation is from home pa
pers J and lettir g the rebel tcOuDdrels goun-
punished who allowed eur captured sololsrs
70 bs murdered in cold blood at fort Pill
log. and starved to death st Andersonville,
LIBBY, Salisbury sud other Southern Pris-
ons.
John Bull is the most consistent and for
giving old sinner that ever livedi He
shows mercy to his own re6eliiOus children
with a vengeauceI Let us see.
In 1887 John had 8 smsll-Potatoe rebel
lion on his hsndsin Canada, which it look
him nearly two years to crush at an e1-
psnse of $2o,OOO,Oco. he showed his mer-
c,ful disposition by hanging a lsrgenumOer
of the leaders and Transporting hundreds
TO the ~inhospitable shore of Van DiemAn's
Land. Among those hung were Col. Gun
ninehsm, who was captured at Windsor,
opposi,e Detroit sad Col. Van Shultz, 8
Pole, who was captured at the battle OF
Windmill Point, opposite ogdsnEburg. At
Windsor 8 number of prisoners were shot
IN cold blood, after they had surrendered
nv order Of the infamous CcL Prince. This
act met the tscis approval Of the British
Government as wss proved by The fsc!
thai the Colonel went uupunished and un-
rsproved.
Lstterly, when the ridiculous attempt to
get up a rebellion in Ireland, in ls4s, fAI
cd. and no. 8 lie was lost Smith OBJ len,
the Irish rebel lesder, wss tried tor treason
convicted and sentenced to be hung and his
BODY oaArtered. This humane and en-.
liobtened sentence, however, was commu-
ted to bunishmeut for lfs. The other lead
ers, among whom we're John Mitchell and
Thomas Francis Meagber, we're tri d for
the same ofense, and sentenced TO be trans
ported
In the case of the Hindoo rebellion the
merciful and m~sgnanimous feeling ofJohn
Bull YVES most trar spsrent. That rebel
lion was caused by the uprising Of an igno
rant. superslitious heatben people sgsinss
the FOREIGN inUaders of their land, and not
against their W natural govern msnt
They were defeated and s~ubjugsted. What
did John then do2 Did he blsrney about
showing them mercy, snd come the mag
unanimous dodge2 Far from it He took
the Hir doc SapOys, prisoners Of ~aT, be 1t
borne in mind, and punished them BY the
horrible process of blowing them to stOms
fr,m the uouth of The excuse
John set ap, however, for this inhumsn
butcbery of prisoners of wal, was that the
Esepoy scouDdreis" we're guilty of un-
heard Of atrocities upon the Europeans,
specially upon the wcmsn. Grant it. 81
are the rebels guilty of unheard of stro-
cities, in slarving to death thousands OF our
prisoners, and buryiDg alive our soldiers at
Fort Pillow. If II tS rht-GSbls~ from
pups ignorant Sepoys, who, to 8 certain
srteDt are not responsible for their own
ats. then 1t is right for US to hang the in
t~elligent lesders of the recent csuseless
rsbeI,iop. who commit high treason and
knew better than TO murder twenty thou
sand prisoners by the slow and %torturlng
process Of starvation.
During the present FlaDcO-Mexiesn wsr,
tbe F,eDch have been guilty of the most
Gross violation of the rules Of civilized
Earf.re, by numbering in cold blood hun
6reds of prisoners aud transporting hem to
mines in the French West Iadis Islands
To can the climax. they tried by OJu1t
rtisl the Mexican General Romero and
shot him. for no other crime than that OF
loving his own country better than
Frsncsl Yet we have not n word Of
rsmoustrsnce from the English or French
nress sgainsi the brutal acts of the French
in MEXICO So very consistent Are they
In 1915, when Marshal Ney, the
Hbravest of the brave" surrendered him
self to the allies, thoy ordered him 70 be
tried and shot SIS 8 traitor, although he
bsd never drawn his sword against his
us.ive country. This Internal act met
with the sanction of the English people,
and to this dsy the British press never de-
nounoed it, merely because the uke OF
Wellington was the chief one engaged in
bringing the Marshal to his untimely enc
Our foreign contemporaries are most re-
spectfuny requested TO take the beam out
of their own eyes before attempting totAEe
She mote cut of our eyes. JEFF Davis will
have q fair trial, and whom convicted, as
he undoubtedly will be, he will be hung, IS
he richly deserves, the P~ecksnffiAn whine
of the British press to the contrary not
vithstsndiDg And then rsqaas'o4! 9" pace