The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-06-23
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II any new evidences were needes
Of the utter unfairness, naeanness anc
Ds'ics Of the English press towards
this country. we have it in their pies
for mercy tosJetf Davis and his fellow
conspiTato-s. Not content with do
ing all they dared to aid the bogul
'-ooniederacy" while living, they nos
Join in a funeral vail over lis miserable
remains when dead. To save JEFF
Davis from the halter he has 90 richly
merifed, seems 70 be the first wish o.
the British organs, both Wing and Tory
The Daily News exhorts Us 70 ''ciemen-
cy. and 70 LAY aside all thought of DO.
hiical vengeance" while the Times has
the hRrdihOod 10 point Us 70 examples
of mercy set by the British Govern
ment toward domestic traitors. Unfor.
tunately for It's case, the burden of his
torical evidence is all the other way.
The annals Of Great Britain are notori-
ously red with the blood Of rebels, shed
with circumstances of cruelty and
vengeance which should render her
people the last in all Christendom %
complain, should our Government pro
ceed 70 the extremity Of the law in the
case Of the rebel leaders. The London
Times has even the effrontery TO say
THAT modern Europe affords but one
precedent FOR capital punishment in
such q case-the treatment Of Poland
by Russia" Truly, ''the most powerful
Journal in the world" must be poorly
read IN the history Of its own empire,
or else totally reckless of the truth
when d has a cause 70 plead.
We need not speak Of the atrocities
committed by Great Britain in the
countries Of the East, after rebellions
were put down-the scores of Sepoys
blown from the mouths of guns, the
Of Chinese at Pekin, and the
cool blooded murders of the Japanese
II Nagasaki, 1.-THE latter Of whom were
not even rebels) All 'hese things &C
CARED within ten years, but we viii
recall another event Of simodern his
tory, the Irish rebellion Of lS4S This
was not even a serious armed outbreak
no overt act of treason was either
proved or committed; the indictments
sgainst Smith o Brien, John Mitchell,
4. +. Meagher, aud the rest, were mere.
" for 'scdihous speeches and inhann-
matory publications. Yet forty persons
were tried for high treason aud Mc&a-
nus, O Bnen, Meagher, o Donoghue,
and others, we've found guilty, and sen~
fenced 70 She following punishment:
That yoG be drawn on hurdle 10 the
place of execution, and that each Of
you be banged by the neck until you
be dead, aud that afterward the head
Of each Of you hail be severed from his
body, and the body of each be divided
into four quarters, 10 be disposed Of as
Her Mrie ~ all think f., and may
The Lord b Y mercy on your souls :"
Aud it was the mere ciemency Of the
Queen which committed this sentences
% transportation and imprisonment for
life at Van Dieman's Land It is true,
these men were afterward permitted TO
return 10 Eugland, by the Act Of In
demnity of 1856; but this was eight
years aiterTard, when the petty poliG-
csl disturbances for which they had
been sentenced 20 death were long
since forgotten. Yet the Times has the
face % tell us that I'VE had a rebellion
in ISIS, in Ireland, buf we pardoned
smith o Brien, and Mitchell, and Nea-
CHER. aud We venture 10 propose 10 him
president Johnson) our own example. y
Your own example i In a two pennv
rebellion, where not one drop q
blood was shed; in a "Whita-boy" In
surrection, the motive power Of which
Eas one-half denuncistions Of "the
Union, and the other half whisky
snd red flags; in a mere eoryus-
cation Of mob-elo4Ssace, declama-
tory patriotism and gas in an incipi-
eut outbreak where no act Of violence
was proven, and no mortal soul eyer
came within gun-shot of the smell &c
powder. IN thst case, the British Gov.
ernmcnt Sentences half a dozen lead
crs 70 beShanged and quartered-forss
more 20 trausportstion Cor lie. azd
then turns round and eomnends 70 IA
Americans her own example," Ran.
pie IN Whai9 Here is jefferson Davis
q PeJured traitor, stepped ia ssaitio,
rom the cradle, and now red wiah II !
blood OF Thousands, shed uDon u q
battle held IN opposing hs Internal
scheme OF usurpation. We sav NOT \.
ing Of the alleged ultssior crime ~
completely in the murder OF our Pres;-
dent since not even the Times Is brp-
tal enough 70 extenasas. or apologize
for that
But taken ~ naked question oF r,,l,.
elton and treason, when did Great
Britain ever fNi. 10 visit the last ven
geance Of the law upon her own trsis..
ors, whether 81 home or abroad9 70
che Times produce US one instance e,
q be drawn into comparison for !, ~
ment with our own rebellion. "a /; ,
uill have reasacked history to corr =
purpose. Why, less than thir ev go
$50, I've suppose that is recens : cnns,,L
% be called modern history y 4, 49,,
Canadian Rebellion Of 1855, sreat Br;,-
ain stained the scaffolds of thst prov.
lnoe with the blood Of fourt cen eonvict
Cd rebels, three Of wh am had baeD
american ciusens,l trans ,orteS tvro,,,, !,
seven, and banished wit s,,s,t Eor,,,s ~
uisl about two hundr Al ,,,osa ~.
ward Of go political nr;sonersr vy,r..
confined az one time IN 49, ;.;I. :,
Montreal slone Tha tis IT, 80 -
land Furnishes rebelh op-rbers,',- -, sts
5aas herself stroPF, enough 70 put 4
Cosh ana YET modern Europe AZ
i orc cut ono pree' sdent for capital pun
eminent m such \ cSse IL on pacL
AnlInsn moralisi- OF the Times a tbera
any .hyp'oosSy zoo gross, any lie too
-leinoeoi 5ot, the consummste brazep.
ness OF year ooantenanceY
IN me lri "A rebellion of lTQSit
80. % at England hung men 81
- -, AZ eF drum-head Colrts-nsrtiaI
-. - zee "a Courts Of Inquiry" hi.
-. ~ months after the ins1rraction
49, - =, e 1s.ally quelled, and when she
=, sPlo PoFuon between the powars ~
eae y ofernnant and the feablo fc-oss
% tlAs reoels was 80 great az N 49,
away al Pretext OF excuse for sev.r;,,'
- a snieguari for the futnrs Tts.s
pages o. modern history are rt.;nes
VITA no oloodier OF more orpsl -o,,..'s
t.lan the political vengeance ,vb;.h 49,
1nghanmen Of lbs visited upon their
osh oountrymen and blood. Atrocitie.
are there recorded such as mae
TIE blood tingie with horror. Fven
L1e hendish crnelties Of The SOUTH
ern rebels toward our loyal prisoner.
nave their parallel In The treatment er.
perienced b. captive Irishmen IA thoee
Gays IS well IS in the SLOW starvatios
. ne Aneriean Revolutionary prison
an murdered il the hull-s al ths r..
se9 p-lson-ships and the rnartvr. holS.
e n ellGbcut-Eay. Verflv. far /. ,-ss.---