The New York herald., 1865-06-11

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the uneven pulsations of the past four years
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We perceive by our last arrivals that
the English press pretty generally has volun-
teered its advice to our government ss to its
duty in the treatment of the rebels and traitors
whom it has now within its reach. Having
done all it could, with some honorable excep-
tious, to encourage the Southern leaders In
their attempt to destroy the Union, now that it
sees the ruin it has brought upon them, it
takes up new role, puts on the
garb of mercy, and invokes US to behave
like Christians toward fallen foe. The
London Times of May 27 especially under.
takes to read this country lesson con the
extreme impolicy of shedding the blood" of a
man whom success would have elevated to the
position of "a monarch" and of the "courtesies
due generous and noble-minded adversary"
The Times, in its past and present eulogies of
jeff. Davis, ignores altogether the felonious
intent with which he began the rebellion,
and the crimes he has committed in carrying it
on. Incendiarism, poison, murder, piracy and
pestilence have all been resOrted to as a part
Of his system. He has, in fact, no rightful
claim to be considered an honorable enemy,
but the very reverse
Be this as it may, the argument of the Times,
like its garbled history of the treatment of
rebels by its own government in times past, is
really contradicted by the facts as they are
recorded by its historians, and furnishes us
examples quite contrary to what is insinuated.
The attempt made by the Pretender in IT'S to
recover the crown of England was by no means
considered proper case for the observance of
these "cOurtesies." James was, in fact what
Jefferson Davis was only likely to become--a
"monarch" and his authority was for long
time undisputed at home and abroad. But the
attempt was failure; it was styled rebellion,
and though his followers surrendered in large
numbers as prisoners of war, as at Preston,
capitulation did not save the leaders from the
scaffold. Of fifteen hundred prisoners captured
there were mahy Scotch noblemen, English
diately after the capitulation Lord Charles
Murray and four other officers were shot, three
distinguished civilians were tried for treason
and executed, and the celebrated Earl of Der
wentwater and Viscount Kenmure were be-
headed Sixty-six more of the prisoners were
tried for treason, twenty-five were executed,
and many died in prison from the severity of
their treatment In 1745 the Young Pretender
attempted to regain the throne of his father, and
for time was almost successful. Gladsmuir
and Fakirk were the Bethel and Bull run of
his campaigns and his cause looked hopeful.
But the battle Of Culloden changed the
fortunes of the war, and threw large
numbers of the rebels into the hands
of the Duke of Cumberland. The prisoners
were treated by the government after the old
fashion. The jsils were crowded with them,
where large numbers miserably perishcd.
Seventeen of the rebels, so-called, we're tried
by special commission and executed on Ken
sington Common, many more suffered at other
places, fifty more were put to death as desert
ers, and eighty-one in Scotland, as traitors.
Lords Kilmarnock and Balmerino were be-
headed on Tower Hill, and old Simon Lovett,
though eighty years Of age, and historical
character, so weak that he had to be carried
on litter, also expired on the scaffold, with
quotation from Horace in his mouth
Dulce ct decorum est pro patria mori
His knowledge of the classics did not save him
from the axe of the headsman. Nor did Irish.
rebels, forty years afterwards, fare any better
than the Scotch. In 1885, Earl Moira, in vain
attempting to persuade the English govern
ment to allay the discomfort in Ireland, where
the most cruel acts of torture we're common
practices against suspected persons, without
any legal evidence, the Irish became rebels,
and attempted to establish their eirindependence-
a long and still cherished hope Of that people.
How the attempt failed is well known, and the
treatment received from the conquerOrs Is his
torical. Many distinguished persons suffered
death for their share in this rebellion, and
among them were the Shesrer, O'Coigley, Har-
vey, and the celebrated and lamented Robert
Emmett. Thirty thousand lives were lost
in this short and sanguinary struggle;
for England was not to be appeased
without the fullest vengeance Ireland is, in
fact, still under the ban. Trials and executions
for high treason have been common occurrences
ever since in the political history of these SYM
pathizing and compassionate Englishmen. In
1903, Colonel Despard and six others, for plan
ming to seize the Kings person on the opening
Of Parliament, to destroy him and overturn the
government, were, within month afterwards,
tried by special commission and executed
We have on former occasion briefly given an
account Of the fate Of the Cato street conspira-
tors, who were executed in 1920 for merely
conspiring to kill the Ministers while at Cabi-
net dinner, and we could nnd still other in
stances Of the rigor with which English judges
and juries, inspired by the government, have
always pursued those guilty of treason.
And still more recently we have seen how
those nations Of India who have attempted to
throw of the yoke of England, placed on their
necks with cruelty and oppression that have