The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-12
mtoheI the MnrfYr.

Mr.. Mitchell, it will be remembered, es-
caned latter some curious practice toqchS
his psrole) from Australia. He went
81 tbe limited States. He received Shelter,
uelcome. and generous hospitality there.
Ha soon disguised and hoTribedA hs-1rsh
friends by declaring himself 8 rampant sd-
vooate Of slavery. He made himself
specially repulsive because Of the coarse
seomplaceney and ehuekling grosshess@
bis svowals on the subject. The martyr
of ffeedom declared that his CREST splrA-
ton was for q plantation of fst nlggers-
He went down South and plotted against
tbe government and the States which had
nrotacted him when lone else would.
What should we think of MszztnI-n he
we're TO repay our shelter by joining .
conspiracy TO destroy ri government
our empire, and our free political orgsnl-
satioa 7. This was what John MItehei did
for the limited States. Such was his
hatred to those who had protected him
that in his bitterness of heart against the
| Northern States, he sometimes forgot for q
moment his adherence of England. No
| Southern pan or tongue ever or
insulted the government and people OF the
| Nerth as did the tongue and pen OF the
outcsst whom the North had saved IN his
bour of peril. He sometimes honored Eq-
rome BY 3 visit and while residing IN fs-
ris. AZ If to show how utterly false had
beeu all his professions of sympathy with
HbaTtv he devoted himself to writing ar
ticles for an Irish Ultramontane paper, IN
which he caIumnisted and denounced the
efforts of the Italian patriots for the indie
nendence Of their country. Returning to
his congenisI occupation in the capital OF
the slave dominion, he exercised his pen m
a Richmond paper by Vituperation against
the free States, against abolition, sgainlt
liberty and against England. No man, 1t
his range to embitter and mako ferocious
the struggle than going on, to rob
it of all the characteristics of courtesy,
and chivalry, TO make it as hateful and
brutal in practice, as it already was IN
principle, on the side of the South. While
Meseher was leading his Irish Brigade up
the heights OF Fredericksburg TO food the
battle field with their gallant blood in the
cause of the North, Mitchell was shrieking,
Kissing and apluttering through Richmond
his venomous zeal for the cause of the
South.
Richmond fell, and Mr.. Mitchell fed
He lived to write treason another day. he
sought a refuge once again in New York
He reckoned, no doubt, partly on the pro
verbal generosity of the people whom be
had so bitterly trsduced, n partly per.
hsps on their contempt for his ignoble sno
pIny enmity. But it would seem that be
has tried even their patience too far, snc
he is now in Fortress Monroe awaiting, il
is said, q charge of treason. The impu'
dence which bore this man into New Yorl
may be well called astounding. 1t is lucky
for him that his crimes were only commit
ted against the government and the PEG
pie whom he so execrated and calumnia
ted. Lucky for him that his treason wa
not against the Emperor of the French
whose intervention in the cause of Ireland
he once SO eagerly invited. His life, NJ
doubt, is safe enough. He will perhspI
aVan once more have benefactors and tht
chance of traducing them. But Whsteve
his fate, England ought to feel some ltd,
interest in it, For but for our now dis
carded system of shooting our convict rub
bish into Australia, the people of Nortl
f America would probably never have beef
vexed by the %ungrsteful society OF Nh
John Mitchell. -eia
The Touching Incident at Hayvar
HAN " .-
; To the. Editor of the Springfield RepnJIi
can:
/. From an intimate acquaintance with on
classmste Anthony A. Rhodes, who is noI
!, dead, a thorough KuUw4v1sS-oE his eircum
: stances and constant attendance at bis bed
; side during his fatal illness, 1 have TO So
=. that each and every one of your CORES
, pondent HCenter's" statements in q recon
? letter entitled 8 Htouching incident is nc
. only incorrect, but eXtraVagsnt to such
, degree that they would seem as well tn
fabrications of his own Imagination, as d.
rived from any knowledge of the fact
!, Anthony Rhodes Joined our class at the b,
ginning of the sophomore year. His 81
pesrance and demesnor showed him 10 b
q man in moderate circumstances and
! decided talent, though perhaps slight e.
u p~erience in the world of retiring dispOs
q tion, he made not many s~cquaintances, b
9 q lew select friends, and these were trU
- and steadfast unto the end. One of OF
; best scholars, and of the purest eharacte
he had gained the respect aud esteem OF .
K who knew him. He was 8 hard student
n working at his studies, as he told me a fe
days before he died, nearly ten hours a DIS,
= applying himself far too closely for q nstl
+ ally delicate constitution, which, togetht
e with the preference that he had csntrscte
d in years gone by, for an extremely simp
L diet, and now, in the midst of the few
and excitement that so severe applicstio
II gave rise to, carried to excess, brougl
4. on, fuor weeks ago to-day, a feYerish heaC
It ache and lassitude. And this, slone, bein
= mentioned in a letter to his parents, Wri
ten at his request more than a week befol
p his death, led his mother TO come 10 Can
y bridge. His room, which your correspol
d dent was also pleased to advert 10, in Il
70 mantle terms, Wss plain, indeed, and chose
: with sn eye to economy, but large, ail
q aud comfortable, and even had he been
n destitute of friends, he would have recei,
n ed every needful attention from the lad
in whose house he lived. While through
out all his illness, from the first indispos
l. ton to the hour of death, his classmAt'
; watched with him and nursed him with
2 mothers care and tenderness.
le We request you, therefore, to insert tn
J correction in your paper and that all oth'
10 newspapers, which have copied the forml
N articles, give place as well to these plsi
70 and simple facts. .s4 sr.
3 G. W. PECKHAM, Glass Secretary.
y HARVARD COLLEGE July 5, 1865.
Personal.
Mr.. CrAik, of Manchester, England. d