Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-05-11
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"FUGITIVE AND VAGABOND."
When murder was first introduced into on
world n mark was set on the brow of the as
sassin, and n part of bis punishment was tina
he should be =" a fuyittre and rdgabond.
Degradation, infamy aud woe, were inevitable
consequences that should ensuo upon the com
mission of this horrible crime, Cam tount
his compcer in Jc0 Darts! The fratricid'
and first inventor of murder has at last fount
his match in infamy and degradation, in thu
embodiment of Chivalry, bon ton, and mos
christian head Of the most refined and SUI
pcrsublimatcd Confederacy, whose foundation
stone was "slarc,y" Treason, under the
lead of this most foul and inluman monster
was for time dignifed by fashion, the re-
spectaGie drones of fashionable society could
not degrade themselves by sywpathsing with
the community in loyalty, or association with
the {" mudsills," whowcre to be the bulwarks
O the nation, and the defenders of human lib
crty. High toned and chivalric ge"Heme"
md ladies, could not reconcile themselves to
the idea of having the government oil this
great nation conducted by a Grail splitter,
their country, their nationality and republican
institutions and liberty, became anulsance
and stunk in their Goldfish noses to such an
extent, that rebellion became virtue aud
leyaltyfa disgrace, in their refined estimation.
Robbery, Arson, highway and byway de-
s,ruction and plundcr, oppression and inhu-
manity Of oil degrees and shapes, were prac'
ticcd aud justified by this high toned chivalry
for four years. Treason, under the lead and
guidance Of jeff Davis, was working out its
legitimate ends among his followers and opcr-
atinq its logical results on himself We have
10 doubt that in the last twelve months during
Grants siege of Richmond, he has often placed
hiinselfn the robes of Byron's Yelled Prophet
and said of his followers and supporters, his
admirers and worshippers, aye, would be
,upcs, and yc are" The logical result Of
such treason as this could be nothing short of
all the crimes which ever have or can degrade
human nature Falschood, in all its shapes
and degrees, theft, from its highest to its
lowest degree, arson from the Government
armorics down through great cities to the
miserable cabin which hardly protects the
lonely but loyal mountainccr in his almost I'M
known fastness, murder, by the rife, rope,
knife, torch and the more demoniac method
Of prcmeditatcd and deliberate system of star
walton of prisoners form but moety of the
long catalogue of yilainy inaugurated and
perpetra,cd by the consent and connivance of
this arck, Gcnd. )
If the spirits Of the damned are permitted
to have knowledge beforehand of the actions
and deeds of tie actors in lilc's drama, who
can imagine the feelings of Benedict 1rnold
Mt this day How the demon must gloat over
these transactions and chuckle at the idea that
at last this country has produced human
devil more degraded and infamous than him
self ifa dozen Benedict Anolds were con-
centrated into one Arnold had Il forctasto
of what is the Specification of u i" fugitive and
n vagabond ;Sit Is to be hcued that JEFF Davis
will not meet thc fate of his iool Booth. but
that he may be reserved for more fearful and
prolonged fate. Ifhe is so utterly sunk in
degradation, moral and political, that fling and
stings of conscience cannot reach his depraved
mature, let him at all events be made fully to
realize the significance of a fugitive and
vagabeud. Let his sentence be of like char
actor of him who was never to hear the " name
ofthc United States" IIcnceforth thc name
Of ri ,Daeis and inJamy, are synonymous
terms, The plotter and contriver of the death
of Abraham Lincoln of that President of the
United States who was slain by the hands of
Treason in the hour when the mighty ener-
gics of his great kind heart were impelling his
clear honest head into ceaselcss efforts to save
The lives of these very traitors. Seeing his
reasonable plots exploded, turns thief and
,ngitire, after having for four years been held
as the model of chiral'y, high toncd gentlemen
and Christian lcadr. The worse than brand
Of CainIiy on his brow; Infamous Devil is
stamped over his whole countenancc as wei
as heart, he isSroclaimed to the world as the
e9nsriyer and abettoroof assassination, in adj
dition to his otherwise long list of chivalric
and high toned riHues. Let him continue to
be q vagakond but nota fugitive. To the
dirst mnE'lcrer, fugitive aud vagabohd, was an
appropriate penalty, but. to the traitor, thief
and ungra.eful assasSin,s fugitive is inappro-
pirate though .ragatoacli is inseparable from
the nature of his .criines. TLet him therefore,
i Ie Living. travelling, but exclusive yaga-
bonds constantly in the .gripe. of the United
States, butnehp permitted to hear the Nance
tno:g 81 3. IA ,ft,y, II,
ESTbe trial of Hon. B. G.. Harris, mem
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