, 1865-04-15
What Shall be Dune with 1ett- Dav1a7
iFfnm the n, T. T1mes1

We are going to hang the murderer Of
Hurry Lazarus, d week from next Fcjday.
Whxs Ayoung varlet born, haply, Of d rag
picker in back attic Of Cow Bay, his swad-
ding clothes ragged dlsh-clont, suckled In
adpltesated gin, weaned over m apple.sta1l,
his first lessons the choicest phrase6logy Of
b,asrhemy and ohscenlty, knowing nothing
that he had a soaA md wit,css OF nil distinc-
tioe,between himself and the street ours,
sayesthat the dogs bit him and he kicked the
dogs, well grounded for his early years In the
,ndImsnts Of picking and stealing, pupil Of
jock Sheppard at the Bewcr; Theater. aud
in due course removed to the Benic!a Boys
Finishing School-ior aught we know Bor-
natd Friery VAS guilty of all that, aud now
having brought hls yillalny to climax By
getting "drnnk as lord" md idiotfcalty
killing the: :flrst NM hs H ran AGAINST, the 1aw
pat out OF the Eay, and this it is going to do.
But, 20 to now don't touch o halr of JET
ferson. Uavls. True, Le spent long years In
>ha:chfnE treason against MS country. True,
he has spilled the hearts blood of four hum
dred thousand good and true Inen, who now
has starved to death sixty thousand OF our
song and brothers, with Reorganization of
assvd se5s e e 1sl s1 - Tst ;G e Esa;s; 2is;
%'H 70 %esl af font Sa On ac Mss ms ssn ssn
to Congress when man. He, sat on velvet
In Wash ngton when reyosvinE3R 3R1r,cide. He
walked on velvet in :,Richmokkswhen mur-
derlpg Ills myrads. As for hemp, therefore
vulgar hemp-lon't speak Of it in connec-
tion with Mr. Jefferson Davls.
b. The chine Of Jeu. Davis admits Of no ex-
tenuation. He was tho prime mover Of Me
/ rebellion. Without him, probably 1t would
+ never hare taken m organized form at all.
He was the head and front Of the conspiracy
that precipitated the South into rvvolu-
tion,n md, he has eTeT since been the
| head anl font Of the Confcderacy
tnat has battltd against the Government
The respe visibility for this colossal treason
| primarily attarhes to him as principal.
>Wb&eycr may be done to- his accompllces,
/ or to the accessories after the fact, he at
least should suffer the extreme penalty Of
| 1le1aw: But there Is reason even beyond
| the tnct that be iss The arch-traitor. JEFF.
Davis Is ditectly responsible far the staraing
| Of our prisonerS. This internal work Was car
1led cut IN pursuance of plan deliberately
settled upon by him as CommandeE.in-C -Chiet
OF the Confederate Armies, It was not only
violation Of the rnles OF war, but was q
barbarity that was never before conceivedof
within the pale Of human civilization. No
| educated man, who had not the spirit OF q
flend. could haye been capable of 1t. Mana
eahib, the leader Of the East India insulrec-
y 11D0s IS Falacu ulUuslEfO1 luE Guuldu species
| for suffering the Caw1porc MASSACRE. But
! what was this butchery in hot blood Of three
OF four hundred, IN comparieon with thecold-
/ blooded mu'd der, by slow starvation, Of forty
t thousand, pcspetrnted under the leader Of
| the american rebellion?
Out upon magnanimity toward such q
wierch. There are p1ovocations, as we have
read, at which "tha soul Of every Gol.crel'
ted man flames wholly into one divine plaze
Of eac1ed w,a'h." Ofsuch provocatiUs nev.
ct wKre there greater than the acts Of JEFF.
Davis. To endeavor to save him from retsi:
butive justice is to Outrage every enlightened
sentimtnt, every unperve.ted ina'inct. It's
to unaermtne every sanction Of numa1 Ew,
10 zap every conservative principle Of sluf1an
government. There is no one thing whict
th.eatens such evils to our llpertles as I'll.
substitution Of maWkish sympathy for ths
yir,uous ind snation which foul guilt ough
to excite. A shallow philan.hropism has bee1
growing II ic which has already cankercd tn
moral sense of The nation not little. Th'
t old Achil,ean wrath against untrue men, th
grim old Puritanic intolerance Of the worker
Of in,quity, has been giving place to a senti
mental1ty 81 impotent as II is passionless.