The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-07-12
Sensible views against The Clamor for Blood.

Sensible Views against the Clamor for Blood.
The New York Tribune, says the New Orleans True
Delta in recent ISSUE has capital reply to one OF its
subscribers who had taken it to task Tor It's opposition
to the hanging and murder of the southern leaders
under the form of law. Mr. Greeley, the head of
this correspondence tries beat into the heads of the
advocates Of blood some common sense. We quote:
The civilised world has long since determined and
agreed that while to kill in order to overcome
rebellion IS perfectly lustitiable to execute them as
rebels after their revolt has been utterly suppressed
of very dubious policy and questionable humanity
Austria killed many thousands of Hungarians in putting
down the uprising under Kossuth and no one demurred
she hung thirteen ouy of the military leaders surren-
dered Internationally by Gorgey, at Villages, and all
chrstendom cried shame upon her Suppose these had
been surrendered under capitulaon like that of Lee
or Johnston, or Dick Taylor, or Kirby Smith, and she
bad proceeded thereafter to try convict sentence and
hang them, she would have been execrated peured
and infamous to the end of time. To this effect the
verdict Of history is emphatic and overwhelming See
what it says of the execution of Marshal Ney under the
Bourbons, in 1915. Yet he was precisely such fore
sworn traitor as Robert f. Lee and not half SO well
shielded by terms OF capituation)
If we could see how the hanging of score or so of
those rebel Chiefs who not protected by military
capulation, would benefit either the blacks or the poor
whites OF the south, might be reconced to it, for
we regard the reimbursement and elevation Of race
as OF more consequence than any dozen lives But it
seems to US that hanging in cold blood for no other
lated to enshrine them in the memory of their followers
to embittcr the late rebels against the Unon its sup
porters, and its sway, and to prompt them to wreak
their hate and vengeance that class Of Unionists
who are still exposed to their wrath-hat is the just
emancipated blacks In our Judgment the hanging of
six rebels merely as rebels will cause the deathby
privatop, famine violence, of many thousands of
freedmen, and interpose formidable barrier to the
elevation Of their class to citizenship and voice in the
government Of their respective Staes hence land for
other reasons,) we are inhexiby opposed to it.
10 put our ideas more completely within the mental
grasp of Mr.. Smith, will express it thus: There are
still great social and political meiorations to be effected
at the south-meiorations which we deem essential to
the highest well-being Of our country and of all our
people. We not how to effect these changes wtl-
out powerful southern help; and where labor Of love
is to be performed, we consider one live man worth
more than two dead ones You can't hang men (eye
by proxy and reasonably calculate on their further
cooperation and support and want the hearty good
will and active help of many southern whites as
possible in placing the southern blacks in that position
which seems vital to the wellbeing of all classes and
Of every section Hence (among other reasons) cur
hostility to hanging in the premises.