Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1865-11-15

HENRY WIRZ has paid the penalty Of
the offences sgainst military Law and the
laws Of humanity with which he was
charged, and Of which he was convicted
by a Military Commission. His poor
vie, summoned away to Georgia by the
death OF one and the Illness of smother
Of her chiljren. was spared the anguish of
being near him when executed, and
denied the auonizinC consolation OF
looking upon his remains after death.
Poor widow !-luckless orphans may
HE TO whom the secrets Of all hearts
ere known" strengthen and sustain the
des5lare ones, WIZ is in his felon's
grave, and his spirit is with God who
gave it, IN his last moments he pro
tested bis innocence OF the imputed
Grim Tor which be died, and faced death
with aseaenity borrowed from confidence
in happy futur" beyond the tomb.
The newspapers inform Us that when
81 was known outside Of the prison yard
where he was executed, that the hang
man had done his Office, the air was rent
with wells of e~xuItation, from the crowd
which had assembled on the house-tops
In the vicinity. Can this be true? Have
VIC become So wol5sh that the stern ret
riburidu OF Justice assumes the aspect of
personal vengeance demOniac TIA.
the launching ola human being into The
awful abyss ~ eternity, can be made a
source of savage ioy2 Are we in The
free, =elfEove-ni1E, enlightened United
States, or have we been transported back
among the LiIsous mobs Of France dur
ing the "Eeign of Terror - a human
soul. endowed with the capabilities ofin-
finite iay or Uuutterable anguish, is being
u-hartdinto the awful vestibule of its ter-
pal HaaI or woe, and a crowd of otherhu
man souls with Ike susceptibilities stand
tip-.Ge in cxpeccalcy-not with prayerful
synr1thies that the fUttering spirit may
find resi- and peace with its benehcent
Tather-5Utwith an eager and bIngy-ap.
petite for r1rragE that gives expression
10 it- qualification in "exul.ant shouts
Of malignant triumph, that the lost one
BIAS taken the final, i~rrevocable plunge
into the dark Hereafter. II twas a spec
taJle al which angels might weep-only
moczing feuds could find in il cause for
iUhilation.
How long are these executions to 20
on how long are Military Commissions
10 stand in the place OF Courts Of Law =
how long is a spirit Of hatred and revenge
10 te inculcated among citizens instead
of that feelingof frsternal kindness which
pervaded the soldiers in the armies OF
both sections, almost Immediately on the !
Cfpgacc2 Have the radicals o.
the North become utterly bloodthirsty? .
Had such a scene as Is described at the /
Of WIZ, taken place al the
OF any of the despOtic Gov
erumenrs Of Europe, American readers
would have stood aghast at its cruel bru-
and 10 would have been Justly held
p as exhibiting the debasing influences
de-gorism in crushing u the sweet
lunali-ie- OF our nature. What VIII
Thought Of Us, when this horrible in
leceney shall be bruited abroad as exhib-
tho -auguiuary fsrocity Of Aineri
.an character The war was, in
ll conscience, scandal enough TO the
cause OF Free Government, c-ounterpoised
lnly by the fact that it lcaped from
Inc very beginning into the magnitude Of
. great Civil War, waged by earnest, sin
and brave men, for the settlement
IF a fundamental principle underlying
De Government it=a'f-aud the further
aet, that when the sword had settled the
controversy, reciprocal respect and e-
eem took the place OF luminosity between
Doe camba-anJs. But Jhe savacery ex- .
ili-ed 5y the populace a, Washington, Z
amale more the base instincts Of Ger
.a wild beasts, who turn upon and rend
lar wounded fellow, than ihe impulse o
civilized human beings. For the q
or bar country, fa- the credit Of {
lr common hgmaniv-wr trust there I
.lI never again De such q scene on this ,
ointment. \