The Black Republican., 1865-05-20
pREsrpENT JoHNsoNs PROCLAMATION
!. OPINIONS N OF TIE NEW YORK PRESS.

5~a3s ssF 81
OPINIONS OF THE NEW YORK PRESS |
The Tribune is inclined to doubt the com
plicity of JEFF. Davis, Thompson, Tucker,
ETC., in the /
AssAss1NATroN CONSPIRACY. |
We quote
| Until the facts shall have been disclosed, |
there will be a natural hesitation to DelIeVe |
that the rebel chiefs denounced in our new
| Presidents proclamation were really I'M |
| Dlicated in the murder of his lamented pre-
| decessor. There can be no doubt whatever
that there is "evidence in the Bureau OF
Military Justice that Jefferson DAVIS d 20
abetted the assassination of President LIn-
coin; but the evidence has not yet peen
trayersed, and sifted, and scrutin1Zed; ana
| If NAV be found to consist of hearsay tales
| and the ambitious outgivings of melo-
| dramatic villains of the Wilkes Booth genus.
Tnnocent letters have often been made 10
hear sinister Interpretation IN the ngnt OF
events undreamed of when those letters
were written; and universal experience has
long since affirmed the insecurity OF judging
case whereof only one side, at most, mas
been heard.
: Rut the natural probability of the charge
is heightened almost to incrediblllty Wheh
J we consider how all but impossible II was
that the reballion should derive any auvan. wen.
) fare from the Presidents death, or even
! from that of any halfdozen chiefs whom
i tbe assassins might hope to kill. 1t is not
, now first ascertained, even III Rlcnmonu
g that the loyal millions, and not their clyli
: or military leaders, have made ana upnelq
! the war for the Union: They hao 9ecItso .is y
h to fight, if need should be, before either the
II late President or his Cabinet had made up
: their minds to do so and they have gone
Le through in that spirit with less dependence
ON or aid from leadership, civil or military
than any successful people ever had III y
Il 1NOQ~1 Fn IrTlI
dozen men on the presumption that UNI thl
Mt would break down the national resistance
to disunion was q folly whereof we Cal
RS with gread difficulty believe the accuse'
ee guilty. They might as nationally nav
plucked and destroyed half dozen head
MT of wheat from spacious held, ana LII
ad agine that they had consigned the oWhe
Of that field to inexorable starvation.
ed The World still argues that Mr.. Johnso
mt made mistake in offering rewards for tn
arrest of persons known to be outside
of the jurisdiction of the United States y"
o9I3 extract:
tie If such persons are guilty, it is plain thi
''' they win not come to any place where the
,od ! could be arrested under the authority of oil
por Government There is only one way, ther
7%t af fore, in which the offer of such reWart
nd could have any tendency to secure. the
10 arrest, and that is. by tempting the cupldl
nd of detectives to violate the sovereignty
of the nation that harbors them. 1t Is tr
oo1 VI that the proclamation is so wOrded that
T@9 I" technically steers clear of this aftrol
'po as the rewards are offered only for the
icb arrest within the United States b
,iSt- such an offer is, on its face, nugatory, Whe
ro5 the persons are known to be within a 4
= y ot eign jurisdiction, and are certain not
Nv come back There is no possibility OF tn
~ being arrested i'll the United States, uni
lion they are first Kidnapped and brought he
, lev We are then brought to this sharp dllemn
for for the reward is either offered knowing 1t TO
lon futile, or else it is temptation TO VOL
Ia the territory of a foreign power. we
confident that had Secretary Seward dra
tho or revised the proclamation, it would
go have been open to this criticism.
INC The Herald remarks:
iiIInS We suppose it not impossible that Da
rs at may get out of the country. Our seapo
5 q" is so great in extent that it is hardly pc
,;1,oo Bile to guard it all with sufficient vlglanc
: 4bo insure his capture But ii he should
! i omo Trho away. we hope that the Government
Tbn unhesitatingly demand him OF any coul
"a he may fy to. The demand should be III
izon' irrespective of whether or no we nave
astic Extraditicn Treaty with that partlc
"'''O country, and it should be made with s
A., cient force behind to go and take the
" ~ he he AS a common enemy of the human rae
;tions case any slloolo w 1ro him mn ia
The country ChaS icIueeo ~ ~ . ,rorar or
fn
J,oSi, -, Al civilized nation. 1t has lapsed into bi
ino0A | rism, and its territory should be treate
+i+lod though it were the waste that it ought t
Julius The Times adds:
Dolice If we now succeed in making out a
seize and satisfactory case against Davis, II
less it hardly make much difference, as far
is cut name and memory go, whether we
body's him and hang him or not. Whatever
body may think of the lawfulness or IL
we'll fulness of the rebellion, there is no C
val of of the civilized world in which an ass
ty-first of his tastes and antecedents would no
~ his himself ruined and wretched man.
Victo- those VINO looked lightly on his crime
lis ALI hardly dare to avow their Indifference
1g the or make parade of sheltering him or
ext. ciating with him. And, although We
lrdaki, not. perhaps, be able to secure the e8
chmas. ton. we should certainly be entitled
Muse sist upon his expulsion from every co
for the in which the executive retains the POI
lge, of expelling aliens or, in other words,
val; in | the whole European continent. In En-
cen in he might find refuge, but it would
useum, | refuge of an outlaw-of q murderer
ing punishment on point of lava
e rela- ton which q man of Dayis's spirit
, about hardly support very long.