The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-22

Wen Is this not right isn't it wiser
/ Isn't It common sense Why these
l men talk here as though they had been
doing nothing. They told an anecdpte
I of our President last sumner when
they were rushing in there 70 get par
dons at such a terrible rate. Well the
president had seen them Tor about i've
wears down here at Nashville and un-
I derstood them very we'll. Many OF
them were old acquRintances of his.
I Afler while in fetching up by zig
gag and spiral motion they had let him
1 know they had come 10 get little par
don. EEHughter. sWelI what have
| YOU been doing that YOU want n par
dom" stOh 1 have been doing nothing,
| was always a Union man-stood up
for the Union as long as it WAS possible
| in our settlement. Never consented 10
their prosecuting Union men and plen-
ny OF my neighbors know THAT I
| looked amer their wives and children-H
l The President had heard this 81 oflen
that it Is said he remarked to them one
day that he wished he could find some
man that had done sUmething-he was
certain great deal had been done.
Says he 1.-THE first man that comes up
1 thIt has done any of this mischief and
acknowledges It'll will give him a pardon
certain. 8Es
Well these gentlemen come here in
this spirit talking about their rights
and the want of generosity and want OF
charity and the heard 5heartedness and
all TINT sor. of thing. And our good
friends across the water are advising
us-the people OF Great Britain reading
us lessons on charity and humanity
and mRgnanimity and all that sort OF
thing. Gentlemen, II sounds curiouslyi
those of you who are much about this
temple of Justice dwelling among
the old sageS of the Law, and the COM
mentaries on the Constitution of Eng
land do not understand that to be the
temper of that gOVernment-noti in the
habit of treating rebels after that fash
ion. They had very summary and
compendious way of disposing OF them.
One OF the great commentators on the
laws of England, while speaking of
treason as the most terrible of crimes
and summation of all the misdeeds that
a man can perpetrate, from petty lar
ceny up to murder, proceeds and says:
1.-THE punishment for treason is some
thing very exemplary and ter
rible. The offender is TO be drawn,
and not carried, to the place of
execution. He is there to be hanged
by the neck, but not till he is dead. he
is then TO be taken, laid upon the
ground, his bowels torn warm and pal
plating and still alive from his body
and cast into the flames; his heart then
taken out, his head cut of, his body
the pleasure of the King, which meant
to hang them upon the gate posts to be
peIted by boys and weather, until they
disappear. They have got little oyer
thar way OF killing people out right.
But nation that has such statutes on
its book-executedw within the last hun
dred years, stands In very poor atIi-
tude to talk to us about liberality and
generosity, and all those things. We
can taSesuc lessons from some people,
but not from them. ELaughter.l Peo-
pie that tie Sepoy lnutineers to the
mouths oftheir cannon and blow them
into nonentity, a people that show
their tender mercies as Great Britain
recently showed hers TO the blacks of
Jamaica. Gentlemen take the history
of all lands, England, France, Austria,
back into the earlierssages of the world,
lands ofGrecian and Roman story, and
when, 1 ask you, in the all, can you
find such an example of magma
nimity and iorbearance as is exhibited
by the American people even now, ac-
cording to the most extreme plans that
are projected by anybody. Talk about
an English traitor being permitted to
sit in either House of Parliament; go to
the polls and vote; be an officer. in the
Executive department of that govern
ment. Some things you might talk
about there and not be laughed at, but
this is not one ofthen.
Gentlemen, we propose to these men
who have forfeited their lives and prop
erty by the laws of all civilized nations
to take neither. a few OF the principal
offenders the PRESIDENT has retained for
the purpose of final trial that the laws
of our land may be INDICATED and It
may asserted from the highest tribunal
known that treason is crime, and a |
crime that the nation has power TO pun |
ish; but the great body of them 1t is |
neither proposed to punish nor to take |
even their property. think the Pres
in keeping that he is prepared to ex- |
pertinent upon llaughterl in the way of |
showing the world that treason is a |
crime-that It is 10 be made odious and |
traitors punished. One of the first |
utterances he made at the beginning of |
our people and cautiontng them to be-
ware OF the dangers before them, and a
Judge OF one of our courts confronted |
him and he says, sThe time will come, |
sir, when we have judges on the bench
who viii declare what treason is, and |
how IL is to be punisbed,n He has
kept that steadily in view from that /
time TO this. lApplause.l But this
great body, the multiplied thousands
thatare guilty oftreason, tits not propos-
edto punish either in person or property
Amnesties have been granted which
cover the greater portion of them
special pardans to a great many more.
Gentlemen, ought these men not to
be satisfied. and I ask, whether for
their own sake they ought not to be
satisfied Gentlemen this issue has
been decided. Judgment has been rem
dered; execution has been ordered.
You are TO have no new trials. 1t has
been determined on hundred battle
fields thatthis country is to live and
mt in f1ie1st7 FT10esg3f
It has failed; the authority of the ma
lion will continue TO live and the flag
will float over every foot of our do
main from ocean to ocean,-fr0m the
st. Lawrence to the Rio Grande. [Ap-
plause. Why do You desire to particle
pate in the. control and manage
lnent of the government of that
have spit upon und dispised, and
attempted TO destroy, but which has
1verpowered you. Some of you, no
doubt, went into the rebel ion thinking
that was the way to office, honor and
preferment. You did not care about
country North or country South, South
arm Confederacy or any other govern
place for you to sic. That
vas the motive that carried many OF 4
you to my certain knowledge. Well,
you found that was the wrong road,
md now you have come hack and still
ire alter the warm, SOFT comfortable
place to sit down upon, and so you can
ret it inside of Uncle Sans domains
anywhere else. Applause and laugh-
er.1 We are told in the history of the
I'D country of clergyman of the
Church of England, who got to be VII
ar OF the Vicarage of Bray. Amid all 4
he eommotions OF public affairs, the {