The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-17

denly and cruelty crushed II now appears
that, IN utterDg that proclamation, the Pres-
cent OF the United STATES was unfortunate
enough to hold altogether different views with
regard TO it's Importance and efficiency from
those OF Underwood, of the District Court OF
Virginia. Consequently, Judge Underwood, of
the District Court OF Virginia, has set aside the
proclamation as thing Of no account whatever.
The Rebellion is revived. There is, and can be,
no peace. The Southern States are still in
deadly opposition 10 the Government of the
S1 Hnl1ied States Would that the President. before
declaring peace throughout the country, had
only asked Judge Underwood, of the District
Court OF Virginia il he might do it
1t seems that some time ago somebody booted
or otherwise injured or maltreated one of those
angehc beings called, under the new dispense
lion, by the spirited epithets at once tender and
descriptive-a 'colored" boy. We quote the
following from the record, lest our readers
should consider 1t burlesque:-"He was tried
before the provost Judge, under the Freedmen's
Bureau, tor assaulting aud inuring negro bov,
and found guilty, and sentenced to pay five hun.
dred dolla' 8 10 he bog % and to be imprisoned
Till paid" 1t is easy to imagine that under such
sentence as this, the sentenced person, how
ever able TO pay the black mail, would prefer
imprisonment, Tor some time any how. r..
The prisoners name was Thomas Javin, and
to prison he went. The crime was a refusal TO
obey the Freedmen's Bureau in paying the small
sum OF five hundred dollars to "a oolored boyn
and his immediate friends, who were to share
the money. 1t is probably one out of thou.
sand cases conceived, ,cohcocted, and conducted
by the Freedmen's Bureau. IL is only one of
many thousands which the Civil Rights law will
stimulate the black mailers to get no every
where. But when the Peace Proclamation was
Issued, Mr. Javin's friends took advantage of the
haDeas corpus, and brought the prisoner before
Judge Underwood under that writ. Judge
Underwood remanded him to custody. He de-
cided that the Peace Proclamation did not apply
to such cases. He went further. "He held that
this proclamation, in excepting Texas practi-
caily declared that the Rebellion continued to
exist. AS lorg, therefore. as Texas is excepted,
the writ could not apply to such cases as that of
Javin lin Virginia!) even il the Proclamation
was legal, which is boldly denied by some of the
ablest juIists " as quoth Underwood.
Altogether the best part of the whole per
tormance is the statement OF a radical print in
Washington, that the JaYin case was "leelern
to be followed, ii successful by the release of
jeff. Davis under slmilak writ. The great
good powerful, and patriotic Judge Underwood
has blocked that little game OF the secessionists,
a1d 1t is now confidently asserted that neither
the pardon OF the President, nor the combined
powers of Congress, and the army and navy of
the United States, could take Davis out of
Fortress Monroe without the consent of Judge
Underwood, OF the District Court 'of Virginia.
There is to be seen almost daily, in the Capt
tol, gentleman who sits with broom-brush
in hand, at the door OF small apartment, dis
playing the conspicuous sign" Exclusively for
members and officers OF the Senate onlv." This
colored gentleman, occupying this important
official position, has an idea that he owns the
Capitol, and that he IS the Government of the
United States. Stanton was similarly Impressed
during the me OF war, and now Judge Under
wood, OF the District Court CT Virginia, seems
to be bitten BY the same mania.