The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1866-04-11
WHY TRAITORS ARE NOT TRIED,

American people
WHY TRAITORS ARE NOT TRIED.
The record of the futile attempt Of The
President Of the United States to arraign
the principal actors in the late wicked rebel
lion is presented in this days paper, on our
outside, and we call the attention Of the pub
lie to its startling disclosures. Let the in
telligent people Of this country understand
from it, why one year has passed since the
war was ended in the field, and no man has
yet been brought to the bar Of justice. They
will see that the guilt of this delay does not
lie upon the conscience Of President JOHNSON.
We have shown heretofore, and so conclu-
sively that his bitterest enemy has not had
the hardihood to attempt q refutation, that
in no public act has the Executive faltered
in that line Of duty which the omnipotent
voice of the loyal people inauguratcd in the
platform Of principles on which they went
INTO the canvass Of 1864. He has followed the
precepts then so solemnly and imposingly ini-
tiated, without shadow Of turning" Among
the pledges then made was, "to aid the Gov
eminent in quelling by force Of arms the
rebellion now raging against its authority,
and IN bringing TO The punishment due to
their crimes the rebels and traitors drrdyed
against It," When ANDREW JOHNSON by
the saddest event in American history be-
came President, he remembered that DELHI
crate vow Of his wronged and outraged
countrymen From the moment Of his in
stallation into Office to this hour he has
steadily labored to put the leaders Of the re-
bellion on trial. He has left no stone I'M
turned to effect this object. He reserved for
this purpose FIVE hundred Of the most con-
| spicuous Of the Southern traitors, those who
| stood out prominent in the dark history Of
| treason-the traitor President and his Cabi-
| net-the traitor Senate and Congress-the
traitor General-in-Chief and his principal
military assistants-the traitor naval Com
manders-and the traitor diplomats-were
selected to go before the highest court in the
land, to receive the highest condemnation;
and, if convicted, to pay the severest penalty
for their CHASTITY crimes.
The multitude were to be forgiven. Par
don for the people, and punishment for the
leaders, is the historical fate Of all rebelions,
and the wisdom of pagan philosophy joins
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lanthropy in sparing the many while punish
inc Tho rsw The broadcast amnesty for those
who abandoned the ranks of treason was one
Of the pripcipal features Of the great policy
of ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ANDREW JOHNSON
inherited that policv. and in the main pursued
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ana inc Irightiui wrongs which ei'n war nau
caused; to stamp with proper MANY py the
most august judicial authority the stain oil
treason: and by example to deter the future
from n rendition of its incalculable wrongs
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,h,,a,,.r ha. S,,n 'r oamni,,.S Persons who arr
800 n,,h a. con mi..ion ,bould b.v. G.r ant
impartial trials in the highest civil tribunal. of thu
country, in order tina. the Constitution and TIL
a~, may be July v,na,ea,sa 'no rum e,sA.'y -, q
AOnsa ,. anu =. n"u,.h.a .nd ,hs oa.no. mad
ins,mou'. and a, N, sam. TIM. that III. ou..tio,
NAV bs iudicslIy settled finally and forever, tina
no State Of its own will has the right to rsnOunc
e Its place in the Union"