The Portland daily press., 1866-06-11
8 han Jeasrson Davis DO brought to trial
VOICE OF THE LOYAL PRESS OF MAINE.


ia man can deserve hanging for conspir-
ing to DESTROY the government under which ne
lives then left Davis deserves hanging. Al
exander H. Stephens who is in especial favor
with the Democracy, who was vice president
of the rebel government, and now Senator Ell
ect from the State OF Georgia, mas declared
that. there was no cause for rebellion. Jeif.
Davis had been educated atthe expense of the
Government and had taken oaths to support
and maintain 1t.
And vet the Democracy are laboring to ex-
cite sympathy for Davis because his trial is
delayed! Whose fault is it that he is liable to
a trialp Whose fault is it that he is prison.
err? He cannot sleep because of the stesdy
tramp of the sentinel. Whose fault is it that
the sentinel PAGES backward and forward past
his roomp Is it the sentineps tread that dis
turbs his sleep, or is it the thought ofthe poor
starving, dying Union soldiers in his prison
pens? The only injustice in the case Is that
the wretch is allowed to live. we nave no
patience with men who express sympathy ior
Davis and complain of his treatment. VINO
ever heard those Democrats tnat now COM
plain of his treatment utter WORD OF COM
pianist against the rebel government ior tne
murder by starvation anu abuse OF Union Prs
oners?
From tbe Oxford Democrat, June 81
Jndo;no from the course of the administra-
ton in dealing with rebels and rebel leaders,
we NAV as well come to the conclusion that
treason is no longer crime. 20 maintain on
the one hand that traitors should be punished
and ON the other that the most atrocious re-
bells should be pardoned, even before trial, is
naradox worthy of the administration of An
drew johnson. All that have not been par
doned will be, from JEFF. Davis down; So that
hereafter to be consistent, all laws making
treason crime should be struck from the sta
tute books. JEFF. Davis is becoming more and
more lion every day, and from present APP
pearances, it will not be long before the arch
traitor and despot will be running at large
And as to his ever being tried for tresaon Or
any other act connected with the reDellion,it is
the greatest humbug even seriously tothink OF
it, A few OF the rebel villains i'll the humo-
Ter walks of life have been tried and hung,
while the scoundrels who set them on ana
gave orders to starve ana murder our soidlefs
in rebel prisons, are struttlnS around WIN
their pockets crammed full OF pardon from
President johnson.
iFrom the Ellsworth American, June 81
Nothing has yet taken place in the way
furnishing this arch rebel that would indicate.
= purpose OF the part of the government to
snake treason odious." This parleying hest
tancy if we may call it SO, has left a deep i'm
preston on the public mind that our rulers do
not truly believe that treason is crime which
should be punished. Ii the same alacrity in
the disposal of the leading traitors, had been
evinced on the part of the national authori-
tiles. that in times past has been mani
tested in disposing of less noted agents of re-
bellion, then the public would have been COM
paratively satisfied. Such has rot been the
case, and therefore, go among loyal men, and
the first question asked will be when is JEFF.
Davis to be tried and hung?" The question
of guilt is clear in the minds of the people; and
the logical and inevitable sequence, "to be
hung BY the neck until he be dead, is taken
as a matter OF course. No one thing has done
so much to cast distrust on the administra-
ton, then, as this shilly-shallying course, in
treating matter wherein the public convlc-
ton is so profound and exacting.
The best thing that could have taken place,
for the present quiet and future peace Of the
country, would have been to have Davis shot
on the spot and at the instant of his capture.
Had some loyal bullet found lodgment in the
brain of him who for years was planning the
ruin of the country that had educated him to
a profession which was intended to defend,
and not to be practiced in running it, then the
public mind would have been in measure
duieted and satisfied. Woe be to the public
man or men who connive at the release of
Davis without any punishment for his great
crimes. And to-day there is greater dlstrust
of President johnson and Secretary Seward,
on account of the neglect to deal with Davis,
than there is for any one or all the veto mes
sages yet promulgated by the President, or the
silly kilograms alleged to have been written
by the Premier. Or it may be that the ne
elect to act in the one case has only served to
intensity the feeling that the vetoes were not
the natural outgrowth of genuine loyalty
However this may be, one thing is certain,
and congressman and Cabinet ministers will
learn It when they mmgle again with the
masses, that nearly all the States where the
rebellion did not take root, demand that JEFF.
Davis shall be tried for treason and hung.