The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-13

From me Do1g Netos
TIE Presidents late proclamation seems TO
have been generally interpreted as restoring
the privilege of the writ OF habeas corpus TO
the States lately "'n insurrecuon." This
fact has again directed the public attention
to Mr.. DAVIS. On Tuesday, MIR. Boutwell,. OF
Massachusetts,, offered Iseries of resolutions
instructing the Committee on The JUDICIARY
TO inquire whether any legislation is neces-
sary to bring him and MI. Clay to trial upon
the infamously false charge of com plicity with
the assassination oil MIR. Llncoln and also upon
the charge of treason. Against this i'll.
omened movement OF the radicals obviously
delened to bring about the trial OF Mr. Davis
be ore military commission MIR. Raymond of
this city, kindly protested by Offering resolu-
tions requesting the President to take steps for
the speedy trial OF Mr. Davis, upon toe charge
of treason, In the State Il VIRGINIA. cor in some
other district in which I've may be legally liable
for tnal,n Mr.. Raymond proposed that these
resolutions should be at once put upon their
passage; but Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens, the CIeon of
the Assembly, insisted that they should be re-
ieIred to the judiciary Committee, and to this
Mr.. Raymond, after some feeble remonstrance
consented. We presume that the committee
will make lte report az an early day.
he President informed Congress, on the I'd
o. February, that the difficulty in the way OF the
trial Cf Mr.. Davis lay in the fact that Chief JUS
tce Chase whose circuit embraces the State OF
VIM ina, was unwilling to hold court in that
State until Congress had "had an opportunity
to consider and act upon tine whole subject of
the .estoration of the broken relations OF that
State with the nation, and the supersedure
there of the military by the civil admlnlstra-
tior The conflict between the Executive and
the legislative Departm ents of the Government,
thus sharply defined by the Chief Justice as
long ago as October, has not ceased, and still
DELAYS the trial OF Mr. Davis; for we presume
that tb' re is no doubt that he Will be tried The
question really at issue between the resident
and the radicals is whetherth Chief MAGISTRATE
OF the late Confederate States will be tried be-
fore commission organized to convict" or
before a Court wherein he shall be fairly and
1mpart ally tried before Jury OF his country
men. This issue the President can al any time
decide in accordance with hIs own views of duty
and wishes; and more than this, he has at all
times IN reserve his sreat prerogative OF Gle
mGncy.
Meanwhile q Fortress Monroe correspondent
OF a city paper, who never willingly says a word
that can arouse sy sympathy for the distinguished
prisoner OF state, says:-
The great Rebel chietain himsclf continues on the
even tenor OF hls way, pretty much TOR months
past HIS obduTate will and intense pride OF eharac-
ter have borne hIm Up thus far; but there IS an end
to human endurance and the words. al breathe, ana
can ear" OF Byron must merge into poetic fic-
non. 1t is becoming thus wit DAVIS. An officer
to me to-day that he ielt sure that he would not
live the summer out if kept IN prison.
In confirmation of this statement, we hear OF
the arrival at Fortress Monroe OF Doctor Craven,
the kind hearted gentleman and dutliul pnysi-
tldI, luIOupn WDOSb uuIhue interference NIL
DAVIS was removed to his present comparatively
comfortable quarters from the damp and un.
| wholesome casemae in which be was first I'M
| prsCned and where he was so brutally treateo
| by his unleeling iailor-tbat General Miles, who
| is either so ignorant that he knows nothing oil
| the shame that covers the name oil Hudson
Lowe, or so base as to desire 1t to blast and DIS
| grace his own.
We infer from this visit OF DR.. Craven to For
hess Monroe that it is the Presidents intention,
as IT is his manifest and bounden duty, to see tC
| il that Mr.. Davis shall not be murdered by the
| rigorous confinement to which he IS still sub
| iected, through the caprice and hatred o.
| General Miles-that such q stain, so dark and
so disgraceiul shall not be inetlaceably affixed
| to his own name nor to the escutcheon of our
| country. II the CniCi Justice will not mold his
court, and il Congress will not act in the matter
| let the President, ii he is unwilling to win the
! applause of good men every where by setting his
great captive free, at least transfer him TO some
| healthiul place of confinement, and subject him
TO the custody of a gentleman, or at least O
|