The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-01

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fThe New York 1fibsxs pabiAAss eeErs,
spondencs ia 1867 sbStxesa Nf. Seward
aud II. Blssiow. The latter xhtss:ss.i I,
"The proclamation pustsnf ,, Price On
Davis's head will DO generally CONDEMNED
by the Latin race, who are so accustomed
10 see a price put upon the beads Or their
most neritorious citizens that they feel an
instructive sympathy for any one who wears
that ,fattering penalty. ? l. think nothing
that has happened during orr war has pro-
dnced 30 unpleasant an effect upon our
friends here, though their Impressions
always yield to proper explanations when
there Is an opportunity Of making then"
Mr.. Seward replies:
"Treason and the raising Of civil war In
some European States are, for obvious rea.
sons, regarded by mankind - venial Of
fences. In the United States they are
looked upon with far greater severity, for
reasons which 1t Is not necessary that
should now explain. With such severity
crimes Of the present insurgents In the
United States are regarded by the Govern
ment and by the loyal portion Of the peo-
pie Of this country. The time, indeed, is
rapidly coming on when. these crimes will
be lamented with greater sincerity and
condemned with greater earnestness in the
region which civil war has left desolate,
than any political crime or casualty which
has recently occurred in Europe has been
lamcnted or condemned on that continent.
The United States are not in temper ia
vorable to the making OF apologies or ex-
plantations to European statesmen and po-
liticians for matters which do not affect
foreign nations, and which relate exclu-
siyely to our domestic affairs. l have
therefore to request that you will make no
explanations or apology for the action
which this Government has hitherto pur-
sued, and, as events shall transpire, may
be found to be pursuing in relation to
rebels who, without cause or necessity, or
excuse, have not only spread desolation
and death throughout o large portion of
the United States, but have employed en-
ergies Of SURPRISING strength in the effort
to invoke the Intervention Of foreign Pow
ers to make that desolation more ruinous,
as we'll as perpetual. l state, however, for
your own information, that the Executive
Department has taken, as yet, no definite
action with regard to judicial proceedings
against Jefferson Davis. Other subjects of
greater urgency have thus far engaged its
attention"
Mr.. King writes:
81 mentioned to the Cardinal [Roman
Secretary of STATED that, within few
days past, Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, S.
c., a rcputed Confederate agent, had ap-
piled to me, through friend, to know
upon what conditions he would be allowed
to return to South Caralina and resume his
clerical functions. The Cardinal remarked,
in reply, that the Bishop had never been
received or recognized in any way as an
accredited representative of Jefferson
Davis.
Again: ....-
Ills Holiness 1.-THE Pope] seemed greatly
interested in the probable fate of the lead
ers of the great rebellion, and especially
of Jefferson Davis, expressing the hope
that his life might be spared, and no VIC
Tins offered up on the altar Of the restored
Union"
Again-in November, 1865:
"He 1.-THE Popel warmly approved the
clemcncy which had been shown the rebel
leaders, and hoped, he said, that Jefferson
Davis would also receive the Executive
pardon" "H ,''