The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-15
is stin exercised and martlal law en.

is still exercised and martial law en-
forced. E
The civil authorities, State and Fed
eral, have been required or permitted
to resume partially their respective
functions, but the President, as Com
mander-in-C Chief, still controls their
action so far as he thinks such control
necessary to pacifcation and restora-
tion. ,,-.,. --.y.
In holding the District Courts of Vir-
ginia, have uniformly recognized this
condition.
Jefferson Davis was arrested under
proclamation of the President, charg-
| ing him with completely in the assas-
sination of the late President Lincoln.
| He has been held ever since, and is now
held, as military prisoner. He IS not
and has never been in the custody OF
the Marshal for the District OF Virginia,
aud he is not, therefore, within the
power of the Court.
While this condition remains, no pro-
position for bail can be properly enter
tained, and do not wish to indicate
any probable action under the circum-
stances.
JOHN @. UNDERWOOD, District Judge.
Alexandria, June IL, 1866.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHAsE's VIEWS.
A Washington correspondent tele-
graphs, under date of Monday evening:
II is true that on Saturday last Attor-
ney-General Speed and Mr.. O'Connor
and others of counsel for Davis called
on Judge Chase and talked the matter
over, with view of learning whether
the Judge would issue the writ and de-
| termine the question of bail under the
| Indictment. No formal or technical
application for the writ of ha6eGS cor
| pus and for bail was made. Judge
Chase freely gave these gentlemen his
| En o11hiaOf1 di0nnGanH Hl
| intimated that he did not regard the
offense II bailable one, and he says that
he stands now as he did some weeks
ago, when, after the PRONUNCIATION oi
| the Peace Proclamation, he stated that
he would not preside in IA court in Vir-
ginia until he could have assurance be-
| yond Peradventure that mnrtinl law
| is abrogated in that State. Believing
that there is yet doubt upon that
point, Notwithstanding he is inclined
| TO interpret the Peace Proclamation as
Mr.. johnson does, Judge Chase Will
not entertain any motion or proposition
relative to the case of Mr.. Davis, and so
he expressed himself to the gentlemen
above mentioned, but he suggested that
Judge Underwood might possibly en-
| tertain the motion.
JEFF. DAVIS AND HORACE GREELEY.
The New York TimeS-which cannot
| D6 dCCuSeu OI III ITO
views-in its issue yesterday has the
following editorial on the case of JEFF.
| Davis and the eXertion of MIR. Greeley
| i'll his behalf:
Jefferson Davis was the head and
| front of u rebellion, in the progress OF
| which quarter of million OF our sons
fell, and for which the nation is carry
| ing debt of over three thousand mil
lions of dollars. While Jefferson Davis
was in his glory at Richmond, Union
ers-soldiers-were dying in
Rebel prisons of "pestilence and fam
inc, /" by thousands. Under the auspices
of Jefferson Davis, and with the money
of the Confederate Government, agents
were employed to introduce contagious
diseases into our cities. Under the
sume auspices, and with the same
money, Confederate agents in Canada
Matched conspiracies and raids 10 rob
our banks, murder our citizens, burn
our cities and assassinate our President.
These multitorm and atrociOUs crimes
were approved by Jefferson Davis. He
has never even denied his responsible
fty or completely in them. When any
of the guilty agents were arrested they
produced commission from Jefferson
Davis. #
When this traitor-in-chief was arrest
ed, outraged humanity demanded his
trial and punishment. But the Tribune
objected! Mr.. Greeley was opposed to
the death penalty" Mr.. Greeley is u
philanthropistl Mr.. Greeley's symPa-
thies warm to the man who struck u
blow at the life of the Republic; who
deluged our country in blood; who
sanctioned piracy, arson aud assassi /.
nationl This craven, white feathered
spirit, from influential sources, occa-
stoned delay, and delays end in de
nial OF Justice. Jefferson Davis should
have been promptly tried, convicted
and sentenced, after which, If the Pres
ident had commuted the sentence on
condition of his leaving the country
forever, we should have been rid of Al
bad subject. And now, while Davis is
living uponithe fat of the laud i'll Fort
ress Monroe, Mr.. Greeley rushes to
Washington to offer bail, so that not even
punishment of the nlitCieSt character should
| be inficted upon a man whose head tn any
other country lUOuLdhdUe come on for any
| one of his many tredSOHS.
In an editorial in yesterdays Tribune
Mr.. Greeley demands, in behalf of ''ltni
VersGL amnesty and ~niVersGt suffrage, y :
that Davis "shall have the full equal
rights secured to him by the Constitu-
ti0n and laws of the land" and urges
his release on the ground that harsh
ness towards him tends to enGender new
bitterness between the North and the
South, and to indispose the latter to ac-
cept his plan of reconstruction above
Igiven-universal suffrage and univer-
sal amnesty.
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