The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-16

Terry to rcgarl the presidents peace
/ proclamation MS doing away with martial
/ law in Virginia. so that Chief Justice
Chase need have no scruplcs about attcn-
ding the court, in all probability the trial
of jeff Davis will come off ut this term,
Mrs jeff Davis is now with her husband,
and will doubtless be allowed to remain
and the Secretary McCulloch called on
the illustrious rebel on Sunday The
latter, as well rs Mrs Davis, thinks the
treatment Of Mr. Davis has been unncccs-
sarily strict, and will try to have petit
non granted to give him the liberty OF the
fort on parole.
1t is not to be wondered at or TO be
regretted that the plain words, spoken by
Mr.. Bancroft, in his 18th of Feb speech,
concerning the conduct Of England and
especially her Foreign Secretary, at the
outbreak of the rebellion, should cause
some uncasiness in certain quarters where
it best applied. Lord Russell, in a letter
on the subject to Mr.. Adams, quotes
bancroft thus:
'Thc British Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs made haste to send word
through the palaces of Europe that tie
great Republic was no more, t!lat head
stone was al, that remained due bv the
law of nations TO ''the late Mon"
Lord Russell says:
As words pronounced on such an oc-
casion and by 50 eminent a man as Mr..
bancroft may have an effect far beyond
the injury which my personal character
might suffer, must request you to con-
vey to Mr.. bancroft my denial of the
truth of his allegations and refer him to
facts Of a totally opposite character
lie quotes a few sentences of his utter
cd in debate in Parliament, in rcproof oil
Il member who had spoken of the "burst-
ing of the Republican bubble" and afllrms
that he had never any doubt, in any event
that the great Western Republic would
remain, happily for the world, a powerful
and independent Republic.
Mr.. Bancroft replies, and giving him
''' wv 'i'''' '''"' eau W awarded lor
lew empty ""''S points out what lie Il"
On the 9th dav of Nav. 1861. Lord
John Russell. then Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, wrote dispatch to Lord
Lyons, in which he describes the condition
OF America as ''he disruption ota conjcd-
c,"cy," and he further used these words
"CdW U,U has brokyn ont bcfrcca tie Se,e,.-
N suites ot'He hie Ga,oa. Tire Gorc,q-
mcnt Of the Southern po,ijoa has daB con-
Htuted h~iC Ur .Ua,~ty's Goy0uucnt
ITO mt irish n maize dny MYSTERY Of Muf
rjetc." Here is irretragaJle proof of nv
first allegation.
On the day on which the Minister of
the Queen thus wrote, lie addressed a
dispatch TO Lord Cowlcy, her Maicstv's
Ambassador at Paris, designating our
NcpuhlIc as '?he 'Nt''es rim" bt"H cam
,,, ~ ,'"'',''" "'' ." "". ""',
in th,t t;snot,h c,r I ,rJ rrn,,lo,,. :,
struction. a copv of tho above c,tcd letter
to Lord I.yons. Having thus ostcnta-
'''u'Y communicated III" view OF onr
return u,o Le ,noL ,,,,,,,...,,J ,nrL ~
ric,,s of lie IwpcrM Gorc,nnc,t." Nv
second allegation is therefore trnc, in let
YER ana III SPIRIT
or S,"t, .a' ' LUZ. as''i ~ ~. a. secretary
from his NOT h,vinr owo;tc1 tho arr;y.L
of the American Minister Of Mr.. Lincoln's
appointment, and from those very letters
I' Wv 1'> ~ ~ i 'I!' 70 ,'ro cow
he confessos nLot hn h,J NO, ~ 90, ..na
cciycd from Lord Lyons any report of the
state OF affairs, and OF the prospects of the
~ N' I".: r." '.' ou' '"'' vi COMING 10
and unnrccc,lcnted Inc ,r,cd ~, ,,,o romon,.
Of ''So0e coasuls" and ''vtHc /uLtclri,i<," /
The indecent haste with which that