The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-16

,or,- r,oa ,bat hc has procured 1t at last.
NJ nn.y;s,s long imprisonment without
80, -, .rra;onment has not been credi-
~ 20 the authorities that have had con-
troll of his case.
r.oo ,bs New York world (Democratic).
RELEASE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.
A noted instance of the sacrifice OF law
and Justice to political cowardlce aP-
proachcd termination yesterday at Ricn.
mond by the release of Mr.. Davis on Dali
To appear at the November session oil the
court, The political cowardice which has
kept him so long in custody without trial
was. however, only mitigated, not sur
mounted. There is no serious intention
ever to try him; but the Government had
not the courage to say so and direct q nole
proseoui. Nobody doubts that the security
for his appearance would be just Us COM
plete if he had been set at large on his
recognizance but the court burst not do
this, and so demanded the heavy bail OF
800 900, and, with an ostentation of need
less precaution, one half of this sum was
required to be subscribed by citizens OF
Virginia. These whole proceedings-the
binding him over to appear at the Novem-
Der session Of the court, under the pre-
tence that he is to be tried then, ana lhe
taking such ample security-are sham, a
tub thrown to the whale. Mr.. Davis may
congratulate himself that two years I'M
nrisopment without trial is all that the
nol;tical cowardice of the Administration
and the courts has cost him. Had he been
tried two wears ago by military commis-
sion. like poor Mrs. Surratt, and hurried into
his grave, the public opinion OF that eX-
c;ted neriod would have sanctioned the
proceedings.
From the New York Herald.
The enlargement of Mr.. Davis Will DC
hailed with general satisfaction throughout
the country, in view of an uninterrupted
reconstruction and an early restoration 10
Congress of the ten excluded southern
states - 1t matters little now
whether Davis is tried next week, next
month, or next year-his trial will end IN
smoke. 1t is not unlikely that, if left to
the courts, his case may be postponed again
and again, till finally dropped. In the
John Brown song it is said
eve will hang JEFF. Davis to a sour-apple uee'
As 40 marching on
And President Johnson has declared seve-
raj times that "treason is crime, and
traitors must be punished y; but as mat
tiers now stand, the best thing he could DO
would be to grant free pardon to DAVIS
and let him go in peace.
We submit to President Johnson
the experiment of free pardon to Davis,
in order that he, and Greeley, and Au-
custus Shell, and John Minor Bolts, may
stump the South together in correcting
the fallacies of State rights. and in dis
abusing the ignorant blacks of those dan
gerous notions that, in addition to freedom,
the Freedmen's Bureau, and the ballot-box,
thew are to have free farms, and nothing to
do but to enjoy all the African splendors
of Hayti. The Republican leaders, at all
events, must look to this, or they may soon
find themselves in the midst of northern
political revolution.
jeff. Davis has been libe-
rated on straw bail-the two biggest
straws being Augustus Schell and Horace
Greeley-for although both these bonds
men are responsible enough in point OF
money, they are aware that their liability
is a mere matter Of straw" and Is not
intended to entail any responsibility upon
them.