Marshall County Republican., 1867-08-08

ed to Horace Greeley, | am free 10 say
to;ally disapprovc Of his sympathy forfeit.
and his peculiar manner OF manifesting
that sympathy Had ! captured Jefferson
Davis, and his disposal have been commit
tel to my hands, would have originated
an able court martial and have given him
a fair trial, just sentence, and prompt exc
, cution.
Some people are morbidly sensitiveaboht
! jeff Davis. They seem to think that when
the name of Cassius hOnors corruption,
chastisement ought therefore 10 hide its
head. They belong to that sickly class of
temroliZers who would make the enOrmity
of crime and the rank of the criminals
good pleas in the bargain against their
/ conviction. If Jefferson Davis and his
cabinet are criminals, as they are, they
ought 20 be tried, if tried, convicted, if
! convicted, executed, like all other fclOns
convicted of capital crimes. 1fthey were
| tried and convicted, as they ought to be,
and were | the Chief Magistrate of this
Republic, no appeal for clemency in their
cases could ever reach me, | would let
him and them swing until they would pass
the point of plotting treason, and smaller
traitors might profit by the example of their
isnominious fate. Until traitor or two Is
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OF the United States may confidently expect
annual crops Of armed traitors TO spring
/ from the tenderness with Will. traitors
are treated in this land. So rfVlns been
our mercy that Toombs, the fugitive of
yesterday, is back again the swaggerer Of
to day. EmbOldenedby impunity, he grows
defiant, and seems determined to test the
measure of his Importance in a last desper-
ate effort 10 draw toward him the attention
of the Government, and Down upon his
crimes the yengeace of the law.
But what has he 10 fear in aGovernment
where rebels are partlOned before they are
tried and where no traitor has ever graced
the gallows. John Brown was tried, con-
victcd and executed. but that was for trea-
son, not against our National Government,
but against the State Of Virginia. When
a northern man trespasseS on Southern soil
and commits treason he has the crime 10
cxpate on the scaffold; when thousands Of
Southern men attempt to destroy our Ma
tional Government, Notwithstanding the
diabOlical attempt drenches our whole land
with hood and fills it with the piercing
wall of widows and orphans, and costs
thousands Ofmiliions Of treasure, nerertlIe
less, nobody can be tried for it. John
Brown did not dip deep enough into trea-
son to make it respectable. Had he man
aged to kill fifty thousand men before they
captured him, according TO the new theory
he would have stood on too lofty pedes
tai to have been taken down n crini nal.
But, for the life Of me, can not see how
the same Government which assisted Vir-
ginia to convict John Brown can reftse
TO Try Jelf. Davis. If John Blown was
held responsible 10 the outraged law why
not likewise Jefferson Davis.
John Browns surviving kindredcantake
to their souls one ilattcring JUNCTION at least,
to-wit: that he did not die in vain. | have
again aud again seen thousands of Union
soldiers marching into battle singing
john Browns body lies moulderin M in the grave,
While his soul rs,as m rrhinp ou