The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-06-05

We purHosely pfetefnittsl alls exprcSson3af opsft
ion in regard Is the charge Of Judge Underwood, to
tie Grand Jury at Richmond, and declined to p5iis
any portion Of it because tHonglit il unworthy Of
Tie officer who made il, and Unworthy Of place in
our columns ii tile pride VI our conservatism We
thought, too day of reribuion was 50 near at hand
that it was unnecessary for TO undertake the I'M
grateful task of a Judicial critic That day came
sootdr than expected. Jefferson Davis made APP
picaton for bail, Oh the very dry npoa which tie
indictment for treason found against him. The
Judge who but short time before bad INDUCED il,
Fourth Of July Dlattndes and reyeled in the reminis-
cenees Of petty revenge in bis charge TO the Grand
jury on this day found himself the official centre Of
group Of distinguished from all sections of the
Union; and, ovefawed by Their presence, felt himself
tue unworthy representative Of national Justice.
Beginning the business Of the day, by dispensing
With the usual order Of court lie paid some fuscme
compliments to Gen. Burton fer yielding ready ODE
denee to the order Of tie President to surrender the
prisoner to the United States authortes-as if he,
Gen Burton as of sense and honor, could have
dared to do otherwise. To the CONSCIOUSNESS Of
his own welEuess, the Judge pleased to consider
Gen Burtonas the distinguished individual whose fate
had contoked the presence and the sympathy Of that
crowded court. After, however, the meodramatic
and affecting speech Of the Judge to Gen. Burton,
ctas O'Conor, the distinguished lawyer of New Z or!,
felt called upon to state the real matter before the
court, by motion for the release Of Jefferson Davis
on bail, supported by unanswerable in law.
To which Mr. Eyarts replied in the good taste Of an
accomplished lawyer and thorough gentleman, fol-
lowed by Mr. Chandler, the United States District At
orney, with the same display Of good and pro-
tessonal courtesy-boh recognising that the oiense
charged apon JEFF Davis was bailabc, and showing
every disposition to facilitate the matter so far as Ms
securities were. concerned.
His Honor found himself in strange COMPANY On
the hand stood the distinguished prisoner, the EN-
bodiment of chralry, OF which his Honor knew
nothing except that he himself was not of it; Chas
OConor the leading lawyer of New York Read,
Shea, Oud and Tucker supported in the back ground
by such men Horace Greeley Augustus Scheli, and
Welsh, of Philadelphia, who, though opposed always
to thepecalar political views Of jeff Davis felt happy
in the privilege of becoming his suetes in testimony
of their respect for American law Ga the other hand
stood Gen. Burtoa-a soldier aud gentleman-dong
his duty by the Government but yielding the happiest
obedience to the mandate of the President because it
responsive to the sympatlies of his hears-hmself
the centre of group Of distinguished officers of the
army, who there to show their sympathy for
great man aud their profound respect for the law 70
the Of these parties, standing to the right and
left, and meeting in centre stood represen-
atve Of both colors of the city of Richmond to
whom places had been accorded by previous arrange
ment
When, from The argument of Q 'Conor and the high
toned concessions of Eyarts It was no longer ques
ton of law as to bail; and when, in moment sat
isactory bail furnished, in the midst of the con-
CALCULATIONS Of surrounding friends, and of true and
noble men who had opposed him; amid the tears Of
women who had and still loved lim-he noble repre-
sentative Of lost cause-when even the negroes
whose passions the Judge had attempted to iGdamc in
his charge to the Grand jury made the welkn ring
as the prisoner walked forth freeman from the court
room, the avenging Nemesis silently smote tie heart
of that Judge; and could he have spoken, we doubt
not he would have called upon some Lethean stream
to wash out the memory of his charge from the public
mind, aud piteousy begged for some nepenthe, to
quiet the conscience in his own breast.