Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-15
Ics So Fanny!

Why the release OF JEFF. DAVIS, to be
sure.
And next to the funniness of his release,
are the comments of the Republican press.
We shall have laughing material for a
week.
They squirm so.
Two years ago the 10th of May he was
captured.
One hundred thousand dollars were
offered as g reward to whoever should cap
ture him. kEE s. 81
The proclamation offering the reward.
implicated him in the assassination of
President LINCOLN.
How happy the Republicans were when
JEFF. DAVIS was captured.
They professed to believe the Democrats
were chagrined.
Nothing but the hanging of JEFF. would
suffice.
On Monday morning, May Is, the Journal
announced the capture of DAVIS on the
10th.
"At noon yesterday" it said, ga national
salute was fired in Capitol Square,in com
memoration of this capture.'
THE news had previously been an
nounced in several of our churches from
copies of the Journals kilograms, and there
was general rejoicing that the Arch-Trai-
tor was now in the power of the Govern
ment which he had contemned-against
which he had levied War-whose heroes he
had caused to be murdered by atrOcious
barbarity ; and who is charged, by Procla-
nation of President JOHNSON, with COM
plicity in the assassination of President
LINCOLN"
And the Journal continued:
"During the afternoon and evening a
crowd of people stood round our Bulletin
Board, and various were the comments on
the good news it bore, but the demand for
direct justice aoas both decided and unanimous"
"What is to be done with Davis is now
the popular inquiry"
Answered the Journal:
''The people hope and erpect that he sOiH be
hanged"
Why?
Again answered the Journal:
"If ever there was criminal on earth to-
ward whom clemency would have been an
outrage against humanity, such a criminal
is JEFFERSON DAVIS; a soldier instructed
in the art of War by the Government
against which he led armed Rebellion-a
Representative in Congress- Cabinetofh
cer-a Senator, yet the leading conspirator
in defiance to the legitimate Government
and the chief of a contederacy responsible
for. barbarlties of which the history of the
lciYilized nations furnishes no parallel"
Then said the Journal:
"Let treason have its just reward"
What is that reward?
| Said the Journal again:
',If JEFFERSON DAVIS cannot be hanged,
capital punishment for any crime known to
civilization, ought to be abolished"
And now, after two years confinement
at Fortress Monroe, DAVIS is free!
Isn't it funny? ~
The Cleveland Leader berates President
JOHNSON for it.
The Cincinnati Commercial grieves that
DAVIS was not shot dead when captured, or
somehow drowned at Fortress Monroe.
How funny.
1t was Chief Justice CHAsE's business to
try DAVIS.
The Chief Justice wants to be President.
? The Chief Justice was afraid that if he
sat at the trial of DAVIS it would damage
him, let the trial result as it might.
What is more, the Chief Justice is on
record as having advocated State Rights to
the Secession or Modification point.
So, the Chief Justice, whenever urged by
the President to try DAVIS, had some pre-
text ready why he could not do it.
And now the great criminal, as the Jour
nal painted him two, years ago to-day, for
whom there was to be no clemency-forI
whom there was to be nothing but quick
hanging-is out on nominal bail to put in
his appearance hereafter.
How very funny. No sooner was it known
to HORACE GREELEY that DAVIS was on his
way to Richmond, for the purpose of being
put on trial before that ass known by the
name of Judge UNDERWOOD, than HORACE
was Immediately ION to Richmond"
Having arrived there, he waited on JEFF.
DAVIS, and they had a very friendly time
of it, in discussing the past, present and
future.
On Monday, DAVIS was admitted to bail.
HORACE GREELEY, when bail was called
for, promptly stepped forward and became
DAVIS first bails-man.
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