The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-30
JEFFERSON DAVIS RELEASE.

From the Antt-SldUeTy Standard Of This tCeek
II the Government lets Davis go unpublished, then
for Davis, thousand can be urged for his fellow
cowardIys spirit in the Admnstration, which wreaks
Its safe spite the miserable tool and shrinks afraid
Our Concern is not with the Individual criminal
overlook thousand Davses but the course OF the
n ms case 6hf9ws M igat on our ma
If thus Administration correctly represents the
American people then treason Is no crime and never
The tendency OF modern civilization is to bear pa
and let party chiefs only turn each other out OF once
Henry Vs Time G ana in Mexico to day-to the sca
fold. Still we the first Government to let actual
egys so Of Tn nure this make Us Is hardly
matter Of doubt ~ as many believe aad as a. al bae a
another eiy war then party chiefs T make max up s6er
without fear of rskng life or property except in the
Again, no amount of brutal aud barbarous aggraya-
non OF the usual sys 0a war ~ any S nttep
10 burn Northern cities poison Northern communi-
ties knew least Of offers made and plots devised ss
ayowed or attempted TO prevent any OF them When
Fox offered to assassinate Napoleon England then
q war with gsve Ss E%PsToT 81 notice
win such and worse POtIers Ter no Word M has oIt been @
low and Memphis Belle Isle and Libby Prison were
within his sight, and Andersonville existed by his
SSsEts never disaY0Wed. ---......-- :,
70 say that except tse EpgR gErd In IaSa
show, for the last century, as much inhumanlty as
Rchmond ordered and tolerated In any one half year
JnSeed by the war record. Jefferson Davis is the
tion of eating his prisoners, the Indian tomehawk
can be yparaleed point by point, act by act In the
atrocities OF Southern conduct "a az
The inhuman chief OF such barbarism cannot be
punished under our law Men whom some still call
honorable travel hundreds OF miles to grasp his
hand Let imagination group around Davis the
men, the hends with which history will link him
ouantrell and his gang Of butch ers covered with
die blood of Old men, women, and chtdreni Forrest,
male with remOrse at the memory of the negroes
massaered Fort Pillow, Ia violation OF all honor
able warfare; soldiers poisoned In their food by
OF their victims; the negro, batchered without
mercy everywhere; the gaunt despair OF Libby
PRISON. the crowded filth and starved idiocy OF
RecnTd thas Government had no punishment for
snch a wretch then paint Horace Greeley travelling
hundreds of miles TO offer his congratulations or tnls
disgrace of the Government and to clasp that vie
MEANWHILE Republican leaders-afraid lest after al
this rdice oil the Adm nistration may win South
ern yotes-keep discreet silence Crime ceases 70 oe
somethnR to be checked ana punsheo' low 70 trSa'
! next election Keeps all brains busy. ,s
Politicians slihe their disgust at Sreeiey Eoi iI
| perhaps that may be the surest cara. Mehn WITS ~
men see the nations honor and character uraggeu n
| the dust and sadly wait the future II tne grea
statute Of emancipation was only an act ".
necessity" reluctantly done nN Hn1NStM 81 nstice with
God drove the nation TO that deco OF lusHHS WIZ ,a
whip OF scorpions, still this is not wh9y i rostSl
or Just nationality. Dark as the cloud lowers ~
sad eclipse WEN DELL PHILLlPA