The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-05-30

for not exposing the Government to
defeat on such an issue? What good
end would have been subserved by
such a result? Remember that Chief
.Tustice Marshall settled the law in
Aaron Burr's case) that the accused
can only be tried in the judicial dis
trict where his offence was committed.
Some journals have asserted that L
went TO Richmond to LABOR with
Judge Underwood in the premises
That upright jurist needs no defence
from such an implication but | may
say that / never yet spoke to a Judge
with reference to case on which he
was to act, and | surely should not
venture on such an improperly with
Judge Underwood.
1t is not true, though frequently as
serted. that the Chief ustic has shrunk
from trying persons charged with
treason. There were several treason
cases on the calender when he held
circuit in Baltimore last year; he was
ready to try them, but the Government
was not; and they were put over by
the District Attorney. | do not know
why UnlS was uo hHOH VIC Law"
Several Republican journals have
asserted that 1 ''thrust myself into
this matter-that | sought the distinc-
ton, DC. Nothing like this is true.
went to Richmond and signed the
bond, simply because the leading
counsel for the prisoner deemed 1t I'M
portant. If any other name would
have answered as well, they would not
have proffered mine; for they could
have given ten millions OF dollars, all
OF it by men who were worth double
the amount for which they became re
sponsible, and each of whom would
have esteemed signing the bond PRIV
ilege But the counsel believed 1t emil
nently desirable that they should
present some Northern names, Of men
who had been CONSPICUOUS opponents
of the rebellion; perhaps because the
application to admit TO bail would
otherwise be strenuOusly resisted.
know nothing of their reasons. only
know that they would not have re
quired me to face this deluge of mud
if they had not believed it necessary.
Ifthere be any who seriously de, m
the proher of bail by Republicans un-
wise or of1icious, | ask them to weigh
we'll the following extracts.
This must suffice for the present.
Ny malingers of to-day will be protest
ing that they didn't mean it ere three
years have passed.
Mr. Greeley having been officially
notified by the Union League that
he would be arraigned before the
Club, for his actions, replies in the
following trenchant style;
Mr.. Greeley refers to the murder of
President Lincoln as a most appalling
calamity, that seemed in an instant to
curdle all the milk of human kindness
in twenty millions Of American
breasts cat once, he says, Einsidu-
Gus efforts were set on foot to turn
the fury thus engendered against me,
because of my pernacious advocacy of
mercy to the vanqnished CHANGING
to enter the clubhouse, the next Sat
urday evening, | received full broad |
side of your scOwls, ere we listend to
a clerical harangue intended to prove |
that Mr.. Lincoln had been providen- !
tally removed because Ofhis notorious /
leanings towards clemeney, in order |
to make way for a successor who /
would give the rebels full measure of !
stern Justice. l was soon made to
comprehend that l had no sympathi- |
zers, or none who dared seem such, in |
Your crowded assemblage, and some |
maladroit admirer having a few days /
afterwards made the club a present of |
my portrait, its bare reception was re.
sisted, in a speech from the chair by |
your then President-a speech whose |
vigorous inyective was justified solely
by my pleadings for clemency to the
rebels AT once concerted howl of
denunciation and rage was sent up
from every side against me by the lit
tie creatures whom God, for some in
scrutable purpose, permits to edit
majority Of our minor journals, echoed .
by yell of ''Stop my paper" from
thousands of imperfectIy instructed
readers of the Tribune One impudent
puppy wrote me to answer categoricaly
NIlCjllCI L vas VI WAS IIOG III ldNOG Oh
hanging JEFF. Davis adding that must
stop his paper if | were not. Scores vol
gnteered assurance that | was defying
public opinion; that most of my
readers were against me, as if |
could be induced to write what
they IRISH said, rather titan they needed to
be told. | never before realized so
wildly the baseness of the editorial
vocation, according to the vulgar con
ception of it. The din raised about
my ears now is nothing to what l
then endured and despised. l am hui
by the reflection that it is or
was in the power of such insects to
annoy me, even by pretending to dis
cover with surprise something that /
have for years been publicly and en-
phatically proclaiming.
The following is the conclusion Of
the letter:
"Gentlemen-I shall not attend your
meeting this evening. l have an en-
gagement out of town, and shall keep
it. | do not recognize you as capa-
bic of judging or even fully appre-
hending me. You evidently regard
me as a weak sentimentalist, misled
by maudlin philosophy. | arraign