The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-03

prespiDn thai IN thd'oOurae OF time Il he lives,
he Ia % be tried as tfaitor.I But between the
new IDEAS of President Johnson and the tech-
nictl quibblings Of Chief J0stioo Chefe, aud
the difficulties suggested by the Atiorpey-
General, and the backing and lailing Of the ~
dietary Committee of the House Of Representa-
tives, the chief Of rebeldom continues % 70 %
held as prisoner for nearly two years, WIN
out any trial, or any prosPecs OF . trlal ~
murderer or traitor. Az LAST cmeny throuBn
the activity in his behalf of his principal legal
adviser, Mr.. Charles Q Con9T, o. TINS CITY he
United States District Court, at Richmond, in
the charaotef 81. a Rebel. It is then found that
Lbv n law Of 1862 Rebellion is a bailable offehse
ana Nj. .7O' Conof, beginning with the "milk Of
human Kindness man, Greeley, between
whom, and the subiugated John Minor Bolts,
Gerrit Smith is sandwiohed, ,triumpha ntly pa
rades his roll of bondsmen to the tune Of one
hundred thousand dollars. Thus released,
through the patient and slkilful management
Of Charles 0'Conor, Davis, like Oonqueting
hero, hastens from ''the Yankee Aag'' to the
new Dominion of Canada, that 'happy hunt
ing ground, T" as peace makers, Of Jake Thotnp-
son, &C. Clay, Bev. Tucker, George Sanders,
Horace Greeley and Colorado Jewett.
These are the leading facts in this case of
JEFF. Davis, from which it is apparent chat
O'Conor is the Hon of the play and Greeley
Z
dollarsis first offered and then paid for the
oapturesof Davis as an assassin, another hun
dred thousand is expended in holding him as
prisoner and then he is discharged on the
promise of Greeley and others TO fork over a
hundred Thousand in case the accused shall
fail to come TO time when called for to be tried
as Rebel. In this financial exhibit the Gov
ernment is out of pocket two hundred thou
sand dollars. Does anybody suppose that for
a hundred years to come, by the court at Rich
mond before which he is bound in that other
hundred thousand, Davis will be called for 2
No. What, then, have we to boast of in this
business We can boast that, from President
Johnson down to Judge Underwood, all our
Government officials have acted like a parcel
of weak-headed and foolish old grannies, that
Greeley has been consistent with his Niagara
negotiations, that the Government stands dis
graced before the world in the detention and
in the discharge of the prisoner, that Davis is
not an assassination conspirator nor traitor,
but that he is only Rebel, and that rebellion
is not treason. ..Its eH.y ESQ l-. ..ft d.
10 Now, we hold that in the person of the head
chief of the late Rebellion the people of the
United States, while they did not desire the
blood of the prisoner, did desire and expect a
trial which would define and establish the
crime of treason, and the powers of the Gov
ernment in suppr0ssing rebellion of indi-
viduals or States and in furnishing the conspi-
rators and in reconstructing the States in
volved in it. Thus, what has been settled by
the war, it was expected, would be established
as the law. In all this the country has been
disappointed and as the case of Davis stands
to-day, he needs only pardon from President
Johnson to become Greelsy's candidate for the
next Presidency sl'anl uFt -a
In Mexico, whore they have had longer
experience in revolutions, they deal more de-
cisively, right or wrong, with their defeated
revolutionary leaders. Macmillan, with the
empire No. 2, has been dealt with as was Ytur-
bide, of the empire No. l. Santa Anna may
be placed in the same category, and, consider
ing that three or four banishments have not
cured him, he will probably be the next vic
tim of a file of soldiers, if not already put out
of the way. Juarez may justify himself on
the plea of sacrificing Macmillan to save his
own life. AS it is, his next turn may be the
reopening of his old cigar store in New Orleans.
A parallel between the semi barbarians OF
Mexico and the people of the United States
does not touch the Mexican in reference to
Maximilian's execution. We might as we'll
hold up the usages of civilized warfare to the
white squatters of Colorado in behalf of the
Indians. States and communities are con-
trolled by the circumstances around them, as
we have been in this case of JEFF Davis, and
as the Mexicans have been in the case of Maxi
milan, and as the Colorado white squatters
are in their bounties for Indian scalps with
the ears on. Such cheap magnanimity as
that of Greeley in behalf of JEFF. Davis will
| provoke a laugh from the incredulous Mexi-
cans, and it is worth nothing more. -
.rtH .n. ..H - nd r.
The Murder OF Maximilian.