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

Copperhead Democracy, II is true, continued
to make a feeble effort to paralyze the power
Of the North, and to aid the Rebel arms; but
their sympathy was unproduotive of any real
benefit to the Southern cause, and exhausted
itself in a foolish declaration in the Chicago
Convention that the war was a failure. Gree
ley, Chase, and their associates became the
fercest denOunoers of treason, and insisted not
only ON putting down the Rebellion and pre-
serving the Union, but on debating to the
army and managing its campaigns.
But now that the war is over, instead of
acting on the principle upon which it was
carried on the right of the nation to crush a
rebellion and punish the traitors who created
it, these same men have associated themselves
with a very singular set of persons in Sc
curing the release of jeff Davis, the repre-
sentative head of the whole Rebellion, on
straw bail, and his escape from punishment.
Chase, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States, has quietly suffered the
great culprit to slip through his fingers, while
Greeley has united with Gerrit Smith, Ben
Wood, John Minor Boots, and others in a
curious hotchpotch called a bail bond, in
order to effect the liberation of the ex-leader
of the Southern Confederacy from Jail.
Here is a proceeding liberating the greatest
criminal this country has ever seen on similar
sort of bail as would be required in a case of
petty larceny. AS legal event it is most
singular and shows the extraordinary skill
with which one OF Jno greatest lawyers OF
our State has managed to make the same men
who got up and justified the Rebellion come
together again on common ground, and de-
clare that it was only venial offense, and de-
serving no more severe punishment than
might be awarded to petty larceny. But in
another view the ACT of Greeley, Chase, and
their associates is creating great excitement
all over the States, and laying the ground
work of sweeping revolution. Every one
may be willing to give Greeley, Ben Wood,
Gerrit Smith, and John Minor Bolts all the
credit for humanity they may desire but it
is clear that the Republican party regard
this act of one of their prominent leaders in a
very serious light.
1t stultifes the whole war for the suppress
sion of the Rebellion, and leaves the conviction
on the public mind that the three thousand
millions of dollars and the half million of
lives which it has cost the North have been
thrown away to no purpose. 1t makes the
loyal people ask themselves why there should
not be blotting out of the penalties of the
war in the North as well as in the South. 1t
suggests the question, if the Rebels of the
South, who brought this war upon the coun-
try, are to be granted universal amnesty, and
the negroes of the South are to be endowed
with the right of suffrage, why should the
loyal masses of the North, who have fought
and suffered to preserve the Government, be
| subjected to bear the heavy burden of the war
| debt, and to see their hard earnings wrung
! from them by the hundreds of millions every
year by the tax gatherer? Why, in short,
! should the Southern leaders-the real crimi-
nails in the wicked Rebellion-be protected and
released from all punishment, and the North
ern people-the victims of the treason-be COM
PEELED to bear all its pains and penalties