Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-06-19
Correspondence OF the Chicago Times.l J
JEFFERSON DAVIS.

/ JEFFERSON DAVIS.
! WASHINGTON, May 2s.-As to Jeffer-
son Davis, it comes out, first, that the
proclamation offering reward Of plO0,-
! COO for his arrest as an assassin YVES the
work of Edwin M. Stanton and the des-
picable Joseph Holt second 1t Is now
! reluctantly admitted that the evidence
| of alleged completely in the assassination
| of Mr.. Lincoln which induced these two
mep Esdressed in little brief authority" ="
/ TO offer a re ward for the capture Of Davis
/ is nothing more than the evidence
| Of a perjurer who is now undergoing
/ a sentence Of ten years imprlson-
ment in the penitentiary for his false
swearing it were useless 70 deny
| this, for it has been proved IN court Of
! Justice. Third, it is now as plain as =
| sunbeam that every one Of the enarges
ever brought against Mr- Davis were
simply the ebullitions OF maloei tor
| thew have every one now been WIN
drawn, there being no particle OF evil
/ dence to support any one OF them. As
relates to the charge Of treason dls-
/ posed of that in my letter OF May I4th.
/ And, in regard to the Others the New
| York Tribune forcibly says that Two
! years Of imprisonment, under elrcqn7-
]
notOrietv. with Stanton and Holt very
/ hostile to the accused, and natural y
anxious to Justify their original procla-
nation, with no indictment yet found
except that for treason, amount to
acithdrd1CdL of all charges"
The II4L-FREATslENT OF PRISONERS Al
ANDERsONYILLHs
Again Capt. WirZ, q foreigner, prls-
I -
death here. bv a military tribunal, ian
/ illegal body, y in order to crafty the yet
unsppeased radical thirst for blood. The
preteSt for hj-.eeP9 P9egsl execution was, that
he had eau s4 suffering to our prisoners
at AndersonviIle. But the whole radical
lrrass of the north was careful to impress
$ q ON the public that he was only 9
J AHiuate IN this business, and that all
he did was done in obedianee TO aFders
from Jefferson Davis and that II was
Jefferson Davis who tortured our pris-
oners at Andersonville.
And the very morning after Wirz was
hung, latter 10. Holt had offered him
his life If be would denounce Jefferson
/ Davis az his principal the Washington
CbronioJs canae olt With 8 double-leaded
| edit eis0 Peaded, A." Now fer JEFF. Davis, =
in Whpth It denounced him as the real
murderer of the victims at Anderson
vile, and demanded that he, too, should
he hanged on the same scaffold on which
WirZ had given up his life. Unques-
tionablv this would have been done il
there could have been found 3 s+'0i "o@'
| evidence on which to convict hir
unfortunately for the radical le&ery .i-ld
such evidence could be found. On the
other hand, the radical leaders who COM
meuced the investigation were too glad
4 to drop it for they quickly discovered
who were the real authors OF the sutter-
inos of the prisoners at Andersonville.
In the words of the New York Tribune
OF q day or two ago, "The blame rests
primarily on Edwin NJ. stanton and
| Joseph Holt.U This confession, it is true,
il wrung from the great republican leader
bv the faupts Of the Pharisees in the re-
n1bIiean church, who fancy that they
are holier than the white-eOated philoso-
pher: but it is true as the gospel Every
one of the prisoners at Andsrsonvlle
MIGHT have been exchanged and sent
home in perfect health, The Confederate
Authorities offered to send them home.
Mr.. Stanton and Mr.. Holt refused
/ to exchange prisoners. The Confederstes
wanted men badly; we did not. Messrs.
Stanton and Holt declared that they
would not allow the Confederates to re-
cruit their armies by getting back the
60. 900 Of their men that we had held IN
prison; and that, as for our $4,000 men
at Apdersonville, they enlisted with their
ewes open, aud must take the chances OF
war. l may freely write these Things
now for 1 freely wrote them in 1864.
If there is any maniness or courage
Ilefr in congress, therefore, they viii de-
mapd and REQUIRE that this matter be
thoroughly investigated, SO that the
responsibility for the sufferings OF the
prisoners at Andersonviue may be placed
where it belongs,