The New York herald., 1868-04-07

chomiAaeo cOuEt vi DyzautiuH, ~ AAo
neum, at Pompeii, or at Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Danger Of JeG Davis-An Immediate
Flight His Only Safety.
JEFF Davis is bound to make his appearance
again for trial at Richmond on the I'd OF May
next. Greeley, Gerrit Smith, John Minor
Bolts and others stand as sureties for his ap-
pearance in the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars. He will doubtless be on hand to show
that their confidence in him has not been mis-
placed; but we can tell him that so far as their
bail bonds are concerned he need not be ap-
prehensive of any loss from his failure to put in
his appearance. Let him be off to parts un-
known, and this aforesaid bail will be made all
right in the release of Greeley, Smith and Com
pany from payment. But why be off? Let the
accused give us his attention for moment,
and we will tell him why.
By the I'd of May Andrew Johnson will be
out of the White House and cold Ben Wade ("
will be in. From that hour radicalism will be
rampant in the Executive Department The
removal of Johnson, at the same time, for the
"high crimes and misdemeanors of attempt
ing to remove Stanton from the War Depart
ment and to put Thomas in his place, and of
few Presidential stump speeches OF the Ten
nessee pattern, will cause these inquiries among
the people :-"While Andrew johnson is be-
headed for these petty offences, how is it that
jeff Davis, the very head and front of
the late rebellion, from beginning to
end, goes unwhipped Of justice9 Is 1T
because Greeley stands at his back?
Is this .justice-this sacrifice to radicalism of
the only Southern man in Congress who stood
out manfully against the rebellion and this
mockery of prosecution against jeff Davis,
the head chief of the rebel confederacy, for
whose capture Johnson proclaimed reward Of
one hundred thousand dollars?" To guard
against such damaging commentaries, to keep up
a show of consistency and Of equal justice, the
removal of johnson will require the hanging Of
Davis. And "Old Ben Wade, as President,
is the man who will see 1t done. Davis has
been sort of white elephant to johnson and
to Chief Justice Chase. They have had no
desire to keep him, they have been puzzled
how and where to try him, and they have been
afraid to let him 60. But President Wade will
not stand upon technicalities or trifles His
first great card, in order to strike terror among
the unreconstructed rebels in the South and to
revive the Old John Brown war spirit in the
North, will be the hanging of JEFF Davis.
The new indictment against him, with its
numerous specifications of the overt acts Of
levying war against the United States, looks
like business. 1t Is an indictment framed to
convict and not to release the prisoner. The
removal of johnson, too, will revive among
the radicals thirst for blood, as the ex-
ecution of Charles the First of England in
famed the Roundheads to bloody settlements
with other parties, and as the beheading Of
poor Louis the Sixteenth gave new
impulse to the Jacobin reign of ter
TOR and blood in France. The accidents Of
Anglo American civilization and its refining
influences have SO far, in the penalties against
the treason and traitors of this late Southern
rebellion, made the government of the United
States a model Of clemency and humanity.
Nevertheless, the same spirit exists here that
marked the bloody vengeance of the Mexican
liberals against Macmillan and his devoted
followers. There is a powerful faction at
Washington and throughout the country which
will not be satisfied with anything less than
the hangman's rope for JEFF Davis. This fac
ton, within few weeks, will come into COM
plete possession of the government with john
nd thau tho vDco navi ic
in coming to trial, will do well to prepare for
the scatfold, for he will surely be hanged. 1t
will be held necessary as a warning to traitors
to hang Davis, and there is one man at Wash
ington who will remember that proclamation of
Davis of outlawry on the head of General B.
F. Butler, and that man is Butler himself, the
acting head manager Of Johnson's impeach-
ment.
We would therefore advise Davis to be of,
and off at once to Canada, Cuba, Mexico,
Brazil, or anywhere outside the jurisdiction of
the United States and to stay outside, at least
till after our coming Presidential election.
Never mind about that straw bail. II will be
no loss to anybody. Greeley does not like
hanging, anyhow; Dut JAWS snOuiu DC
handed, habeas corpus, over to the tender
mercies Of President Wade, Greeleys interces-
sion for his friend JEFF will be all moonshinc.
Hence we say to Davis, as the best advice we
can give him:-Skedaddle, depart, be off to a
healthier political atmosphere, save yourself,
and "stand not upon the order of your going,
but go at once
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