The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-08-24
Indictment Against JEFF. Davis.
Defeating the callows to Chris
tion Uses!
Hanging Jel. Davis, Lee, and I
Score or two Of Rebel Leaders.
HANG LITERALLY!
GEORGE w. JULIAN.
From Geo. W. Julians Speeches, .. D. 266
SGT and 80

From Geo. W. Julian's Speeches, .. p. 2eS
'67 and '68.
"SuppOse you were to indict JEFF Davis to.
night, - our fathers indicted George ILL.,; the
indictment, in substance, would be about this: \
He has murdered three hundred thousand Of
our soldiers; he has mangled and MANNED for
life three hundred thousan nd more; he has
duplicated these atrocities upon his own half
Of the Union, and upon his own miserable
followers. He has organized great conspira-
cies here 10 tho North aud Northwest, to Law
in rApiae and blood the towns, and villages,
and cities, and plantations of the whole loyal
portion Of the land. He has sought to intro
ducs into the United States, and to uation alize
on this Continent, pestilence, in the form of
yellow fever; an enterprise which, had it sue
ceeded, would have startled Heaven itself
with the agony and sorrow il would have
lavished upon the land. He has put to death,
by the slow torture of starvation in rebel
prisons, sixty thousand of our sons and
brothers. lie has been party to the assas-
sinatiou of our martyred President. He has
poisoned our wells; planted Internal machines
in the track Of his armies; murdered our
wounded soldiers; boiled the dead bodies of
our boys in cauldrons, and sawed up their
bones into iewelry to decorate the Go-for-
saken bodies Of his rebel followers. He has
Latched into life whole broods of yillainies
that are enough, il seems TO me, to make the
devil himself turn pale at the spectacle. He
has done everything that . devil incaruate
could do 10 let loose "the whole contagion
Of hell" and convert the earth into one era nd
carnival Of demons.
"Bus, gentlemen, We have caught him
BY the providence of God, aud through the
vigilance of your soldiers, he is in your power
to-day. Now would ind;ct him, and pay
him the compliment Of decent trial accord
ing to the forms of law. would convict
him, and then build gallows and hang him,
in the name of God. Talk about mercy to
JEFF Davisl Why 1t is not in the dictionary!
1t Is like tho Constitution in relation to the
rebels, who have sinned away their rights
| under it by treason. It has ceased to exist,
~ to him. When you ask me to exercise
mercy At the expense of justice, I decline.
know nothing about mercy when you can
only reach it by trampling justice under the
foot. l don't ask vengesnce. Davis has
committed treason, and the Constitution Ge-
mands his punishment. In the name OF hall
million soldiers who have gone up to the
throne of God IS witnesses against "the deep
Ia mn . tino IF Sba;p <oL;rcx ,<3s &, Ar ..xn.
Of your living s0ldiers-in the name of the
Republic, whose life has been put in deadly
peril-in the name of the great future, whose
fate to-day swings in the balance, depending
| on the example you max. of treason de.
mand the execution Of JEFF Davis. And iu-
asmuch a. the gallows is the symbol Of
infamy throughout the civilized world I would
give him the gallows, which is far too good
for his neck: Not for all the honors aud
offices Of this government would spare him
IL inmy power. should expect tho ghosts
Of half q million soldiers would haunt m,
poor recreantlifc to the grave.
"And would not stop with Davis. VIII,
should !? There is General Lee, as hungry
for the gallows As Davis. he is running al
large up and down the hills and valleys o.
Old Virginia, as if notbing at all had happened
and lately I have heard that be has beer
offered the presidency Of college; going t.
turn missionary and school.master, sup.
pose, to "teach the young idea how to shoot!'
At the same time, as we are informed, be il
to write history of the rebellion. Gentle
men, would not have him write that history
would have il written BY loyal man, and
would have him put in . chapter giving al
account of the hanging Of Lee - traitor
What right has Leo to be running at large
while the government thus ccnfesses tina
treason is no crime? What right has he to b
any place, without repentance, except in til
ninth, or lowest hell, where Dante says al
traitors are fcuLd3 What right have you t
cheat the Constitution out of his neck?
notice that Wirz, some days before he VIA
hung. sent for a copy of "Baxrer's Call to III
Unconverted." I would give Lee copy Q
the same book, but would let the eallow
have him, and leave God to determine wis
should be done with his soul.
"Nor would stop with Ice. would han
literally, while had my hand in. I woul
make the gallows respectable in these latte
days, by dedicating it to Christian uses.
would dispose of . score or two of the moi
conspicuous Of the rebel leaders, not for ver
geance, but to satisfy public justice, and NAL
expensive the enterprise of treason for a
time 10 come. wish we could hang them
the sky that bends over MS, 80 that all Il
nations Of the earth might see the spectaol
and learn what it costs to set fire to Q Fl,
government like this. If these men are n
punished, and you allow the internal ~poiss
to sit itself down into the general mind III
treason Is no crimo, in little while "
shall be shaking hands with our de,
Southern brethren, the Govcrnmel
may get back into its old ruts, an
another h0rrid WAT may DO the ha
vest Of our rccreancy to our trusts
Embarrassing.