The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-04

The average daily circulation OF DAILY GLOBE,
TxYEED,S NON.ESCAPE.

That Tweed, once off from Blackwells
Island. did not succeed in making his es-
cape is a matter of surprise. Surely with
the immense wealth under his control, ILL
gotten and stolen though 1t was. he could
have Joined his whilom friends Sharkey,
the murderer, I" Prince Harry Genet,
Tom Fields and the rest of them in their
luxurious exile from their country for their
country'4 good. His escape, by force or
by the othcr means which, sometimes In
New York city, have wonderful effect
upon the police and sheriff's department,
would not have been so much a matter of
regret, as it would havc.been if he could
have escaped through the meshes of the
law. and walked the streets of New York
Il free man. If he could have so escaped,
it would have been reproach to the law
and to the administration Of criminal JUS
lice Had he so escaped, he would, doubt
less, have returned to the bosom of his
former admring constituents, and two
years hence might, and probably would,
have seen him in the senate of New York
or uxuria'ing in the halls of Congress us
one Of the representatives Of the wealth,
intelligence and morality of New
York city. We cannot see, as
the New York Republic does, any par
ticular merit in the fact That she stayed in
1" New York and to. K the legal consc.
'u'tences &C his acts while others, equal
"ly gully with A,.nself, fled with their
"plundcr and arc now enjoying their free
dom and luxuriating on their booty in
.. foreign lands" There was no merit in
IT, because he knew how jurors were drawn
under his regime AMI he supposed the same
rule would always prevail. Especially
was there no merit in it, bee, u.s., Judging
for himself, the men with whom he asso
cia,ed and the courts with which he was
familiar, he beleYed that justice and in
Justice could always be bought and sole
like sheep in the shambles. That he "tool
the legal consequence of his acts was {
stunning surprise to him, for the rossibilt,
thereof never entered his mind. That HI
did not flee the country was not any meri
of his. but compliance with his belle
that enormous wealth could then, as there
iofore, purchase immunity from punish
mcnt for crime. He therefore fled not
but 'look the legal consequences of hi
ac,s" because courts and jurors of intelli
gence and Integrity could not be bough
=. 10, ss'd WherG then Is the merit
per, that ''the public generally would b
- entirely satisfied to see Mr.. Tweed II
" leased Why should they be satisfied
After robbing the city of millions of do
lars and suffering therefor to the extent {
fine of two hundred and fifty dollars an
one year of easy imprisonment, the pee
pie generally" must be strange people il
deed if they were satisfied. Perhaps
could obtain his release, secure public syn
pathy and ''entirely satisfy" the 'publ
generally" if he should return to its PR
per place the millions of plumber he VIZ
instrumental in stealing. Perhaps, b
such q course, he could induce the 'publ
generally TO petition for his pardon an'
in such an event, perhaps the first offici
act of Governor Tilden would be TO graz
him pardon. Who can tell ? 1t wou
not harm him or the city if he should II
the experiment.