New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-20
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TO GENTLEMEY IN DIFFICULTIES.

TO GENTLEMEN IN DIFFICULTIES.
The exodus to foreign parts is never 50 large
as it might be. There are many persons who
do not 90, who have not only the best OF
reasons for going but the most ardent desire
to 20. They feel that here they are resting
under a cloud Of the very biggest description.
They may not be deprived of life, but their
liberty is curtailed and their pursuit of hnppi-
ness is confined to the narrowest limits. They
ycarn for more congenial cline. And they
often yearn in perplexity. They know that
society abroad is very much like society
at home; that the same prejudice
exists in monarchics as in republics against
certain practices and professions; that gentle
men who have become subjects Of the ami
mostly of grand juries and judges are likely
TO be treated with the same injustice ana
haIslness in all countries. They know that
society, with its characteristic cruelty. has
adopted tho maxim that criminals have lew
rights which it Is bound to respect. More than
| this. they know that various nations of the
earth have cOnspired together, and cher
among them their own land, to render
peaceful existence for them impossible;
that they have by various and explicit
agreements bound themselves and each other
to arrest, detain, imprison, and surrender snch
persons as may have reached the territory OF
ono from the other and may have been guilty
| of various Offenses against their laws. They
| know that these wicked and oppressive COM
Dacts termed extraditiOn treaties" are OF
indefinite number and span, and bind together
many countries in a network i'll which they
would almost surely be caught if they tried
| H. Of uiU,t In
and doubt they beat the bars of their cages
and seldom slip through. Believing as we do
| that the prisoner who has no millions where
with to hire jailers, great international
LAWYERS, tcam-yachts, and carriages, and
who seldom dimes out should have
an even chance with those criminals, 50 called
but not so punished, who have, we submit
little information for their benefit. All those
unfortunates who need a change of air or ac-
commodaton will find these statements definite
and interesting; and, as a bit of friendly adj
vice, we would suggest that they keep this
article for future reference, so that the next
time they go out to dinner or an evening
party, in company with newly-clectcd Judges
and deputy sheriffs they may make no mis-
takes. II would be very sad if they should
leave an entertainment of that lofty character
Just to get caught again for their pains.
Gentlemen who have been driven by bad
digestion or chronic irritability to fix the final
date in the obituary of a fellOw-beinG ; or, III
the way of a practical joke, have signed other
peoples names to checks or other facetious
writings; or have tried to hasten our return to
specie payments by putting into circulation addi-
tional coins manufactured without any expense
to the Government (; or have raised and paid
their own salaries without first consulting then
| employers, public private or have ever
gone into other peoples houses or pockets by
mistake, and never discovered their error till
| they themselves were found out or have ever
| Illuminated building with its own flames
| or have ever gone into maritime life without
complying with certain tlresOme formalites;
or, to put it very coarscly, have been guilty
of murder, or attempt to murder, forgery,
counterfeting money, embelzlement, robbery,
burglary, arson, and piracy-these gentlemen
will please attend They will not find it wise,
please understand, to pay visit to either France,
| Prussia. any of the States of the North Ger
man Confederation. Bavaria, BaSn, Switzer-
| land. Sweden, Norway, Italy, Austria,
| Mexico, Hayti, Nicaragua, the Dominican Re
public, or Venezuela. All of these coun-
trcs have, at divers times, entered
| into the wicked conspiracies before men
| toned and each has bound itself TO deliver
! 10 us persons vino have been guilty of
the imprudences named above. Gentlemen i'll
difficulties will not find the climates of these
countries. varied they are, at all conducive
! to health or comfort. The treaties and the
winds are altogether too strong, and the
| Winters and the police officers are too chilly.
| There are certain exceptions 10 be noted, how
ever. which operate in their favor. In the
treaties with France, Switzerland, Italy,
| Hayti, Venezuela, and the Dominican Re-
public embezzlement is not included i'll
the dark list, excep. when subject to
infamous punishment" Prussia Bavaria,
Baden, the States of the North German Con-
| federation, and Hayti, do not include burglary
IN their treaties with the United States;
| Switzerland does not name cOunterieiting, nor
do Sweden and Norway, Austria and Mexico,
name the embezzlement of private funds.
| The treaty with Great Britain, including its
possessions, is still less comprehensive than
any of these, inasmuch as ii provides for the
surrender by both nations of persons charged
only with these crimes murder, assault with
intent to kill, piracy, arson, robbery, and
forgery The treaty with the Hawaiian Islands
makes the same stipulations.
During the next few years there viii be
good deal of lively study Of this branch of
knowledge. Now that Tammany is likely to
render up at no distant day all that We shall
probably ever get; now that the Canal Ring
has dropped to pieces, and Mcdonald has gone
to iai and come out (but not ont of jaiD for
a third term and now that the Whisky Ring is
walking up to the guillotine in mass, we shall