The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-09-08
Doing the Traitor Justice.

The following brief notice of JEFF.
Davis, by Mrs. Austin, in recent
letter to the New Castle Courier, is
only doing that internal traitor justice.
The act of those copperhea,ls, who
did violence to the patriotic senti-
ments of the Western people. by in
viting him to make an agricultural, or
any other kind of speech, cannot be
too strongly condemned. The init
nation that the people were now ready
to comply with the request preferred
by JEFF and his brother Democratic
traitors, during the rebellion, to be
''let alone" has been heard and
promptly acted ON in this instance.
We say "Amen!'' to the closing para
graph of Mrs. A. 8 letter:
And SO, poor JEFF. Davis was
thwarted, and did not get to tell the
yeomen of the North what he knew
about farming, getting out on bail.
palmetto trees" rattle snakes" the
lost cause and cotton bags" How
many skeletons in his closets do you
suppose this arch traitor has to haunt
him day and night? unless indeed,
his conscience is scared as with hot
iron." Why don't the Church of
Christ add Judas Iscariot to the list
of saints and the American Nation
erect monument to Benedict Arnold?
oh, if the boys in blue" had only i'm
provised a gibbet of the sour apple
tree" when this wolf was hunted
down, the soul Of John Brown would
be marching on" with quicker step;
his gallows would not be SO much of a
disgrace to the country to-day, nor
his blood cry from the ground as it
doesl When the eternal world and
everlasting perdition opens before
JEFF. Davis, may the blood hounds of
Andersonville and the blood hounds
of Libby prison be the first to well
come him to his own place.
The cut-throat Mexicans have trans
ferred the scene of their outrages
from the Rio Grande to Arizona Ter
ritory. In our Washington special
will be found an account Of a recent
breach Of international law which our
government will not be apt to over
look. A resident of Tucson, the cap
ital of Arizona, had occasion to visit
this now turbulent province of the
republic of Instructions. He was
seized by a band of Mexicans and a
ransom of 10000 demanded; in case
of failure to pay this amount his life
was to be forfeited. A courier rode a
distance of three hundred miles to
Tucson and hurriedly raised the re-
quired sum, and returned just in time
to save the captive merchants life by
payment. Great excitement is said to
exist in Southern Arizona, and the
country is full ofrefugees from Sonora,
where another revolution is imminent.
Tucson is situated about thirty miles
north of the Mexican line. and is a
town of 1900 inhabitants, of which
about 800 are Americans. and the re-
maipder are Mexicans and Papago In
dams. Camp Lowell, four company
military post, is located here. The
only main travelled road from Tucson
into Sonora extends through Altar
and Hermosillo to Guaymas on the
coast. Judging from the distance
which the courier was compelled to
ride, the capture must have been IL
the neighborhood of Hermosillio.
These Northern Mexicans, or Sono-
ranians, are by nature and profession
ruf6ans, and previous to the present
outrage Americans have suffered at
their hands. The merchant who had
to pay such an exorbitant ransom was
naturalized American citizen, who
had right to tree transit over Next
can soil.-Inter-Oc