The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-31
Tlle 8utland Iailu Globc,
MONDAY, JANUARY 81, 1876.
Suggestions on Amnesty for jeff
Davis.

| OdNlo,
The republican party, Under the leader
ship of MIR. Blaine, has been very fortunate
and has done great service in behalf Of the
loyal citizens of the United States in the
house of representatives on matters Of de-
bate growing out Of the late confedracy.
Hill, Cox, Lamar and others have uncover
ed the head, hoofs and horns of the "lost
cause" while defending the same. They
have demonstrated the truth Of the old
maxim, "out of the abundance of the heart
the mouth speaketh" and have done
valiant, but trust Ineffective, service in
| behalf Of their master and idol, JEFF Davis.
"What is all this fuss about 2 Pure and
simple, it is an insolent, unpatrotic de-
| mand for the restoration of the forfeited
rights of JEFF Davis, which is admitted to
be simple matter Of grace and favor and
not of right or justice yet the democratic
party contend tor it, as they would resist
great national wrong
Amnesty they were offered, contrary to
the public good, l think, for every other
traitor but the exponent of treason, and
they spurned and scorned the offer which
did no. include the "arch traitor" WHY
grant amnesty to Davis Has be done
anything to merit it? Has be repented /?
Has he petitioned for it? Does he not
scorn and despse the government and in
stitutions of the United States Does he
not in lis heart yearn for an opportunity
to aid the ''lost 2" Can any one see
how the public good will be advanced by
relieving Davis from the effect of his own
greatest of crimes-treason to the United
States. levying war and murder in gigantic
proportions and wickedness against her and
his own countrymen?
Further, the democratic party would
hate him to utter deiestation If he should
admit that the confederate cause was wronp
or crime from commencement to conolu-
sion, and if he should so admit, they would
resist amnesty for him as fiercely as they
now contend for it.
The democratic party are not 4 party Of
reimbursement they resisted the enfran.
chisement of the colored people of the
United States; they are to-day seeking TO
dIsfranchlse the clergy of the United states,
but they want Davis enfranchised that lie
may be in congress and be president of the
United States, this being done, they would
regard the confederacy reveDged, and so
should |.
They very adroitly ask, "Wby not grant
amnesty to poor, old, imbecile, dyisg jeff
Davis? 1t can do no HARM JEFF DAVIS
does not die easy The granting him am
nesty will, by the great body of the Amer
lean people, be regarded as quasi endorse
ment of the confederate cause, at any rate,
it will be such pardon as will take all his
legal equity stains away" jeff Davis is
the ablest democrat in the United States
Hon, A. II. Stevens eXcepted--and pos
sesses the elements of immense power for
mischief, which he can operate. If he can
he resiored whom fhe deuocrotio- rarts-
nesty would be announced by firing OF
cannon, Bringing of bells, bon-flres, illum-
nations, and all manner of democratic joy,
not exceeded since Bull Run.
Good faith to our soldiers, living and
dead, will be broken by this amnesty. We
were promised, if we would enlist and do
our duty in the salvation of our country
from SHE confedracy and JEFF Davis" we
should be honored while living and mourn
ed for If we fell in the line Of our duty, and
should all be accounted patriots, and that
if we should catch DAVIS he should he
chung on a sour apple tree, forthwith.
We enlisted-Davis was caught, but, W.
fortunately, by the result Of the war, he
was not hung, or shot, and now the
democracy propose to hang us on the same
apple tree and let Davis witness the execu-
ton, pardoned man, and then put him
into congress with his seventy, more or
less, confederates there now waiting his
hoped-for coming, and from thence into
the presidency of the United States, if
possible, as a reward for his efforts in be-
half of secession, This is too much, and
enough TO break an elephants back Every
patriot should object
AS a precedent for coming generations,
Davis should not be amnested Mankind
should not be taught that in less than
eleven short years the last traitor in the
most gigantic rebellion the world ever saw
was pardoned and was whitewashed and
made more honorable than he who aided to
his utmost to defend the very life of the
nation. If treason is thus easily Cancelled
and pardoned, any man who shall hereafter
enlist in the army of the United States
shall do it simply as employment in an eX-
ira hazardous business, and the word pat
riolism should be taken from our vocabu-
larry, and amnesty inserted instead.
The rebels ask of the United States more
than God himself can grant. The Lord
never amnestied an unrepentant rebel and
man never will Divine love and goodness
does not run in that direction There WAS
a rebellion IN heaven, a great many thous-
and years ago, and the devil is not amnestied
yet
Davis amnestied, the history of Sour late
unpleasantness" is obiterated, sour battle
flags destroyed, our monuments of men and
events concerning the rebellion must be de-
molished our Union dead who softly he
and sweetly sleep in southern soil, in the
peaceful consciousness that they died in
the defence of ''the flag and their country,
must get up and out of that sacred soil,
| for their hated presence will not long be
| tolerated after Davis is amnestied, and re-
| publicans south will know from personal
knowledge that the bloody shirt is no myth
| or creation of Senator Morton and Gen
eral Stannard and ether mutiated officers
and soldiers must learn to account for their
injuries by asserting that they were in
| jured IN 'fooling around threshng ma
chine or were mangled in powder mill.
| | think and hope all good Union soldiers
agree with me that Davis aud confederates
should not be amnestied until be and they
shall do works, meet for repentance and
the wrongs committed by them, and shall
admit that we were in the right and they
in the wrong-and they should be held &C.
countable for the rude and indecent de-
monstrations of Cox, Hill, Lamar and
| others of their stripe, of late in congress.