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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1866
THE PUNISHMENT OF TRAITORS.
On Monday, May 21st, the House of
Representatives passed, without a division,
the following minute, offered by Mr. Hen
derson :
First. All just and righteous governments
are inten ed not to confer rights and privi
leges upon the subjects thereof, but to secure
to each and every individual the full, free
aln d
t u h n es tam i m gh el t l s e d which
c isGe
o a d n d h eanj bestowed
won him.
Second. That the safety, happiness and
prosperity of the people require that just
and adequate penalties be annexed to the
violation of law, and that these penalties be
inflicted upon transgressors, not for the pur
pose of retaliation or revenge, but to insure
Subordinatioh and obedience.
Third. That this house will stand by and
sustain the President in executing the laws
of the United States upon a sufficient num
ber of leading rebels in each of the States
lately in insurrection against the National
Government, to vindicate the majesty of the
law, to sustain the confidence of loyal people,
and to warn the refractory for all time to
come.
The manner in which the Executive de
partment of our Government has over
iuuk-ea its am.y, lu tam landing and vital
particular here referred to, is most aston
ishing, and constitutes one of the evil
omens of the age.
Unjustifiable rebellion, and, above all,
rebellion against a free Government, for
the purpose of perpetuating slavery, is the
greatest of crimes, the oombination of all
possible crimes .in one. We regard' the
two hundred and. eighty thousand dead sol
diers of the. Union, and the two hundred
thousand dead of the rebel army, as so
many murders, deliberately planned ' and
committed by Jefferson Davis, Robert E.
Lee, Alexander H. Stephens, and the rebel
leaders of the South. We regard the sev
eral thousand millions of expenditure and
loss, North, and South, as robbery and reck
less waste; as a plundering ca generations
present and to come, by the same guilty
'men. The risk, the dishonor, and the jeo
pardy, into which republican institutions
*ere brought the world , over, the stain
upon modern civilization and Christianity
itself, the awful and bloody page intro
duced into the history of our happy coun
try by the war, is their work. And those
lamentable attendants of the war seen in
the treatment of our prisoners, the massa
cre of garrisons, and the assassination of
our President, are greatly to be charged to
the men who, if they did not specifically
plan them, took the liberty of unchaining
the tiger, which they might have foreseen
they could not control.
If there is anything in the world as
wicked and as perilous to the true interests
of country and of race as these monstrous
crimes, it is indifference to their enormity.
We shall court a repetition of them, and
we shall richly deserve it, if we suffer their
guilty authors to escape unhung. The
judge on the bench, who allows a declared
villain to go unpunished, is a worse villain
himself, and deserves to fall an early victim
to the crime he licenses. None will pity
him if he does. And we—what are we
doing but suffering the very vastness of the ,
crimes of the last four years.to cheat jus
flee of her due ? Treason unpunished is
like an immense unburied carcase, tainting
the whole atmosphere with its abominable
effluvia. A moral pestilence must follow in
its footsteps. It is impossible to take
brazen rebels by the hand and put them
back into their places of power, without
deadly, contamination.
t The great, the inexcusable, the irrepar
able error of the government has been in
pardoning without having, first punished
sufficiently to make its pardons safe and valu
able. Now, those pardons are viewed as con
cessions of Weakness, scarcely distinguish
able from positive sympathy with the crime.
'Now, they are encouragement and support
to the spirit of rebellion, •whether meant so
or not. Now, they are a terrible and
sweeping license, under which a new gene
ration of traitors may form themselves
boldly for future conspiracies. They might
have been far otherwise. Dispensed under
the shadow of a signal and conspicuous act
of justice, they would have carried a warn
ing and restraining influence with them.
Even if their number had not been seri
ously diminished, no one could have regard
ed them as a virtual approval of rebellion
and a oontounding of all distinctions be
tween loyalty and treason.
We believe the morals of the whole coun
try deteriorate, and crime of every grade
and in every region is bolder, for this failure
to deal out justice to the authors of the
crimes of the rebellion. We. believe the
consciences of men are paralyzed and their
better judgments impaired by being accus
tomed to outrageous neglect of judicial duty
in high places. Congress deserves the
thanks of all good men for this last and for
every other effort which they have made
to stimulate a lagging Executive to duty.
We cannot say that we have much hope of
a good result. It may be that other judg
ments are to be treasured up and visited on an
unhappy and erring country, before it will
learn to put power into worthy hands and
boldly carry out a policy of even handed
justice to all
The proper use of superior riches is
Clo superior good with them.
4Bits Di Of girth.
THE EXECUTIVE
Secretary McCulloch is notifying Federal
offiers in the South, who cannot or will not
take the lest oath, that they must vacate their
offices.—The President required a report
from the Attorney-General's Office, showing
the number of pardons granted by him since
he has occupied the Executive. Chair; and
recently the required report was made by the
Attorney-General, stating the number of
criminal pardons issued by President John
son since April 15, 1865, to be one hundred
and sixty-one, and the number of political
pardons twelve thousand three hundred and
eighty-one.
THE JUDICIARY.
The United States Circuit Court, which
was expected to try Jeff. Davis, convened in
Richmond, June 6. Much trouble was ex
perienced in obtained a proper attendance of
the Grand Jury, on account of the constant
threats made against them by tie people and
press of that neighborhood. Finally, how
ever, the requisite number were secured, and
Judge Underwood delivered his charge, in
which he commented very severely on the
action of the ex-rebel press and population,
and compared their city to Sodom, although
here he had been able to find the ten right
eous men. William B. Reed then asked
what was going to be done, and said that he
was in attendance on account of his strong
personal and professional sympathy with the
risoner.—The Richmond Grand Jury have
found a true bill against John C. Breckin
ridge, for treason, on an indictment identical
with that of Davis. The Court has since
then adjourned until the first Tuesday in
October next.—Application was made to
Judge Underwood, June 11, for the release
of Jefferson Davis on bail. The Judge re
fused bail, on the ground that Davis washeld
as a prisoner of war.
FINANCIAL AND COMDLERCIAL.
The total amount of the public debt of the
United States, May 31st, was $2,799,979,
450,"76 ; less cash in Treasury, which consists
of over fiity "millions in coin, and nearly
eighty. millions in currency, leaving the net
indebtness $2,670,288,367,52, being: a dimin
ution °foyer_ nineteen millions in-the month
of May. The Secretary of the Treaspry sold
over thirty-five millions of Gold, during the
month of May. Gold. was 1461, June sth.
The high price is attributable to the immense
amount going to England. The shipment of
specie from New York on Saturday, amounted
to little over two million dellars.
CONGRESS.
Senate.—June 5.—A bill to reduce the
number of clerks in the Interior Department,
and to increase their pay, also bills providing
for the safety of passengers on steam vessels.
and authorizing the leasing of Saline lands
were under consideration. The amendment
to the Constitution was discussed.
June 6.—The reconstruction amendment
was debated. Mr. Doolittle received a severe
castigation from his colleague, Mr. Howe.
Mr. Howe said an attempt would be made to
pack the next Congress in favor of the Presi
dent's policy, but he did not think it would
be successful. It was not the first attempt of
the kind, and it would be no more successful
than an attempt two hundred years ago to
pack the Parliament of James 11. in favor of
Catholic indulgence.
June 7.—The reconstruction amendment
was again under discussion. Senator Guthrie
made a speech, four hours long, against the
measure, to empty seats and gallaries.
June B.—The reconstruction amendment
passed the Senate by a vote of 33 to 11. As
amended, it is as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America, in
Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses
concurring, That the following article be pro
posed to the Legislatures of the several States
as an amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, which, when ratified by three
fourths of the said-Legislatures, shall be valid
as part of the Constitution, namely:
ARTICLE —. SECTION 1. All persons born
or naturalized iri the United States, and sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State wherein
they reside. No State shall make or enfore;e
any law which shall abridge the privileges or
immunities - of citizens of the United States.
Nor shall any State deprive any person of
life, liberty or property without due - process*
of law, nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
SEC. 2. Representatives shall be appor
tioned among the several States according to
their respective numbers, counting the whole
number of perseins in each State, excluding
Indians not taxed ; /but whenever the right
to vote at any election for electors of Presi
dent and Vice-President, or for United States
Representatives in Congress L executive and
judicial officers, or the members of the Legis
latures thereof, is denied to any of the male
inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one
years of age, and citizens of the United
States, or in any way abridged except for
participation in rebellion or other crime, the
basis of representation therein shall be re
duced in the proportion which the number of
such male citizens shall hear; to the whole
numbei• of in:Sle citizens twenty-ode Years of
age in such State.
SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or
Representative in Congress,' elector of Presi
dent and Vice-President, or hold any office,
civil or niilitatary, under the. United States
or under any State, who, having previously
taken an oath as a member of Congress, or
as an officer of the United States, or as a
member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer of any State to
support the Constitution of the United
States, shall.have engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof ; but Con
gress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each
House, remove such disability.
SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of
the United States authorized by law, includ
ing debts incurred for the payment of pen
sions and bounties for services in suppressing
insurrection or rebellion, shall not be ques
tioned, but neither the United States nor any
State shall assume or pay any debt or obliga
tion incurred in aid of insurrection or rebel
lion against the United States, or any claim
for the loss or emancipation of any slave, but
all such debts, obligations and claims shall be
held illegal 'arid void.
June 11.—The House bill providing for
the safe keepinr , of public money entrusted
to disbursing officers was passed. The bill to
aid in the construction of telegraph lines was
posponed until the 12th. The bill from - the
House, continuing in force the freedmen's
bureau . , was reported with amendments, and
ordered to be printed.
House.—June 5. —A bill was introduced
to aid in establishing a line of traction en
gines and wagons from the Missouri river to
the Rocky mountains. The bill for the es
tablishment of a department of education
was debated and laid over until next day. The
bill regulating the pay of the army was passed
under the operation of the previous question.
It does away with all allowances, and fixes a
certain rate of compensation which includes
everything. The bill authorizing the accept
ance of League Island as a depot 'for the re
pair and construction of iron-daids was taken
up. The, speaker stated that it would re
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1866
main before the House until fully disposed
of.
June 6.—The bill to regulate and secure
the safe keeping of public money entrusted
to disbursing . officers was passed. The reso
lution authorizing the distribution of the sur
plus copies of the American State
papers
was passed. The bill giving authority to the
Secretary of the Navy to accept League
Island, in the Delaware river, was taken up.
June 7.—The bill to authorize the accept
ance by the Navy Department of League
Island for Naval purposes was taken up and
was favored by Messrs. Myers, Thayer, Ran
dall, and Kelley. Messrs. Pike of Maine,
Rice of Massachusetts, and Eldridge of Wis
consin, gave it a qualified support, while it
was opposed by Mr. Spaulding and Mr; Ray
mond. During the debate a nice little pas
sage at arms occurred bet Ween Mr. Le Blond
and Mr. Raymond, which consumed consider
able time. The substitute to the bill was
then rejected, and ,the bill put upon its pas
sap, the vote resulting yeas 71, nays 46.
June B.—The Military Committee were in
structed to inquire into the expediency of
erecting a monument at West Point to Lieut.
Gen. Scott. The Committing on Banking
and Currency were instructed to report upon
the feasibility of adopting a plan by which
notes of interior national banks can be re
deemed either at, the Treasury Department
or at the centres of trade. The bill to es
tablish a department of education in the city
of Washington was defeated by the close vote
of 59 to 61. The Committee on reconstruc
tion have presented their final report to both
Houses.
June 11.—A resolution was offered, look
ing to a repeal of the Neutrality act of 1818.
This gave rise to some debate, and Mr.
Schenck offered a substitute recognizing the
Fenians as belligerents. Both resolution and
substitute were referred. A bill was reported
regulating appointments and removals from
office. A resolution, declaring that Jefferson
Davis should be held a, prisoner and tried ac
cording to the laws, was adopted—yeas 105 ;
nays 19. The Reconstruction bill was con-
Sidered, and a substitute offered by Mr.
Kelley.
~.New York City.—Practical results of the
new. Excise Law. On four Sundays in April
583 arrests were made. The la.* went into
effect on the lst of May, and on the four
Sundays in that month the number of arrests
was but 257, a total reduction of 336.---The
Staten Islanders are very indignant at the
Health Commissioners for taking possession
of Seguin's Point (at a late hour on the night
of June 6, when they were all in bed) ,for
quarantine purposes, but as an armed vessel,
is near by, they will have to put up with it:
—The Trt7)une announces that a well
authenticated case of cholera occurred in
New York early last week, 'a Mr. Edward
Fraser having been taken sick on Sunday last
and died on Monday. The woman who
washed his clothes also died of cholera.=
" The Lion park" was kept open last Sab
bath, the proprietor having obtained an in
junction against the excise board on the
ground that lager beer, such as manufactured
in this vicinity, is not intoxicating. The
park was crowded, and many got drunk,
though no disturbance was created.—Three
new cases of cholera are reported on the hos
pital ship, and two in the city since Satur
day. One case was that of Mrs. Bell, in
Twentieth street, which terminated fatally.
Both cases were in exceedingly filthy neigh
borhoods.—Hon. 3. Stanton Gould, presi
dent, and Col. P. B. Johnson, secretary of
the New York State Agricultural Society,
have prepared a circular, from which the fol
lowing extract is taken : "We do hereby
make known the existence of the rindeepest
or pleuro-pneumonia among the cows in the
stables of New York and Brooklyn."
Massachusetts.—The richest men and
estates in Boston are reported as follows:
Estate of Aug. Hemenway, $2,406,000; Na
thaniel Thayer, $2,362,500; estate of John
Bryant, $1,500,000; Sears' estate, $1,742,-
500; David Sears, $1,401,600; Moses Wil
liams, $1,271,500; estate of E. Frances,
$1,010,700.
Baltimore City.—The new Sunday law
was, if possible, more rigidly enforced last
Sundayi than the one previous. The drink
ing saloons, confectionary stores, etc., were
all obliged to close.
Georgia.—The Loyal Georgian, a news
paper published in Augusta, Georgia, in its
issue of the 26th ult., says that the colored
school children in Americus, in that State .
were denied the right of carrying,the Tjpited
States flag in a procession at a May party.
The widow lady (white and a resident) who
teaches the school was informed, a few days
before the time set for the party, by several
citizens, that if she attempted to march her
pupils through the town, or to carry the
United States flag, she and they would be
shot ! She appealed to the Mayor for protec
tion, who gave it, so far as the procession was
concerned, but she was not allowed to carry
the flag.—The Loyal Georgian, a news
paper conducted by colored men, at Augusta,
has been suppressed by General Tillson.
Oregon has elected the first Representative,
a Republican, to the Fortieth Congress.
Alabama.—One of the last acts of the
Alabama Legislature was to pass a public act,
using the terms "the enemy' in referring to
the Union army, and this act was signed by
their newly-reconstructed Governor.
Texas.—Major-General Herron has been
indicted by the Grand Jury of Cameron coun
ty, Texas, for kidnapping and giving up to
Cortinas a suspected Imperialist, who was
afterwards shot by Cortinas' order.
Judge Allison and lady, of this city, were
in a sleeping car on the Pennsylvania Rail
road, on Friday, which became detached from
the train and was rolled over and over, down
a bank forty feet in height. We are glad to
be able to say that neither they nor their fel
low passengers were seriously harmed.
Anton Probst was hung June Bth, for the
murder of the Dearing family.
The Fenians.—The captured Fenians, who
were held ,on the• li. S steamer Michigan,
were released under bonds to keep the peace.
—The following is the text of a circular
addressed, June 5, to the District Attorneys
and Marshals of the United States, by Attor
ney-General Speed :—"By direction of the
President you are hereby instructed to cause
the arrest of all prominent leading or conspicu
ous persons, called Fenians, who you may have
probable cause to believe have been or may '
be guilty of violations of the neutrality laws.
On the neat day, President Johnson issued a
proclamation against the Fenians, in COMO
gence of which, General Sweeny., the military
head, and Mr. Roberts, the President, have
been arrested, while other and minor actors
have been taken into custody or placed under
bonds to keep the peace and appear when
called upon. This action of the Government
discouraged the Fenians, though it did not
immediately break up their arrangements.
There can be no doubt that the failure of the
expedition to Fort Erie was brought about
by the vigilant patrol kept up along the
Niagara river by the United States authori
ties. Special despatches, dated St. Albans,
Vt., June 9, announoe the final collapse of
the Fenian Invasion of Canada. The right
wing of their army retreated from Pidgeon
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THE CI'T'Y.
Hill to St. Albans, and the men are prepar
ing to go home. The demoralization of the
whole army is complete, and both officers and
men have refused further duty.
MISCELLANEOVS.
Death of Geri. Scott_ —This distinguished
miltary chieftain died at West Point, on the
morning of May 29th, in the eightieth year
of his age. He recognized the chaplain of
the post ten minutes before he died, and
clasped his hand in silence. The following
order was issued from the Executive mansion.
WASHINGTON May 29, 1866.
The President with profound sorrow an
nounces to the people of the United States
the death of Winfield , Scott, the late Lieuten
ant General of the army. On the day which
may be appointed for his funeral the several
executive departments of the Government
will be closed. The head's of the War and
Navy Departments will, respectively, give
orders for the payment of appropriate honors
to the memory of the decased.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
• The Panic in England--It 'seems as if
the recent panic in England were a judgment
upon the ruling classes of that country who
have such unfriendly feelings toward the
United States. For the past five years the
London journals, with but few exceptions,
have been predicting a financial collapse in
this country, and laying the scene at New
York. Day after day they have thought they
detected the first symptoms, and so told
their readers, and at length the panic came—
but not at New York, where their hopes
would have placed it, but at their own doors
in London, sweeping like wildfire through,
the great metropolis and dethroning the
money kings on all sides. It seems that this
and the fact that in the face of the great dis
aster American securities exhibited such
wonderful steadiness, were intended as a
lesson to those who have so long wished evil
to the United States.—Ledger.
Passengers for Europe.—The tide of
summer travel to Europe has set in with
even greater sweep than that which followed
the close of the war. On one steamer alone
—the Napoleon 111.-323 cabin passengers
sailed. Two other steamers—the City of
Paris and the Germania—cleared the same
day with their full complement. Every
berth on the China, which left on Wednes
day week, was engaged eight weeks ago, and on
the same day an extra Cunard steamer lett
New YOrk to furnish at least some accommo
dation for those whose engagements in Eu
rope would not brook delay.
Cases under the Civil Nights Bill.—The
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company "have
a suit pending'against them in Baltimore for
refusing to sell a negro a ticket for a passage
in first-class cars. Such a ticket has-been
refused in Washington, and it is not unlikely
that the occasion will be seized for bringing
"another suit under the Civil-Rights bill. Seve
ral have been brought .in Baltimore and at
other parts of the country for refusals to
colored people of admission to entertainments
from which they have heretofore been ex
cluded under State or municipal ordinances.
Slavery in New Jersey.—The township
of Marlborough, Monmouth county, has sued
the executor of an estate for money expended
for the support of a slave who had belonged
to that estate. The executor claims that the
recent Constitutional amendment abolishing
slavery made the negro free, and the estate
is no longer bound to support him, and if ha
is a pauper, the township is liable. The
township, however, denies all this, and the
"chosen freeholders" seem to have some
faint idea that, at least so far as this case is
concerned, slavery still exists in New Jersey.
Warning, to Drinkers.—" It is not gene
rally understood in medical circles that per
sona who are not addicted to strong drinks
are the only ones that can reckon on escaping ,
the cholera. Drunkards are the men attack
ed; they never recover. In Tiflis, Georgia
(Asia), every drunkard is dead. During the
last visitation of cholera in New York, out of
two hundred and four cases, only six were
temperate people. In Albany, out of five
thousand temperate men, only two are known
to have been attacked during the last visita
tion of the cholera."
The Freedmen's Bureau.—Assistant Com
missioner Scott reports to Major General
Howard, that although a careful investiga
tion was made, no flaw could be found in 'his
management of the Sea Islandsquestion, or
any other affairs of the Bureau in South Caro
lina. It gives him much pleasure to state
that the planters came forward and upheld
his policy throughout, and were panic- stricken
at the very idea of the removal of the Bureau.
The inquiry is no longer heard, " What can
be done with the neg roes!" But the ques
tion is often asked, Where can laborers be
found?"
The Cholera.—The steamship Union, from
Liverpool, arrived at . New York, May 29,
with cholera on board. There had been
thirty-three deaths during the voyage. The Pe
ruvian has also arrived with twenty-eight cases
of cholera. Thirty-five of the passengers died
from the disease during_the voyage.—Two
cases were reported in New York, May 30th.
Two cases of cholera have also occurred in
Kingston, Jamaica.
Burned Churches.—A correspondent of a
religious journal published in New Orleans,
says that, as far as he has been able to ascertain,
there were during the late war 1012 churches
hurned in the Southern States, involving a
loss of about $5,000,000. They belonged to
all religious denominations, and each one
seems to have suffered as much, in proportion
to its strength of membership, as the others.
General Howard has received a contribu
tion of one hundred and ninety francs from
Rev. Mr. Duplessis, the pastor of, a church
in Switzerland, for the benefit of the freed
men. The general acknowledges the receipt
of the gift in an appropriate letter.
Rebel Privateers.—The number of rebel
privateers during the late war was 25. These
captured 283 American vessels, destroying
235. The captured vessels were valued at
$25,000,000; those destroyed at $20,000,000.
Prof. Agassiz.—Letters of May 3 and 4
were received in Boston, Saturday, from
Professor Agassiz. He had returned to Rio
Janeiro with a large and beautiful collection
of fishes. The Emperor had shown him
every attention, and facilitated his expedition
with every necessary assistance.
A colored man, has brought suit under
the Civil Rights bill, for seveal thousand dol
lars damages, against the owner of a Western
steamer, on which he was refused a state
room passage.—There are ten newspapers
in the United States conducted by colored
men—one daily and nine weeklies.
FOREIGN.
Great Britain.—Upwards of nine hundred
miles of the new Atlantic telegraph cable
have been stowed on the Great Eastern.
About sixty miles a day were stowed away,
the work proceeding day and night. It is
found that the Great Eastern will not be able
to take all the necessary cable, 2700 miles, on
board. The screw steamer Medway conse
quently has been chartered to take about 500
miles of the old cable from the Great Eastern.
Another Steamer, the Albany, is also engag
ed to assist in the enterprise, and the British
Government has again granted the services of
the war steamer Terrible to accompany the
exif e dition. Each of the three steamer s are
to f urn i s h e d w ith grappling aPparatus, so
that the old cable may be grappled at point's
a mile apart to break the strain and give
greater security.--The Consolidated Bank
of London had stopped payment.—Cotton
was advancing, and U. S. 5-20's brought 661 :
June Ist.
The London Times states that on :the Bth
of April, 1866, the population of the metro
polis was estimated by the English Registrar
General at 3,054,940.
Germany and Austria.—The invitations
to the Congress have all been accepted and
it will soon meet in Paris. Prussia, Austria,
and Italy are still arming. The orders for a
second conscription in Vienna produced great
discontent. Italy engages not to attack dur
ing the conference. Hopes of the war being
avoided are believed in only by a minority.
Courrier des Etats Unis, the
French organ at New York, states that it has
reliable information that Admiral Nunez of
the Spanish fleet has been ordered by his
government to immediately withdraw from
the waters of Peru and Chili. The reason
given for this sudden recall is that the South
American winter, which is the opposite of
ours, is fast approaching, and that the vessels
will be exposed to the peril of tempests.
China.—Some Chinese forcibly abducted a
boy from the American Consulate at Hong
Kong in April last. The next day the Consul
with a party of. some forty persons, pulled
down the Chinamen's houses and killed three
of them.
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