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THE NEWEERRY HERALD FRIDAV MORNING, JUNE -22, 1866. Mr. Jefferson DavIs. It.is not 6nly gratif ing and refreshing tca read so.admirable an article as that which we give bAlow fr(m4 the Cininnati En.u,ier, b)ut remarkatle that in the State of Qhin, the home of Salmon P.. Chase, and noted Radical stroghold too-such calm, sensibie,~and kind Isentimaents coulld be expressed in behalf of the disti gui shed p?i Ioer ofFortress Mnroe. Speaking of the report of- Sirgeon Coopel upon the heahh of Afr. D4-avis and conmenting 10reon, it cod anes: This is cat'ment That is accorded 'to a n w, frr yt'1 jear s, was at the head of i ~e than oic -mrd of the States of the Ameri a. Ubion and repre-sented their Govertiment W;i.afb'i6 . and ahroad. It iz the ':kind -f rerengeAhit is taken upon an individual wh9 was e -iecif: pon nt of a national senti ment, nracing-apiuntry nearly as large as, the niitent:o)fEurope, exclusive of Russia. itl ;n4idntes the manner in which the dignity of Ithe country is displayed toward that great %mahtant who for years w;Ided- a power that. r ted forces tha.would have ovc-I throw y ofjhe mighty n4amrchies tipo thp.C ilVof Eu.nip*. It i cormpkting th e record . at weare making up.forfuture his try. B1i appear that te a ro of eleven sovereign Stu tes, after a long nanddesperite-tmQggle wic d their twefy' com.peers, at last, by 6hefrtun.esof war, fell into their bands.. There were many limes -when a trifling ehabge ofcircuristgnees wou-Id have sulficed o have thrown the balance into Ahe other scale. A long career of successi hone resplendent pon.the banner of thes3 S66.thern belligerents in the -gife. The namesi of Bull -Rum., birst and second ShAoh, the Seven ,,ines, of Gaines' Mill, of Fredea ksburg, of-! dMeantain, ot Harper's Ferry, of ,Cha cellor'ville, of Angitm, of Chickamauga, ofI MAurfrees.oro'and Gsttysburg,ofSpottsylvania, of Coal Harbor ofthe Wilderness, of eharles tonadddichnona, and Petersburg, sugges th.e'greatest military events, -both - in their nignit04e and in the bravery an d determina ,tio.-of-th6ir contestants that appear.in modern historv. "Prisoner Davis,".as bh&is called, in thisFoitress Monroe disp&ach, had-irnde him military- commanders as consumnate ias Marl oorouigh; Wellingt6n, or Prince -Eugene. He: ~cQmmarded others who possessed the fire, the: dash; the intrepidity and the heroie bravery of Marshals Ney, Murat, Lannies and DavoLust, the great.rmilitary palladins that surroun'ded' ,Napoleon I. SFor four y-ear.s Qrisoner Daist' was at Richmond. with his so-called Confed- ~ erate:Govenment, within one hundred and twenty miles of.the seat of the-American Gov ernent. -A million of soldiers under arms, the bestCin the world, were :not ~adequate to r his capture. It required a force as large -as Sthat. which fought upon both sides at Auster l-itz, or Jena, or Eylau, or Waterloo, or Fried-1 - lnd, to protect our Government in its Federall Capital. Men talked about its being a rebel linan inurrection, but. in fact, it arted equal belligerent,rights with ourseves and all of tbe nation-s of Christendoni. Itsgu,n9ye, heard for months with tremhling and Alarm at Washington, and it hosts were se-en in grqatV nutibers:from >ts capitol spires and domes. Itsgovernment was as strong rd 'as perfect in every,respect,- as --much Jonn'ded . in the choice 6f{e people. as the one that ruled over us at Washinrgtm. - .Thile we, ~biided by the fin-es of-rage and pvsi6n, had outlawed all this mighty- tnas of peonie at the SIuth, of us who .were contend infor the Conv-ittion as it hat beca. intir p1 eted k tieables4 Aifmerican sttemen, their deeds and achievements had awakened a -fe.el ing :-kin to admiration in their behalf .in all the disinterested nations :)f Christendom. The names of Davis, ofLee and "Stonevall" Jackson, of doe Johnston, of LOngs.4reet of A. P. 1HiI, of Beauregard, of Hood, of E-xeli, of.Forre,t, of Stuart, were carried to the re .mot-cst LouIAaries of civilization and inspired even a-t -the North something warmer than merd respect. At length vaA tv cerior numbevs .rd eme geraye*political mistakes of JeffersOn Dh vi derided the day ag-ainist the el6ven sover e:ign StAtes,of the South. Their leader fell in .to our hands, and we,to onr shame and dis grace, Vave been treatirfg him like a felon and auiefac"tor. The treatment- of-Napoleon Boia-, parte by the English Government upon the island of -St. Helena, which has been a ta-rk stain upon the hono' of Great Britain, was excellent anil liberal compared tb the misera ble persecutions and torture of ourig'eat a tagnist. - -We have sought most ridiculously to belittle a great national transaction down to the dinensions of-an odi-oisand tr'easonable conspiracy. We have practised upon_ our l tiriaps prison-er the refmnd 'crzelty .of the Chie; i.con derning him to de'ath by the slow tortut.e-of a want ofg lep.o A man well tricken inf eais, withaconstitution enfeebled by disease, and:of the m43st delicate ~oriIza tion, hu.-as been confined in prisot for tnore than a year, subjected to al-Lhe rdebrutality that the,.military turnkey-5 could iniet, iand . that :too by tho*e.whointimC p.st -dare not hrook itIe gaze of the'eyes of the inaisoned bioftain. - -* There is not a mnan*of' ordinary senst anc& ntelliginee who does not,kiow (hat the cues ion of the right of' a State to secede tns& a! ~ys been at last an open one .in Ameri. :an politics, apon which, uiice the -igin. of )ur Governmeh-, the wisest of,-onr statesmein ~are differed, and thatjto Ta'pli. i ividual treason ever iigeied tirat case. To nake Jefferson D~a21 'it ilt, mrder such ircumistarces-to especialy single him out or punisl~iment, is the v4ry highest of enni a1.njustice. Duiring-the er we exclum~ge:d risoner$ w-it.hthe Copfederate Gyrnef Ld in other respects recoguizeil it asoniequal eligerent -with, ourly.Wh. Voer healrd f exchangving prisoners with traitors oy riot ~rs? To go behinds these .exnts. gfter the near m oer and eroct the g-aiinwsannithe. mri on of those we thus treated, is simplytoward ly and cruel inconsistency. We should have done to Jefferson Davie kng ago what we did.to General Lee-and -his military compeers-released him upoin 'paiole, and considered the -matter dismissed. Such conduct would have been wo-ihy ,of a g"Ot and magnanimous people. It would :hae shown that we, in one respect at least, &. served.hb victorywe had worl, and dhat w had the %wisdom;o a eiate the -true charao ter of the.struggie-nd to *profit by it. The soonier- the President performs this act ofjxts tice the better for his own rutationa and That of the country. None but The bleed this gty and the cowardly .desire' the firther persecutirn of Jefferson DaVs. The shre-A among the Radicals do not want an -issue tht they considered decided by the war to- go agatn ~before and o -be sibected .to-heabitra TMent,of a jury. - In other words, -to:sidk a great.nationzd straggle down to the dimen siilns of.a P rininal trial by whose esul they cannot poSsibly-strcngthen thoirposition., The1.Chief Justice of the United:States, wh befor e ououpied his present positiontaught te doctrine p which Mr. Davis acted,~viz the right of a Stata-to-secede, has shirked the trial. Hehas invented excases to preventit, .or he krio,ws, as we all know, tit it would' be %worse:than a shameful farce. Theconnry wants not an exclting and irrit-ating trial to ,open old sores-wounds but-it needs a gene ral and universal amnesty forill meni. The CndinnaCi rOette MpIh speci gie giom -accoun6t of affairs in Mississippi an)dLouisiana, from the dcstructive fiood, the cold weather, &c. He predicts there 'will eamirji--the South before alnother seasm Planters havo neglected planting grain, hop iig foran immense crop of -cotton 'and ig pres.S In T'any piaees the planters%ave -no adid are out of provisio.s Merchants si e no n-ore credit, thoug mo-rtgges on -the cong ~er arc.offered at low g1n1es. The Constquen-mst be that'iie araRoos will he abandoned uiless u ony pa snplies are ibtained frorn hhe'orth Ti Co.scar o L*EUPE -A i.Par s ter-witer says. - "Bist ween the Bosphorus an~d the'lBaltic a rand conseription. .i -jroc eeding ; ther4es& not-a land3ed propriefer, ai simple shop-keep. -a toid:' :mechlie,-c .a 'winbeaten mamr .:yhere, wh'o is;fnot moved tosteTrro' , tIisa.n. Now3 if every the gfe taagtienk dfdi. icnes:i maroeLuQsis 9;ate de i'stit 't ed.; Ii he, immediate-part-i to I he .ut%geat lu Italy and Pruss'ia .aainst Austri;bt wimal thiese opotdjs togetegaH wiH eitead.i(1 qiuarrels toas satisted;' ehre i /a ito le e gqreer o1hcteaan, this idanfldo' tIct oMant Thrh he-hole' an~ 46 brcdia wver a dock every tunfeIat s.