Jeff. Davis On Treason

The ehiof of the trnitor eonspirators. Jeff. Davis, only i'our years ago, in the sumnier of 1858, in Fanuoil Hall. Boston, denoun. ed the very trea&on of .vhich he is now fruilty in the following icathing liingunge : ' Among culprits, there is none more odiousto my mind than a public officer who takes an outh to support the constitution - the oompact between the State? binding ench other for the eommnn dL'!:ne and general welfare ot. tlltJ other-yet to himsolf a mental reservation that ho will war upon the principies he has sworn to maintain, and npon the property righte, the protection of which are part of the c inpact of the Union. [Applause.J '' It ifl a crime too low to be named before this asernbly. It is ono which no man with selfreapect would ever comrnit To swear that he will sup port the tionstitutiiin - to take an office which belmigs in many of ita relations to all the Staten of which be is thi:sthe representativa, is treason to everything honorable to man. It is the base and cowardly ttacfc ofhirti who gaihe tho eonüdence 4 anothor, in order that he may wound hun."