The Daily Gazette

TOO FAST ENTIRELY. Some of the make-believe friends of Job H. Jackson are too fast entirely in endeavoring to censure the authorities of this State. We know that they regret that Mr. Jackson finds himself in his present position; and they were ready to serve him or his friends if there had been any way to do so; or if Mr. Jackson's counsel had offered to do anything to gain time or make examinations. But no effort of this kind was made either by Mr. Jackson, his counsel or his friends. It is therefore useless to censure our Governor, our Sheriff, or Sheriff Wells, of Ga., who up to the escape of Mr. Jackson from the cars for Richmond, as they were leaving Washington, had treated him with all due consideration and kindness.

[The details of this attempt at escape will be found in another column, taken from the Washington Star.]

It is only on a par with the many foolish assertions about "black-mailing" that is heard on the streets. And to show that our authorities, from the Governor down to Sheriff Grubb, performed their several duties only upon compulsion, we republish the writs upon which they proceeded only in compliance with the Constitution of the United States and in obedience to the laws of Delaware and of Georgia.

Those who read these indictments will not put much faith in the correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer's assertion that it "appears to be a clear case of kidnapping."

This talk about "undue haste" is nonsense. There was none of it. Sheriff Grubb complied with all the requests of Mr. Jackson and never surrendered him to Sheriff Wells until they boarded the cars for Baltimore. We might as well add that the abuse of the "rebels" is all gas—for those whom they aimed the abuse at are guiltless of any injury to Mr. Jackson. The man Kimball and Governor Bullock of Georgia were Republicans who were sustained in power by Federal bayonets. They fled the State to escape from justice and now on their return to Georgia they are detailing some of their crimes, and they are responsible for the information on which Mr. Jackson has been arrested and taken to Georgia.