Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-06-30
Tho Minority Report.

Tho Minority Report
We publish to-day the remainder OF
Gov. Windows reports, and need not
say that It will amply repay perusal.
We feel now well assured that not
withstandiag the severity Of censure We
have heretofore visited upon tue pro-
ecedings OF this committee, we should
have been justified in giving vent to it in
q much harsheJ tone. II will be seen
by this report that both the committee
and the witnesses have been guilty not
only ofpcrvelting the powers Of an i'm.
portant branch Of the government for
the basest Of partisan purposes, but al
so Of aiding that perverson by deliber-
ate distortions of the truth. After all
the attempts Of this committee to manu-
facture in advance public op'nicn
against the President and members Of
his cabinet, by the circulation Of garblcd
testimony and ez parte statements OF
malignant enemies Of the Administers
ton, they have not only utterly failed TO
elicit any fact or statement upon which
they could hope to base any substantial
accusation against The President or any
member Of his Administration, but on
the other hand have laid the Black Re-
publican party open to conviction on
the charge Of having in an infamous
manner abused their power in the
House of Representatives. The Demo
cratic press will now be obliged to
abandon the defensive and act on the Of
fensive in this matter.
The Administration has come out OF
the fire unscathcd, AMI stands now clear
ly and openly indicated.
In fact, in all the testimony taken,
there is nothing elected, which could be
construed into the slightest imputation
upon the fair character of that venerable
man who now fills the Executive chair.
The only charges Of corruption that
have been substan,iated are against the
witnesses who have attempted to prove
corruption in others.
Notwithstanding all this, the Black
Republican press, anxious for anything
vot of which they can make electioneer-
ing capital, and knowing how easily
they can garble and pervert such parts
as may be unfavorable to them, will seize
upon the volumes of scandal collected
by the committee, and spread it all over
the land, in the hope Of making it avail
able buncombe in the coming campaign.
The real, sensible men of the Black Re-
publican party no doubt see how unfor-
tunate it was for them that this inquisi-
ton was ever started. Any one would
suppose that the VIGOROUSLY infamous
character of the chief inquisitor, John
CovOde, would have made his colleagues
in the House suspicious of any measure
with which he might be connected, and
the more so when he aimed at dragging
down to his own filthy level the highest
officers of the government. As it is now,
this unsuccessful attempt to cast odium
upon the Administration, will recoiI with
telling effect upon the whole Republican
party, and will no doubt teach them
hereafter to be little more sure of their
evidence, and the character of their
prosecution, when they attempt to en-
gage in business of this kind.
We hope to see this report of Gov.
Winslow's circulated over the length
and breadth of the land.
Let the people know how large num-
OF their Black Republican representa-
tives employ their time and waste the
public money in corrupt, partisan
schemes 0! this kind, to make election
eering capital. We feel we'll assured
what the verdict of their constituents
Will be, when they are called, as they
soon will be, to pass upon the course
OF those who now misrepresent them
in the only branch of tho federal gov
eminent in which they have any con-
troll.
1t will be but a short time before the
whole proceedings Of this Covode In
vest'gstson will be read aud fully under
stood by the whole country, and the peo
pie Will place upon it the seal Of CON-
demnation. The pure and spotIess ad.
minis,ration Of James Buchanan will re-
main untarnishcd by TIE breath from its
foul calu,nnics.
!HE MURDER OF SMITH FAYE, ESQ.
OF PsoRIA.-We have already given the
!Acts In regard to quarrel and shoot
aug array between two citizens of Peo-
na-E. Il. Carroll and Smith Fryc.-
we no" learn that Mr.. Frye died from
the effects OF his injuries on cThvr.5..
afternoon. Carroll and his book. keener
Brown, are under arrest, The ,onss ~ an
accessory for handing Carroll the n;s,ol
Mr.. Frye was II native OF Pcuusvlva.
mia. and came to Peoria county in 1884
settling in Redwood township. He has