Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-02-11
Senatorial Trial for Treason.

The Washington correspondent Of the Sacra,
mento Union, under date of Jan. 18th, gives the
following graphic sketch of a scene in the U. s,
! Senate:
There was n great rush yesterday at the Senate
to hear the trial of Garrett Davis, Of Kentucky,
| upon the indictment embodied in the resolution
| of expulsi submitted by Senator Wilson. 1t
| had been bruited about that stirring debate
would be ON the tapis and that 1t was possible
| that bit of fight might be expected So the
galleries were crowded 10 excess, the assemblage
| even Overlooking into the reporters gallery,
where the aggravated correspondents were rob
q of their comfortable quarters by the exeraor-
binary press from the outside There was pro
found hush IN the crowded chamber when Wilson
Cd ned pile of manuscript and commenced read
In his speech. He began by stripping Davis
resolutions of their verbiage, and then, piece by
piece, showing how all their logical connection
was but complete appeal to the worst passions OF
the people to rise against their war leaders and TO
revolt" agsi lst the present Administration
showing that the Kentucky Senator had used the
same word revolt" US applied to rebellion US
well as to the proposed popular revolution which
he urged Wilson then went on TO show that the
Peace Congress which Davis asked for would b"
revolutionary aSscmblagc, which proposition
Davis assented TO as the debate wore on. He then
endcavorud to show that the appeal OF the Ken
lucky Senator was calculated to incite rebellion
and revolution, ana ne ttluuCeu tNlttouCc
resolutions of Davis to show that his Nominations
were indecent, dsrespectful and reasonable.
ShOru of some Of its repettions, the speech Of
Wilson was q strong one, and q murmur Of ap-
plause went around when Its reading had been
concluded. Davis literally stripped himself for
the tight taking off his neck. and unbutton-
ing bis waistcoat. The burden Of his speech was
You're another" He spat upon Massachusetts
and New England generally branded the people
as disloyal and disorganizers; digniied the Burns
rescue case as q rebellion, and insuted Wilson by
repeating anonymous and irresponsible attacks
upon his courage, honesty and legitimate birth,
ilsinuating that he was gipsey, and repeating
all sorts of inuendoes and insinuations which he
had heard Davis made one or two good points
on Wilson, however, one of which was the asser-
ton that when Toombs. JEFF. Davis and other
southern hre-entCrs had uttered their traitorous
harangues In the Senate, Wilson had remained In
his seat as dumb as fish," AL Of which Is
nearly true and now, backed by powerful ma
jority, Wilson is holder than then Davis went
into o lengthy history of all the connections in
the North which could be tortured into q
show or semblance Of rebellion, and argued
thercfrom that the North, especially New Eng.
land had been guilty of repeated treason, and
that the Senator from Massachusetts had never
lifted his voice or arm against Il. He read coPi-
ously from laws, letters, speeches and even anon
ymous letters, the while sitting oil his desk to
rest his legs. Davis is q small, pale old man, and
his body gave out long before his voice did, and
it was comical figure which he made sitting on
his desk, his little legs hanging down In front,
and his body doubled over an immense volume,
from which he read neatly the whole of the Flu
gitive Slave Law.
When he had concluded his three hours speech,
Wilson replied eStemporaneously and made very
good speech rcfuting completely all of the person.
al ISLANDERS which had been cast upon him by the
Industrious scavenger of scandal and gossip from
Kentucky. He exposed the malice and narrow
mindedness which had prompted the vituperattve
attack Of Davis, who had never touched in oil his
vaticinations, the real merits of the question: but
had confined his efforts to personal abuse Of the
author of the resolutions of expulsion. Wilson's
reply was not long, nor was it so able as stron-
ger man might have made It, being good exem-
pliication Of the old adage, that he who pleads his
own cause has a fool for a client. Wilson strug-
giles manfully and red facedly with his subject,
but never seems to be master of 1t somehow, but
splutterS and fumes when he should be calm, sar.
castle III dgnited in his invective. The whole
matter has been postponed until the amendments
TO the Enrolment Bill are disposed Of