The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-05-19
THE CHICAGO TIMES ON THE RAM
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| The Northwestern organ of the secesh is
we'll nigh as indignant in view Of the prelimi-
naries for the trial of JEFF Davis, as its con-
federate friends in Richmond and Memphis.
The Times, however, is constrained to be q
little more careful in the expression of it,
ured abuse Of Judge UNDERWOOD, before
whose court the indictment was found and the
trial is to be had. The Times says of his
charge to the Grand Jury:
"The charge was little else than an aboli.
ton stump speech Of the most violent and
abusive type. He is Virginian, and if that
State is now in the wretched condition he
describes, If crime is so prevalent, and the
abuse of the Freedmen SO general, and the
spirit of rebellion so defiant, and the people
generally so degraded and ignorant,-he
should rather have sought to conceal her
shame than to publish it to the world not
only unnecessarily, but to make it the inap.
propriate text for such a rhodomontade and
hotch-potch Of invective as distinguished his
curious talk to the jury. We append a por-
ton of what it is much courtesy to call his
charge
"The subjection Of the women of one
complexion to the wild fury of unbridled IL
centiousness, and as a consequence, denying
to the women of that complexion the holy
rites Of marriage, or making, in thousands Of
cases. those ftes as much mockery as
conscious traitors oath, are proclaimed on
every plantation in the hleached faces Of the
children of the slave women, bleached by the
blood of the first families, until hardly half
our births were of lawful wedock, and until
1t would seem that masculine virtue must be
nearly extinct in the proud circles of the
chivalric aristocracy of the State
Now. President JHossoS, whom the Times
processes to admire SO much, while Governor
of Tennessee, in public speech, made the
like identical charge in very similar language.
In his speech in Nashville to the colored peo-
pie, he said:
"Negro equality, indeed" cried he, 'iwhy,
pass any day along the side walk of High
street, where these aristocrats more particu-
larry dwell-these aristocrats whose sons are
now in the bands of guerilas and cut. .throats
who prowl and rob and murder around our
city-pass by these dwellings,, say, and you
will see as many mulatto as negro children.
the former bearing an unmistakable resem
blance to their aristocratc owners. Colored
men of Tennessee, this, too, shall cease.
:. Your wives and daughters shall no longer
be dragged into a concubinage, compared to
which poiygamy is virtue, to satisfy the
brutal lust of shareholders and overseers.
Thenceforth the sancity Of Gods holy law Of
marriage shall be respected in your persons,
and the great State Of Tennessee shall no
more give her sanction to your degradation
and your shame.
Now We see nothing wrong or improper in
such language from the Governor of Tennes-
see and nothing to unfit him for the position
Of President of the United States, farmore
digntied Office than that of District Judge
of the United States in Virginia. OF course
the charge was true in both cases, as made by
the Governor in Tennessee, and by the Judge
in Virginia. 1t is clear, therefore, that the
Times only makes this pretense that it may
discharge the venom engendered by the pro-
posed trial of JEFF. DAVIS on the head Of
Judge USDERwooD before whom he has been
indicted
COLONEL JAouEs' acquittal by q
Louisville Jury without leaving the jury box
is full vindication of his innocence Of the
charge upon which he was tried. and indicates
that the prosecution was simply the result Of
secesh malice against prominent Union
officer.
The charge, it will be remembered, was
that Of murder in causing the death Of 3
woman by procuring an abortion.