Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-17

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week. An effort will be made to amend
it by the substitution of an educational
E-S-'~;en for tho clause granting unqRali.
he'd suffrage.
DEMOCRATIC EFFORTS.
Green Clay Smiths johnson Club have
marked five Pennsylvania Congressional
Districts in which their energy is to be
concentrated in that State for the purpose
of preventing the return of the present
Republicans. The committee have sub.
scribed for several thousand copies of
weekly paper printed here, which they
are sending out franked all over these dis
tricts, in order to try and get up a third
party or get a number of Republicans tc
unite with the Democrats. Ohio and
Indiana will receive the attention of the
Committee next, but if their enthusiast
decreases as much in the next ten DAYS as
1t has in the last ten, the whole affair will
probably be abandoned, except by those
who make a profession of and live of,
such clubs.
JEFF. DAVIS TO BE TRIED.
It can be positively stated that the At
torney General is busily engaged in ar
ranging for the speedy trial Of JEFF. Davis.
He will be a~rraigned before one of the
Circuit Couts of the United States, upon
the charge of high treason. The Attor-
ney General holds that there is no such
thing as constructive presence in the crime
of treason and on this account the trial
will probably he either in Tennessee or
Virginia. VIM. NJ. Evarts is the only
gentleman whose name has yet transpircd
who is to assist the Attorney General in
the prosecution, though several other very
eminent lawyers have been retained by
the Government and are now engaged
upon the case. Charles O'Conner and
james I. Brady, of New York, VIM. B..
Reed, Of Pennsylvania, and a lawyer from
Mississippi, are to conduct the defense.
The intention of the authorities is TO Sc
cure a speedy trial, not only for Davis,
but for several other noted rebels.
THE NATIONAL PATRONAGE IN PENNsYL-
n
A good deal of uneasiness is created BY
the rumor that a "slate" is being made
out, containing the list of a number ofre-
movals of persons holding office under
the General Government in P~ennsylva-
mia. Considering the congregation here
of a number of seedy politicians-people
who have not been able 10 secure consid-
Grafton either from the people or from
Mr.. Lincoln, and who are very loud
/" johnson men" and particularly abusive
OF the radicals-I should not be surprised
if this rumor proved to be true. It is
not doubted that the President Yesterday
peremptoIily directed the appointment Of
Ex-Governor William F. johnson, of Pitts
to one of the internal revenue of
fees in Allegheny county. That dissat-
lsied, querulous, and uncertain politician,
who has presented himself as a candidate
for any number of positions during the
five years, and has failed in ali, came
on some days ago, and delivered himself
Of q violent johnson speech from the
steps Of the City Hall-the supplement to
which is the appointment aforesaid. The
tremendous popular demonstrations
against Johnson's policy, together with
he successive and solid blows of the
yreat msjorities in Congress, do not seem
% have made much impression upon his
Accidency;" at any rate, the hope of q
continued rupture has brought here a per-
brood of dilapidated and WORKOUT
'hangellngs and parasites. They wildly
ecsn the days of John Tyler, when all
was requisite to get a Federal Office
vas to praise the President as the greatest
'atriot that ever lived, to endorse his pol
cy, and TO abuse the leading men in his
party. One would suppose that
pennsylvania had fallen back into the
ands of the CALVIN Blythes, James Nj
'~orters, Joel B. Sutherlands and Ovid F.
ohnsons, of immortal memory, for their
ounterparts are to be seen all around us,
nd they will no doubt be duly provided
or. If Congress were not now in session
GU would see some appointments that
set the whole State in a grin.
ohnson is a better type of the hungry
len who are waiting to be rewarded for
leir abuse of the radicals, and their
rong desire to have the traitors in Con- :
ress. I