Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1866-01-20

oh, the now and we're safe at home again,
And the cause starved and suffered Tor Is won;
Eut we never FORGET mid and mid pain
How the glorious Union boys came tranp'ns GA
\ SOUTHERN OrINIoS.-The' following from the
Raleigh Progress. truly loyal Southern paper
serves to show that the feeling Of anxiety that
jeff Davis shall be brought to trial is not confin-
ed to radicals - and abolition fanatics " at
the North Read it:
Henry WIRz AND JEFFERSON DAvIs.-Wirz,
the small traitor. is to suffer the extreme penalty
of the law. for his many crimes, by being hang
cd until he is dead, and there is not loyal man
woman in the land bat will say lie deserved
his fate. Wirz is a small traitor, however. who,
in his brutal treating and numbering of Union
prisoners was only carrying out the orders of
his supcrors and if for this he deserved death,
what should be the fate cf those whose lnStrn-
mcnt he was? We have heard Of no petitions
being circulated in favor oC this poor devil but.
as svmpathizing ladies aud deyout persons are
wholly engaged in their efforts to save the neck
of the big traitor, we suppose they have no
thought for the small one. Davis, the big trail
tor in whose behalf :. Confederate" sympathi-
zers industrously engaged, will have 4
+ hearing soon and trust that the trial viii
be before civil tribunal and that ii will be
fir and impartial. Let all the facts be placed
before the world so that all may know which OF
the two, Davis or Wirz did most to torture OF
murder the Union prisoners at AndersonYIl!e
1t was well known.to the people throughout The
:. Confclcracy" that the prisoners 1t that de
testabe pen were treated more like brntcs than
men. and had the influence of those who ruled
at Richmond been rs great in that as in tht
matter Of hunting up and running down con
scripts. the inhuman outrages could have been
prevented: Certainly the prompt finding and
sentence in the case OF Wiz is not calculated TO
increase the hope of Davis sympathizers, and
yet we suppose petitions viii continue TO crcu-
late The Government may care asIiule about
these petitions, however, as did Southern mem
bels Of Congress care about those ponderous
rolls laid before that body in ls50-'6l. signed
by TIE Northern people, imploring them in
Heaven $ name not to break up the Government.
We can say in all sincerity to the ladies and
preachers who are 50 active in Mr. Davis behalf
and who We're lately instrumental in = firing the
Southern heart, starting the war and running
the South, that their labors will not assist in
the worl, OF restoration, and that If they would
but reflect Il moment they would see thatat
would be better to leave those i'll authority to
treat with treason and traitors. No Injustice
viii be done Mr.. Davis by those who control the
Government he tried SO hard to destroy.
SoryD Apvlcs.-An editorial article in the
Charleston Courier on the recent election in
the North contains the following passage =
:. Politicians who take their cue from such men
vallandieham. :nd applaud the merits Of the
Chicago platform. will be very sure 10 fail il
any Northern election. Possibly these mon may
think they doing the South q service by still
clinging to their ridiculous md false notions,
whereas just the contrary is the truth. The
South will be satisfied if the North will support
President Johnson. It does not ask il the yictors
are Democrats or Republicans, so long as they
stand true to the Government. 1t is time this
Chicago platform nonsense and impudence was
kicked into oblivion. 1t would be far better for
the South to seek protection of the most radical
Of the Republicans than allow itself to be hum
bagged by the Coppcrhead faction"
THE EErcrLIcAN PARrr.-The name Republic
can is dear to us from Old associations. We are
glad now to think that we were among the first
who trained underis banner more than ten years
ago, amid the SCOTS and jecrs OF the rabble, and
happier still to have lived to see It's prin-
ciples honorcd, respected. and in the main trlnm-
plaut The Republican party was based upon
the broad ground of universal liberty. That par
ty entertained new ideas believed in progress, III
the principles Of justice. in the morals OF poll
tics, and that liberty was something more than
4 name.-Voaajqia Messenger.