The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-19
The Daily N ews.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1855.
JUDGE UNDnRwooD AND HIs JURY
tFron the Richmond Examiner, Nay 14.I<


famous that We doubted it's genuinoness, and
chose not TO divulge it until we might wait and see
il the real enactment would correspond with the
story told us. UNDERWOOD has strictly fulfilled
his engagement, and the seal Of secresy having
been removed from our lips, We proceed to give,
rs briefly as possible full history OF the murder
GUS plot to take the life of JEFFERSON DAVIS:
HOW UNDERWOOD PACKED HIS JURY.
Long before the meeting of his Court, "Judge'
Underwood was secretly devising means by which
he could muster jury in this State who would be
cure to execute his purposes, and find bill OF in
dictment against Mr.. Davis. This was the first
stop in the game, aud Underwood knew the i'm
%as o OF ssSSDg this a all
Club" and obtained from them q list of names Of
those who had already committed themselves by
hereafter) in favor of tho hanging Of Mr.. Davis
This part OF his programme being secured, he
COOS to Norfolk and sends his Deputy United
the Marshal by Underwood himself. Upon that
list were the following names Hunnicutt, Frank
Fsy 1Ss, b. "AFa"oll' B. Davis T. Dudley 'f'' w.
The above list, as will be seen, FURNISHED the
hsrasnai hesaaa t. We e. repeat by Underwood himsel Is
dirty negro sheet published here, oallod The Now
Nation-an Infamous, interruptions old villain,
wh4 has ..a been anything and everything from
he,nrst made his appearance in Fredericksburg,
with the aspiration OF passing himself off as a
baptist preacher and Journalist; His humorous
antlcks induced the citizCns of that town ut first
10 imagine that he was q cracked-brain idiot Rut
1t required not much time to prove to their utter
satisfaction ISL that he was cracked oil over, and void
OF all honesty. Latterly, ho removed to Rich
mond, where he has shown himself to be q low,
stupid hypocrite and knave Here, Hunnicutt
them on Capitol Square, under the shadow of
WashinStnns statue, and his themes are negro
suffrage, equality and miscegenation.,
W.. N. Tinsley is Virgnian by birth, but a
brute by nature, who made fortune out of the
Confederacy by making bread FOR the soldiers,
Hna 'hen rs rsn OF for Europe iussoppe9 in New
AND his connections are very respectable, but
they are ashamed OF him. They feel that he has
disgraeed them, and they repudiate and disown
him with the utmost indignation. traitor to his
kin, his friends, his acquaintances, his fellow
citizens and his State, he justly considered by
Underwood as vile enough for his atrocious pur-
Next on the list comes Wardel, the Yankee
"cool icy man." whose blood is frozen by the thing
he deals in. Wardell was disqualified to ait that
jury..and Mr.. Davis counsel will have q perfect
right to challenge the Indictment he helped to
frame, for he had formed and expressed an opin-
ION as to hIs guilt or innocence, in these Words
this city: 1f was on the jury that is to try JEFF
ferson Davis, would hang him to the first tree
that would bear his FORM" This man holds po-
Customs for the Port of Richmond, and is one of
those doube-faced impostors who have deceived
Mr. hnson, and whom, we trust, he will remove
Humphreys is now in Washington, moving heaven
and earth to secure his appointment, fearing that
send IN ns nsm for
character Of the man. and what bitter enemy he
is to his Administration and his policy, and how
thoroughly he is at heart with the Radicals, Hum
phreys' head would soon be chopped off and in
the basket. ".
The next Of the willing slaves Of the District
blue spotSes SnPF 81 indigo
phreye; man who could take the test oath, or
any other oath, with equal indifference. He was
ser sent to virginia to exc out a. jury, and he knew
Fourth one is Davis full-boodod Yankee, who
ran away from us during the war, and has since
rioneiy bad ch ,racter previous to his flight, and
his hegira has but added to his disrepute Thie
pavis is what Is called jackeg carpenter, and
he is eager for the job Of building a scaffoid for
his illustrlOus nameaake.
The next. but not least, of the five worthless
from Richmond, who have made themselves acces-
sories before the fact to the murder of jefferson
Davis, il old Dudley, a Yankee, who was too old
to run of, being over the conscription age and
who consequently turned his attention to spccula-
tion during our great tribulation and realized il
is said. a lirgs fortune. He is liquor merchant
on Main street. an old resident of the CITY, and
tes-Mr: Davis because he is a temperate man,
who lent his influence against the sale OF ardent
spir ts during the war.
HOW UNDERWOOD MADE SURE OF HIS GAME.
In order to have in his hands none but plant
tools, Judge Underwood instructed his Deputy
Marshal not to enforce the attendance of parties;
he wanted none that would not be volunteers in
the iniquity. See the cunning villainy in this
Underwoodwas determined not to endanger the
success Of his plans by having any unwilling
jurors. he had selected his mon, but they would
not bo trustworthy if they we're forced into ser
vice. The jury must be perfectly willing to do the
job, or the whole plotm uscarry. This makes
the conduct Of those creatures who went to Nor
folk and did Underwood's bidding even more
atrocious and despicable, for it was voluntar,
with them, and they could havo refused to attend
In fact, two of them did refuse to go-Franklil
Stearns and James 4. Lipscomb, and for this ont
good act. they deserve much credit. They wer.
the only two out Of the whole list who bad tn
manliness and good eense not to participate il
this plot OF Underwood.
THE JuRYMEN SELECTED IN NORFOLK
The Norfolk papers tell us that the parties rake,
up from tha, city. to cit upon the jury we're N
better than those picked from Richmond. Speak
ing OF them, the Norfolk Virginau says:
1--WE make the declaration, the truth OF whicl
will be attested by every respectable man in thi
community, that> so far as the Norfolk men ar
concerned who were on that jury, q moro uarela
bic set could not be found in this or any othe
community. Three of them are deserters fror
the Confederate ranks. Butler mtigated his in
fanny in this community by fixing perjury on on
OF them. And another, seeking . lower depth
Of running blockade goods into the Confederacy
and get. as q iuryman, took the oath that he ha
never given aid and comfort to the South Thi
Is trus bill against some OF the men whn sr
attempting to fix treason upon Jefferson Davis"
,HE RADICALS PLOTTING FOR THE LIFE OF MI
From the conspiracy Of Judge Underwood it
very plain that he is carrying out, in letter an
genuity by the Radicals at Washing ton, and tha
Mr.. Davis is to be executed, il mon base enoue
for the purpose can be found. 1t is even whft
pered that between this and June an act of Cor
lrpa Sitl INIT Tya oil Mr