Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-22
Who is Responsible for Davis Re.
h lease.

II A Washington special to the Cincinnati
Gazette states the Judiciary committee have
been looking into the operations connected
with the release of Davis. 1t appears that
the President was directly responsible for
the course pursued, having insisted through
the District Attorney, that the trial should
not proceed, and that the prisoner should
| be admitted tebail. The Attorney General
is to be, summoned before the committee
regarding this matter. His testimony will
be looked for with lively interest.-Zanes-
uille Courier . - s'i-E ihAf 1FFF
If the judiciary committee will, look, into
the refusal of Judge CHASE to do his duty
as Chief Justice and his persistent refusal
to bring JEFFERsoN DAVIS to trial, they
will find abundant cause for his release.
The Constitution guarantees to every per-
son charged with crime the right to a
speedy and public trial, and for two years,
this was denied to DAVIS. s.s H.a i!. 90
The charge that President JOHNSON in
sisted, through the District Attorney, that
the trial should not proceed, is disproved
by his letters to Chief Justice CHAsE,-ur
ing that the trial-should take place at an
early day, and by toe refusal of the latter
to preside. Finding that there was not even
a shadow of a shade upon which to rest
the hope that CHASE; could be brought to
the discharge of his sworn duty, the coun-
sci of DAVIS applied to Judge eUNDERwooD,
who had boasted that he could pack
jury to convict him, and the prisoner was
brought before the District Court OF athe
United States, and there unconditionally
released from the charge upon which
hesT chad q for two years. been i'm
prisoned. Immediately rearrested upon
new indictment, heswas admitted to bail,
and HORACE GREELEY, the leading Radical
of the North, and JOHN MINOR BORIS, the
leading Radical of the South-the latter
acting at the time as Foreman of Judge
UNDERwooD's n black and-white Grand
Jury-pressed forward to volunteer as bail
for DAVIS appearance, and he was liber-
ated. . q EEFaTEE -
For more than year past, Mr.. O'CoN-
NOR, the leading counsel of DAVIS, urged
the prisoner to allow him to apply for a
habeas corpus, to relieve him from confine-
ment. TO this appeal DAVIS, it is said.
turned a deaf ear. He was in prison for. a
high oftense, and he was anxious to be tried
for it, having, as he said, a deep conviction
that he would never be convicted. -.e-a e
The President and the Radicals were
equally, anxi2us, to get rid,ot the prisoner.
He was customer that they found hard to
manage. The Judges would not try him,
and every day he remained in prison was
gross violation of the Constitution. Had
Judge CHASE done his duty, the case would
long since been disposed of, and JEFFERSON
DAVIS would have been hung on that sour
apple tree SO often promised, or else he
would have gone acquit by order of Chief
Justice CHAsE's Court. But this the Chief
Justice refused to do, and his Radical sate-
lite,i Judge UNDERwooD, relieves him of
the difficulty by admitting DAVIS to bail,
and by accepting a, couple, of Radical
leaders as bail for his appearance when re-
quired-a thing, bye-the-bye, that will
never happen. rJ-a e-si tg 5T
These facts will show the Courier that
SALMON p. CHASE ssis responsible for DAVIS
release, y by,his refusal to bring him to trial.
Butler, Stanton and the Horrors
oI0f fAnders0nviIie Prison.
Since the bailiRg JEFF. DAVIS by
HORACE GREELEY, the Radical sheets have
much to say about the horrors of Ander-
sonyille Prison, for which WIRz was hung.
The Cincinnati YolksP Bldtt, edited by the
Hon. FRED. HAUssERAUK, the ablest Ger
man Radical in Ohio, and q prominent can
didate for Lit. Governor on the Ticket to be
nominated on the 10Th of June, charges all
these horrors, on BENJAMIN F. BuTLER and
EDWIN, NJ. STANTON, who refused to ex-
change prisoners with the South. Il The
blood of the starved and the slain at that
Prison, the Volts Blatt charges and proves
lies at the doorof these Radical worthless
OFF FOB, ,4IBERIA,r-zAb bout one hundred
and seventy i've freedmen, iwomen1 and
children" the greater part being women,
left Macon, Ga, via the Central, Railroad,
18th instant, Tor Charleston from which
point they expect to san for Liberia. Sem
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