The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-05-23
DAVIS AND GREELY.

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DAVIS AND GREELY.
Republican journals throughout
the country generally, are justly in
i tdignant and unsparing in their crit
icisms of the conduct ofHorace Gree
ly in the matter of the release Of
Jefferson Davis on bail, which is
equivalent to his final discharge.
It has transpired that it was main.
ly owing to-Greely's persistent m an
ipulation of the BOBBY Underwood,
that the latter finally changed his in
tention of committing him to prison,
to releasing him on tail and when
the 'illustrious State prisoner" was
presented to the Court, and it was
decided to release him on bail, that
the first man who popped up in the
bar of the Court, and volunteered his
signature to the bail bond, was the
bright and shining morning face Of
the Philosopher of the Tribune, the
principal editor of the principal organ
of the Republican party of the coun-
try, whose war cry "On to Richmond"
had scarcely died out in the air.
1t is said that the greeting between
Davis and Greely after the accept
ance of the bond was a touching af-
fair, and that Greedy danced around
evincing as much genuine delight as
a boy with his first tin whistle, or
new red top boots.
The public were prepared to hear
of the discharge Of Eavis, since by
the failure to try him ct the proper
time by proper tribunal to-wit -
a Court Martial, there was nothing
else left to the government to do for
the absurdity of arraigning and try
ing him by jury of his peers where
the offence was committed, in Vir-
ginia, would be about as transparent
ly absurd as it would be for Hancock
to try some of the rauche burning,
women and children scalping Indi-
ans, that he occasionally captures on
the plains, by jury Of Camanches,
Apaches, Sioux, Kiowas Blackfeet
and Cheyennes.
But the public were not prepared
for such disgusting exhibition of
mock philanthropy and sickly senti-
mentality, as to sec Horace Greeley
and Gerritt Smith voluntarily max
ing a pilgrimage to Richmond to use
their influence and parading their
signatures in releasing from well de-
served punishment the "head and
front of a gigantic rebellion against
which, through their papers and be-
fore the people, they have incessant-
ly hurled their bitterest invectives.
This lying down Of the Lion and
the Lamb" this new born love be-
tween Greeley and Davis, that prom
ises to eclipse the undying affection
that existed bet xeen Damon and Py-
thias, has an extremely farcical and
axe grinding look to the public, and
it is to be accounted for only upon
the theory that Greeley, having ef.
fectually played himself ont by his
back-boneless idiosyhcracies in his
own State and in the North, is now
turning his face southwark, and re-
CARDS the be-slobbering of JEFF Davis
their great representative man-as
the most direct way to atone for his
many years of unrelenting warfare
against the Southernpeople and their
institutions, and the shortest route
to reach their hearts and-votes.
Then, the sense Of pceuniary obli-
cation may have hadsomething to do
with his gushing mood, for it is awell
known fact that Greeley has accn-
mulated a handsome fortune out OF
his History of the War, and there
fore, without Jefferson :Davis we
would have been without war, and
without war would have had no
History Of the War, and would still
have had Greely-an impecunious ed
itor; hence, the .milk in the cocoa
lnut."
It was well enough for Davis's
friends and neighbors to endorse his
bond, and thus enable us by the only
practicalf fmethodleft, Grid ourselves
of this stupcndous elephant, but
when such. prominent public men, to
! q certain extent representing the 10y
/ atty and patriotism of the North
!. como forward in such a pompous
| manner to effect the release Of thu