Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1867-05-30

Towanda, Thursday, May 80, 1867.
GREELEY AS DAVIS, BAIL.

bSSOAhlhS OChCAoOh DaNio Ddll, dlC
enemies and. .scurrilous. 1t is a very
common way, of common men, when
they get into a bad scrape, are call
ed to an account, and are unable to
offer any justification for bad con-
duct, to feel, and to say they are
abused, and abuse is not worth re-
plying to but we did not think Mr..
e. would attempt to hide himself un-
der this old subterfuge. Now what
are the facts in this case? Why,
that the entire republican party, so
far as any expression has been given
(and 1t has been pretty generally
given) condemns Mr.. Greeley's act
in offering himself as security for the
arch-traitor. All the men, and all
the papers, in the party, dehounce
the act as an unmitigated piece of
folly and yet, almost all these the
people and the papers-up to this
time, have been friendly to MIR. G.,
and have looked upon him as an able
leader and now, because these con-
denim his action in the premises, they
are called enemies, and are scurril-
Gus. They pity the man and con-
denim the act, but it is not the work
Of enemies, and the reason why they
find fault with his action is, because
it is wrong. They would not COM
plain if those who thought and act
ed with Davis, went his bail. His
traitorous proceeding was right in
their eyes, and it was only consist.
ent in them to help him, when he
needed help. But for one, who had
always contended that the rebellion
was crime, to assist in releasing
from punishment the head and front
Of that rebellion, makes himself not
only inconsistent, bu! he becomes the
apOIogiSt for the criminals acronqs.-
Do honest men, who condemn horse
stealing, house-hreaking, pick-pock-
citing, &c, usually become the Sc.
curities of this class of desperadoes?
And it Is because Horace Greeley,
has, indirectly, at least, approved of
Jefferson Davis crimes, by bailing
him away from punishment, that the
republicans all over the land, con-
demn him. Not for the reason that
they are his enemies, but because he
has done aorOng. By this step, he
has lost more than he is aware of,
and more than he will recover again
soon. He may swagger, and boast
his indifference, but no man can land
he is not man if he cam be indif-
tcrent to the censurc of a whole ma
ton, such as the republican party
now represents. Greeley, like ev-
cry one else who is infatuated with
his own wrong, says he was right in
doing as he did. He alone has the
sagacity, the intelligence, the liber-
ality and magnanimity, to compre-
hend fully the generosity and noble
ness which led him into this step
folly in our judgment This grows
out of excessive vanity, and egotism
with which the ITi6une'S editor has
been sorely afflicted for the last ten
years. He has not been proof against
the fattery and adulation which has
been heaped upon him. The truth is,
it has nearly, and is in d fair way of
running the man altogether.
1t may seem like bold assertion
in us to say, that the TTibune's edi-
torials, III which arguments are ad-
vanced in justification of Mr.. Gree
ley's conduct in becoming surety for
jeff. Davis, appear absurd, and yet
such is the fact.
Look at it. The main reason as
signed for abailing Davis, is that he
has been kept in prison for two years,
and yet has not been convicted of ana
crime Mr.. Greeley does not know
that Davis headed rebellion against
the government of the United States,
and caused, through it, the commits
sion of all the crimes that were ever
committed against a people, oh no,
he does not know this. 1t must be
proven before q jury before he will
believe it. Is this not mockery? Is
1t not an outrage upon the under.
standing of the people who suffered
so fearfully through Davis villainous
crimes And then, it was such a
disgrace to the nation, such a gross
injustice to keep an arch-traitor two
years in prison before he had been
cOnoicted of crime! Oh yes, accord
ing to Greeley's logic, Jefferson Da-
Wis alone has been the sufferer in this
controversy and fight with the Uni
ted States, Where is his folly lead
ing him! He says, the mass of the
American nation hold that Davis
should be hung for his crimes, and
while he has received no just punish
mcnt, still Greeley contends that two
years Imprisonment is great wrong
fn a y,a, that l.