The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-05-31
Jeg nav;s and the Radical Party.


at Madison, referring to the comments OF
the State press upon the discharge Of JEFF.
DAVIS, writing to the Milwaukee Nc,0s,
gives the following clear and sensible state
meet of the case:
The JEFF. Davis middle is Republican
matter and it is for that party to settle 1t
and get ont of the dilemma for themselves.
They have been crying to have treason
made odious, "and now their leaders find in
order to sustain the new phase that the
party has assumed that rebellion ,oas sue
cessfnl and the States are out Of the Union,
that JEFF. Davis must not be tried, as it
would destroy their party to convict him of
treason; and hence their particular pet
judge, Underwood, admits him to bail and
continues the case, which means that they
will never try him, and that all their fustlan
cry of making treason odious has been flap
doodle to feed and foster the prejudices of
! the people to keep up the support OF the
party.
when the war closed, the Republicans
saw that their power would wane unless
they could still foster sectional hatred and
keep the Union divided. They knew if the
people could get cool and take the second
sober thought that they would see that all
their blood and treasures had been expended
at the dictation of favorites, and that the
| account would stand about equally balanced
between Jeff Davis and his followers on the
one hand, and Horace Greeley and his fol-
lowers on the other. Hence new causes OF
excitement must be found aud the Union
kept divided. In their new position
jeff Davis was an elephant on their hands
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that he would die, but he beat them at that,
but he must be got rid of in some way. So
at last they found that Congress and Presi-
| dent Lincoln, in 1862, in their zeal to free
the negroes had altered the penalty for
treason from death to fine and i'm prisonment
and thereby the crime was bailable, and
hence the work of the Republican leaders to
| bail him and get the elephant Off their
hands tell you that the Republican lead
ers were just as sincere in making treason
odious' as they were IN their professions OF
| love for the brave soldiers who fought to
maintain the Union; and in the end the peo-
pie will find that the sooner they believe 1t
| the better it will be tor their true interests.
And the Necs adds:
! 1.-THE above correspondent recites some
of the potent facts connected with the dis
charge of Davis They are worthy of
special consideration at this time. Gree
/ ley's assailants assume that he alone is re-
spousible for the fact that Davis is at large.
| The truth is, that through its leaders, the
whole radical party has had hand in the
business. The person of Davis has been in
the possession of the radicals for the last two
years Had they been disposed to try him,
he could have been tried two years ago.
They found no difficulty in trying and execu
ting woman in Washington of whose guilt
it is now alleged. there was no positive and
indubitable testimony. They were embar-
raised by no techncalities or scruples of
conscience when they felt called upon to
condemn various other people in various
| portions of the country, and for various
! offenses committed during the war. In the
plentitude Of their power, indeed, they
found way to convict the entire people of
ten States, the State governments included,
| because of their connection with the rebel
lon., In accomplishing all this they were
never known to hesitate as to means, legal
or illegal. The Constitution has been but
as blank paper IN their path. But with
Jefferson Davis, the figure head Of the re-
belion, for some reason they have been
miracuously scrupulous and tender. They
offered hundred thousand dollars for his
capture and captured him. They published
him as one of the conspirators in the assas-
sination of Lincoln, but no military COM
mission was organized for his conviction
They loaded his limbs with irons, and then
permitted him the Injuries of royal guest.
They pronounced him the arbitrator of
the war, and then lcgisated to make his
offense bailable. They wrote him down in
their books and newspapers as the greatest
criminal Of the age, and then signed his bail
bond and congratulated him on his freedom
| Let there be no mistake about it. A radi-
cal Congress opened the doors to his prison.
4 radical minister Of war delivered him
over to the mercics OF the amended law. A
radical Judge fixed his bail. Radical lead
ers rushed to Richmond on legs faint with
haste to become his suretes, and radical
philanthrOpists shared the plaudits of the
Richmond populace as he emerged from the
court room to the light cf liberty. Aud the
radical party of the North, it is significantly
rumored, is about to reorganlze on plat
form in which mercy to Jefferson Davis is
to be plank on which to catch the South
ern vote
| There is some bowling now among the
unsoph:sticated parties of the radical press.
1t will die away before another election
Congress and Greeley jaod Underwood are
no fools in this matter They have permit
ted no rural ideas of justice to obscure a
strictly partisan programme. They knew
it would be fatal to the past history of their
party to compel Jefferson Davis to compare
bis record with their own. They knew,
also that they had ca d to play to secure a
visible Republican pa rty in the Southern
States outside the negro element. The
liberation Of Davis, therefore. 1t is fair to
opment of thoroughly considered and
shrewdly planned scheme, concocted by the
old heads of the radical party, looking to
the reputation OF that party in the pact and
its success in the future"
| The WOES OF HIGH LIFE.-One of the
wealthiest and abest lawyers in New York
| has instituted suit for divorce from h 9