The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-01-21
A MODEL RADICAL MARTYR.

lin New York City. The facts III the case are
that Mr.. Bowles published in his paper some
thing which Mr. Fisk (the great Erie Railroad
operator) considered libelous, and on learning
that Bowles was in the city. he had him arrest.
ed on legal process and put in Jail. Mr. Bowles
was not put in the Tombs, where criminals are
confined, but was taken to the Ludlow street
JAIL genteel sort of prison, in which debtors
and the "upper-ten" sort of rogues are kept i'll
easy and comfortable custody. An hour after
his Imprisonment some of his rich and distin-
euished Radical friends rushed to the Jail to
have him released They offered bail to any
sum. but as no one but the ailer was there,
and he was not permitted by law to release
ANYBODY except on an order from the Sheriff,
of course Mr. Bowes had to stay until the
proper steps for his release were taken. One
of his friends the editor of the Cincinnati Cone
7nercial, sought to get over the jailer's conSci-
entious performance of duty by offering him a
bride. But even this Radical mode for treating
the obstruction-an which nearly always sue
cecds in overcoming the objections or scruples
or antagonism of any Radical Congressman or
office holder-was diSregarded by the poor,
plain Democratic jailcr. Early next morning
Mr. Powlrs was set ut liberty. The trouble
between him and Fisk had nothing of politics
in it. Both are New England men, and both
are Radicals 1t was by due course of law,
with papers legally served by the recognized
civil officers that Mr.. Bowles was arrested and
put in prison. TO show the character OF his
imprisonment we copy the following account
of it from his own paper. 1t says:
Meantime the prisoner allowed to select the
best quarters the ia aifortlr he had the O;
story OF the building, and had tor sleeping apart
ment a room of good size. comfortably tu ni>hed and
model atcly clean. He WAS not put III cell, nor
locked into his room Except that he could NOT leave
the building. there was little 10 remind hIm fiA De
was prisoner: and he obtained such rest aS was
possible in OF the circumstances and the natural
excitement attending the arrest. With the dawn OF
the morning the game WAS up and II only Remained
to 30 through the legal forms 10 secure release.
Because he was arrested at an early hour of
the evening, and kept from the company of his
wife (who accompanied him on his visit 10
New York City) for that night the whole Rad
zeal press of that city, and all over the country
have applied columns of most vehement dcnun-
citation to the kidnapping, and lctbcs d"I
cachet" arrest, and bastilr" incarceration of
Bowlcs. 4 specimen of the whole lot may be-
shown by the following extract from the New
York Tribune, which says:
The whole proceeding read, like the stories o: the
famous sftrSS IN ,c during the days OF the Ba~tilc
When the King France offended. lie had merely
TO arm his Q 'Brcu with II, CUEu writ. and the cells
The Ea~t!lc closed upon 'hc prtsonc". The liberty
Of the citizen j. sacred :or M hour As FOR life
time; and the proceeding which caught up Mr..
oWlcs from the society of his friends aud swept him
into jail without the opportunity OF sending nlcs
sage to his s.c!; wife brutal and tyra"n!c.l.
But TO show Just what Mr. BoWrs thought
of much worse kinds OF lcthrs DE- cachc' arrests
and baStile incarccrations, which had been en-.
lurel by hundreds of innocent victims during
the war, and from the effects of which many
haze died. we will extract from an editorial in |
his own paper Of the very week prior t" lis
OWN arrest and easy imprisonment, the follow
ing. In speaking Of the arrest and incarcrra-
ton of DR.. Gwin, Calhoun Brnham, and J /
i-dHCdSIfl lltHl \IHt ACCOUNT vi W iIItu, w I,
George d. Prentice, we give on the fourth
page OF tins papcr), Mr.. Bowlcs uses this Ian
guage:
Mr.. Prentice infcrs from his intercourse with Mr. |
Seward and President Lincoln in reference to these
cases that the former guilty ot luplicity aud bad
faith and that the latter kndh"artcd but had not
the courage do what right. 1t would be strange
If in justice had not been done III of the arrests
of supposed traitors during the war but the Govern
mcnt doubtless acted IN all upon what was con-
sidercd reliable ihormatlon and the fact that those
arrested do seek vindication through the Courts
any appeal to the public is pretty good evidence
that they prefer to have the whole thing forgotten.
Here, we see, Mr. Bowles goes to the cx-
tremr of justifying the authorities, even " if in
Justice had been done in some of the arrests"
and this too, in cases where insanity or great /
bodily suffering, or death, was the consequence
Of the long and cruel, barbarous imprisonment
And he, in common with Greeley and all the
Radical press-gang of the country, not merely
approved. but they clamorcd for, the arrest of
who dared to utter one word-not
against the Government, but in derogation of
the man Lincoln, or Seward, or the other ty-
rants who held the gag and thumb. screw and
sword ever ready for their victims. And when
Bowles speaks of the victims not seeking "vin.
dication through the Courts" he reveals his
own perfdy and insults the intelligence O: his
readers because he certainly must know that