The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-27
Is it the Same Drew?

\ paragraph in our Geographic columns
gives some details Of the exploits of Wis
cOnsin youth in the federal postal service in
Florida. He Is the son of Governor IIarri-
! son Reed, who carpct-baggCd from this
state, and has been IN the Florida executive
chair since that interesting fragment Of the
Union was reconstructed. 4 gentleman
who has spent several months in Florida
tells us that the very name of Wisconsin is
Infamous there. Wisconsin men seized con
troll Of the State at the close Of the war,
and thov bankruptad the treasury, loadcd
the people with debt that they never can
pay, and impoverished them with taxes.
They manipulated the reconstructed consti-
tuition while it was being framed, made the
term OF the Governor six years long, ana
placed almost absolute power in his hands,
and then Reed seized the Office by the gros-
scst frauds In the. election He has sur
rounded himself with horde Of Wisconsin
carpet baggers who prey upon the commun-
ity day III and day out, and some
new pcculation is being almost con-
stantly developed. The picture that
our informant gives Of affairs there is
ludicrous, and Vet appalling. He says that
when " lsconsln man approaches a citizen,
the latter instinctiycIy buttons up his coat,
and places his hands in the most effective
position to ward off an attack on his pockets.
\ new cargo Of eXilcd conyicts would not
be regardcdwith greater alarm by the honest
settlers Of a penal colony that the alarm
with which the Wisconsin caTpet-baggers
arc regarded in Florida.
y c notice that recently one J. B. c.
Prev was appointed by Reed Attorney
General Of that State. 1t appears that
some new rascalty was on foot to which
the incumbent of that Office would not make
himself n party, and a vacancy was created
under the peculiar laws of the State, and
Drew was selected to FIJI it. The legal
opinion that for the Ubiquitous purpose has
/ become desirable, was at once produced.
We think these initials are the same that
were attached to a man named Drew, who
became notorious at Oshkosh, a few wears
since, in a criminal prosecution growing
ont Of transactions with the opposite sex.
He then carpet-bagged off to St Croix Falls
having, BY some means, been entrusted
with some money belonging 70 one p. J.
Crippin, relative Of Senator Patterson.
Of New Hampshire, who is the clerk of the
Senate committee Of which Patterson is
chairman. tie money was consigned to
him to be used in redccmin@ several years
taxes on about q thousand acres Of land, To-
Gated near the Fails, but he did not redeem
it, lie went, about a year ago, to one of
the New England States on Il visit, and was
there nabbed ly the previous over-conidcnt
clerk of PatterSon's committee, and thrust
into durance vile, remaining in jail, but
disgorging nothing for several months, un-
til his creditor got tired Of paying his board
and jail fees, and released him. Our Drew
then Disappeared and it was understood
that he had gone to Florida. There are
sufficient marks Of identity to lead us to the
conclusion that he has been selected by
Coy. Reed as his Attorney General. We
think that he is the same man, and that he
is admirably adapted to sustain in his new
official position the peculiar reputation that
the other Wisconsin carpet-baggcrs have
established in that NlcauAce
NerS.