Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-06-20
Greeley One of DOU6sS
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The Radical papers In the pay
Of the gih-receiver, BOBBY Grant
are assailing Horace Greedy be-
causehe signed Jefferson DAVIS
bail bond. So long as Greeley
continued to act with the Repub-
lican party these papers had lit
tie or nothing to say on this sub
ject.- They either feared Gree
ley or they did not consider that
he had committed any great of
Tense. The fact is when Gree
ley signed Jefferson Daviso bail
bond he performed a noble and
magnanimous act. II was as
bold, too, as11it was magnani-
nous, for Mr.. Greeley knew very
well that not only would a howl
be raised about his ears, but that
it would result in heavy pecuni-
airy loss. But he felt that it was
ineXcusable wickedness to keep
Jefferson Davis chaincd down IN
a damp fort for months and
months. together. Mr.. Davis had
asked aud prayed for a trial, but
this he could not obtain. His
cowardly prosecutors were afraid
to try him. for they dreaded the
revelations that would have been
made had the trial taken place.
They feared O'Connor,T and re
garded him a lion in their path.
Had that trial taken place it
would have been shown. by proof
positive that the infamous Stan
ton, spooney Butler, the brute
Brownlow, and other prominent
Radicals were really the first
men in this country TO suggest
and advocate secession O'Con-
or had this testimony in his pos
session, and had Davis been ar
ralgned before a court of Justice,
exposures would have been made
that would have startled the
country. Men who had prated
with 81" much perslstency for
"loyalty," sthe stars and stripes
and all that,d would have been
shown up as the ringleaders Of a
conspiracy to break up the aUn-
ion. They were, rebels long be
fore Mr.. Davis consented to act
with them. Indeed, when they
first approached Davis, Gen. Lee,
Stevens, Toombs TsEand other
Southern representative men on
the subject, these Southern men
discouraged the undertaking,
and they were only induced to
yield aequiesence after the most
persistent appeals from Stanton,
Holt, Ben. Butler and scores of
other Northern men of equal
standing. These facts, we re-
peat, would all have been br9ugli
out had Jefferson Davis had a
6Eial, aud this was the reason he
never was tried. But5his perse-
cutors-who were co ards72had
him east1into a damp fort, where
he was chained to .the floor and
handcnfed for months together.
Mr.. Davis was a delicate, weak
man, broken in bodyeando spirit.
bBuG for his exeeiient' and heroic
wife he would have died in his
cell, and this was what the bru-
tai Stanton wanted. Was it not
a noble understanding actin
Horace CREOLE, then, to tender
to jefferson Davis the aid he re-
I4qppffred? oAge,st was the act OF
Pa man whoahad a heart in his
bosom thateould swell with pity
when oppression was visited up
ron his feIlowaman,d Greeley
knewtha Davis never would be
tried; he knew that his Cypress
fofs were afraidsto' try him, and
KNOWING this, he made up his
mind promptly, 4afrer Mrs. Davis
appeal .l to him !, tbs, g Jefferson
Davis should be,dreleased from
confnement end chains. ~ lar ear
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