Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25
WASHINGTON.
From our own Correspondent.

The opponents OF zen. Grants adj
were finding fault with
HIM because he did not insist upon the
delivery to our Government of Mr.
Winslow, the great forger, who sought
shelter upon British soil. The letter
of Secretary Fish to our Minister at
London, lately published has shown
the eutire justice of the course taken
by our Government-That now for the
first time since the treaty of 1912,
Great Britain requires before deliver
ing fugitive criminal to the United
States, assurance from this Govern
ment, that said fugitive criminal shall
not be detained or tried in the United
States for any offense committed prior
to his surrender other than the crimes
proved by the facts on which the sur
render should be granted.-This re-
quirement by Great Britain is based
upon an act of Parliament passed in
1870, twenty-e eight years after the ex-
ecution of the treaty, thus practically
claiming the right of the British Gov
eminent to change an existing treaty
by an act of Parliament without the
consent of the United States one of
the parties making the treaty. This
the Secretary says most emphatically
our Government cannot consent to.
1.-The President regrets that a condi-
ton, which in his judgment is without
any justification under the treaty
shuld have been asked" x i "He
cannot recognize the right of any 9TH
er power to change at its pleasure and
without the assent of the United
States, the terms and conditions of an
execntory agreement in treaty SOL
EMMY ratified between the United
States and that power "He
does not see how he can avoid regard
ing the refusal of Great Britain to ad-
here to the provisions of the treaty,
as they have been reciprocally under
stood and construed from its date to
the present time, or the exaction by
that Government of a condition here
tofore unknown, as the infraction and
termination of that provision of the
treaty." La not this the insisting up
on a great principle that every true
American may well be proud of and
its maintenance of more value than the
delivery of all the criminal fugitives
that will seek Great Britain as an
abiding place The honor and digni-
ty of the country are perfectly safe in
the hands of President Grant and Sec,
rotary Fish.
The orator on Memorial day at
Charlotte, N. c., was Col. S Taylor
Martin. He claimed that SLAVERY
was divine institution. the south will
never be contented until It's restoration
as she will ever be bankrupt without
it." x x x s'The lost
cause as it is called is not lost, for the
time will come when the bars and
stripes will float over the South" !
have no doubts, but what if the facts
were known that this Colonel was in as
safe place during the battles of the
rebellion as the western orators can
didate for the Legislature was. He
was lauding the good qualities Of his
candidate and among other good things
said that in battle he was always to be
found where the bullets were the thick.
est, when some one in attendance ask.
ed where that was? and an immediate
answer came from some one of the
crowd-s'In the ammunition wagon =
The Confederates in Congress have
received strong recruit, in the cleo
ton of Governor Coke of Texas tc
the Senate. Coke was a rebel of the
most approved type during the wal
and has experienced no change of sen
timent since. He is especially proud
Of his COME 1erate record and defend;
it to the utmost of his ability. He
has taken decided ground against
Judge Hancock whom some of the
Texas Democrats want to send to Con.
gress. Coke says he will never sub.
nit to it. Hancock was Union man
during the war, and that is enough tc
arouse the eternal enmity of Coke and
all others of his ilk.
Again comes the startling news OF
seventeen colored persons killed and
many wounded at Laurel Hill, Fell.