The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-03-22

ent from IL, that does not alter the caS
DoWsfng's receipt, aud other te~tisnou
shs"S sii.lf fi'. moner was pa j 81 vi.
q III !" DC paIti 'saI airi 81
!. o. pardon 10 Barrenti - s.3-i $50
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e AlHidf9t-lIrn@r5l as iftILat. iFie.sd a.
% u the IIp.erUOr aad L3cutru4Ht-tI =
r tFnor. and 1T tune Private 9ecreLtFN 4
each, Vas openly engaged IN r ce!via.
orlbes. 10 infiHence the official condu o
> the Governor, = iJi the knOwletl Ze. cun< T.
ahd pro- urenent Of the Lieu enau;-5 v
eFnor Mr. Packers claim 10 e.aynl9 /
based upon the eff"rE made by him 70 Pre-
eure Il pardon from Governor Ames. ans
thls l. his testimony o. lbat poiGt:
y Did YOU urge him 10 do this?
a I'D sir. | asked him 10 axe some
action Tor or against ard he claimed pres
Of business and did not want 10 take ans ~
ton at that time.
Q state all that he said % yon--~hetael
ne >uEge> ed anything about Davis Issuing
the pardon:
\. Yes sir; he said he vas going Nortn
IN short time and il he did not do IL b.-iost
he Went. he would let Davis take Sucii ac-
ton as lie thought proper in the matter.
/ tie teft town that night aud the mex day
] Davis Issued the pIruo1. See testimony
/ page A.
Governor Ames testimony this point
1 i aS follows:
q. Had you been applied t. rs Gen
! Packer 10 pardon BarreHtIne pgaUr 10 t.iat :
| y. cannot say. | do not know HhtLi!eT
I any ome had applied 10 NE II net. i" no.
/ r. member Gen Packer, or any one else.
I 50 akinE 10 me about that case (Se'- te~ti
mony page % ami "a
1t is worthy of remark that this cl 1im o.
Otn. Packer and the statement OF DAVIS a
70 the knowledge aud consent OF Governor
Anes III tins matter las been III QUEEN ~ IL
priat aud that while the Governor !jdi-
rcctiy denies the fact he i by no means EN-
phaiic in the denial and he lid not seem t.
be AT ali surprj-e ed or offended at tee claim
and assertion OF his tTieud and AdjHtahL-
General.
The only witness who pretends ia say
that Davis received no pecuniary bentf
from this pardon Is Packer, and he :" man
tiesLiy ptriured hims II that nn one e sttld
believe him on oath. Before the committee
he sWOrc that he knew nothing of tin first
pa don until he went into the oifc- a Pri-
waite Secretary for Lieutenant Governor
Davis, which was in June Before tile Sen
ate ne swore he was employed Dy Davi, t.
e the pardon in May. Before The conf
mlttee he swore That DOWsing'S receipt,
called check, was tor $500 and that Davis
on his return from COLUMBUS paid him 5000
and sail, Here's 'hat~money in tile case
was talking 10 sou about, do rot rrctiltc5
any further remark than that Before the
Senate he said ''Davis went over To c. um-
bus with draft he hai brought here. | all
thOriZed him To collect it. II Na~ only for
500. lie went over there. got that nenrF
OH the draft, brought II b frk and pad Il
me. | told him | had been Engaged
$500 ana tie agreed 40 mak" it up &t thlt
time These statements are irreconcilabl,
and the last Nere made to C brrtS pad IN
testimony which he knew had he give.
on thi~ trial. But il 1t were contradict
ed by he statement before the commute
this last statement bears falselood n it,
ACE. Ii he had objected at ali, it waula
have been whe! he saw the chech was oni,
for $500; and it is ab urd to authorize "A uan
70 coll ect $500 aud then complain that he
did did not get 5000.
This check also furnishes an answer to the
argument that Davis did not know that
Gibbs had reimbursed himself with 500
out of the so called Packer money. When
Gibbs gave Davis the receipt for only $500
he was bound To know that Gibbs had kept
500 And further, the statement OF Packer.
that Davis paid $500 and then MADE up
the other 500 in a week is cOutradicted by
the testimony of Gibbs, who, saws that after
Davis was charged with bribery, he said 10
him that he did wrong 10 pay himself out of
J
owed him that. Gibbs replied, Il have got
my money, and il you owe anybody, you
owe Packer" fDavis had paid Packer he
would have said SO.
But no sane man who heard this tcstlmo-
ny can believe that Davis as afflicted with
any such disinterested regard for Barren
tine, or such unSeitiSh emotion for Packer.
"a to take so much trouble to make himself
simply guilty prOcurer of brides for 9TH
erS, without any pecuniarv benefit to him
self The testimony OF Packer, like that of
Col. Mat hewS, nos only fails to acquf
Davis, but : rengJhens the case agains him.
and disclOseS ~ stem o! corruption in oar
State, which. III AN ther az ;.ud at another
time, would have startled the country. But
when bribery and corruption peImeateS
every branch of the government; when a |
President grows rich on gifts, made, in |
many instances by persons who have been |
or deserve to be convicted OF felony; y hen |
cabinet officers and private secretaries, on
small salaries, acquire fortunes with IA |
pdity unequalled, except in romance: AID !
when officers, protes5edly virtCous, " ifo de- |
cline to perform corrupt acts themSeiVt :, |
shut their eyes to the corrupt ion OF their |
daily associates, and put it in he power OF
corrupt men to carry ouJ all manner o ne |
iarious schemes, and when the cupidity |
OF an emancipATed slave Is excited by daily |
intercourse with such men, we are not as /
tonished at his fail, and can only regret |
that the dupe should become the vie i'm.
Lastly, the defense have undertaken to |
show that there We're init ga nag cirCum-
stances connected with the killing, and that
this was proper case forexecutive clemency.
[ this be true, cannot see how it is to ben
EFT the respondent # this be true; the |
pardon should haye been granted freely |
and without price, and to my mud it Is as
great, if not a greater crime in 4 Governor
90 withhold pardon IN meritortou~ ease,
until money is paid tor it To himself. or 10
his friend, than it would ba 10 grAn'
ION In ease Of atr"''- ....-.,.." pr
/ ,.nu, believing that the charges |
'~'e been fully sustained by the proof. !
vote guilty on each and every article of i'm
parchment against Alexander IL. Davis,
ruOr at Mississippi.