Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-15
War News Fifty Years Ago
(From Newspaper Files. May Is. 1859

At meeting of the Antislavcry Society. held
IN New, New York on the 18th the question Of the
under discussion Wendell Phillips and Thco-
dore Tilton were the principal speakers. Tilton,
MT. Philips when he said tho country is too
strong for vengeance" He (Tilton) declared
geance. He believed that until traitors
convicted for the crime Of treason labelling
ishment due to 1.-THE South will say the North
dare not lnfict upon them the penalty of their
treason. He said: Mr. Phillips has cast down.
unwittinsly. the first obstacle in the of
negro suffrage" In Charleston. he said. he saw
"a procession of negro children strinsing them
serves mile and half long and singing. 'We
Will hang JEFF Davis on sour-apple tree. They
were touched by Divine inspiration. because
they foresaw that event and that it will bloom
into white fair blossoms of the ballot in tho
Negroes hands" Mr. Phillips, In reply. said:
Holding to the common Southern white man,
reading the newspapers. and the negro. tho
other hand. holding the ballot. and each standing
OH ms own farm | am not afraid Of JEFF Davis
not II he was multiplied by hundreds and thou
sands. And until you make afraid of him
and his influence. 1 would never hang him. Vir-
g1na was afraid to let John Brown live. But
never, with my consent. shall Southerner have
to say over the grave OF JEFF Davis that the
strong as he would be in his grave. with friends
saying that he had been too strong in his cause
him to live. Therefore. l will never assist TO
set the gibbet in this land in the of the
Union"
The trial of the sassination conspirators in
Washington Is proceeding but reporters for the
press excluded from tho sessions of the
court, and therefore little regarding it can be
learned.
The trial of eS-Congressman Harris for dis
LOYALTY to the Union was concluded in Wash
ington day before yesterday, and the proceed
inss and Judgment of the court martial for
warded to the Judge acknowledgement The
decision will probably be made public during
next week.
Major General Stedman has arrived in Nash
vile. route to Washington. where he has
been summoned by President johnson to consult
n ne at NJ r1i,
and Alabama.
to leave Alexandria for Richmond to-day. and
on their arrival here will at take posses
SIGN of the executive Offices and buildings.
1t is not positively known. but it is thought
by the military officers In this city that Mr..
Davis will be sent to Charleston Savannah
and from there taken by water 10 Fort Monroe.
Among those taken with Mr.. Davis j. II.
Reagan. the Confederate postmaster general:
Colonel Fred Lubbock of Texas. member OF
Mr.. Davis's staff: Colonel Burton y. Harrison.
of Mississippi, private secretary: Colonel Will
liam P. Johnson. OF Kentucky. aide de camp. son
of General Albert Sidney Johnson: Colonel
Norris and Lieutenant Colonel Hathaway.
Major General Wright. comman ding the Sixth
Army Corps, United States Army. is a guest at
the Spotswood Hotel.
The first floor OF tho old Examiner building. on
Governor street. has been rented by parties who
say they propose to open another national bank.
The National Bank Of Virginia. recently
ganized and capitalized will commence business
this morning in the custom housc-entrance on
Bank Street. The bank is a government deposit
tory. and also the agent of jay Cooke e Co
The officers S. T. Suit. OF Ford. Suit & Co.
New York. president. and J. B. Morton, of Rich
mond, cashier.