The managers have the right of dropping any article, and we hope that they will see the propriety of dropping one which is not substantial, and which may tend seriously to prolong the trial. If a deliberate, intentional violation of the law is proved, when no public emergency exists and no immediate essential purpose can be pleaded which would not brook delay, it is not necessary to show such violation to be part of a conspiracy to defeat the law. An executive officer who violates his oath to see that the laws are faithfully administered, even if his excuse be plausible, is not an officer who can be wisely trusted with the execution of laws. But if every significant action of a long career reveals bad faith, the important point to prove, in the simplest and speediest manner, is the violation of law. It was the universal expectation and wish that this should be the method with the President, and we trust it will yet be adopted.
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