New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-12
IT.. washington slave Case.


WASHINGTON. Thursday August :.
ca, - the power Of the press Thank TOD
-. liza. ip q country Of newspapers The niger Of
..,-n pouted a, the Attorney Of this District oy 81"
r,5uss and other Northern prints, has 'asned nll ~
To-, ir,, t.rsv and reluctant abandonment OF inc
- malicious and d,grsceul prosecution iof ''sn
800 instituted against Chester English, on, OF lns
,sr.or. found on board the Pearl have msnuOueg
his hard case in former letters IN .lose =. al
,e yor,fh oil l. 10 seems. however, thst ne Is - an
Ia. wife ami two Little children WHO nave zen Jo'l.
sufferers with him under he sirocious HJssu.S y.
vhich he has been the victim. But wnat DO &c.
49,, r,onrcr, care for the su-es.ngs OF women ana
children , - .-.,, M,
This Young English. cook. steward and crew on
board the Pearl the only man on board oe'i,e 10y
TON the character and rayrts the mNteI. nc e'i-0
brher in perfect Ignorance 0i the nature Of tne enie
rse The vessel ieft this city saturday night Siu
oe tive % three hours before her departure ne "as
told by Draytou, thsi she Wa soins % 80 = -
negroes a. passengers up the Day. mat W =, ~
NV about he matter. aud the csptors q me rear,
v.-e IN urfecty sstisnet OF his innocence let WIKI
all these facts well known then As nov" some u,o'
Town rnsistrste snd Wi find ont his nsme and sei9
i >, ,ou for be deserves 10 be discracec-c
his innocent Young man 90 prison aenahdlh- oa' 70
bs most eNhOrbitsnt amount OF >'oVt VIOLATION ~
sr..ial urovison OF fle Constitution VI the thi'eu
S,Ires even had be been ever guilty; the Attorney
~ th District who charges against the ntso Sta'es
ice OF $40 for every Indictment preicrtsu :, 80
this innocent youEg man, one sHHa.sa ara 800 -
s..fr,.r.s the Grand Jury 90 this DISTRICT ictlihi
ss I'M lirreuts a. true bills the young m Al iien1'
We mt 10 an expense Of $40 IN retaining eounse 20
defend him: and now today Mr. Attorney, OsleI
ices being secured, brings him INTO court s'u ~
if. ,ras,1af upou al the hundred ana uiteen h1irt
r,sn,s The pretence was that Mr. Attorney desired
10 use him as a witness against ssyres now ON Una
hut the only tendency Of bis testimony y 70 'nsN ~
fest in open Court the cruel oppression ne nAu
bv four months Imprisonment IN Jtl where DC no
n,biny ,o sleep upon but bare stone noor MI sym
paihy Supplied him mstTess-not the synpstsny, "o"
ever OF citizens o. this District but OF vislteis NJ
N the MAGISTRATE who committed English, the ~
;c Attorney who prosecuted him, and the Grand Juiy
Who found the bills wish 70 escape the eNeefauoh u
an indignant public. they have but one course -
La them make all the reparauon N thef power " -
ma, ,hev have 20 grossly and wantonly injured Ley
brr rcfind the expenses 20 which he has been put
et them compensate him for his loss OF tuie iot VI
ma, him a handsome equivalent so Tar as II can &c
d,re in money for the hardshps OF an UNJUST III
,r, 70, them do this and they may then clam par
5on a. men who have done injustice indeed out VINO
AID II passionately and inconsiderstely my ~
rot DO H. they will have no rgnt 70 CON p, ,, 80
Void .ets them down cold booded and h"ii1tn
scoundrels who regard the rights and feelings Oh tne
white fenow-ctzens no more than they 90 Oh 'ne''
black slaves. . g ,hese
From pretty close scrutiny OF the progress ol ."s
,s am well convinced that il Northern couusel mao
nor bcen here 10 look after the rights Of the prisoners
and Northern letter writers TO report the progress oil tne
rial Mr. Attorney would have proceeded WIN as graz
fury against English as against bihli" 1914 -
asred the Jury with as great conhdence-for this as
.urance ia the only argument he thinks OF usingtha'
he Mr. Attorney thought IL mostplaln case ois'eS's
would easily have procured from tour or hVe succsso
uries vericts Of guilty which the Judge would have
lone everything In hs power TO contribute ana rom
that same Judge a sentence Of twenty years mptsoh
men, iivcred with as much gusto 81 he VIII pre-
sentv exhibit in delivering a Ike sentence cgainst
Ursyt. q. , MI, 2.
Vet you ias not suppose that the whole District Is
mad The more intelligent part OF the inhabitants arc
,.,l,, ssbrned Of these proceedings and Mr. Corish,
Young man OF great promise native OF the District
has distinguished himself not little BY the zeal perse
yerence and moral intrepdty with which he has stem
med a torrent which threatens to oyerwhelm 'he DIS
trlci with disgrace.