The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-12-24
NUMBER 16.
AN ISSUE OF vERACITY.


The editors of the Herald say we lie. Thanl
You gentlemen for the courteous disposi!io.
manifested to correct our errors, bnf presum
we are at liberty to credit or discrcdit the as
sumption of him, who is rcputed to do the scrio
bling of the Herald, after we have publicly post
ed him asa liar and by the highest authority il
the State proved him to be such.
A mans character is what gives weight TO hi
assertions If he has neither the crcdi. OF IN
telligcnce, good breeding iior honesty, he il
more TO be piricd, tlinn censured, for his lniper
tinence and spleen. 1t is unfortunate .'ai soci
ETY. is scourged with snch creatures, but as it is
a part of the curse, which was pronounced upon
Adam, we should view it in the light ola moral
lesson and prof, by the study.
/ In our article of Wednesday, VIC made two
points, setting forth what the position of the
! Herald had been. They are follows list,
| That treason could not Gc committed agaias,
the United States, aeithout a ierying of ,ear, as
literally expressed IN the Constitution, and
secondly, that a party could not be guilty Of
treason urtH pronounced so, by judicial tribu
nal of the country. In reply, the editors charge
us with the lie. Let US quote from their paper.
Asto the first point, what constitutes treason,
the Herald of the 18th November contains the
following:
CART. III. Sec. 3.-Treason against the
United States, shall consist in levyng war
against them, or in adhering to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort" To convict the
Christiana rioters of Treason they must be
proved to have levied war against the United
States, or to have given aid and comfort to per-
sons who are the acknowledged enemies of the
United States"
Again, in their paper of the 22d Nov, we
find the following
"From what we have read concerning these
rioters, we come to the conclusion that though
they may have been and no doubt were, guilty
Of murder and other crimes, they were not gull
ty Of the crime of treason. That is to say, they
were not guilty of levyng war against the Uni
ted States, nor were they guilty of adhering to
enemies at war with the United States, or Civ
ing such enemies aid or comfort
In the same article, upon the same point, the
following appears:
"We believe that such thing as constructive
uedSon is uHhHOWH 10 our laws, anu tDat EotH-
ing else will be recognized as treason against
the United States, but levying war against
them adhering to their enemies giving them
aid and comfort.
So much for the first point No. l. Now, for
the second. Their paper of the same date con-
tanned the following:
"We had supposed that the rule was other
wise-that an accused person was held to be
innocent Of the crime imputed to him until his
guilt was proved before a competent and
legal tribunal. Now, admitting the atitudinous
| construction put upon the language of the con.
stitntion as quoted by our coicmporary that cs-
tablishes but single point which pre-exists be-
fore any crime can be committed; that is to
say, the defining Of the crime of treason docs
not eonrict a person accused Of the crime
Does it9
Now, We submit who has been guilty of the
crime imputed to us, by the editors Of the Her
ald' Whether they are not fairly convicted
according to the natural construction of their
language, of disappearing their own position
and unwarrantably charging us with falsehood :