Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-08-24
The Ryan leach.

To RE READ by TAx-PAYERS.-Ih
Madison papers tell US that Ryan has
obtained judgement against the State
in the Supreme Court for $4,000, for his
services in the Hubbell trial. The .Hs-
ga.s and Democrat chuckles over the
trick, and for all we know, may be one
Of the iackals that shares these Infamous
=. r..--ealU now 10 ask, 0chere IS
has viIiainy to stop,-is The State to be
sacrificed, swallowed neck and heels !?
must Ryan and his comrogues be per-
mitted to devour US all T? We have
reached such crisis, that it would seem
no remedy will relieve our State, but
such as the farmer applied to his barn,
when undermined and oyer1un with
rats /: he blew it up! And were the
combustibles prepared, it would be
mercy to blow up the state, if these IN
principled plunderers of the State Trea-
sury could be blown up too. Such an
outbreak of depravity could not have ia
ken place had the gallows been spared.
I"A jury of Madison!" May the state
never again trust It's treasures to "a iu-
/ ny of Madison, carefully chosen"
Pillaging the treasury is fast becom-
ing legitimate business at the State
Capitol jury of Madison has allowed
q. G. Ryan $4,000 for clearing Judge
Hubbell on, not ofthe Bench. Now were
the services of Ryan worth this amount :?
We say no. In ali probability, his
coarse vituperations, his viper-like hos
Utility, his conversion of the whole
apparati of a state trial, into an engine
on which to rack and torture a personal
enemy, whose only crime was. that the
second circuit regarded him as "whiter
devil" than Ryan himself; it was AFRO
Igantly thrusting himself into the place
of the State, and taking advantage of
his position to avenge his own wrongs
it was this course which, in the opinion
Of many persons, turned the sympathy
Of the Senate and of the public in favor
of Judge Hubbell. And yet E. G. Ry-
an is propitiated with $4,000, wrune
from the sweat and toll of honest citi-
zens of Wisconsin
The last act Of this great farce is vii
lainously tragical the actors have strip
ped off the mask, and assume their real
characters as plunderers and knaves.
under. the sanction of the Supreme
Court, of law, 'sof jury of citizens of
Madison" We should like to have a
full investigation of this matter. win
the State Journal inform us how this tri-
al was sprung SO suddenly upon the
State Ryan will have US all in Jail
without breathing time. Notice, by
law, must be given to the Attorney Cen
eral. The Attorney General is allowed
a month TO plead. Now, how has time
been annihilated in this case Was the
State about to run away between "two
days." that justified this hot and furious
haste? Who betrayed the State p
Where was the Attorney General? Did
he waive the rights of the State, and
submit the rights of the people to the
arbltraRaent of jury gathered up from
the streets of Madison, and venture a
trial before the caldron of the public
mind cooled? lid the Attorney Gen
eral, instead Of manfully resisting this
infamous claim, invite these plunderers
to help themselves, and hint to the iury
that Ryan's demands were reasonable !?
What was the charge of the court, who
were the witnesses summoned on bee
half the State, and what was the evil
dence And above all, how came it
that so important trial came on so sud
denly, all unawares, nobody knew about
it; the people Of the State, the defen-
dants IN the cause-all in the dark till
the astounding announcement flashes
forth in the Madison prints, that we are
gouged BY Ryan and his co-pirates to the
tune Of $4,000 and costs
" AASAA 'A4S 4uSts hllOWU, IL VIII no
doubt be seen that but one side was
heard in the matter. The Argus SAYS
that Ryan brought to the case an amount
Of learning without parallel. Brown
thinks his services cheap at $4,000. AS
good judges in the west are of opinion
that as effective brothel-billingseate as
Ryan's could be purchased for a gallon
oi liquor dealt out at any doggery. Was
Beriah Brown one Of Ryan's witnesses !?
But we wish to know who testified for
the State; we mean, who did Estabrook
summon? for there are competent and
credible men who would have tes-
titled that Ryan's course was so i,npru-
dent, reckless and personal, that any
body would have been acquitted under
such prosecution.
a5Since our last weeks notice Of
the Cainch Bug in Mr.. Rays fields, in
the tow n Of Smelser, we learn from Mr..
Henry W. Hodges, an old resident far
mer in the south part of Lancaster, that
a colony of the same kind of insects,