The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-17

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ton house for the Eighteenth ward police, and re-
ouirinr the Eighth Avenue Railroad Company 70
run car every twenty minutes from Fhty-hrst TO
Fifty ninth street.
Quite an exciting race between three well mstche
horses came or over the Union Course last Tburs ny
afternoon as viii be by the description ofthes fair
in another column. Trotting having almos. tirely
superseded racing in this section Of the country Of
late years contest of this kind is avery acceptable
treat to the old lovers Of the turf.
jury having been empannelled IL. the Court of
General Sessions yesterday, sevent zen persons were
placed upon trial charged with having been con-
cerned in The riot in the Ninth ws I'd on the Fourth
Of July last. The having 'Jeen opened for the
prosecution and the FIRST witt less placed upon the
stand all further proceedings were postponed till
Monday, in consequence Of the coldness OF the
court room. See the report elsewhere
Judge Mitchell viii to-ds deliver the decision in
the extraction case Of Ale xander Hehoun, claimed
by Great Britain fuf tive from justice on the
charge Of forgery. Dist Gct Attorney oConor has
been directed by the Pr esdent to see that our treaty
tipuations with EDgl and, concerning the rendition
OF fugtises, are fulfil ed.
Besides great var iety Of other entertaining mat
ter to which We hs We no room TO refer particularly
our inside pages contain reports OF the monthly
meeting Of the American Geological and Statistical
Society, and the anniversary OF the City Tract
Society. Bot taese documents contain much mat
ter OF interest 80 the general reader.
Liberty OF speech and Liberty OF tho Press.
We hay c not thought it worth while to no
ticc the course pursued by the Times in pub
lsting gscbled report Of the Fry libel suit,
though aSsIredly such uDfairness as the pub
LEGATION Of the evidence impugning Revol's
character, and the suppression of the testimony
in rebuttal, called for severe censure 1t is
likely thai the injustice arose as much from the
inefliciency of the Times reporting staff as from
She petty malice of its editor and neither the
one nor the other Of these causes calls for any
particular comment. We may, perhaps, how
ever. be justified in devoting q few lines to an
article which appeared in that print yesterday.
Our claim for equal justice is therein denied on
the ground that our course hes been ''unprinci-
pledr and ''runianly' and tllst we are ourselves
an " outlaw" 1t is new principle of law that
want Of principle, or lack OF any other virtue, |
deprives man Of his legal II ghts in court of
justice. But il it did, where are the proofs of
our rufianism? By what ect did we become an
cused as well for his ignorance Of the law. as
for his Ignorance Of the world; but when ripper
years shall have endowed him with larger
experience, he will learn that no man can oc-
cupy the position we have filed for a whole |
generation without becoming target for ca
lumny and malice; and that the mere repetition Of |
unproyen groundless slanders-the reitcration of |
such epithets as 'rufian" andS 'outlaw'-prove |
nothing unless they are based on substantial no
torious facts Those facts have yet to come to
light. Until they do we confidently appeal to tie
community to say whether the management Of
the HERALD, during the last eighteen years, has |
been less courteous, less humane, less manly, |
than that Of its contemporaries. or not; and we |
find the answer already recorded in the notori- |
Gus fact that we have received share of pub |
lie patronage three times greater than that Of |
our maligners. The historian of journalism |
would not be at u loss to discover instances OF |
brutality and ruflianism in the columns of the |
New York press during athis period; but |
he would need to look elsewhere than in the |
HERALD.
In real truth the attempts Of the Times aud
Tribune to show why we should be debarred /
from our claims to justice at the hands OF u jury
are too transparent to require much attention
Say what they WILL the public sees plainly
enough that they only desire to injure us in
order to benefit themselves; and it also sees
that the principle for which we are contending
isnothing less than the great groundwork of our
liberties-freedom of speech. We care very
little for ten thousand dollars; but we do care
tor our inalienable right of speaking the truth
at all times, at all hazards, on all subjects
That right is secured to US by the constitution
OF the United States and the constitution of
New York, and in defence thereof we will com
bat to the last day Of our life and the last cent
Of our property In common with every un-
preudced man, we regard the Fry verdict
as Q violation of the liberty OF the press in this
community. Contemplate twaddlers who |
never dare to express bold opinion on any
subject and whe spend their lives in cndeavors
to shirk responsibility and be all things to all
men. may talk about the necessity of restraints
on the free exercise of thought it was such as
these who burnt Professionals at the stake three
centuries ago We claim that truth should be |
unlettered; and that in one country at least on
"i' Wi - 'uoobnt anu specCH sHOuiu DC ITce |
We are told that we entertained q personal
towards Mr. Fry. Why, we never
said anything at all about him to signify until
his own artists came to lmplore cur protection
against his vindictive malice. We never had
any opinion about him one way or the other.
until that amiable and much-injured woman
Madame Trufi came to beg us to insert a card
in reply to the ISLANDERS Of his hired pcnmeu,
Mr.. Maurice Strakosch swears that we said
1--WE would finish him = but Oh second !
thoughts, he cannot recollect whether our cx-
preston was not something entirely different