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selves before those Of our fellow .citxens who may
have perused the article referred to:

selves before those Of our fellow citizens who may
have perused the article referred to:
To the Editors Of The Baltimore Sun:
OksTLSMEN: Your paper of Monday, May 80
contains an editorial article headed the " Gar
amer Case" which is grossly libelious towards us
sno winch we cannot but suppose to be the pro
ducnon OF some volunteer scribbler, whose inter
ests or PASSIONS you have incautiously subserveo
oy allowing him 20 speak in your names and b
your authority. Certainly, so far we know, i
Is without any precedent in your paper or in any
other having any claim to public respect This
language, however strong it may appear to those
VINO cannot appreciate the obligations of Jurors
oatn' VINO attach no value to character, and wht
nave no regard for truth, will be felt by all Other
men to be warranted by the occasion.
The article in question makes the grossest impu
tations on men, who, may be excused for say
ing under such circumstances, well know n
In me community, and enjoy full much the
confidence of their fellow citizens as the editors
OF the Sun can claim here or elsewhere. 1t does
TINS upon no better grounds than the assumption
that 'ninety-nine men out of every hundred
VINO have picked up fragments of the evidence In
the streets, or heard them repeated from the
mouths OF partisans. entertain different view oil
the case from that which, upon our solemn oaths
as Jurors, and after a most patient hearing of all
the evidence, and after mature deliberation in
our retirement, we feel ourselves compelled Etc
adopt adhere to- We have no fear that any
such out OF door opinion, if it existed, would be
received by any sane and considerats man to dis
credit the calm and deliberate judgment of sworn
jurors.
the matter, have probably never in their lives n
single one of the witnes ;es whose testimony was
necessary 10 conviction, nor single of those
VINO supported the defence; much less have they
under oath listened to their examinations and
cross examinations, and thus applied that most es-
sential OF all the tess Of truth in trial by jury
They have not considered the extraordinary and
unprecedented circumstances which have cbarac
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duty to ourselves, TO the public and posterity
than TO the accused, to give ii the closest ecru
tiny. They have not spent seventy days, nor per-
baps single moment, in weighing and balancing
all the facts and circumstances presented to us
facts and circumstances which it is part of our
purpose to discuss here. We arc answerable to
God and our consciences, and if there be any
ground for the Infamous insinuat contained in
the article In question, we are answerable also to
the laws OF our country for what we have done or
left undone in this matter. But We must remi nd
you that not liable 10 be attacked throug h
your columns and charged with corruption With
out responsibility, even though We be nine Jurors
out OF twelve refusing upon our oaths to render a
verdict against an accused person upon any evi.
dence short of that which should produce couvic-
ton upon our own minds. And allow US to add
for the information of the person who prepared the
article in question, that be little knows the indie
pendent spirit which characterizes the of this
District, If he supposes that he ia thus preparing
the way Tor subservicnt verdict not founded upon
that free, thorough, and conscientious consider
alton OF the evidence, and the whole evidence,
upon which we made up our jud gments in the past
trial
We are human, like yourselves While we
claim nothing approaching infallibility, we fee
the value of an honest name, and know that it il
the property Of each and every one of US. We
trust that it will survive US, and in our narrow
sphere will be remembered and respected when
falsehood and calumny shall no longer have the
power to wound US.
p. MAeRUpER, Foreman,
I'm behalf Of nine of the j,rors)