Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-08
The Gardiner Case.


on the Treasury, copied from a recent
number of the Cotton Plant, upon which
we-feel called on to comment. The DEM
ocrat copies it with complimentary no.
tees of the Cotton Plant, as though de-
signing to create the impression that the
article in question is review Of the case
from the pen of a disinterested writer.
Weknow this not to be SO. We were origi-
nally applied to to publish this same
paper as communication, and were in
formed by the friend of DR.. Gardiner
who brought it to our Office, that he would
pay literally for its insertion in that form.
We declined to be party to any such
arrangement; informing the applicant,
that, if he thought proper, it might,
thereafter, be inserted in our advertising
columns only, so that it's paternity would
be understood by all readers; and, further,
that in case DIR. Gardiner availed himself
of this privilege common to all, we
should feel compelled so to comment upon
1t, as to expose what we conceived to be its
gross Misrepresentation of the action of
the Government in the case, and its base.
less SANDERS upon the honest witnesses,
Of whose testimony the prosecution had
ayailed themselves Under such circum-
stances, Of course, our columns were not
resorted to to get this false account of the
trial already had, before the public. The
fact that the National Democrat repub-
fishes this article with great gusto, goes
to make good what we have more than
once said of the tendency of those identi-
he'd with that sheet to aid and abet frauds
upon the Treasury of the United States,
and to stop at nothing in the way of SLAM
derlng those whose duty it may be to pro-
tect the public interest, wherever ISLANDERS
upon them may be necessary to screen
offenders or to palate their transgressions.
1t is well known in this community that
the late Executive of the United States,
under whose personal supervision all the
steps taken to bring DR.. Gardiner to JUS
tlce were determined on, initiated and
prosecuted, is an honest man, having no
interest in the persecution of the defend
ant. Indeed for the future fame of his
lfI hmm yet rot ~ i
that the stain upon it, growing out of this
Gardiner fraud, should be removed by
G.'s acquittal. Yet, so solemnly con-
WINGED of his guilt was Mr.. Fillmore, that
he labored night and day to insure justice
for the GovernmeEt-at the expense of the
future reputation of his four gears in the
Presidency. No man. serving in any ca
pacity under him, or under his successor,
had, or has anything to gain by unjustly
convicting Gardiner. This fact must
strike all unprejudiced persons. 1t, in
itself, disproves the allegation of the de-
fence in this article, that he has been
maliciously prosecuted, or that any step
has been resortcd to on the part of the
prosecution not absolutely necessary and
proper for the protection of the public in
terest. The legal gentlemen engaged in
the case for the Government are men of
high standing; gentlemen who would part
with their right hands, as all in this COM
munity know, before permitting them
selves to be used to bring about a convic-
ton not warranted by the facts in the
case, the law and the testimony; though,
according to the article upon which we
are commenting, there has been a con-
spiracy between the Government, the at
tornies and the witnesses for the prosecu.
ton (the latter being men of as much
personal character as were ever brought
to a witness stand in public prosecu-
tionl to crush poor defenceless man. If
so, then we have villains only in the Gov
eminent, AMI, in our Courts, men who
should, nearly all, rightfully be in States
prisons.
Now, there can hardly be said to be
two opinions in Washington relative to
the facts in the case; not one man in
hundred among us doubling the fact that
a fraud was committed on the Treasury
in getting the money on this claim: the
only doubt being, whether legal proof OF
the fraud can be made. No one man in
a hundred here doubts the truth of the
testimony of the prosecution ruled out