Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-05-22
From the Now ORLEANS D-ita, May I'M
CARD From HIATT. +. Ward.


fkoufaF FOR sUsrEssios OF runLlc OPINION.
40 The EDITORS Of the United States:
GENfIENxk;-Tf felt less confidence in the
Justice and magnaaimity of the American neople,
would not now intluds myself upon your notice
NY position is one which may well be consid-
cred peculiar in The United States, where laws
have hitherto been respected, and where the YER
dict OF jury hes been regarded as final IN oil
lctminal cases. Acquitted though still accused5
free thong still prosecuted. must appeal through
the columns OF the Delta, TO your generosity anu
beg Suspension Of opinion until the evidence m
my case can be put before yon-
can blame no man for feeling strong preju-
dice against me. for expressing the ioudest con
domination Of that unfortunate deed, which has
been SO dnrlly and ingeniously exaggerated by my
enemies. The public have as yet seen but one
side of this case and that one has been most un-
scrupnlously misrepIesented. by those enger ior
my blood aud ruin. have been acquitted cy
jury OF my peers, and in most coseH that would De
yindication enough and cyenan my case, peryefl-
ed us il has BEEN my acquittni should OF ieat al
que presumption or my Innocence. strong enough
toiuduce the most hostile TO pause MI tney can
examine the testimony Produced At my trial. This
Is ell desire, and surely IL Is not much ior man
to ask who has uncomplainlngly submitted to as
much as have done.
fnlla and impartial report of the testimony in
the case has been prepared by Nh "A kticnatdsons
one of the most accomplished short hand writer's in
the west, and will be issued from the press OF
Aiessrs d. Appleton q Co., New York. Although
II feel the highest confidence in Mir. RicLnr,l-
sons ability and impartiaitys yet when reniem-
bered the former course OF my enemiess the pre-
caution taken to have the report authenticated
by several gentlemen y hose positions place them
ab1ve even the soaring accusations OF the Courier.
All thatI ask from you, gentlemen OF the press
issilence UNI! this report can be placed before
the public, aud il you do not discover some bet
ter reason for my acquittal than the corruption Of
the jury, an. wiling TO submit TO your univer-
sal condemnation. have made no previous at
tempt to resist the designs Of my enemes-hot as
fbev falsely m
defence to make, but because relied with conf
dence on the jnst administration of the the laws
of my country. break that silence now, which
the better judgement of my friends formerly i'm
posed upon me- only because mypersecutofs seem
Ito have lost all respect for law, aud have constr
tuted themselves higher tribunal, to reverse the
decision of a jury regularly empanneled by the
proper authorities OF The Stnte.
Once more Appeal 10 the generosity Of the press
ia this country, and conjure every editor in tie
name Of lustice aud humanity, to read thu report
oi my tIial--weigh we'll the testimony on both Sides
and then declare TO the world whether l have not
The tight to say that Injustice black injustice, has
been done me. And as many are convinced by
the testimony that my prosecutors have not been
sustained in the case which they made out against
me, have too much confidence in the magnanim-
lily Of American citizens to doubt that they Will
confess that they have been misled, and will ex-
pose the uniustsfable means 10 deceive them and
iniuTe me. Be just be generous, gentlemen OF
the press. Read this report, aud. consider closely
its contents.
The Louisville Courier has, believe, proposed
10 publish my trial in pamphlet form, bull the gem
tleman who was employed by this paper is not q
Istenographers and the report could not be full and
satisfactory IN all the details OF cross exanaton
eyenif his notes were published. Mr.. Cole would
NOT, Iknow, make an unfair report for any con-
Isidetaticns but from past experience, should
apprehend that some liberties might be taken with
his notes before they seen light. make this sug-
gestion for his sake as well as my own. Ii is a
fact worth knowing, too, That whilst Mr.. Cole was
preparing this report to the Courier lie wrote
letters 70 HIS paper, the Cincinnati Ga<ette, in
which he expressed al opinion that would be
acquitted, which WAS based on the evidence in
the cuse. We may hereafter have an opportunity
lo comparing Nj. Coles opinion OF the testimony
AATr- F. WARD.