The Sierra citizen., 1854-11-04
Saturday, November A. 1854.
Report Of the Grand Jury.

Report Of the Grand Jury.
We once gave our reasons for not pub
fishing the Report of the Grand Jury
and for the information of all concerned
we now repeat them, with some additional
reasons. In the drst place the Court O
Sessions refused to order the report pub
lished, and nothing remained for us to dc
but to apply to the Clerk for the report
copy it ourself, and publish it for genera
information. We obtained the report d,
the Clerks Office, copied few pages
when the Report was called for by the
Court, taken to the Court room for reie
renee, and having something else to do
we collected cur writing materials and left
since then we have never called to fin
ish the job, and never expect to.
We have no objection to publishing the
Report, none in the world. If any one o
the jurors or anybody else, will furnish US
with copy, we will publish it.
1t was not our intention to speak dispara-
gingly of tue late Grand Jury. We only
said, that as literary production the re.
port was incomplete, and would not dc
credit as such to themselves or the county
We wish to be understood now. as speak.
ing Of the Grand Jury entire, not of the
faction concerned in posting up that illit-
crate, disgraceful document which we pub
lish to-day. We would be sorry to speak
disrespectfully of that body, for many Of
the Jurors were our best citizens. Our re-
marks week before last were general, writ.
ten carelessly. The following may have
done injustice to the whole body:-"The
structures against individuals, contained in
the report, while they might crafty ma
licious appetite for personal detraction
might also needlessly wound private char
aeter. TIE charges therein against one
person, have been submitted to as intelli
gent petit jury as ever sat in this State
and that jury honorably acquitted the de
fendant."
Whereas there were men on that jury
who had no malicious appetite for per-
sonal detraction" to crafty, while we be-
lieve there are others who had, have now
and always will have. "The charges there
in (the report against one person. should
have been "The indictments found" This
is all the explanation we have to make in
regard to our remarks, in that article.
We happened to be on the previous
Grand Jury oursef. If we remember
rightly, thirty-one indictments were found
by that jury, only one Of which was sus
tanned, and that was against one Johr
Burk for manning pig. We were moi
silly enough to believe that our services
on that occasion were OF so much impor
tance that they required publicity. We
considered them great cry and little wool
But certain members of the late Grand
Jury can't rest satisfied until their pro-
found cogitations appear in print. We
, are willing to crafty them; bring in the
copy and it shall be printed in any kind Of
type you desire.
To the members of the late Grand Jury
whose names do not appear on that black
guard poster, we have only to say that it
was not our intention to reflect On the pro,
ceedings of that body. We meant only
to give our reasons for not copying and
publishing the article, after the Court Of
Sessions refused to order its publication
If we unwittingly did you injustice, we
have undone it as far as in our power, and
have at the same time to thank you for
the gentlemanly course you have pursued
in refusing to allow your names to appear
on street poster which we know the
Grand Jury are ashamed of.