Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-05
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SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union comments upon the Veto
Message, pronouncing it the document
of all documents" for the times. The
Union, further referring to a paragraph
from the New York Tribune, exposing the
dangerous tendency of mob law, says: s
May it not with more propriety be sugges-
ted that the disgraceful .iots described in the
foregoing paragraph are the first fruits of the
instigation to mob law furnished by the pas
sonate assaults of such journals as the Tribune
upon the action of the court, counsel, and jury,
IN the late Ward case? We cherish the free
dom of the press as one of our dearest rights;
nor do we regard any functionary or tribunal
~ having q claim to exemption from scrutiny
and censure; but We can never overlook the
fact, that when the legitimate freedom of the
press degenerates into RIGHTEOUSNESS. the
friends of law and order have cause for alarm.
Without expressing any opinion upon the YER
diet rendered in the Ward case we should not
discharge our duties as public journalist if
We did not express our decided dissent from
that spirit which denounces, in un,neasured
&C.
ton Of the counsel and jury engaged in the
trial. If the jury acted rashly in making M
and rendering their verdict, their own con-
science will prove their severest reproyers.-
Aelr offence Is surely no greater than that of
those who see to make 1t the melting cause to
the prevalence of violence and mob law No
enc could reasonably object to legitimate re-
view OF the facts ELECTED on the trial, with the
vsW OF showing that the verdict of acquittal
was not in accordance with the proof and the
law Such An investigation and such structures
are strictly legitimate, and to such a course
We take no exception
The Inteltigencer, commenting on a
recent article in the Union headed ssFiye
Years Of Fraud Us. one of Integrity"
wherein charges are made against Ex-
Governor Ramsay, of Minnesota, quotes
the report of the Senate Committee on
Indian Affairs, wherein they entirely
e1culpate that gentleman's administra-
ton of the government of Minnesota. saw
ing: it"
"That they have carefully examined all the
testimony taken by the commissioners during
nearly three months which they were in session
at-st. Paul, in the Territory of Minnesota.
and have arrived at the conclusion that the
conduct of Governor Ramsay was not ouly
free from blame, but highly commendabIe and
neriiorious Not one of the charges preferred
against him has been sustained by the testi-
mony. On the contrary, the witnesses of the
compliments themselves, in almost every
instance, have negatived them proving con-
elusively, that he neither violated the stipula-
Tons OF the treaties, as understood BY the
parties to them, nor was governed in his con-
duct by motives other than such rs entitle him
TO commendation both as a man and an officer.
In the disbursement of the funds arising
under the treaties he acted in accordance viii
the understanding between the commissioners
who negotiated them, the Indians, and the
traders TOR whom provision had been made
The payments Of the moneys was made BY
him under the direction of and in strict accord
ance with the views and instructions of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Continuing on the same subject, the
lnteihgencer very appropriately adds:
Another Of the monster frauds charged to
DIR. Fillmore is that Of the Gardiner case
though ii has been incontestably proved that
the moment the first rumor reached his ears
that suspicion attached to the claim, he insti-
tuted searching inquiry, sent commissioners
to Mexico, and ordered a prosecution of the
individual accused. 1t is notorious that the
trlal OF that individual occupied the time of
the Or minal Court here more closely and Ia
boriously than any case that had evey been
brought before it; that the first jury could not
agree; that he was tried second time. with
the added testimony of a second commission of
inquiry; and that, when the last jury brought
In their verdict of guilty the man committed
suicide
The Sentinel. reviewing relative stats
tics Of Massachusetts, and Georgia, their
respective populations being nearly equal,
calls public attention to the remarkable
disparity In the number of insane and
idiotic persons inhabiting them-2,471 in
the former, and 998 in the latter State.