The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-06

W. w. prosecuting OuCcI VI tuc SOScIu-
ment, and 70 the whole country, and sur
ceptible Of the easiest and clearest proof by
those who testified before the Investigating
Committee, the district attorney, by neglec
ting to deny the allegations Of the Com
pany's answer, admits, by the rules of plead
ing, what he, with all well-informed men,
knows to be an utter, patent lie. And,
the worst of all, he admits the lie against
the safety and interests of his own client
the United States, whose rights he is bound
to guard, not only by his oath as lawyer,
but by his oath also as an officer of the
government and thus he becomes guilty
of double moral, if not legal, perjury
The denial of the allegations of the answer,
and especially of the allegation that any
such actwas passed by Congress on the 29th
day of June, 1854, as the answer sets up
in justification, would put in issue the act,
its passage, and identity; and would enable
the United States to give in evidence the
existing facts which show that the bill claim.
ed to he law, was never acted upon by
the House Of Representatives.
The neglect of the Attorney of the gov
eminent thus to put the validity Of this act
in issue in the pleadings we unhesitatingly
pronounce the result either of ignorance,
which should throw him over the bar for
incompetency, or of corruption, which should
deprive him of his commission, for malfea-
sance.
This is a plain statement Of the corrupt
manner in which the issue is made up in this
Important case. The circumstances, and
the character of the pleadings, point with
more than suspicion to a guilty collision be-
tween the Attorneys for the Company and
the Attorney for the government This sus-
picion will not be removed by the special
pleading and pettifogging of Mr.. JOHN B.
BRsBlN. But, on the contrary, it will grow
in the minds of the whole people until it be-
comes conviction, thorough and canning
to him, as having disgraced his manhood
and his profession by acts which should be
the prerogative only of the fool or the
knave. ....
We have merely to add in regard to Mr..
BRIsBIN, that we believe this case furnishes
the first instance in the annals of the pro-
fession, in which an Attorney has, in the
first place, deliberately framed his plcadings
against his own client, and in the second,
openly argued the case Of his opponent in a
public journal, before trial These feats
have been performed by the Deputy District
Attorney, in his pleadings, and in the arti-
Gle from his pen published aboye. We have
no disposition to deprive him of any laurel
which may accrue to him thereby, morally
OF professionally.
In conclusion, we call upon the United
States District Attorney to spread the no
torious facts connected with the case upon
the records, before i. is brought to hear
ing in the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
In default of this plain act of duty to the
people and the government, we warn him
to rest content with that blasting infamy
which is everywhere the follower of corrup-
ton; and which will be awarded him, ire
mediably, by the people whose rights shall
thus, through a refinement of mockery, be
made merchandise in the Courts of Justice