Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-02-18
The Pandelly Case.

4 delicacy for the estimable family whose
character was involved, which our readers will
appreciate, and an apprehension lest such opin-
ions as our feelings would naturally lead us to
indulge might be interpreted as an attempt on
our part to influence the decision of matter
before the tribunals of the State have restrain
ed US until this time from giving full expression
to the Indignation SO generally entertained in
this community in relation to the matters in
volved in the ceaseless persecution of the Dimi-
try family, through it's Pandelly branch, on ac-
count of some alleged impurity of blood in one
of its remote progenitors The decision Of
jury of upright and disinterested citizens has,
however, happily relieved the innocent objects
of the persecution, not only from the charge
preferred, but from all other imputations, as
their moral purity was established by all the
witnesses, and we now feel as free as any of our
fellow-citizens to comment alike upon the extra
ordinary tenacity of PaAndelly's pursuers, and
the incomprehensible facility with which por-
ton of the Board of Assistant Aldermen lent
themselves to the accusation.
1t was not enough to satisfy these fastidious
gentlemen to know that the uncle of the i'm
peached citizen had been the friend and assoei-
ate of the first men in the nation that his tai
ents and integrity had secured for him name
and reputation that did honor to himself, his
himself nor the immediate subject of the accu-
sation, nor any Of his family, male or female,
had ever borne any other than the best charac-
tiers in the estimation of those before whom
their public and private acts were daily passing
in review, and who alone we're duly qualified to
pass Judgment upon them. These facts we're not
sufficient, we grieve to say, to save the feelings
of large and worthy family from the lacera-
ton the quasi sanction of an official body of
charge SO degrading could, not fail to infict;
nor were the well known sentiments of this truly
generous community permitted to weigh in the
scale against pestiferous charge. A patient jul
dicial investigation, conducted by lawyers of
great learning, acumen and discretion, has, how
ever, set at rest forever the question Of the
status of the family of Dimitry, and although
damages were not required to add force to the
finding of the jury, it will console the immedi-
ate connexions Of the family to know that with
one exception, the inquest was unanimous in
awarding the twenty thousand dollars techni--
cally claimed by the plaintiff in his petition, aud
which, in whole or in part, his advocates stated
would 60 to charitable uses, were he to be sue
cessfu1 in his suit. IA s, 81 .-ess s. 80 5.
Thus ended the affair of Pandelly, which for
months past has been kept before the eyes of
this community with unwearied pertinacity, but
with what useful intent We are utterly unable to
conceive. Why a public body, or the public
press, or society should be disturbed by the ag
itations of subjects that may produce endless
misery in families, disturb connexions the most
sacred, harrow the feelings and break the hearts
Of sensitive and susceptible persons; while they
can neither benefit society by the publication Of
its morals, nor advance the public good by the
promotion of any laudable object, we certainly
cannot preceive, and we hope we shall not soon
again be called upon to express indignation at,
unjust as those which have from first to last
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