The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-25
1--WE extract the following characters
tic paragraph from the N Y. Tribune:

We zee that one Of the Wards of kentucky,
member Of family distinguished for various un9r,
tanate circumstances, has just been placed on ula
fan The murder of schooimaster. We have some
knowledee how those things are done among the
first families Of Kentucky and we venture .hc p.e
dicfiou that the killing of a schoolmaster oy c,on
of one of these first families. will not De =.
be any great offence BY ken,acny lu sS.xsho,ainr
Ieeislators of Virginia throw unoffenuing schoo'
,nis,yesses into dungeons. Why shoGid NOT tne
kindred aristocratic blood OF Kentucky DC a,tow
ed to go step further and XIII unonenaing s haTe
no doubt that the man who did It Will be acqu'aeu
indeed We doubt IL serious effort be maze 70 , III
vict him. We shall zee. Mr.. Critenden. u BIC
yer. There Ii prominent example On a If a
Of Kentucky jurisprudence OF the acquttI, a..
young kentucky blood, guilty OF an n eq Tlav
grant murder who was defended by MT. Gay.
The reference to Virginia is emihenNy
Greeleyish. He knows very wen 'ha' N''''
Dauolas violated the laws and insisted upon
r.l;ng herself martyr. But if 1t Is any
consolation to him, he may rest assured tha'
If male abolitionists are too pusiilammous 10
carry ON their trade here, and depute women
n do II for them, the women will have to
take the consequences. Their sex Will be no
more protection than it is in case OF larceny,
arson or murder
But we extracted the above as a specimen
Of the Justice and decency of Tribunessm
Could not that calm and philosophical sheet
have awaited the result Of the Ward trial be-
! IRE arraigning Kentucky before its Tribune
If that paper had any influence in Kentucky
which of course it has not, this miserable
slang about aristocratic blood might prove
as mischievous as it is malicious. There is
no doubt that, in all communities, wealth
gives an accused person advantages IN de
feating justice and in none more so than Ne"
York. But an aristocrat is just as likely 10
be hung in Kentucky as any where else. we
have read of case there, in which just such
wretched appeals as those of the 1T7o"ne
led to the hanging of poor maniac pro
nounced to be such by the whole medical
faculty of Lexington, Ky. He was lone OF
the silk stocking gentry though we doubt
whether the unfortunate man ever wore
q silk stocking in his life, he was hung as
thoroughly and ANONYMOUSLY as Greeley
could desire. Because guilty men of wealth
had escaped, therefore this innocent "sllk
stocking was made the victim Of the
Ward case we know nothing, save by the &C
counts published by the papers at the time,
but if those accounts are verified by the evil
dence, it was most atrocious murder, and
we have no doubt Kentucky jury would
hang Ward, or any other of the ''first fami
lies guilty of such a crime, with as little
conjunction as they would hang Greeley,
were he to go to Kentucky and instigate in
surrection in person.
We do not pretend that justicei is melted out
with even measure to rich and poor men in
any part of the United States. But no Sec
tion has anything to brag of in this respect.
The crimes to which wealth gives inpunity at
the North are not confined to murder, or at
least to the murder of the body. Let the
Tribune, instead of scattering its chloride of
lime abroad, save it to purify the abomina-
tons of its own pig-sty.