The Empire County argus., 1855-09-29
lIJ as V OF the l'rs S..

1t is the duty Of lawyer to defend his client.
however great criminal he may be, to the best OF
his ability, but we have always considered that the
press had a higher mission in this world, that it
the Palladium Of human rights and that tor
mere money it could MT be bought to wrong the
living, much less traduce the dead. The Calitor-
MIA press with but few honorable exceptions, has
been the echo and mouth piece, the con\ enence Of
men companies who command Il few extra dol
lars and 81 serylle has been their admiration and
laudatlon Of these particular parties that at times
they have so far offended our citizens to call
forth tndignati0n, feeling which cold blooded
murder has failed at times to awaken in cur
munity.
We have read the deliberate declaration Of some
of these papers that certain dishonest banker
undoubtedly honest. and bolster up the declaration
by all the fictitious testimony which a shrewd dis
honest man could c,llcct defend himself with
We feel disposed to forget and forgive that for such
llsehood only assalls the pockets OF men-lt leaves
unharmed the bod " and mind undiseased, to bat
tie against sad adversely with hope for the
future; but when this same press, for what com
pen-atIon We know not, attempts to gloss over and
nide the terrible decimaton on the San Juan steanl-
er. the Uncle SAM it is worth ut Least passing
notice.
an it be that all IF those lis victims, men. wo-
men and children, were they are represented,
drunken guttons who engendered chol ra ly their
own hlthiness in habits and regimen! We will not
believe it! There is abundance Of testimony to
the contrary. We have no preference tor that
route over the other believing honestly that at
some seasons one, in respect to health has an ad
vantage over the other. and U'ce uelS1 but we ra>e
cur Voice against sending the passenger hence in
the very track Of death with blinded mind to the
danger he is about to encounter
1t is mIsh better that every man who leaves
here, or he who emigra thher hy these tropical
routes, has his mind fully awakened, at starring TO
the maladies which he may have to encounter
| Difference Of climate, water food conf ement on
shpboard and crowded ships, have engendered
disease in the colder of the Northern Atlantic
| How much more liable it is, then to generate the
i'll the tropics, with Northern subjects work
upon
We do not believe that the crotrd who perished
on this ship were what they are represented, anu
we feel sad to see hurled after their memory when
they have suffered sad a fate, the imputation
that they were a drunken, ignorant, gluttonous
congregation Of humanity, who really might be
supposed to deserve lonely sepulchre in the great
deep, where the hand of friend or relation could
not scatter a flower upon their graves
Charity oh, for little charity When will
arrive the time that in the consideration of the in
! huential portion Of the world, the thousands of
workers and wanderers, seeking homes and bet
ter fortune, will have their interests AS tenderly
considered as rich companies-those who have al
ready gained from the hard earnings of these toll
ers wealth in abundance, and luxurious homes!-
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