Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-04
A Miserable Fraud Erpossd-A Cara.

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WAsniScToS CITY, August %. 1856. =.
finding our names appended TO q printed
document published in this city for the ben
ent OF the Republican party In the present
political canvass, headed aThe Killing of
Thomas heating-An Address from Irish
men of Washington City to the Citizens Of
the United States" wedesire to make known
the fact that some Of us have not signed IL
and that all Of US disapprove, disavow. and
deny Its political statements. Those of us
who did sign il were induced so to do bv
Misrepresentation Of its purport and con-
tents On the part Of an individual who. In
asking our signatures to il, assured US that II
was only to be a history Of the killing Of
Thomas Heating and Of the circumstance Of
the Imprisonment, trials, and final scquittsl
Of Philemon 7. Herbert the perpetrator Of
that act, designed as a precursor Of the pub
LEGATION of the speech of Mr.. Preston, deliv-
cred on the last lial of Herbert, printed in
advance of the publication Of that speech. 40
that the distant public might have a reliable
key to his argument.
While we shall never cease to believe that
the acquittal of Herbert was brought about by
a prostitution of the law and justice, we re-
gard that as the work of individuals-not of
the Democratic party, or the present Demo-
cratic national administration; the criminal
court Of the District of Columbia being
amenable not to the President, but to Con-
gress only, through impeachment.
We pronounce false the statement Of the
aforesaid document intimating that the Sec
rotary of State-Mr. Marcy sought to
screen the ascused, by lending his influence
to prevent Mr.. Dubois, the Netherlands min
lister, from testifying in the case; that gentle
mans government having expressly forbid
him from testifying under circumstances
wherein he would be compelled 10 submit
himself to the usual cross-examination
only system of giving testimony known 70.
our own laws, and Mr.. Dubois having asked
permission of his government to testify in
that way at the suggestion and solicitation OF
Secretary Marcy.
We have further TO aver that the Demo
cratic party OF this city are as united in con-
domination of those individuals 10 whose i'm
proper conduct to that end the a~cquittal of the
accused is attributed as it is possible for men
to be on such a subject. Far more 50 than
their political opponents, of whom eleven
were on the jury; the local law here allow
ing the accused the benefit of thirty-six pre-
emptory challenges, and the Judge having
permitted persons VIGOROUSLY sympathiring
with the accused to sit upon the jury, eleven
Of whom, we repeat, were as hostile to the
Democratic party as they are to the Irish.
We are humble men, but we respect our
selves ard our rights, which have been outrz-
ged by those unknown to us, who have un-
dertaken, for political effect, to use our names,
as we have explained above. We have to
ask those conducting journals Of all parties
who respect the truth, to spread before their
readers this brief card.
Patrick NJ. Heating, Charles Quinn,
RID. b. Gardiner, james Quinn,
Daniel Shea, Jere II. Riordan,
Peter Evansville, John Green,
John Enright, John Roach,
WIN. Roach, John Heating,
Edmund Roach, Edward German,