The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-09-19
THE A M Z RICAN, ("
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\ "a command
oy nave instituted personal enquiry into these
mauers' and lind that the weapons used were
various KINDS OF firearms, clubs knives and stones
ana lnat the facts as stated in the enclosed certificate
| with great respect, your obedient servant,
| own. B. MAGRUpER."
Now, gentlemen, the Mayor asked for this military
and because Che says the civil authorities are found
70 De unable to preserve the peace He speaks in
| the present tense. He wrote this declaration or
statement half an hour or an hour after he had
visited the polls. He says twenty good and peace
able citizens were wounded; that the remainder
were driven from the polls; that the Commissioners
were dispersed and that the rioters had threatened
further violence any attempt being made carry
on the election! Gentlemen, it must have been as
late as hafpast ten, perhaps eleven O'Clock when
ne m made these statements TO the President. Were
Mey a thdt time trneH If he had intended TO tell
the truth he should have said that certain persona
1aa @ driven the Commissioners and the people from
the polls, b1 they had come back ogaia, and all was
quiet; but instead Of this, he stated what was not
then true. VI#
lie says twenty persons had been wounded Cap
ltin Goddard had been struck by stick on the
shoulder, and with brick on the breast but not
huft ana two or three other men had received slight
blows, but no one had then been seriously injured
one man. 1t is said, was dragged out of the barrcade
had .1 left the polls and gone to see the President!
Who, then, had been wounded to make up the
"twenty peaceabIe citizensp"
Did you ever before know such reckless statements
temen, of the statements OF the boy sent by his
mother Tor her cows, into distant pasture Instead
OF gong and bringing up the cows in due time the
be hac On tn the WAY until it was late and when
hundred bears "oh, no." said the old lady, "you
could not have seen hundred bears, for they never
go in droves." We'll" said the boy, 81 am sure.
mother, ait is impossible" "well, then" said the
boy, 81 know saw twenty" "No, nor twenty"
said the mother. "Then | saw FIVE, at least" !" said
the BOY. You are mistaken, my son, said the old
lady. "Well, mother" said the son, ~ declare 1
saw one of the biggest bears in the world" "My
son, said the old lady, tired of the colloqhy, "you
saw no dear at aN-there are none in this neighbor
hood" well then, mother" said the urchin, ''if
1t wasn't bear, it was the biggest black stump /
ever saw in all my life' do not say that Captain
Goddard was Doctor Magruders "black stump"
but certainly the Doctors representation of matters
70 the President was very much like that of the boys
description of what he saw in the COW pasture-the
hundred bears" dwindle down, whenFcontrasted
with the proofs, to nothing more than "a black
stump! Examine that letter and compare its state
ments with the facts proved and you will not fail TO
discover its exaggerations on different points.
pass to another matter about which Mayor
Magruder is little mistaken. He says hs gaue the
G,Ier to Major Tyler to take that swivel. Major
Tyler says the Mayor gave him such order. Now,
do not care which of these witnesses you credit
If you believe DR.. Magruder this point you can
not believe Major Tyler. Tyler says he went on
his own hook'-he fought son his own hook :" and
swivel instead of giving it to DR.. Magruderl
But, again. Doctor Magruder has told you, that the
=" First Ward American Council Room draped
in mourning, on the occasion of the death of
Hughes" 4a
At this point j shall call your attention to the
manner IN which Dr. Magruder testified, as to this
matter. When a witness comes on the stand he has
no right to manifest his political or personal preju-
dices. he is bound TO speak the truth, and that
only-but did you not observe with what guSto (as
the Spaniards say, he embraced the occasion, when
Mr. Scott asked, what were the political opinions
of those who killed by the Marines, :" TO slur
the American partyy What was his response?
Why, (said the witness,) Hughes acted with tho
American party-he kept mulatto woman--he was
a man OF bad character, and he supposed he was an
American" because the house in which the Ameri.
can party met in the First Ward was draped in
mourning at his death Gentlemen did not Dr.
Magruder go out of hs way in this attempt 10 casta
slur upon the American party, when he made these
staementsG What had the American party to do
with Hughes keeping n mulatto womang What
had that 10 do with this cases What had the drapng
Oh the house In mourning, where the Americans OF
the FIRST Ward met In council to do with this trial?
Why such statementsS ...
What Oh@ purpose, than 10 bring disgrace upon
the American party, had DIR. Magruder in making
ihese irrelevant s'atenents' Mayor, as he is-pub
he Is no more than the equal of Mr. Hughes in re.
specabllity and il will do for him TO assa the
character OF Mr.. Hughes, | can assure you! It
does not become him ~ do IT, He is not ne man 10
do it. You have heard il said gentlemen that II ia
not proper for the pot to call the kettle black 90
| do not say whether there be ar v application in
this saving, but say DR. Nagruder is not the man
20 assail the character of Mr. Hughes less the
character of the American party ..'.-
what u Mr.. Hughes were man Of bad character
does that affect the character of the American parvy
thls De the doctrine, God help the party TO which
DR.. Magruder belongs! But why did he not also
tell us, that Hughes had been found drunk in the
cutters OF the CITY the benches of the market
house, Why did be not say that Hughes had
played domlnoes on Sunday in an Irish proceryY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY. protest acanst this
course of argument, and these personal ISLANDERS
against DIR. Magruder. Counsel NAV speak of him
AS HagoF, IN connection with the subject before the
court but he has no right to indulge in personaIi.
ties.
The JUDGE. You must stop this course. You
have right to discuss anything within the testimony
but you have no right before this jury TO introduce
ing.
ar. ELLIS, suppose sir that for any course,l
may take j am responsible. But how have assailcd
the wtnessy 10 Is not who make the application OF
these remarks to DR.. Magruder I have not alan
dCrcd him. NV ''
The JUDGE. Sir, propriety must b. observed
Every body knows what you mean.
Mr. hLLlS. plant myself upon the answers of
ihe witness. he sought TO degrade the American
party by his irrelevant statements; and sir I rn
peat, that Doctor Msgrudcr is not the nronsr mar
70 90 ~ Whenever and wherever that party, in
which glory, Is assailed shall renai ,s asso,i,
But gentlemen, in reference 10 the draining the
house IN mourning, Mr.. Douglass has distinctly
sworn that 1t was not done by the Americans" but
that u was draped by the " Union Fire Company" I"
OF winch Mr.. Hughes a member, Here there il
another instance, besides those in his ette, 10 ,b
President in which DR.. Magrutler has made n mis-
take-cali them all Dlisttits, il you please
But again: When Mr. Biddlemar was brougbt nm
by Gen. Henderson DR.. Magruder saws Cen Hon.
derson charged Biddleman with having shot n MS
toll that Biddleman denied it, and that Cen, Hen.
derson replied You lie, you young whep, saw
= Gentlemen, YOU will recollect TINT recalled Gen
Henderson 10 the stand and asked him The ouestion
whether he had given Biddleman such respopseS
ana me General answered promptly. / did not r,
Ut; Magruder sworc that Cen Henderson did say
10 blddieman, " lou lie yOu Young whelp saw YOU
nre, and Gen. Henderson swears he did not snv
anything OF that sort Which Of these witnesses will
you credit? VIII you believe DR. Magruder who
swore that Gen Henderson made that remork > or
Gen. Henderson, who Indignantly rcpclIed The idea
that he had used such language You know then,
both ] do not say that DR. Magruder lied, but he
made m'sdfe, TO say the least OF it,
But again. DIR. Magruder swore that Middleton
Birkhead rammed paving-stones into that swivel
ms statement is contradcted by Mr. Wallacb
Noakes, and others and Mr. Noakes especaIIv
states, that he ka0,ns eh0 d1 H. and that Rirkhe,d
was not the man ! do not snow what NAV boxa
been the intention of DR. Mapruder Middla.ng p;.L