The Nevada journal., 1858-12-24
County Treas'srer's Card.
To the Citieens Of Nerada County !:


The Grand Jury tits recent session have thought
proper in their report represent "to their fellow
citizens of Nevada County, that my conduct as
| County Treasurer has been corrupt and criminal
| Had that tribunal confined itself to a discharge
of its lawful duty by delivering to the proper Court
an indictment or presentment charging ne with
public offense offenses, 1 would have respected
its members as worthy citizens and fellow men, and
IN silence assumed at once the grave task of meet
ing charges so made in accordance with rules ofIaw
and gcntlemanly propriety. But the Grand Jury
through the super -oficious zeal snd industrious
malice of a few ofits members have not only tran
| scended the requirements of official DUTY but the
plaincst rules of justice and moral propriev in re-
porting to the public "As FACTS" their own mere
conclusions, ignorantly jumped at upon n partial
and prejudced ivenstigation. Did not the Grand
jury know this report would be published? Did
not the hypocritica maligner who drafted it design
lis publication, when he addresses il the same CHG
fellow citizens ofNevada County," Notwithstand-
ing it was intended to be given to the public before
L could be tried upon single charge they have
preferred, that report prefaces the series offase
hoods, stupidities and corrupt measurements
1t contains against me, with the remark eve respect
fully report AS FACTS which various witnesses HAVE
srBsTANTIATED under OATH L intend to establish
the falsty of this report in this respect upon nv
trial. but suppose they have reported the facts and
evidence? When, what OCCASION or on what
charge by any former or by this Grand jury made.
| did such tribunal descend to the unfair and des
pieable measure of reporting to the public the cir
eumstanees, testimony and facts of a charge before
| n trial he had how ;,,+f +f,o:.
found two indictments against others. besides the
presentneRt against myself. These inc ;etments are
for murder and mansaughter but serious as those
| chiNES are not a line, nor paragraph, a mo-
m-nJs labor was bestowed in showing 'to their fel-
10" citizens of Nevada county the facts and cir
cumstanees ofthose They filed their present.
ment against me in due form for a MIspEarAyoR
why IN addition have they resorted to tbs unpre-
cedented course of officially and beforehand belvnp
my ease, if it is not to make me unable to find. if
possible, none of my fellow-men unpreiudieed when
they are called upon, they must be, to try and
decide its issues? I submit to every good man, if
the report is not desgued to prejudice my rights as
an accused party-to cause the public to condemn
me before "A hearing-to deny to me tha { impafisf-
ty guaranteed to the lowest felon and to encourage
unfeen and villainous attacks from snarling and
Jay-hawkng newspaper presses tolerated in this
State to its lasting disgrace. Its authorship is well
known 10 myself and others to belong TO an nm
principled and shameless trickster whose onnetita
for Spleen meanness and revenge is as Unsuitable as
that of hyena for carton and filth. I am reIuc
tant to believe that many of the members of that
Grand Jury considerably gave their sanction to e
report so full of fasehoods, Stiffness and meanness
Ihey were lnveigled into signing it by the hypocri
sy and false representations of one who procured
Tor himself that position to assail and iniure me.
backed as he was bypettifogging industry never be-
i're witnessed on such occasion. To show tba
pubhe how ridiciously false and absurd is this re-
port towards myself, will quote from it the follow
| ing, viz =
9th. The Treasurer has issued licenses ~ .rd
| :onecteu MONIES from parties in Grass Valley and
| ~ou ~ AGAIN THE SAME license to and collected mon
| y Oh THE same license from parties in Nevada"
Is not TINS selfevident and silly falsehood?-
no" as treasurer regained possession of licenses
had once issued in Grass Valley so that THE SAME
could have been issued to other parties in Nevada is
qaesoon that considerate Grand Jury seemed ney
! er to have thought Of
The single circumstance that ticeuse woo 80.
dnssd before them which the name of Charles r
Edwards had been by one of my Deputies through
mistake entered, then erased which Edwards never
paid dollar for, aud which afterwards and for
the first time ISSUED tc>T. Eard Beans Il Co., con-
stituted the sole formulation Of tbs senseless and
false assertion.
Edwards business did not jusif, him in taking
such license, while Beans 4 Cos did This license
was filed, up as far the name, for Edwards, but
never-ssucd to him, nor to any but Beans
Co., whose names were inserted in the same when
issued or delivered to them. This will be under
stood when make known, that these licenses are
PRINTED and are Of different classes, 9Th 10Th, &c.
This simple occurrence is the mares nest which ex-
cite the suspicion and alarm Of this most astute
! and faithful body And doubtless like slight mis-
takes and omissions induced the other charges con
tanned in the report Of this Grand Jury secret
and one-sided inquisition-a relic Of barbarisin,
which in these modern days is too often made The
means of eoncealment for personal malice OF era
ven revenge, and lever to oppress, malign and in
jurc.
| cannot with justice to myself enter upon
my defence by explaining my whole course as
| County Treasurer. I have near relatives who
vive. Their unsullied regulations dear to
me as my own Both in this matter are at stake.
1 believe live still among men-among civilized
men-that Courts of Justice are designed TO acqiit
the innocent well to convict and punish the
guilty. Before these tribunals now promise to es
tablish the truth and justice of my statements.
viii simply ask my fellow citizens to await the re-
suit Of a fair judicial investigation.
I. W. sIGOURNEY.
Nevada, December 7th 1858.
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