New Orleans daily crescent., 1858-11-30

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it is your pleasure, then, gentlemen, will retire.
said the General You can 60, said the foreman
as if he regretted to part with the General aua
thereupon the gallant gentleman bowed himself out
Whether the Grand INQUEST will base an indictment
on this response of General Qutman, VIII be known
| when they come into Court tomorrow
This humorous newspaper nofceat, u appears, was
| fled by Judge Campbell Referring 70 u as printed
! statement he saws that it therein appears that
after being asked to give an account Of the meeting
Rn6ed TO III the circular, the witness Cd declined to
give information because bis answering would crim
nate him. r,-,.-,.-,.
oe does not bear out this assertion of Judge Camp
belt-nor is it true in point of fact. | have never
said, could not say that my answer to any inquiry
would criminate me. Unconscious Of any violation
of law or plots to do so, could not suppose that
would criminate myself before any enlightened and
nppreiudiced tribunal Imposition, according to this
newspaper statement, which the Judge had caused
to be fled to give it Judicial sanctty, was this
That | was partcipator in some acts and designs
having reference to a revolutionary movement in
Cubathat these acts and designs neither illegal
nor dishOn0rabe-that so, they we're entirely irrel-
eyant to the present inquiry into breach of the
laws. But if deemed illegal, which denied, as
participator in them, | ought not to be questioned
about them. The Grand Jury, COnCurrng in this
sentiment asked me no questions. In this particular
therefore, Judge Campbell, in his opinion or indict
ment against me, states what is neither true by the
"printed statement nor in fact.
s. The Judge further adduces as testimony against
me, the loose and vague charge that the report OF
the Grand Jury is, that his (my) name has figured
prominently with the umored expedition" The re-
port states no such thing-my name is not therein
mentioned. Judge Campbell not under oath, has
supplied it.
6. In the next sentence of his opinion he descends
from the dgnityo ajudge, to become the retailer Of
petty scandal by supposng that speech referred to
in the printed circular, perhaps might be attributed
to the defendant (mysel0 without great injustice,
when the fact is ascertained that he would commit
himself with an enterprise like that set forth This
language might better become Solomon SWOp in
horse trade, than judge Of the Supreme Court pre-
senting the facts upon which he concluded to deprive
all American citizen of his liberty for nine months.
His honors train of argument is this Supposing it
to be ascertained that would connect myself with
some unknown enterprise, then, "perhGpS y a certain
speech found in a printed statement, might, with
some, but not great injustice be attributed to me. On
such inferences and suspicious presented with OBJ
iquity, leaving doubt whether they are not said in
lest and irony, depends the liberty Of freeman
Z. In connection with this subject Judge Campbell
further says " The defendant confessed the fact OF
a connection of the kind, which rendered it matter
OF improperly for the Grand Jury to press question
upon him relative to the details of the movement
There is palpabe untruth in this insHuation but
it is worthy place in this opinion, which, through
out, have already shown, garbles the facts, and
mystifies them when it does not wholly misrepresent
them. An honorable mind can find abundant reason
why grand jury should not inquire into Irrelevant
matters, which involved private confidence But the
reader will remark that the Judge here admits the
fact that no inquiry was pressed ipon me, when, in
other portfons of his opniou he Tepeatedy asserts
that refused to answer on the ground THAT he ID
lg0uid criminate himself
S. After proceeding with cautious art to Gull scraps
from the report of the Grand Jury this posthumons
opinion proceeds to saw: They (the Grand Jurors)
fnd from other evidence that an expedition is ontoot
for Tie purpose Of assisting Cuban revolution or of
making demonstration on the island"
The Judge has evidently critically inspected the
renort and Il would be nucbaritable To sntpose that
as LAWYER he does not know well that the word find
is n technical word It means solemn presentation
Of a fact Now the Grand Jurors bni,e f7vnI nd
snch thing. They merely use the cautions phrase
strongly incline to the oniniOn they lean that
way T6ev have not found an ODiDiOn much less do
they profess to find the fact ana even this inclina
ton Of opnon il Still further qualified by their p0s
tive declaration that nothing like a military Or5aui.
zaton or preparation had been brought to their notice
How thoroughly the meaning Of the rpport i per.
yerted 81 Judge Campbell in this particular the 6Ub
lie will Judge by the following extract from the report
oF fbn Grand 'Turv. Alt6nnrh the Grand Irrv
strongly incline "a the onini0n That these meetnGs
and collections Of finds have for their end the orCon
zation of nm exDeditioD either for the nnrnose of
ASSISTING in a Cuban revolution or making demon.
stration mon that island vet the plan r6ofp,pr II
mani BE-, seems altogether in the pprspectiye and
aware as we are that great deal has been said and
written about the extensive and formidable Drpp9ra
tiOns on foot for the purpose Of freyoutoniznr Cpba
wa Flliea IL has haen yar rlrcI nvarrat ted and
ufed-pothing like military organization or preDa
ration having been brought TO 0uT notice
q The opinion goes on to imply that made an
argument Ineit6ar had counsel quoted authorities
nor made an argument on the Illegal question aycant
to refer for nv rights as citizen and witness to the
Constitution of the United Sates desired to know
whether anv charge or accusation had been made
against me and if so, what was its nature. and bv
whom made ana denied the authority Of a Federal
Court to exercise any powers but such as were fairly
dedncibe from the third article of the Constitution
General Wan Of the New Orleans bar it is true. at