The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-24
From the F'reemnH'S Journal
A ROIf1 4 EiiANn IITRN

a very curious document was handed to the
United States Judge on the 10th instant, by the
united States Grand Jury. The newspaper re-
porters call it "preSentmert They sec it ia not
an ''iDdictment;" and they seem to know what
that Grand Jury seems not to have known, that
Grand JurIeB make returns 20 Judges only in
one OF these two ways-indictment, on the bill
prepared by the prosecuting attorney. or present
ment Of some indictable offence, made not at the
instance OF the prosecuting attorney, but Nero
motu, their own act.
The paper in question was neither "indictplcnP
nor 'preseutmcnt." It was document new ia the
history of Grand Juries; but then, it is to he re.
membered this was the first time that Black Re-
publican Grand jury was ever empsnneed in a
United States Court, in the city Of New York
There is single term BY which we can designate
this document. When the District ATTORNEY sends
bill to the Grand Jury, they either endorse it ba
rcrG-hnding it ga rHe bHj-or they indorse 1t "igao
ramuS!" In the present case they handed to the
court priUHegcd iibei-indorSlng it ignoramuS-
They and declare, in the body Of the docu-
ment, how utterly awkward, and unsuitable for
their purposes, a company of Black Republicans
ind the grand old institution of the urY-and they
protest that they ignore how to twist il, as they
would so much desire, into an instrument of op
preston.
We give this curious document in another column
Il all the daily Democratic papers published
in this city, and among all the weekly publications
of the city singles out the Treeman's Journal for
the expression Of the illegal and partisan riaignty
of the party pack ed that Jury. When it
says that we call ''unholy" any t'war carried on
solely for the restoration of the authority of Gov
ernmeDt," 1t utters another egregious taIseho0d.
when 1t SAYS thatwe tell "conspirators and rebels
that they right" it gives uterance to another
unqualified and cgregrious untruth, In soOth, We
see but two statements chat may be accepted as
certain, in the whole paper. One is whore these
Black Republicans, abusing the sacred privileges
were not ~ adg THl. say, first, that Sour laws =
ment Of oppFe!4uay' la, enonrqcocv'' rs that of
Black Republicans, abusing the privileges of
Grand Jury, would have been "gad to learn that
the freedom of the press to discuss the conduct of
the United States officials is subiect indictment
and condgn punishment"
Unfortunately for tho malignant wishes of the
Republicans, the Constitution OF the United States
declares the "iberty of the press" unquaihediy,
and the Federal Government has power but such
is conferred by the Con9itution, or, by it, pro-
hlbited tn the States. The power of regulating
and corr Getting exceSses of the public press belongs
! exclusively to the Courts Cf the several States.--
This was fully settled in the Alien and Seditioa
Law controversy, in the times Of the cider Adams.
| The Black Republicans, the Legitimate descendants
| of that old blue law Federalistic "MsSsachusetS
| school, will try in vain to re-inaugurate those
! anli-American and exploded experiments Of deS-
p0tism.
This document of our first Black Republican
United States Grand Jury, is handed over to Judge
Nelson. His disposition will be to fling it into his
trash basket, and we fear will never hear fran
il. Yet there is not, in the United States, Judge
that we could so much wish would give these "ig-
noramus" Grand Jurors, and the class they repre-
sent, little wholesome instruction aud advice
Judge Nelson is Just the man tn do it. Learned,
intrepid, and every inch Judge he would knew,
without foretbought, what to say. Moreover,
Judge Nelson is a native of Cooperstown, New
York State-only few miles from our oyr birth
J place. There is, in all that region, cherished
I tradition OF one Judge Jared Peck, who edited a
paper in Cooperstown, in the times OF the blue Gw
t Federalists, John Adams administration. Judge
, | Peck Jetfersonian Democrat, and denounced
the Alien and Sedition laws, and the creation Of
large standing army, and the attempt to override
! Stotn hTrth tha mi Irin
-perUcrted under. Adams, by constructions" au
? Federal encroachments. Judge Peck was ARRESTED
at Cooperstown, by order of the United States AT
tornev in New York city, and was brought all tn
4 way here, by slow stagesno steam travel in thos
daysand his eXpOsitiOns, at all the stage houses
aUd stopping-places, of the outrageS Of Federalism
. on the Cherished rights OF treemen, did more
anpihilate Federalism and to inaugurate the ruI
of Jefferson, than a hundred papers, such as b
edited, could have done,
i IT it be not disrespectfu we will beg Judge Ne
! son to devote few words, next October, to h
instruction of ignorant men, liable to be called
h BIZ a Black Republican Marshal, t. serve o
Grand Juriss Meantime the Freeman's JourHc
has great reason to congratulate itself on il
earnest advocacy, in years past, Of the sacreC
g ness and inestimabe valve of the jury system
: beth Grand Inquest, and Petit Jury. 1t is i
} troubled times, like these, that the importanc
d OF the jury, and Of the wit of hGJsas carp,
which secures it, becomes palpable. We see th
same machinery of despOism that wishes it coulC
and regrets it can't torture its jury system to /
q purposes-trample on the right Of trial by jur'
a refuse the writ of habeas corpus, and bold men
T. accusation, cannUt call it suspicion,
,, ofences-denyng them trial before any juTr,
ID anywhere or bearing before any court, as to wh
,e they are deprived of their liberty.
rs This is the case in regard to at least OF To
- gentlemen dragged away from Maryland, and : o.
d held in durance in the military prison, OF Fol
Il LAFAYETTE, in New York bay. Among these me
n ia Charles Howard. of BaltimOre-son OF job
&c Eager Howard, the Revolutionary hero of Eutav
atc Wasi fp nh n haElTayp
y liberty for the son, that the father fought in Il
n war OF our independence ? The jury we say, tn
to Jury forever 1t is it that stands bulwark
ot safety for the freedom of the press, and for Il
liberty of man, which the press ought to sustain
as which the true press will sustain. The freeman
o Journal wilt not be "presented" much less iudcit
g in anv court. But it will live, and be publish
OF when the tools and slaves Of the present despoiis
T. will be buried IN an ignnminious oblivion.
in SoUrHERNERs ARRESTED IN New YoRK.-Yestc
ay day a very important arrest made at the Fit
Is Avenue Hotel. SOutherner, whose name wa we
is unable to learn, but who is from Petersburg Nlrg
nd ia arrested by two OF the detective force,
as on his person was found one hundred thousa
,d dollars in drafts and Southern State bonds, Al
al about one thousand dollars in gold lie Is salu
,y he a heavy dealer in tobacco, ana Is 'ne o% Ae
up two large tobacco plantations In the oOuth;
le is a man about fifty years OF age, unmarried, a
~, ia aIIeoed to be d rabid secessionlst. Ha "
ba taken to the Police Headquarters. where he is te
- norarily confined and will no doubt soon be sent
| 'o''
upon his person memoranda for various articI
such as needles, thread, quinine, and tor variC
Ee parties in Virginia, which he no doubt intended
hu take on with him.
lce Three other arrests have been made By the abe
50 force during the last two days, one of the lat
'S' also being taken from the above hotel. On
person was found important Southern papt
about $500 in gold, and about Sl60 in bills, mos
Virginia money. He is said to be iu some
ion connected with General Wise, and was bearer
to dispatches from a leading Southern house in
ng city to General Wise and a banking house in
vannab.
The other two parties said to be both Sol
erners, one of whom arrested for offering bo
for drafts one of the Virginia banks. The la
two were yesterday sent to Fort Lafayette.
ENFoRCINs THE BLooKADE.-The shipping in
we'd est OF New York is becoming restive under the
,rn- wages of Frivateers, who have already destro
len, property to- an Incredible amount, and are mi
and ing still heavier losses by driving frelgnIS A. a.
han American bottoms to the protection OF ~ -
From record Of captures by not 1sSx
teers carefully kept iOd TIA. not hava gSs bsen
ling srty nine vessels Of all descriptions nave oeen
near ken ncuding eighteen selzeo IN po
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