New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-17
TIE sEcrss1oN NEWSPAPERS.

UNITED STA rs CIRCUIT COuRr-Arg. l5-Be'ore Judge
SHIrNAa.
TIE SECESSION PREss ~ NETWORK CITY AID
BHoOKLYS--TnE JOURNAL or COMMERCE,
DAY BOOK, NEWS, FBEEMAN's JOURNAL, AND
BgOUKIYN EAGLE "PREsENTED DY THE
GRAND Jury.
Tee Grul Jury come into court this afternoon, and
pr,sent, the following in Acknowledgment Of the ser
vices Of tho Di,t,ei-Auoney +. Delaield Smith esq:
To as C.rcgH Cont @ fhe Uaii,d State for n' southern
B'ffriei # Nfv- York
Tn. Grand Ingu. Of tbe Urd Stale, Of America Tor the
Southern Lic Of Ne ierk le ooe OF services of nearly
uh ddrs ~hh n'n, inrrsi' qae,il n. hsv- .isen
AMI many uou'o'ns c,.e b. en Investigated hnk proper TO
b. place ufnn record ibrT confidence ard their pesis
,on o. ih es uda''r, ed hS, = of,hs pc Attorney
he,p. pO,k Aug 10, isCi
The Foreman then r,ad tie following Preseptmeni
agaius tho Secession prres Of this city and Brooklyn:
To a. Cverh Court Of The Cned Staf's f0' tie souiasra
Dpptto oj A,r. l0k.
The Grand Inquest # the United States Of America
for the southtu District of E.w.Yok beg leave 70
p,er.i the lowing facts 10 the Court, and ass ito
GdNice thrreon:
Their are cerisin neWSTarers within ths District
when ae iu lhe lre1Itht practice Of encouraging
ree,5s now IN arus oglinsI the Federal Government,
by expressing syr1sihy aud agreement vita sleu the
duti VI aoettlng ther demsnd~ and dissatisfaction
with The emI lpymeut OF force 10 overcome them.
There psIers are The New.York Daiiy Gnd Weekly
Journal of Commerce, The Dnily ana Weekly News
Tie Daily and Neelly Day Book, The Freeuans
Journal, all published Ia Tho City of New-York and
TIE Daily aud Weekly Eagle, published in the Civ
oi BrO0slyn. The first Dauod OF these has just pub
lsh'd st Of bewspape H. The Free States opposed
10 what II calls "hc present. Eah0y c,r'-a war ia
defense OF our country snd is ins itl,ions aud our
most s'cred righ, snd carried sole, for The resto
ration Of the HntlOr ~ OF tho Government.
Tue tiraIid Jury are aware iltt free governments
allow hbefty o speech ;ud Of the press, their
most hnlti but there Il, n0SeFtLeiess, Limit. II
esoh ~ f0rIre5e, or an army, TO preach 10 the
sOlrrs snbmi tlou 10 the enemy. lie ~oud bs treated
~ on n or. Would he Do more cnlpablo Jhan tho
81 len, who, Ia the uiiet Of tno nOd frmldhbl:
~ Tracy and reb, hOa, Ie tie consl traitors and rebels
that they are r5h encourages tteni 10 perseyere in
Ieri.tdbee ana Condemns tie eDrip of 10y al czens 10
oyercl ne and punish them engaged Ia AN "unho!y
war II the u'terance of tucb language u she reefs,
through The preB, is mo- crime, then there - u
great defect ip our laws, they were not made for
such al emergency.
The condurt Of these droyal preses l., of oourse,
cOudcUi ed am abhJred Ly all loyal men, but the
Gr,nd Jury VIII lie gi.a 70 lein trom the Court that
IL Is also SUBJECT to Indictment and cohdgn punish
nent.
UHAs. GOULD Foreman.
MOSES A HOPPOCK JOHS II. kEDFlELD,
sAaL. 4. Shtp8URE, j. B. JOHNSON.
JOHN BUGhLEY Ja.. GU. d. WHITFIELD,
A. UNDERHlLL, JOSEPH LEGGkrr
ANDREW DICKSON JOHN H. BROWNING,
q LbBhT &. DEANE, SAMUEL REESE,
NATHAN a. SUTTON, Al HtLOkR
BENZ. n. DAY, SAMUEL THOMSON,
JAS /. DAAANT, JOHN z. SEfMAN.
HUBBARD u. STONE, being al Tie Grand JItors pre-
~ kosaYafk AnR t6 t.Cl