The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-06

Hall, and at the same time to defend the In
diana State officials from all blame. This
mean and contemplate dodge will not go
down. The Indiana State officials were here
and knew the facts, and it was their duty to 60
and make complaints before police magis-
trate, and have the guilty parties arrested.
This done, it would have been the duty of Mr..
Hall to follow it up and attend to their prosecu-
ton. The District Attorney attends to those
matters that are officially brought before him.
Arrests Of this kind are always made by virtue
of complaints made before magistrate, and
the failure of the Indiana State officials to make
the complaint makes them guilty of compound
ing the felony. 1t was theirs, and not Mr..
Halls, duty to file this complaint.
Not only were the Indiana State officials cog
infant in January last of the fact that irregular
and fraudulent issues of bonds had been made,
but we are informed that one of the officials of
the State knew it more than year ago, yet
took no steps to arrest it, but with full know
ledge of the fact permitted the fraudulent
bonds to be thrown upon the market in Wall
street. The effort of the Tribune to throw the
responsibility of covering the affair up upon
the shoulders of Mr.. Hall is therefore only the
more mean and cowardly. This, however, with
the defence of the Indiana State officials, is no
more than might have been expected from that
source. Greeley and the Tribune have SO long
been mixed up in such jobs as free wool, i'm
provement companies, elections of Speakers,
government contracts and other jobs in Wash
ington, that it is perfectly natural that they
should come to the defence of officials who
are criminally guilty of countenancing fraud
upon the public, and who, having full know
ledge of the facts, took no steps to arrest it.
Sympathy and fellow feeling, no doubt, prompt
the Tribune to defend those officials.
It is high time that the necessary steps were
taken to deal out to the negligent and guilty
Indiana officials the punishment that their
course justly merits. It is said that one of the
parties connected with the affair has already
left the State, and unless immediate steps are
taken the others will follow and elude punish
ment Whenever fraud is committed in Eng
land the party guilty is arrested, tried and
sent to Botany Bay and made an example of
as warning to all others. But here the guilty
parties are permitted to escape, and others inn
mediately follow in their footsteps. Thus q
few years since the Schuyler frauds came out,
and, through the tardy movements of those
whose duty it was to execute the laws,
Schuyler left the country and escaped the pun
ishment that he merited. A little later came
the frauds in connection with the Ohio Life and
Trust Company. No efforts were made TO ar
rest the person responsible for those frauds
until he had eluded prosecution by sailing for
Europe; and he is now reported in Paris, living
in fine style. From all appearances the Indiana
State bonds affair will end in about the same
way, and no person be brought to punishment
as warning to coming generations. 1t is time
in justice to ourselves as q nation, in justice
to the thousands who are defrauded by these
transactions that an example should be made
of these men, that all officials may hereafter
know the fate that awaits them for betraying
trusts and neglecting their duties.
The INDEcENCY OF THE ABoLTTIONIsrs.-
poets of the Post use the following classic Ian
guage in reference to the Military Governor of
North Carolina appointed by the President
ScoRros SrANy.-The name which the indignant
0Connc used to give to Lord Stanley will much better
mistake, has appointed Military Governor Of North
Carolina He scorpion or scourge Of the most nalig
North Carolina seccssonsts TO be allowed TO continue
his malignant outragesy An nterfe-
renee which relieved by any motives Of humanity
but which In infamous In Itself disgrace to the nation
and offence TO the enlightened conscience OF the civil
LIKED world.
These elegant extracts are fair specimens of
the rabid violence and indecency Of the Jaco-
bin press against the President and the men
whom he has appointed to carry out his con-
sentative and constitutional policy. How long
will the seditious brawlers be permitted to in
dulge in such attacks against the civil and
military authorities, at . time when they are
doing their utmost to crush rebellion and re-
volution! If Forts Warren, Lafayette and
McHenry are not yet full they soon ought to
be; for the disunon traitors outside their walls
and in our very midst are more numerous,
more guilty and more audacious than those
within. Even handed justice, AZ we'll as the
public safety, requires that they be promptly
taken care Of
COMPLEXION OF THE NEXT SESSION OF Con-
GREss.-The complexion of the next session
Of Congress will be very different from that
of the present. When il assemblies in Decem-
Der 1t win include Union representatives from
every Southern State. Its complexion will be
Union throughout; for the abolitionists Of the
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