Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-02

his trial he was in the custody of the Cour
and had complied with the bond AMI released
its signers. Even Mr. Thayer is lawyer
enough to know that
The jury was sworn to render true YER
dict, in accordance with the law and evidence
and it was composed of men who regard the
solemnity Of an oath. The verdict was just
what every candid. discrim mating mind ex
pected from tho evidence, which was that Mr..
Ferry was the assaulting party, that Mr..
Prosser retreated, as he was under no legal
obligati ms t. do, and when pressed, fired
That only the night before Ferry's death his
physician thought him recovered from the
wound and able to return home. That during
the night he had spasms and died. That
that locality was inflammation. The ball was
found in another locality, where no infama-
lion existed. His own physician testified
that he was surprised and could not account
for his death. The verdict was justified by
the evidence and not by Prosser's Abolition
ism. When Mr.. Thayer alleges that the
"Abolitionists had approved of he murder of
Mr.. Ferry" he stands convicted at the bar
Of public opinion as an unmi'igated slanderer,
q base villifier and an infamous fasi6er We
defy him to name the man of any party who
has ever approved that shooting.
Not satisfied with falsehood. Mr.. Thayer
resorts to forging judgment in the case,
and our readers will please notice the differ
ence between the forgery and the genuine
The forgery reads thus Pay a fine of five
hundred dollars and the costs of the action,
and stand committed until paid" The gen
uinc, as taken from the Judges Judgment
Docket, reads thus Judgment $500; fine
and stand committed at 1888 per day till
p,id, AND FOR COSTS"
A lawyer with thimble full of brains
knows that no man could ever be committed
to Jail FOR COSTS, upon such a Judgment
And for those costs the county has not been
swindled. Perhaps it is for this reason Mr..
Thayer fails to pay up the interest on GER
tain loan from the County Treasury.
Mr.. Prosser, by bad habit, became in
volved in serious difficulty. He was a poor,
hard working man with dependent family.
To pay the judgment of the Court he mort
gagged his property. but was short to the
amount of 5000. This amount was made up
by loans and by donations, and no man be-
ieved he was endorsing the murder of Mr..
Ferry by helping Mr.. Prosser. We know
not and care not who were the donors, but
believe they were prompted by honorable
motives .., ..-
We will not at present disclose Mr.. Thayer's
reason for Juggling the name of Charley
Foster into this case, but assure our readers
that it is intended for his punishment. Ev-
erybody knows that Sheriff Hine Is intensely
hated by the whole Copperhead tribe; first,
because he has permitted very numerous
body Of professional jurors to keep out the
box. Second, because he has refused to d.
vide the patronage Of his office with Mr..
Thayer. Third, because he hates everything
in the form of tory, and fourthly, because
they know that nothing but lying will defeat
his reelection. - F}"e7[...
The whole article was designed for political
effect. 1t was conceived IN iniquity and
born in sin. 1t will be buried with Copper
headism on the 18th of October. It's author
will stand branded with mark more ineffac-
able than that worn by Cain.