New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-07
sEY1IOlR,s ExPE DITION TO TEgE
NORTH POLL.

d" Never mind if the testimony is ruled ont
Oacr it! In the offering you Will get it before
the jury. That's all you want" This Old
Bailey philosophy and morality mast have been
the essence Of Governor Seymours instructions
to the three Commissioners he sent TO Wash
ngton TO get Col North, in the first place, out OF
the hands of the court martial-failing that.
jim the second place. to staye off his trial I'll
after election.
The crime committed being against soldiers
in the service, and under the guardianship OF
the United states-peing Of Kin to the fraud of
adulterating medical supplies for military
hospital use, or the villainy OF reselling
condemned horses by the conniyauve Of IN in
spector for the use of light artillery in the field
in face of the enemy-it was pretty cheeky to
protest against the jurisdiction of the court
martial that was trying North. II was very
cheeky to do 1t on the ground that the court
martial "dcpryes the State of New-Yoyk OF It's
proper jurisdiction over its agents and citizens. ,"
whom it is the Joy of that State to torment
with varied torture, when caught in malfeasance
Il was immensely cheeky, TOO (Sally aud samp-
son Brass would have admired this and sacri-
feed extra snuff cut OF The tin box in honor
of it, to dcmaRd of the War Department
Government Of the United States, tending toI
show any wrongful acts or irregularities on the
part of these agents, may be furnished us, that
We may report them 30 the Governor Or other
proper authority, 20 the end that the untaithful
agents may DO rcmovcd and. if guilty Of any
onense, that they may be properly punished"
There is nothing better than that in tho history
of the Old Bailey. But the checklist plea Tor
the enlargement of The North out of the grip of
a court whose justice only is feared is the one
numbered ..
at is not to be presumed that the laws of
New-Yori are insufficient to guard against
fraud Of the character anticipated, or that they
would be So badly administered that She frauds
can be successfully accomplished, or if accom-
plshcd that the guilty will 60 unpunished."
We ore distressed to think that Plea No. 81
was laughed at in the War Department. Gen.
Hardcc, Assistant Secretary of War, is q grave
gentleman, earnestly absorbed in the vast labors
of bis Office, full Of patience and all gentemanly
courtcsies--but wewill wager that he exploded
on No. ).
"Never mind T the testimony is ruled ont
Oaer it! In the offering You will get it before
the jury. That g all you want" And they
have got it before The jury. The Report of the
Commissioners was drawn for political eject;
il was intended 10 be damaging to the Admin
i>traiion. U>urpations Of STATE rights loom big
through it-dcnials of justice 10 the Innocent
stalk in gigantic shadows in aud out of 1.-THE
hand of military tyranny presses all through it,
and threatens to squeeze Liberty in the State of
New-York till she squeals. 1t was hurried upI
and got into the newspapers on Friday.
aud so receives thorough dissemination all
over Ncw-York long before the election
Small smartness, III petit-larceny contrast
with The forbearance aud magnanimty of the
Government. which Las quietly allowed the
Sampson and Sally Brass tricks OF impertinent
pleas, and gauulous waste Of time in unproies-
sional motions and arguments, to achieve the
object Of staying off the trial of North till after
election. That much Judge Parker & Co. have
accomplished. Their man is not to be tried till
after the oth of November. The revelations of
his guilt are shut out Of the canvass. But they
might as well have given cognoyit Of his guilt
as to have published to the world the certainty
Of the Governments ability to coayjct him. !