The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-03-06

thrice read. No member OF the Grant family
Is pretended to have said word or done 4
deed to provoke Mr. Pollard in any shape or
form. On November 21st the article was pub
lished TO The roTld rs far as that paper could
circulate it. It is the most aggravated,
atrocious libel have ever read, under the sur
rounding circums tances. Is II not3 What Is
the evidence OF Mr.. Pollnrd's right or proper
motive to ruin the character of one of the
best. stabiished families in the city2 No
thing-nothing. Mr.. Pollard had all the
rights and privileges belonging to member
of the press, but no others. What did he do |?
He went on the streets and heard 4 rumor
that Miss Grant had gone away. That is all
Was that your business, or mine, or hier He
demanded m article. In the oH sfWe"-
witty, Gashy, attractive. It is supplied. What
motive on Gods earth made him virtuously
or honorably desire TO expose the poor girl
playing truant from home? What did he do 2
I" i am responsibleI5 r s-z.-
MT. johnson then read the article, and COM
mented on the detail OF Its features. His
speech was drawn to close at quarter past 3
o'clock, when the court took an hours recess.
ga- MR.. oULD's SPEECH.
Judge Ould commenced his argument on the
re-assembling of the court. The space a.
ready occupied by the speeches of counsel,
and n pressure of other matters. preclude the
publication OF even an abstract OF THIS, the
last effort of the counsel for the defence. we
may say, however, without hesitation, with
the conviction that we speak the belief OF all
who heard 1t, that Judge Ould's was, with
perhaps one jeSception-not more-the most
mastery display OF classic eloquence we have
ever heard at the Richmond bar. For about
three hours an immense crowd hung with
breathless interest upon his lips, and when
the last words were spoken an eager throng OF
friends gathered about his seat, Overwhelming
him with hearty congratulations. -E
Judge Ould in the outset dwelt 1t some
length upon the proposition that the accused
did not commit the crime for which he stands
indicted, but the major part of his argument
was directed to the second propcsition-yiz.,
that if the prisoner at the bar was the author
of the homicide he was fully justifiable. He
claimed that, acting upon the first impulse OF
a sensitive and honorable heart, his young client
had done no more than was his duty in visiting
swift vengeance upon the hbeller OF the name
and fame Of sister whom he loved As dearly AS
alfeiitself Where was the man of honor-the
true son of Virginia, to say the leaSt-who
would brand rs = felon the man who dared TO
step forth and defend, at the risk of life itself,
the reputation of the helpless ones whom God
has committed to his charge. II any juror OF
these twelve shall say upon his oath that this
bowls a murderer, let Mnranatha be written
against his name. If you say 1t is Il brothers
privilege to vindicate his sisters fame, how
dare You, by your voice, condemn him to be
strung up between Heaven and earth, and
hanged to death until he is dead? To pro-
nouncs him "guilty" would be to say that
he has committed the highest crime kno wn to
the law
Mr. Ould adyerted to the fact that the gross
RIGHTEOUSNESS of the press is a growing evil in
the land, and claimed that q licentions press
was one of the greatest national Affections
that could befall the land. Nowhere more
than In the United States was there danger of
the abuse of the liberty of the press. 1t was
a notorious and indisputable fact that Ger
tain class of papers were growing more and
more personal, and too many were oTerstep-
ping the bounds of proprety. How were these
attacks to be metz Certainly not through the
columns which Pollard offered, in this case, to
place at the disposal of the aggrieved family.
Was there any man foolish enough to enter
upon 4 controversy with 4 newspaper. He
might be Titan, hurting rocks, trees, and
hills about 1T will; but the editor, in his sane
tum, was I Jupiter, not only forcing the thun'
derbots, but controlling the very air through
which they flew.
NIB. GILMER COMMENCES.