The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-27
KETCHUM. THE FORGER.

that they quarrel most violently and
Increasingly among themselves, accus-
ing one another of theft and all the
other greater and lesser crimes Of the
calendar; but these chickering's and
quarrellings are like the fights that
used to occur between Malachi McFad-
den and his wife, ready to be abandoned
for fight against the common enemy
whenever be appeared to them in the
character of a mediator or peace officer
A city which has sent as lis representa-
tives to Congress such men as Fernando
and Benjamin Wood, Mike Walsh,
Jimmy kerrigan and Johnny Morrisey !;
from district within which Horace
Greeley himself was once elected to the
National House of Representatives !;
which was capable in 1868 of produc-
ing Hora,io Seymour's ''friends;"
which has embraced among its motley
mass such alternate good and bad men
as Charles G. Halpine and Judge Ber-
nard, John Hackett and A. Oakley Hall;
which holds as among its promiuen,
fellow citizens such men from up town
as Alexander T. Stewart and such men
from down town as John Allen of
twickedest" notoriety; the extremes of
society in which are represented By the
Fifth Avenue and the Five Points,
knickerbockerism and the immigration
agents of the Battery; which embraces
Madison Square and the Bowery; Flora
McFlimsey and pretty waiter girls and
the other contrasts and incongruities
which 60 to make up the most hetero
geneous agglomeration that ever existed
so quietly under the ou,rages of a mu.
nicipal government the very worst, no
doubt, upon the face of the earth; con-
sidering all these things we say, it is no
wonder, perhaps, tina, even Mr.. Greeley
should, out of q spirit of compromise
with what is very bad in itself but
which cannot be helped, talk as be
does, with regard 10 one of the most
outrageous crimes of its sort that was
ever committed. 1: may be regarded
as wise that something of spirit of
compromise should be shown toward
the big rascali,ies Of Wall stree: and
the Exchange, inasmueh as the reign of
their perpetrators is preferable to tina,
of their constituents and we find in |
this, and not in the delusion that Mr.. |
Greeley writes as be does out OF
Ohris,ianlike motives Of charity, the
reasons for the following extraordinary
article which we find in the New York
Tribune of November 18th:
Edward B. Ketchum was on Saturday re-
leased from State Prison at Sing Sing and
returned to his family at Yonkers, where he
attended with them the Episcopal Church on
Sunday. We believe his release is called a
pardon-perhaps accompanied by one-but
that he had served out the full term of his
sentence, except the deduction prescribed
BY law for unexceptional behavior while con-
fined. He has many friends who will re-
joice to hear that he is in good health.
Under the influence Of a Authorization
Mr.. Ketchum perpetrated gigantic forgeries,
which he took no pains to conceal, remain
ing in the city after they were discovered,
and preserving in his lodging the unused
forgeIies on which alone he was arraigned
and-pleading guilty-convicted. He was
sentenced for the full term allowed BY law.
though no one of those he had wronged
complained of or appeared against him.
Gov. FeEton resisted all applications for his
pardon Gov. Holman twho sentenced him
as Recorder) did likewise up to the last
moment 1t has seemed to US that any
poor, obscure man who had done as he did
in all things would have received an early
pardon; but this may be mistake. At all
events, we rejoice that he is at last liberia
ted, and we hope he may resolve to stay
right here in New York and retrieve his
damaged reputation. He is not yet thirty
years old. has rare aptitudes for business,
and can here cause his past errors to be for
COTTON in his subsequent career. We know
few men OF whose integrity we are SO we'll
assured, or of whose future we have higher
hopes. Those who know him best stand
ready to trust him farthest; for they are
sure that his alteration from the straight
md narrow path WAS the result of a tran
sient dc!usion, and that be will henceforth ,
prove himself just and true man.
Il is astounding to US that Horace ,
Greeley should write or sanction such {
IN article as the foregoing for there
AN be no reasons in the world Justify
ny any young man in becoming forger /
unless the person accused we're insane l
vhen he committed the act, and then,
he asylum aud not the Jail is The !.
,,,ner nlsce for him. We have little .