The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-07-09
Partisan Outrage.

abuses and excuses to produce a par
Fa1lel to the enormity of such addresses
as were made by C. w. Lowell, the
late defaulting o. S.. Postmaster and
the Attorney-G General of the State, to
the ten poor, ignorant Geld hands and
two white men who form the jury in
the case of the State VS.. Cohen and
Railey.
Their case had been stripped of all
semblance of probability or decency.
All that had been proved was the stu
pendous baseness and turpitude of the
wretches who concocted ii story
against Mr.. Cohen as the person who
fred the pistol at Kellogg on the 9TH
June, and the greater criminality Of
those who instigated the prodigious
perjury on which this indictment was
founded. No clearer or fuller abb was
ever proved in any court than that
SHOWN by COhen.
There was not an honest man in the
court room who did not know that the
whole charge was an unqualified fab
rication of hired perjurers. No one.
saw and knew this better than the at
torneys who addressed the court in
long barangues npon the abstract wick
edness of those who intended to COM
pass the death of so yirtuous patriot
as William Pitt Kellogg. r
The Judge did not think it proper to
interrupt these gentlemen, and remind
them that it was no political meeting
they were haranguing, but solemn
judicial proceeding to inquire whether
Mr.. NJ. Cohen and G.. R. Railey were
the parties engaged in this terrible
crime. AS the attorneys for the ac-
cused had declined to address the court
in reply to these demagogical displays,
we must say that in thus seeking to
delude and mislead the poor ignorant
negroes, who composed ten out of
twelve Of the jury, they rerpetrated
an outrage upon morality and reason,
quite. equal in criminality to that
which they were prosecuting.
Next to the palpab's and fragrant
perjury of the several witnesses who
were suborned to prove that N. NJ. Co.
hen was the man who fred the pistol
at Mr.. Kellogg, on the I'll, of May last,
was the wickedness and cold blooded
malignity of those who made t h G
speeches to these poor ignorant ,ju-
rors, to induce them to find a verdict
of guilty against these men. They
at least, knew better; their minds had
no doubt about the innocence OF tie
accused.
1t was hoped that in the Attorney
General, at least, there fingered sufi-
|cient mapliness and regard for truth
and justice, to induce bis prompt
abandonment of the prosecution by the
entry of nolle prosequis, But it seems
that there are no limits to the prevail
ing depravity of che dominant party
in this State. They wanted to con.
vict some one; and it was matter of
no consequence to them who he was.
We regret that SO aged lawyer as
Colonel Field should be found willing
to burden his soul with the response
bility OF SO inscriptions prosecution.
1t is sad, indeed, that such work should
be put off upon man of fair abilities
and long practice at the bar, and who
has had the credit Of some degree of
independence and professional pride.
1t is to be hoped that Colonel Fields
acknowledged ability as criminal
pleader will be afforded fairer field
for exercise, in the far more honora-
bic and efficient task of bringing to
justice some of the rascals by whose
testimony he sought to convict res
pectable citizens of crimes which the
whole world knows were utterly for
elgn to their every sentiment.-[N. O.
Herald.