The sun., 1873-07-03
THE ATTEMPrED ABDUCTION.
An Auack on Every usn's Liberties.

From Me CfEcfg1aA Commercial
Charles A. Dana's warfare upon the
thieving Rings IN Pennsyva and the District
Of Columbia has procured for him the honora-
BILE distinction of arrest and prosecution at their
hands. His exposure Of the addition, Divi-
sion, and silence policy of the Pennsylvania
Ring caused the preparation VI q case as,ainst
him, and he was arrested wbilo returning from
Washington, where he was summoned to con-
front Secor Robeson. A. the Ring owned the
court. Dana was compelled +" forfeit his bail OF
suffer imprisonment. There were persons ~
constituted that they regarded this as joke.
~ was very grave oltrage, The same cilss ~
make good his chargcs against Nobcson. He
Iruvcd that Roheson had ordered contractor
pad sS'Wo contrary to law and without any
clear as any so Gaze ia which . robi et has b en-
sent 70 the penitentary from tnis city, Now
Davenport, United status Commissioner in New
York
on charge Of having rupl'-n,d in rlis sun crini
the lonrd VI Works of the District Of cole ubli ana
gmliy ot cotfait practices IN g6nneoiln win Tie
Netropolitan p1viug Company oi Wasnugt,n ana had
the House of t'pt s.ntltNcs
The authority Of the Commissioner was. a.
cis y that Of any bootback VINO could lie
picked up on the street and the United states
District Attorney, bliss, had the impudence to
saw, that upon the evidence offered he asked
that the defendant be committed to the Gus 'udy
ol The Marshal. 20 TO transmitted to the District
was TO drag Mr.. Dana 10 Washington 10 he tried
there by the tools and servants of the Ring there
/ Is 1qt fsy we'Hr r. lnfS msS the b" edCE i Of the
ton to attend the funeral Of Chief Justice
Chase, was arrested on some frivolous
place. The meaning Of these incidents Is that
the Rings are attempting TO exercise censorship
sS pRns fas ss Will St % as sss
strike at MIR Dana because he has been bold
and enterprisinG news eatherer- because he has
frauds spec atty. The country Is not likely to
forget tnat n is indebted TO him not only for the
ments, but for the. most thorough and unspar-
ing analysis that has been made Of the tesil-
mony, Every attempt TO Interfere with .,1 him IN
increase hi power. and his courage Is not likely
to fail through pe.ty personal aDnoyances.
Rom ne RycsHoad WIG.
This is the latest development of the
centraliling tendencies Of the times. II this
arrest any man in any part of the Union, and
have him brought before II for trial. be allowed,
man II safe. That police court by the law
organizing II, has neither a grand Jury nor a
petit jury. IL arraigns and condemns suo motu.
of the Constitution Of the United states, which
guarantees to every citizen trial by jury. In
the old English sense, ard in all the States, the
Jury must he of the vcinace. But here is no
jury ut nll nothing but a foreign court, which
accuses and convicts in the same breath. Ifthe
wa.h,nston Ring have q court composed Of
their creatures, with their jurisdiction over
every citizen Of the various states, our boasted
freedom L. not worth the paper which records II.
From me htedt4se M'ts
Our telegrans nave announced that Alexander
Shepherd, the Boss Of the District of Column
bia rascally Ring. Lad procured the Grimm ! ar,
consisted In exposures of the rascalities of the
Ring which have been greater and more ia
grant than any of those of " Boss Twced's New
This Is purely political libel prosecution The
same power may arrest the editors uf the NoWs,
and curry them Oh to Washington for trial. for
Can such thing. he donep Can political pros
ecution. he instigatcd against citizens In any
part of the country, and can they he hurried on
to Washington to be tried under the shadow Of
Grants authority. and under that of the official
rascals whust deeds ate held up t. detest ltionr
How tong, II these things continue, before a
criticism on the President will he made a mill
tary offence, because he T. the Cpmmandcr-iu-
chef OF the army and navy And when such
criticism ~ made military offence the dty II
To- convict. VIII come again.
Has II com. To- thls, thlt newspaper attack
upon thc chief of rascnlly Rlns a. Whshington
il II be punched hN dragging tho new paper
publisher away on TO he tried at the Ring court
IN ashington1
F,op, ne Hiht7aYoW Saur,'
ruF SVN obtained and published the Credit
Monlvr robberies when no other Journal dared
look ~ them, and although every body even its
own friends. held it incredible. the worst that
IL ever charged wa- proven true. Indeed, look
Ing back uycr tac record, all tho nstounding de-
vclopments of fraud charged by IIiE SUN have
been minutcly verified, and this last attack ON
the washinton Ring Is evidently a hard rub on
the Ring folks, or they would not proceed to
such eNtremltics. The United States authors
tics have apparently leagued themselves together
tn annoy and impede the editor Of ntE 81 y, but
II is not possible that lawyer like Judge Wood
ruff can he got tn lend aid or countenance 10
this persecution Of Robcson, Davenport. and
the innnmerabe robbers upon whom Mr.. Dana
phia chief Kemble, of Addition, Division, aud
Silence notoricty. has come In with the wash
incton gang, and, II is sad, hopes TO stop the
editor ON his way through Phihdclph la and have
him Imprisoned. The very possibility of these
knayes receiving Gnv federation AT the hands Of
the 'nited States officials is enough to make
one despair ~ anything like purity in any part
of the Government.