The sun., 1873-07-02
rsE a7TEMP7ED ABDUCTION.
fbo1Aber,y ., the Press Involved.

stand It rightly, an outrage has been committe,
,r,, Wlthip 2, day or two IN the city OF New 1rs
We are rather surprised II has not attracted
more attention nearer the scene Of It's occur
Is Mr. Charles A. Dana. Mr.. Dana is the editor
not, II we understand II, the publisher, OF al
YORK ~ Miss thorn S o9 Unusual % poiensncy mai in tR,
fesh OF corruption Of all sorts. Mr.. Dnnais th
un.elenting enemy Of the pennsylyania, " hlnRs,
| without whose favor these HnFs would mel
! away, and be i,s innocuOus aa any On the surface
of the political pool. Hence IL has become ne
cessary to silence or to crush him, and I? d.
this, II at last has become requisite for Fedora
has failed. Months % ago Mr.. Dana, anal %testIfying be
fore Congressional committee, was dogged b.
spies. and. passing through Philadelphia, wa
| arrested at midnight at the instance Of the chie
" Ring officer. the District Attorney, and helt
to bail for a publication In New York about th'
and as Dir. Dana did not choose. though with
| perfectly good defence, to trust himself to thu
% %msrcies Of the Philaaelphla Sessions; it wss for
! tearlessiy and ably, on the Ring and the Admin
istration and, failing all else, Federal process. {
oath is made charging libel, in the District Of
Columbia, before a Police Justice. who, we
| Is certified to by a Federal Commissioner, no
| torious pereon of the name Of Davenport, II
New New, York; He issues hts warrant and Mr
which was printed Two hundred miles away
the matter was referred 10 Judge Batchford
who released Mr.. Dana without exsctinp bail
nv gnr So, h" me ,ssc ,s dor hearing on the oh Gi
Dana, n he be publisher, " arnenabie, and o,igh,
70 be 40, 70 the Justice Of the State ofNew York
,fbSnsis Of New York aI ahS people go
1tepubllcanism pretty much controls the Judi
lean need % not S sar o denial sS W,
deny utterly, and call upon tho press Of the
country OF all parties 20 unite with us in deny
doctrine nubliCntipp Al
a distance. We reject utterly the idea that " an
Individual In Kansas or Colorado fances him
self a9Rricvod by a publication In n Baltim ore
newspaper a copy Of which happens to reach
those distant and benghted regions, "A BAL
tlmore editor can he demanded a. u ( gitive from
Occidental iu 'tice Yet this Ia what the District
of Columbia claims to do with New York
From me Isrr7n hro,,s
wear ago DAM of 1HE NEW yoRK srs got
hold of the facts IN regard to the Credit Mobi-
| lier and published them. Dana was denounced
by the Grant organs and Credit Mobihcrs in
every form and Philadelphia Ring IN Phil
ndelphia attacked him for libel and took
sJUO, the amount of his bail. out of him
because in that state the truth was not a
defence IN such suit; AZ that time Car
denounced the facts In regard to Credit Mobl-
lier a. malicious fabrlcations, aad the exposer
rey'ling Oakes Ames, Schuicr Coifax, Henry
wilson, and other " Christian statesmen"
., Now The scene y changed little. THE Nrw
plundering AZ Washington by the District Ring
and in the public departments. lie is u danger
Gus man to rascals-and his Journal a noble
and fearless worker Ia the cause of public hon
cStN ana economy. This wont do, So the Rings
think, and hence the renewed attack upon THE
eUN 10y one OF the lobbers. IL Is possible. OF
cuur-c that MIR. Dana is la the wrong, AT least
technically. hut we would wager something that
u was the truth which stirred up the prosecu-
tion, and that In the course Of another year
large portion Uf those who viii now denounce
stNposurcs of rascality wiz be found applaud
inV THE sun for the investigation aud exposures
OF rottennoss II has comuelcd. iitst as the re-
cent cent Banror C9nyenti9n compimented and en-
monstrous Credit Mobilier swindle.
From the Con no'd ~. ~ Rrstot
Charles A. Dana, Esq. editor OF THE New
the Ross Tweed and Connolly Of the city OF
Washington. VIZ: A. Il. Shepherd. President OF
thc Board OF Public Works, and II. D. Cooke,
li-hed an article charging them with having been
entity Of dshonest tobbery in connection VITA
the Metropolitan Paving Company of Wasning-
ton and having sworn falsely before In
N"7tigating committee of the House OF
enough, N men prefer to resort to the law In de-
fence of their regulations but when, as In this
case, they eNe II the form and appearance of
persecution they mike sad mistake. such
course will wonderfully benefit the accused a
man Prosecuted by Government becomes n mar
And such will be the case here; no matter
whether his charges are true or false, the man
ner NJ his triHi will insure his acduttsl In the
popular heart, and the Government victim will
become u popular hero.
Shepiiefu matte complaint In tho Washington
Police Court aud ON the ef-psrte proceedings
the 4. =. District Attorney was sent 10 New
York TO 60 seize the body Of Dana and take him
TO Washington for trial He caused him To be
ARE sied and tax en- before q u. y. commissioner.
where his counsel vigorously protested against
ths arbitrary proc eding a. in violation of the
Constitution and dangerous to the rights of the
citizen. Hut the Com N iseoner, bound by hls
orders from Washington. decided to hold him
aud upon the question ut ball the case went be-
fore United States Judge Blatchford who post
ponrd its hearing until the 18th Of July. .he
onject Of their proceeding H. 90 convict and pun
ish and II is hoped, degrade MIR. Dana. In spite
ton, he Is To lie tried by court without jury
a court made by and subservient 10 the very
men who are urging on this proceeding. This
fart l. sufficient to Indicate the motive which
prompts IL, and the real nature Of the case Is so
plain that IL cannot fail TO vastly benefit Mr.
dangerous to individual liberty that whatever
IT'S effect la this case, II should receive emphatic
reprubation.