Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-25
one only Of this band of sinners was 81 10

one only of this band of sinners was to
be punished, and the others either 90
free, or be allowed to escape Justice by
paying back a small portion of their i'll
gotten gains through forfeited bail bonds
or official compromise. ss.1:',1- d.
The courts have not been idle since
Tweed was sentenced. Ingersol has
been tried for his completely in the ring
frauds, and is now serving out his just
imprisonment at Auburn. Bluff Harry
Genet, a member of the New York As
senbly. who has from time to time been
honored and trusted by the people, and
has held the Important offices of County
Clerk, Senator and member of. the As
sembly before this last election, hasbeen
found guilty by q Jury of swindhng the
city out of more than four thousand
dollars, on a bill. Of iron work for the
Ninth District court house. When the
voters of New York elected Genet to the
legislature they thought his talents
ought to be used in the service of the
State but there being doubts as to
whether Albany was the place where he
could perform the most beneficial ser
vice, this recent movement will proba-
bly, change his destination, and send him
to place where there is no doubt but
his services will be useful.
Last week the people were also pleased
to read the laconic correspondence be-
tween Attorney General Barlow and the
late Mayor. A. Oakley Hall, in which
an engagement was made for the court
of Oyer and Terminer for this week.
This able and accomplished ex-Mayor, is
charged in one of those voluminous in
dictments on which Tweed was convict
ed, with approving five fraudulent and
raised bills of Ingersoll q Co., chair
makers, and Andrew J. Garvey, the city
plasterer, and by failing to audit them,
aiding and abetting attempts to defraud
the city. Hall was member of the
famous. board of audit, and this indiet-
ment is founded largely upon his official
acts on that board. This is the third
trial of Hall on this charge. The first
begun February 26, 1872, in the court of
General Sessions, and lasted just one
month, when on the Goth of March it
terminated by the sickness of juror.
On the Esd of October, 1872, another
jury was empaneled and the case care
fully tried, resulting in a disagreement,
seven of the jury voting guilty and five
not guilty. Halls friends and some of
the newspapers predicted that this would
be the end of his prosecution. But such
is not the case, and it is hoped that in
this trial justice will be done by YER.
dict according to the evidence produced
in court and the law of the Stateof New
York. a4,-, III. x.
The lesson of these ring frauds and
ring trials should be needed IN every
community. They grew out of a cor
ruption of political action, and q tempo
rary recognition by the people that men
and not principles were a proper founda-
ton for political action. William NJ.
Tweed was popular millionaire, A.
Oakley Hall, pleasing, affable, accom-
plished gentleman. They formed
combination and boldly advocated the
theory that the day of old-fashioned pol
tiles was passed, and they defined to
themselves the old principles of the
highest good to the greatest number, to
have special reference to the number of
their combination, and that it was never
intended to have general application to
the great body of the people. This
scheme of political fraud has terminated
where it should. 1t is time that men
ceased to represent different characters
in the great drama of life. An honest
man will always be an honest politician.
A christian will square his everyday
life by the precepts of his religion, and
it is time that the dangerous doctrine
was exploded that a man who is all
things to all men when he wants an Of
fee will make wise and good servant
of the people to make and execute the
laws and protect their most sacred
rights. An honest political party is the
only safe one, and no honest man can
belong to any other and he who be-
longs to such an organization and bolts
its principles and nominations for per-
sonal advancement or through spite, can
never safely be trusted afterw ards, until
he does works meet for repentance.