New-York tribune., 1873-01-31
MIR. TREMAIN'S ADDRESS.

The ceurt was crowded to excess when Mr..
LYMAN Tremsin commenced to up for the presecu-
ton at the reassembling OF the court He sald MosV
sincerely do Sympahize with my learned friend (Mf'
Graham who has eloQuenty aud faithfully discharged
his duty who discovered that he was under the neces
sjty of delivering argument TO YOU in an Important
case while laborng the effects OF physical indis-
position. In my nothing short OF stern sense
of professional and public duty would make me in my
present enfeebed condition enter upon the labor before
me-
Ihave undertaken, at the instance OF the Attorney
General to contribute my humble efforts nlnVestieauhg
and exposing and bringing to punishment the perpetra-
tors OF what are known throughout the country ana
throughout the world as the New-York frauds and
feel mpeled TO the performance OF that duty to the end
without regard to personal considerations IL proDaDe
that no duty which rested upon me In the past anu
none which may devOlve upon me Ia my future me- Will
at all compare 10 its interest and It's results WIN 'no
dnty with which stand charged here and now as one
OF the counsel concerned in the prosecution OF this i'm
portsnt case
The scenes amid which we are living to-day and which
are 40 interesting 10 u.s. are transtoy and Of short dnra
tiop When few years shall have passed over all OF
Ms today so full OF life, and feeling 80 deep an interest
in all that transplres around us, we Will be gathered 10
our fathers but the work are engaged In to-day VIII
survive long after gathered TO the dust. Ihe
record which you and and this Court Will make to-day
in this case will survive perhaps dshearten perhaps
10 cheer our children aud childrens children that
record will remain with its tremendous influence Tor
good ill., restraining or encouraging the commission
OF crime. building up or destroying free government
,tself while this shall last while the records OF thls
criminal trial while the history and tradition OF these
great oeuses which we are investigating sha oe i"h
mitted TO late generatlons'
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF THE TRIAL
This case arises above any ordinary State trial 1t
State trial. like those OF which the learned counsel has
read because it between the people of this great
Commonwealth one side and the defendant on the
other but when take into consideration the magn-
tnde Of the oenses the character the atrocy
the daboncal wickedness OF these onenses ana the I'M
mense consequences for good or the terrible eonse
trial il rises in dignity far beyond any ordinary state
trial and might be said Justly TO be national ana even
Oply rs short months have elapsed since the people OF
this city and State aroused by intelligence tnat
came flashing upon them like a clap OF thunder IN a
clear ky which alarmed them like the alarmbel OF nre
az midnight Men awoke from their fancled security IN
nesce and discovered that IN the very heart OF ts coL
merclal emporium iof this western world series OF
systematic crimes had been PerpetMated M WHICH I'm
ner which they we're perpetated ana the sgents py
which they we4 commteo aS wen as a1 i'm inter
est ann wickedneSs anything recorded IN tue history VI
crime 10 the civilized world. from the morning when
| creation dawned upon the world.
Men looked around and saw that these crimes were
calculated to strike at the existence OF free govern
ment and had brought humiliation and reproach on the
| very name of free government. -, .,,
Of &ihecraft pointed to them esutngly the Old
World and said These are traits OF free iDstitu
tons you are enjoying the eliminating process lore
fold by Jefferson when he said that large cities are large
sores ON body polite :" and men said that free gov;
ernmept must fail because OF its inability TO afford
| security law. and order ia great communities
The perpetrators not meQ QI hunDle ue put the
very chiefs OF the city men who were sprr0pnqed by
multirldef ot sttendanIs ana obsequous followers
~n6se offices could scarcely be approached by reason Oh
the thron gng OF carriages and the CROWDS men gn2
came there bend the supple knee before tbem5 men
who had the city and the State PROSTATE at their ee
who held positions OF importance and power IN the
| city and State and who were seeking to obtain
| power even in the Federal Government; men who
elected by the people 10 the highest offices within their
gift and had been lntrusted with the highest respons
bties whom the people their trusfu commence had
placed guardians OF the public treasury, aud had
been looked 10 ss protectors the only safeguards
stand between the million Taxpayers on the Island ana
| the public funds found 20 be the men who had
broken openthe treasury aud committed these supen-
| dOus rObberies.
Thes everything was done that could be devised to
prosecute these guilty men, cyilly and crimnally the
Bureau Of Municipal Corrections called into exist
| ence, and board, with Charles 0COnor-honOrod
name !end the Attorney General were invested with
power 70 investigate aud carry ON the necessary pro-
| ceedings
But although year and half has rolled away since
the discovery OF these frauds there been
utely 10 atonement made for these There has
been EOthing IN tue way OF nyieton appeaSe
outIa ged justice OF the country.
The DIFFICULTIES OF PROSECUTION
The work OF people has been OF great difficulty
and embarrassment All the avenues To the portal, of
Justice were held by tho friends, personal political OF
tbese man The gentleman (Mr Graham has well
snoken OF the fact that held power In
tho and state Mon who bsld places tbs Judicial