National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-01-13

States, to act longer In that capacity, orders to
the amount Of more than forty thousand copies
per week being untitled in their once, and their
correspondents throughout the country given 10
understand that the Woodruff & Claim neHspa-
per was an unsafe publication In which 70 deal,
thu. casting elCqd upon ron W VI ~ mas
Q IST2 promised to reach a circulation oil two
million copies, but was cut oil at one hundred
and fifty thousand by these acts Of the United
States resulting in net loss to your petitioners,
in this one item, of one hundred and nifty thousand
dollars, and for subsequent editions OF as much
more besides utterly rutaing the paper as Jour
nalistic enterprises that the public press all over
the country repeated n their columns these dis
81 he unted States against your petitioners, and
that their names have thus been made
|. AsY-woRD AND A TERM OF REPRoACH
everywhere. That Mrs. woodruff, as profess
sional lecturer, was, on account OF these aets Of
the United States, shut out Of many Of the best
halls In the country, some Of which remain closed
against her to this day. That on account Of the
general impression caused in the minds Of the
people by these charges preferred by the United
States thousands Of persons have been deferred
from attending her lectures where she has been
permitted the use Of the public halls, and that
her losses upon these counts are beyond computa-
tion. That on account Of these losses and Of the
expenses to which they were subjected to defend
thems selves in the courts against these charges OF
the United States, your petitioners have been
reduced from comparative afiluenee and comfort
to poverty and distress. That all their losses and
distresses to which your petitioners have been
subjected were caused and brought upon them by
these acts of the United States and that all these
acts were unjust and unlawful, and when brought
to trial in the United States District Court Judge
BIatchford presiding) were dismissed as having
NoFoUEDATIoN IN Law.
In view therefore, OF all these facts, which
YOUR petitioners have endeavored Justly to set be-
lore yOu and in view also Of the further fact that
they have heretofore refrained from making any
complaint Of these acts OF the United states,
hoping, but in vain endeavoring, to recover them.
selves from their effects, they now come
BEFoRE YOUR HONORABLE BODIES,
and ask for some naturalization for the disasters
brought upon them by these acts Of the United
States; and for their imprisonment, virtually,
during the period of seven months, in which they
were held in $4,000 bail to answer 70 these
charges of the United States.
Your petitioners respectfully represent that DC
| sum of money that might be paid to them could
| ever be compensation for the disgrace and dis
| tresses from which they have suffered and are
suffering on account Of these acts Of the United
States, TO say nothing about the actual pecuniary
| losses which they have sustained, which they
have no doubt were, and they so represent them
as being not less than $500 900. Your petitioners
do not expect or ask to be fully remuneratec
even for their actual Losses or repaid for theil
sufferings and disgrace; but they do ask to be re
| lieVed by the United States, through the action
of your honorable bodies, in the sum Of 500 900
which will enable them to regain some Of the
comforts of life Of which they have been deprived
by these acts Of the United States Of which they
have herein made complaint.
And your petitioners, relying upon your sense
Of justice to grant their petition, will ever pray