Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-02-10

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gage in log-rolling the legislature in
Ramsay's behalf this winter.-C Cncin.
matt Enquirer.
PER VERSION OF JUSTICE
Could the people of the United
States view the inner workings of the
Federal Districts Courts for the past
few years and see each and every act
as IL Is known to Omniscience, they
would find their hair standing on end
and their blood frozen with horror -
We will not say all, but the most Of
such courts have long been the merest
mockeries OF justice. They have been
made the instruments OF extortion,
fraud, perjury, oppression, and all sorts
OF villany detested by men and accurs-
cd by heaven. Judges have pockeied
their bribes and district attorneys are
rolling in wealth, who, few years
ago. were not worth picayune. With
alt this mass of rottenness and corrup-
ton pervading the temples of justice,
no one need wonder that innocent men
have been made to suffer, or that in
dicted scoundrels have escaped the
penalties due to crime. Many job
has been put up against innocent men
in the courts, and on more than one
occasion witnesses for the Government
have been forced to take the places of
such as the law condemned to penal
servitude. Bribery has stepped in In
hundreds, if not thousands OF cases, to
save the property and personal liberty
OF men who had worked forfeiture Of
both by bold and open violation of law
A multitude of rascals are walking
abroad this very day with uplifed
heads, who only escaped Incarceration
between prison walls by shameless
purchase of those who were appointed
TO maintain the majesty of the law and
make 1t a terror to evil-doers. We
know of one who plead guilty to u
crime which condemned him to State
prison for term of three years. Yet
by private arrangement with the
court he was saved When the court
passed sentence the word or was glibly
substituted for the word and IN tbe
law, and the fellow walked ont ofcour,
free man. OF courso bo maid we'll
for il. and, although we NAV not he
able to prove it, yet subsequent events
justified the belief that Others beside
the iudge nrof;ted bv thn bribe
Millions of dolIors bovo Noon los, 90
the National Treosnry hy comn,.o,n;so n ,T,; os oe
Of revenno cases n:,oiod ~ "p P'GIso ~ ,Lo
courts This hos honn \ I.oa,ohI,.
business 10 iudges and d;s,r,o, go
neys as we'll as 70 dansr,ment o,,;oioia I
at WASHINGTON Distiilers ond n,ho,s
cpiltv of frnrds On tho roranne a hano
divied with tho con,,s ond sanod - na''
allies ,orfe;tnres of nronor,,, ona H. Ioss
O, liberty Could Cnnlrns: ,,", "'d da'''.' 'uos
to the resl facts connected vii .tbon'
sands of cases Of comnron;s"a % rao",'a anoa
mended by tho cnpr,s os uoo uoom,,
iudges and ,,,o,no,s ,va,,Ia " =. s,a &
IN Subjects for removoI ;nd;o,,".nt ~ ',an a,,J
prosccu,;on II Il 70 ho bnnod H.,
The next House of Renroseniat;ves VIII VIII
cause The Comm;ss;pnor aS in,annni mnl
Revenue 10 fnrn;sh ali 10 nonnss sna' 30
llating TO such cases on ,;ie IN is h;sp hnroo
and 9o INTO an inves,;gat;on i, w;Il
doubtless be found n worl, roon;rina q
both time and natienco bn, !, wiIi na,
We do not writc lightly ana trust thsi
in the investigations to come this one
particular mine of fraud and rascality
NAV be iully explored
Outside OF all this fraud and corrup.
ton in the District courts, attention
should be paid to the secret service of
the Treasury Department. This ser.
vice should either be broken up entire
or respectable, honest men appointed
to administer its affairs. IL is time
that such fellows as Whitley and Net
tleship were made to exchange places
with some of their many innocent vic
tins. The following, from the columns
of the New York Sun, is only one
story among many which may be told
of the scoundrelism worked by the
well-paid pimps employed by q reck.
less and corrupt Administration
civilian Brown, of SO FORSYTH
street. was recently ~lischarged from
the Trenton State prison, to which he
was committed on the 2sth of Nav.
1869. Brown was the victim of one
of the many secret service Jobs which
have deprived innocent persons of their
liberty, and made Whitley and Nettle.
ship famous if not infamous.
In April, 1869, Brown was one of
Ncttleship's employees. He was not
on the regular force of detectives. but
was employed at odd Jobs. Nettleship
told Brown TO meet him in Newark
He complied, and was told that-Rafacl
Lewis, of Broome street, near Kinney,
wealthy Hebrew, had a horse which
he (Ncttleship) wanted. He told
Brown to buy or bargain for IL Net.
tleship, TO whom the Government was
paying $3.50 reward for every conyic.
tion for counterieiting, gave Brown
$40 in $40 notes (Which were counter.
feit) and instructed him to pay $40 on
account to secure the trade, and say
that he Brown would call on the
next day, pay the rest, and take the
horse away. He bargained to take
the horse for sl60 Ai.er Brown had
paid the $40 in counterfeit notes to
Mr. Lewis, William Schonawolf, of
Orange avenue, who was employed by
Nettleship, rushed up to Lewis with a
$50 note in his hand, and asked him to
change it. Mr.. Lewis handed him the
four $40 notes which he had just re-
ceiycd from Brown and two ar notoe