The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-08
PRICE TWO CENTS
MR.. D. D. FIELD AROUSED.
THE IGNORANCE AND VULGARIrH
OF TIE N. Y. TRIBUNE.
What II Thought In the Courts about fks
Kite that Jny Gould IL Flying Tho O.tr
Thieves that MIR. Field has Defended.

what IL Thought In the Courts about rks
Kite that jay Gould IL Fiyina-Tho Onsr
Thieves that MIR. Field has Defended.
An extra session OF the Circuit OF the
Supreme Court was opened by Judge Westbroos
Yesterday, for the trial Of the two civil suits %
the People against Tweed, and after some pre-
liminary business Mr.. David Dudley Field saids
"I desire to thank you for the courtesy with
which you INDUCED me In time OF great embar-
rassment, and also to express my sense OF the
courtesy generally almost universally - ana
kindness with which my misfortune and troubis
have been received. There ia perhaps no excsp-
tion, or rather there ia one exception, II II 10
one, for you may know perhaps that the Kes
York Tribune, instead OF answering my ver5
pertinent Inquiries, has taken to calling me hard
names, with the view, undoubtedly, OF arectina
the administration Of Justice In the disposition
OF this case; ; and am mong other things II says thsa
have been engaged the last few years In the
service Of the most notorious thieves New Yorh
has ever known.
"Now, God forbid that II should ever be q re-
proach to lawyer that ho defends notorious
thief. II Ia bis duty. Even notorious thieves
have their rights, and II Is the duiy OF lawyss
TO defend the rights OF every human being.
whether he be accursed or praised, low or high.
sinner or saint. You know, sir that II IA to that
that you, sitting In your seat Of Justice owe
half the value Of your once, and that It is that
pledge which every lawyer makes when he en-
tors the profession-to defend the rights Of all
men-which has made lawyers the foremost mon
In all ages, In every free Government. Every
intelligent, every educated man, knows that
1t Is only the ignorant aud vulgar who DOM
know II OF dispute II.
"If the Tribune had contentod itself with
| saying that I defended this case, IL would only
| have shown itself vulgar and ignorant. But 10
| goes further and speaks OF other cases in which
have been concerned, and In doing that, the
faulty amounts almost to lunacy for it 90
happens that In a long life, and in practices
which for IN Magnitude. extent and variety think
| has never been exceeded at this bar, so far a.
l remember. have never defended any person
whom the Tribune In Its choice language calls
| thieves, except Gould, and Fisk. and Tweed.
| snow, as these three persons were associated
together in the Erie Railway COMPANY. and %
the relations OF the Tribune with the two sur
| vivors are represented to be such that IN edt.
| tor OF the Tribune made haste 20 call upon them
| when he came from Bllckwell's Island, and the
other Is tue Teguted owne1 OF the IrtJunc' hy-
ignorance and the yulgarityl
| why, sir H. the repr, sentl ltiOn he true, ana
nobody can tell better than the tribune Itself,
then It follows that tho friends and supporters
Of the Tribune arc the most notorious thieves
| New York has ever known.
| 81 by no means assent to these ccnsures of
the PERSONS spoken OF. 1t IL not for me TO say,
but taking the Tribune at its word. II ita word
be good for anything, aud It's friends and sup
porters, as have said, are the most notorious
thieves New York has ever known.
=" 1t In said, sir, to be a foul bird that soils its
| own nest. 1 am afraid the Tribune must bs
counted not only very foul bird, tut a very sil
| ly one.
with these observations l have to avow my
readiness to co on with the Gaze and to hops
and express the hope that my learned friends Q.
| the other side. with my associates and myself
under your guiding and moderating innuencs
will so demean ourselves as To get at tho vor,
right in this case and develop the height
breadth. length and depth Of this great munici
nal gcandal."