, 1876-11-05

to answer me, and does not on my. denanq III;
mcdiately contradict his declarationt and Sall
@ e a 1na nst tss st sa
you say! Then, il the cowardlly anonymous
letter writer has the innpudence to attempt to
rise. ..ttthc LAW presames that am IN
danger Of great bodily HARM To this AZ
ths eoSs1 VT rter for a
tempting to rise, with my second hand pistol,
the law presumes acted in self-defense, and
the verdict must be ''1ustiiable homicide" 20
this Inst, and to the whole theory Of Judge Mc-
on cool reflection, must yield a hearty approval.
But these people among whom I have been 1iv-
Ing are soaked in Ignorance and fanaticis1p, and,
thirstipg for. my :. blood in the case I
have made, and would hang me in minute.
boris house under the circumstances is Pre-
sumnbly unfricndly, and what I call reasoning
with the coward for writing the letter they call
an angry assault Of words and gestures threat
ching harm, and when I knocked him down
without proyocation, and that my ability to SO
easily. fell the dog proved my superior physical
strength, and that shooting the creature when
had him SO completely in MY power was .mur-
der; tS 1t f. in VaiR 9sa that .a Explain tfe to
on the same friendly errand-that tell thcm
that my wife got her face scratched, and that,
on reflection. thinks the coward dog did It; it Is
in vain that I explain to them what o;Brien 80
fifty called my 'Fkind Christian thought" that
would shoot the coward in the leg and main
him; and that shooting him in a vital part was
purely blunder, such as any gentleman was
liable to nuke, aud that after the very prompt
apology that made thought It in bad taste to
is IN vain to tell them that I will
make it nil right with the widow, and see TINT
she and her children have enough to cat And
even II / should explain to them, as Judge Nc
Allister DID to his jury, that this was the same
and therefore no special malice was to be pre-
sun>ed, and that the whole affair must be taken
in its Pickwickian sense,-it would MI make no
more difference to- those bgots M Mnp}learned p in
the Law, = as Judge MeAlister says than + dd
Get rope enough. Do You now blame
me for wanting to leave here2
But to so back to the famous trial and notice
briefly some OF the chief actors and Incidents
coiineSted Herewith: First, 7 WI say do not
Reed seemed from the first determined to screen
Hanf6rd and his terrible crime, and much of his
carly life was Suppressed or concealed from pub
lie view, and we are left in doubt as to what
may hays been his early career, but. the
agreca, @ justice o'Brien delivering the
opinion Of the Court and closing with these i'm
pressiyc words g ''Hanford is dead, andI came
near saying ought to be damned" Eight jurors
opinion Il the Court by hearty applause aud
ready verdict. In fact the whole trial has been
conducted SO Us to strike a healthy dread to
every heart, Of the terrible crime which has been
Committed. As m an evidence Of this l VII men
He REMARKED with. mucn feeling. and
impressive gravity to the Court and audience,
= hope this will be a warning to all men here
after NOT to write anonymous letters" This is
I must also censire Reed again for. bis un-
willingness to accept Mr. SulllYan's evidence in
t1ac trial. Who SO we'll situated, l would ask
Mr.. Reed, to see all that OCCURRED IN that IN
plcasantness as the chief actor himself, and who
s. opeteat t9 construct theories f and oz
paa ~as liz 3glaa t to M Hear 'e the Court Court give
50 proninent place to bis evidence and also to
that, Of his little brother. When the Jury sent
in bad tastc for Reed to object to their taking it
out unless they took the law with It.. The new
law had just been given to them, and it exactly
suited Sulliyan's evidence, and an honest juror
was bound to acquit III just five minutes. In
regard to carrying firearms I agree again With
Court--in fact, I 20 further, and assert that no
good citizen should go without q pistol, as it
raises presumpti Of Innocence in case q man
should be, compelled to kill his neighbor
10 sc1f-defense. As soon as I read the law
went out and bought me a Remington, Colt,
and a nerringe1, Ill with the sef-defense at
/. have no patience with the clamor raised BY
the Hanford trial against Afr. Sullivan and bis
associates. 1t comes from class Of people Tor
whom have no respect; bad men, thirstine Tor
Let US see, how: public opinion is divided.
(tGir1Gn contains D0DuI1Ilo0 OF
Co., 6FI<o aud ''1aa@ only 5o,o6 have Joined il
protests against the new law and
petitions for the Judge to resign. This leaves
10000, and the Law not only npresq5mes,m 45a oa1
tttThosc who are not against me- arc for me-
Having thus proved there are 1000 who sus-
tain Sullivan aud human rights against those
SC, coo who condemn O'Brien "a heaithy work
the character Of the parties, and here predict
we shall find .. still greater disparity in faVor OF
personal liberty. III the first place we have the
Board Trade OF Chicago, and In speaking OF us
members cannot do better than to repeat what
Judge McAllistcr said Of them: ''They are a lot
OF hog~dealers and grain gamblers, unlearncd in
the law and unworthy Of respect" Then there
are few drY-goods and other merchants, and
SOME Of them only retailers; 3 few Eeal-estate
owners, many Of them heavily mortgaged' q;
better than the aforementioned; few doctors,
many Of them without patient; q few
bankers and money -sharers; few preachers,
some OF them no better than they ought
to be: and last very few newspaper men with
no character for truth and veracity-in all So 600.
hid forgotten to add to this number Bloody
Berry, the Bigot, and ReVengcfnl Reed, the
Wretch, making grand total Of sc, ,002.
On the other side we have, as We have shown,
450,ODD: but, the limits of this letter will not
allow full analysis Of them, but IN general
terms will say they represent the chlValry,
and dash, and spirit OF freedom Of the Western
hemisphere. We must also add to this number
seventeen men "lcarned. in the law s" and the
eleven Jurors who knew what the law, was when
the. Court told them. Then comes htcA1lister,
the Mcrcifu1, and Sullivan, the Suffering: Saint,
md Bully Billy O'Brien, the Brutser, and Storey,
the Stole, with his great fami1y paper neutral in
politics, but devoted to religion and reform,
making grand total.of 450, ,032 in favor Of uni
ycrsal freedom and the heaEen-born right OF
self defense, Shall $1,000 men, including the
Board Of Trade, and others no better, ali = uf-
learned in the law" and, all told, but one-teuth
of the population, dictate to 45o,0 o,000, or nine.
tcnths Of the people Of Chicago, what they shall
think2 God and cAllister forbid. When that
day comes let Mercy hide her face But cannot
close without 4 word Of encouragement to the
Chicago Times. with its characteristic .candor
and consistency, it has been with the upper dog
IN the Geht from the first, and with its usual
presciencc it told the public how the jury stood
before it stood at all. :..
As to Berry it picked him before he was ripe,
and tearing open his breast it exposed his black
heart to its million Of Christian readers. 1t
even told tue public hungry for news and CRATE
ful for crumbs, how Reed md Berry were en-
otoit in ho firarv husirrss fCrether The only