Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-08-16
cor. JOHN A. JOYCE.

JOYCE AND sssuGG" MEET on THE
STREETS OF. MEXIco-JoYeE WILL BE
PoET-HE SLENDER 20 HEARTED
TEREroRTER BRINGS TE4RsFRosfHIs
HEART--NoT A THIEF, BIT A DIsFTN-
:GrSnED RxiPRIsoSEIEAGaTNIH HE
cANTs.
IA. Joyce, Of whisky, notoriety,
whe is now out of the pen on bah,
passed through this city yesterday,
en- route for st. Louis. He did not go
down ON the Mo. Pacific, because such
a large. crowd of friends would meet
hia at the depot, and as he shrinks
from the public gaze, he came to
Mexico and put upat the Ringo House
and took the two O'Clock a. m. train
for st. Louis. His wife, who is a
very comedy looking lady, was with
him. Col. Joyce is a man of fine per-
soaal appearance, and is about thirty
FIVE years Of age; his hair Is turning
gray. He has a keen, flashing eye,
which speaks worlds for his foresight
and keemess. In yesterday mornings
daily we noticed u long article on the
. distinguished ex-prisoner." We
take the liberty of reviewing this
al icle; but as we have described the
Colonel, we should make mention of
q friend he met in Mexico,-Matt
Grizzle, alias T" Sugg," the boy who
stole S50.0g from Sontag. Now,
Safss black that is against him.
Seigg is poor, that is against him j;
Sagg stole only $4,000, that is
against him; Sugg has no big con-
actions, that is against him. In
fact, Sugg is only a common thief,
and is avoided by all. Now if any
man can show why Joyce is not 10,-
600 times NOR guilty than Sugg, we
give it up. II any man can show why
Joyce should be met by the people
with open arms? Why he should be
fionized oven by the American peo-
pie, from whom he stole over 4 million
dollars? Why he shonld be looked
OF with pity Oh sympathy, or leniency,
then We will dcnounce the American
eagle as a cowardly buzzard. If
Joyce had had no education; if he
had been taught TO stead as Sugg had
il he had been starving to death and
stolen to4leep the breath oflifc in him
if hs had taken a side of meat to feed
his dying children on, he would have
received no mercy at the hands of the
law; but as it is he is lionized by his
victims. 1t is true, it seems hard,
since all the whisky thieves got off,
tliatAc should not. But he is guilty.
although he still denies it, and should
sdffer. You hear our newspapers and
politicians finding fault with this steal
ing from the Government, and still
they do not come out and denounce
the peculators us thieves. If we want
this stealing from the government
stopped, we must treat the thieves as
we would Il horse thief. Is it an honor
to steal from the Government? No!
Ten thousand times no. When a
man is given a fat office, where the
American people repose confidence in
him, and cntrust their wealth and
honor 20 him. and he saps their life
blood and disgraees them in the eyes
of the world, he should be banished
from Heaven and earth. Joyce did
not only give way to temptation, but
he kept up a regular, premeditated
plan of stealing from the government;
and as his leader said, ''Let no guilty
escape" We say, treat all the
thieves alike, rich or poor, high or
low; this is the only way to clear out
the organized band of White House
thieves. He still cants about his in
nocence. This will do to tell to the
marines, but not to a paper realing
He is going to write poetry !
nowl W. think he is a fit subject for
Dante. He is ''strictly temperate"
so is the devil. He is now on his
way to Virginia, to meet his children.
''Tears come to his eyes, when he
of them. As Ben Rodman
says, Listen ut that, and weep ye
uasophisticated." He left Wednes-
day night. He had neither our hearty
shake of the hand" nor our " best
wishes" except that he get his de-
serts whatever they be.