The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-13
NEW YORK CITY.
The New York Press OH w. MI. Tweed.

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National Associated Press to the Star.
New YORK, April Recommending ON
Tweed's death, the Herald says: "Tweed
has indeed suffered more than his equally
guilty associates, but without his boldness
and skill the gigantic ring robberies would
not have been committed. The heaviest
punishment fell on the criminal who most
richly deserved it, and his death in prison
will operate as an impressive warming"
The Times says: '1nstead of dying in a
felons cell, Tweed ended his days STIR
rounded by every comfort that could be in
troduced into a debtors prison. Society
itself is mainly responsible for his career
Tweedism will long survive Tweed: and
the blindness, ignorance and cowardice that
gave him his lease of power is even now
contributing to the elevation of men as
ignoble in character and base in their meth
ods as was the man who died yesterday"
The Star says he possessed SO many eX-
cellencies, both of heart and mind, the mag
netism by which he grappled men to him
in bonds of friendship was so irresistible,
his kindness was so impuisiye and unaf-
fected, his sympathy with distress was so
generous and spontaneous, all his better in
stinct battled so brayely against the tide
that bore him to the maelstrom in which
he was engulfed, that to hold only in view
his estimable qualities and to shut out the
darkness of his record, is now the natural
inclination of right-feeling persons who
had came upon him. We held that
Tweed's crimes were due to some general
causes which have operated to produce
wrecks of regulations of bankers, mer-
chants, insurance officers, cabinet ministers,
savings bank managers, Christian statesmen,
&c, that strew the path of our history since
Grant received the sword of Lee at Apo
nlattox, and peace introduced the aftermath
OF war.
The Tribune says: As Mr.. Tweed was a
thoroughly dishonest man. and as he never,
even in his last hour, gave the slightest evi-
dence of repentance, we may spare the
reader any platitudes about his virtues and
commonplace extenuations, none the less
empty because he is dead
The World says This is a distinction
necessary to be kept in mind. An un-
scrupulous man may be not altogether obi
Gus If the end for which he chooses his
means without scruple is worth aiming at;
but if he has no aims except purple and fine
linen and champagne, and violates the du-
ties of life in order to put himself above its
decencies, it is impossible to make anything
out of him except vulgar and common
place criminal. That was the case with
Tweed.
Am Ex-Priest Doc med to Die.
NEW YORK, April 13-Blasius Pistorius
the ex-priest, was brought up for sentence
in the Oyer and Terminer Court this morn
ing.
He was two weeks ago found guilty ofmur-
der in the first degree for the killing Of
farmer Jacquette, near Norristown. After
sentence of death had been passed upon
him he made speech in which he charged
that his life had been sold by his counsel.
a murderer of justice This is the second
time he has been tried, having been before
convicted in Montgomery County. A new
trial and change of venue had been granted
and resulted as above.