The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-03-05

The N. T. Hsratd, in an editorial
reviewing the proceedings in the case OF
ANDERSON. of the Louisiana Returning
Board, hits the "visiting Statesmen ~
and the cacklers Of the Republican press
square in the face in this mastery man.
ner: "This man was tried Ia accordance
with the law and found guilty by reg
ularly appointed jury. That is the rec
ord, and that is sufficient. In regard to
things done in Louisiana it is pretty well
established that you cannot 90 behind
the returns, and ANDERsoN'is returned
guilty. If he is not guilty then the jury
is to blame, but there is no help for AN
DERsoN. 1t is great pity if Jurors, will
perJure themselves TO put any man where
he ought not to be, but if they will the
man must go; for otherwise we must
give up trial by jury, and it is hetter that
an individual should suffer than that the
whole system of Jurisprudence should
be upset Language suspiciously analo-
gous to this was in the mouths of AN,
DERsoN and his merry men some time
ago, when, instead Of jury at fault, it
was returning board, and, instead OF
ANDERSON wronged, it was the Ameri.
can people; and if that sort Of language
was just toward the United States then
it cannot be unjust toward ANDERSON
now" SIS
In calm and well written article in
the Staats Zitang, of New York, the
leading German newspaper in the United
States, on the sentence of ANDERSON,
the Returning Board scamp, the Editor
says: "'As for those Republican states
men who, Immediately after the an.
nouncement OF the verdict, found it nee
essary to mix themselves up with this
affair, they may, perhaps, already per-
ceive what every child in America knew
beforehand, that they had no business
with it; they may see that their efor,
has not had the least effect upon it; and
that through their precipitate action they
have only drawn upon themselves lar.
ger portion Of the odium which belongs
to the fraud of the Returning Board
"The Republican party journals will
naturally continue to pour out the vial {
of their wrath over Judge WHITAKER
We shall certainly not undertake to con
done any political or other offences
which this official may have committed
at an earlier period but, on the other
hand. there are two things which We
know quite certainly. The first of these
is that the attacks upon him would nev.
er have been made if the jury had &C
quilted the good Mr. ANDERSON; and
second that, 80 far as this trial is con
cerned, the Judge has simply done his
duty. That people like ANDERSON
WELLS, and their colleagues would rath
er not have anything to do with such 6
Judge is very natural; but their case ap
pears to be of such kind that no Judge
could have helped them. ANDERSON ha:
already appealed, and his three asso
ciates desire to be brought before Fed
eral court. Both these applications viii
be heard at an early day. In the interes
of justice it is to he desired that the
trials of all the Returning Board swim
dlers should be carried through in the
same passionless manner as that of AN
DERsoN, and that, as there has been il
his case, so there should be in that o
all the others. not even an appearance
of political persecution.