The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-02-02

the panel was Such as to convince me
that it was organized to convict
without reference to the testimony
in my behalf or the absence of teati-
m0ny against me. believe if l had
appeared ON Friday last I would
have been tried and con victed before
Saturday night not because l was
guilty or because any evidence inn
p.lcating me in it could have been
found, but because it was so deter
mined, and believe arranged in adj
vance. Look, for instance, at this
list of names of persons comprising
this panel. Here General Anderson
produced printed list containing
forty six name~.) I have searched
that list diligently, and / can And in
it the name of only one persiOn, Mr..
Beecher, with whom I have any
personal acquaintance; but | am told,
and | believe it to be true, that not
only does this list not embrance'a
single colOred man, but there is not
one Republican on 1t from beginning
to end. Does any fair.mined, inn
partial man believe that before Jury
thus made up could have any as
surance of an impartial trial? 1t is
said that Republicans would be sure
to acquit me. On the same principle.
Democrats would be sure to convict
me, In South Carolina, where DO It'll
cal feeling is as strong as it is in this
State, both Republicans and Demo
Gratis were placed on the juries in the
trials of Cardoza and Smalls, and yet
no difficulty was found in obtaining
convictions. am willing to submit
to the impartial judgment of any
fair-minded man; that this studied
exclusion of Republicans from the
panel is an outrage on every prin.
ciple of justice, and that it gives me
the right to say that the jury is or
ganized expressly to convict. Under
these circumstances my right Of
challenge would be of no avail. l
have twelve challenges, and when
these are exhausted the character of
the panel would remain just what it
was before"
MORE TRADE DDLLARs To BE COINED.
WASHINGTON, January 29.-The
cabinet to-day decided that the coin
age of trade dollars shall be resumed
at the Philadelphia mint. The de-
mand for these coins at San Fran
cisco is quite active, and is expected
to continue. The law requires this
demand o be met, but at the present
price of gold and greenbacks trade
dollars can be kept in domestic circu-
lation at profit of to per cent. to
owners of SILVER bullion. 1t is claim
ed that although the trade dollar is
not legal tender the people are
willing to receive it on parity with
greenbacks, because it is intrinsically
the most valuable silver dollar ex-
tant, being even seven and a-half
grains heavier than the old silver
dollar.
A SILVER INITIATION VICTORY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The House
made short work to. day of the Stan
ley Matthews resolution declaring
the interest and principal of the
bonds payable in silver, at the option
of the Government. A two thirds
vote was required to take it from the
table and pass it under a suspension
OF the rules, but the necessary major
ity was easily procured, with some
thirty votes to spare. No debate was
and lobody but Mr.. Gar
field seemed DESTROYS of saying any
thing. The House was unusually
full, all but twenty-five members be-
ing present and voting. The affirm
ative vote was 1879, negative 49, AS
there are 293 members In the House,
it will be seen that the silver party
fell only short of having seven of
two-thirds of the whole House, and
they now confidently claim that the
votes in the Senate on Friday and
the House toby prove that the
Bland bill can certainly be passed
over a Presidential veto. Mr.. Swami
was the only member of the Mary
land delegation who voted against
the Matthews resolution. Mr.. Kim
nell was absent, and Messrs. Henkle,
Henry. Roberts and Walsh voted
with the majority. Immediately af-
ter the adjournment a meeting of the
members of the Greenback and Sill
yer Association, organized for the
purpose of securing the remonetiza-
ton of silver and the repeal of the
act for the resumption Of specie pay
ments, was held in the room of the
House Judiciary Committee.
FIRE AT ToWsoNTowN, MD.
BALTIMORE, Jan. ga fire at
Towsontown, Baltimore county,