The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-09-23
1T CAN NOT BE TRUE.

Monday forenoon States Attorney James
M. Damron wrote to the Argus, with con-
siderable show of feeling and commenda-
bic enthusiasm in the honest performance
of his duty to the dear people:
"Mr. Harry Walker was the real defend
ant, and it was him that my duty called
me to prosecute, which | did the best |
could, as every one who was present well
knows"
Monday afternoon few hours after the
above was written the Walker case, which
Mr.. Damrons duty had called him to prose
cute, and (which he did the best he knew
how as every one who was present well
knew was dismissed for the want OF pros
ecution.
We can not I've will not believe,
that Mr.. Damron "did the
best he could in this easel No. We
must defend him and his fair official fame
against the mean reflections inadvertently
cast upon them by peculiarly unfortunate
state of circumstances and By his own ut
terances made in moment of pardonable
thoughtlessness.
1t can not be true that Mr., Damron will
fully diaregarded duty's call and purposely
failed to appear at his post of duty in Es-
quire 0sborns court, the champion Of the
people, born and elected and paid to guard
the interests and enforce the law. of the
peope--boldly and ably, as only Mr.
Damron can--against the reck-
less trepasses of conscience
less men. We repeat, it can not be
true and we will not believe it, facts to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
1t can not be true that Mr.. Damron "did
the best he could" when he allowed
fragrant violation of the peoples will in Or
dinances expressed--one which "duty had
called him to prosecute, TO be stricken
from the docket and dismissed for want of
prosecution. We repeat it, it
can not be true and we
will not believe it, Mr.. Damrons own ad-
mission to the contrary Notwithstanding.
We like Mr.. Damron personally. We
claim to be Mr. Damron's friend. We
know not and we care not if guilt be in his
heart; we know but that we love him, etc.
Therefore we must be permitted to insist
that Mr.. Damron has been the helpless VIC
tim of unfortunate circumstances and and
of dutys calls. Over the former Mr..
Damron had no control, and the latter
well, everone, who has ever paid any atten-
ton to the calls of duty, knows that they
affect different people differently and are
strangely contradictory at times. In the
morning Mr.. Damron wrote the truth
when he wrote; "My duty called
me to prosecute" In the
afternoon tickle duty had changed her mind,
just as dear woman sometimes does, and
called upon Mr. Damron to do something
entirely different (not fishing, though, as
has been suggested), in portion of the
city, quite distant from the place where the
Walker case was to be tried. Thus the
reader will observe and will
be bissfully content with the observation
that not Mr.. Damron, but ficle.mindod,
many voiced and often INSCRIPTIONS duty, is
10 blame for Mr.. Damron's action in the
Walker case. That this action Of Mr..
Damron appears strangely inconsistent to
he casual observer is true; but it should
DC remembered that the ways of those who,
ike Mr. Damron, obey duty's every beck
md call, are always mysterious and entirely
beyond the comprehension Of mortal and
It times painfully consistent man.
PERSONALS.