Morris tribune., 1882-09-14
Attorney General Brewsters On
Slau%ht Upon the Star Reuters.

In his address to the jury on the Star
Route cases on Wednesday, Attorney Gen.
eral Brewster, speaking Of Dorsey and 9TH
ers said How had these men come togeth-
er from all parts of the country? Was it
from divine impulse. No. Their object
was conceived in corruption and executed
was to plunder. Referring to the statement
made by Boone that the books of the
concern We're kept on the graveyard
principle. He said that that was synony-
nous with the star route principle down
among the dead men. 1t was ietter
that the defendants should hide themselves
in the penitentiary than to face the odium
which is to follow them through life. In
ancient Assyria it was the custom when a
man and woman were detected in adultery
to kill the woman and chain her dead and
abou' saying. "Oh, wretched man that
am! who will deliver me from the body Of
this DEATH" Acquit these men and the
fostering body of their atrocious crime COM
mitted against the whole community would
hang around their necks, and they would
cry out: ooh, wretched man that l am!
Who will deliver me from the body of this
death?" The jury might give Steven w.
Dorsey a certificate that the charges were not
true, but he knew that the body ofthat death
would hang round him while life lasted.
The jury had been told that verdict of
guilty would bring sorrow and tears and des-
olatiOn and wretchedness to holIored people ~
The jury had heard Ingersoll to-day, with
impressiveness which drew tears to the
eyes of many, depict the horrors and ter
rors which hung round these people; and
while this was going ON, wheneverthere was
a ribald remark or a joke Brady sat laugh
ing. Right at the door of the penitentiary
he could sit and laugh at ribaldry and Jokes
He had the hide ola rhinocerous. When
Ingersoll burst forth in his great peroration
Miner put his hands to his face and Vale
too, and oh, how they blubbered.
The Oldest Town in the United States.
The city of Santa Fe claims the distinction
of being the Oldest in the United States, and
although the exact date of its settlement is
not known, records date back to the fifteen
hundreds, viz: During the military
explorations of Francisco Vasquez Coronado,
Spanish commander in 1542, he mentions
visiting several Indian pueblos or towns; and
a town then called Tegua was located on the
site of the present city of Santa Fe" Another
historian says: ''The first European who
penetrated into this region was Alva Minez
Cabeza de Vacca, aSpanish navigator, whose
vessels were wrecked somewhere on the
coast of Texas in 1880, and who, with a
portion of his crew, wandered for six wears
acrc IS the plains and mountains until he
finally Joined his countrymen under Cortez
in Mexico. . In 1889 to 1541 the
famous expedition of Coronado passed
through the pueblo or town where Santa Fe
now stands" In 1900 Santa Fe had its
first governor, Pedro de Peralto who lived in
the same adobe palace which is now occupied
by the present governor. In 1850 there was a
great rebellion of the natives, who drove out
every Spaniard, and destroyed, as far as
possible, every evidence of their having
occupied the town. Since 1893, when the
town was retaken by Diego de Vargos, it
has had an eventful history. In 1921 the
Mexicans declared their independence of
Spanish rule, from which time until the
occupation of the territory by the United
States took place, there were numerous
instructions.