Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-11-29

certain charges against these individuals,
and Attorney,general Brewster in letter Of
considerable length and great vigor detailed
to the chief executive the particulars upon
which Mr.. Bliss charges were founded. The
marshal of the district, one of the worst Of
President Garfeld's appointments, is re-
sponsible, the Encouragement says, for
much Of the opposing sentiment to the case
of the government that was exhibited in
court and out Of court during the late trial.
While in Ohio last summer he spoke bitterly
of Mr.. Bliss saying of him that he "was
too full Of genuine meanness to amount TO
much as man." Mr.. Anger, the postmas-
ter at Washington, and his assistant, Parker,
are deliberately impugned by two post Office
inspectors. Mr.. Anger is proprietor Of a
newspaper in Michigan and in it has de-
nounced the prosecution, declaring that the
government had no case. One Helm, the
bosom friend of Brady and the man who
has controlled the columns Of the Critic, a
Washington newspaper which has grossly
abused the court, the government counsel
and the management of the case, and who
has recently been appointed by the new
government printer head of one of the de-
partments in the printing Office, is recon-
mended for removal. Spencer is an ex.sen-
ator aud government director in the Pacific
railway. He knows about these frauds but
is an Ascending and delinquent witness.
Geo. o. Miller Of the district police, the at
torney general says, has been engaged and
retained in the service of the defendants
and has persistently assisted them during
the trial. In concluding, Mr.. Brewster
says
"I have never forgotten your instructions, on
my first accepting Office to pursue this case with
vgor and rigor, so that the innocent should be
acquitted " clearly innocent; that the guilty
should be punished, II clearly guilty; and that
there must be no half-hearted sentiment In the
purpose OF the government and its officers in this
prosecution. After serious and prolonged DELHI
GRAFTON over all the details OF the case, my inves-
legations satisfied me that the men who were in
dicted were guilty men, and merited the extreme
punishment Of the law. They bad projected,
under cover OF official power and under cover OF
official authority, systematic plan Of deliberate
robbery of the public treasury. To carry out
that plan they had laid their hands upon a fund
dedicated by law to great public service, ser
vice that Is conspicuously one of the fruits and
causes OF our civilization, social comfort our
commercial prosperity, our national growth.
Millions OF that money they perverted to their
own private gain, and divided it for their own
personal purposes. 1t was condign act OF infa-
nous conspiracy, and rs such deserves the Sc
verest punishment the law can inflict Such men
are traitors to social and official duty, and they
are public enemies, against whom the authority
of the law must be exerted without hesitation or
reluctance. The higher their past position the
greater their sin, and the sterner must be their
punishment. desire to call your attention to the
fact that the officers Of the law and those who
have directly been aiding me in the discharge OF
my duty in this business have been from the first
encircled with snares, pitfalls and every species
OF vile device that could be invented to harm
them, hinder their usefulness and prevent the ad-
mnistration of justice. Some portions of this
community who surround these defendants and
who have enjoyed, do still enjoy, minor official
positions, know no allegiance to any but this
band OF robbers, and render no service to any
one but these evil employers. From motives OF
gain or other corrupt considerations they are
saturated with afiuities for these bad men, and
they have contributed by every means in their
power at the bidding Of their masters, to obstruct
public justice and to defame its officers with the
hope OF securing the acquittal and escape OF the
worst band of organized scoundrels that ever ex-
listed since the commencement Of the govern
ment"