New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-06

THE PEOPLE not DrMORALIZED BY WAR AMP TIE
COUNTRY NOr CORRUPT-s. W. DORSEY CALLED
AN HONEST MAN.
WAsurNGToN. Sept. 5.-Thc courtroom was
The fact that Colonel nsl-o wasso begin ms argument
for The defence in the star Route trial S3onci l9-rl
o said h. had not one word 10 say In defence oi any
man who ne believed. has robbed the Treasury ne
wanted the jury to understand that ne was
nc not po a'Sn' tie slightest dh6ncsy in any public
Iuitrd states were donoIazcd people, that the 81
dishonesty rising ready TO sweep rom one 'o' 81
the country 10 the Other IL h'i o.el ~ W
find innocent guilty in order that ms tde mshu nc
successfully resisted. II has been told mat IL was
,,..,rv Ia make an example " somebody, In order
tTot ,h" Iountry might take the road To honesty The
country had been IN a war. but he denied thi ti war
had dcmoralilcd the people. Whoever fought for the
t or What Inc believed 10 DE right. did not dcmoral
ilc himself. lie cnnohlcd himself ana lho WI 1i"t-"
which the country had passed had been rciollon
moi a decentralization. The war Was PERI OF u"rhI
cuthu-in-In during which the people had b''3h' II
thousand times grandcr and n9icr tan thcy ii 'nI'
been before The effect Of the war Ilad s'l E'"'i;
when We shook tine s1cklcT OF ooVVVV" I Pc up t
did not dcnorilIzc us When We cal7rI ' i' u, Hio
slave into the castle OF freeman 1t ala mol dcnoiaHo
The i,ry had been told TINT the United states dis
tinlishrd among the Nations of the world Only Tor c"
ruron. He cared not who said tint hts u miIt no
adherence 10 him that il quoted from KcpunHrhu
Srnnfnr lie denied it. This country was not di-tn-
gui,cd for corruption ana no Ph"' M H. HE
had heard that nol-'Hc ana ll,l -" 49,, i.,r
II makes the capital stock of every prosecuting lawyer
imt IN u there not word OF truth ne hi away
supposed that the people oi America Wtie e
for free schools. Tor free speech Tor Just laws h"' "
gpff
lion th, iury was appealed oa-0 10 bccomc corrupt
n the iuT believed be- tond doubt that the defendants
Ifer, unity il must find them 80, In order to preserve
its self RESPECT did not agree with Tho pr9-ecnti"
i'm h, idea that the pcrpctuiil Of the Republic d'phd'i
unnu this verdict. The Rcpubh" would stand IN spite oI
thc ,vcrlict and until the people lost confidence III
,,riict- and LEGAL rcdr, 80 far as MS clients were
concerned. everything they had-home friends we
children and that priceless something chlrd reputation
lvitbout which man was simply living clay every ,
tbnu they had was nt stake, and every tu9 depended
ON thc verdict OF the jury. But the only mercy tnI
asked the jury was the mercy ol az MONIES.
according 10 the evidence and according 10 the hW
Tls n. all tlry THAT they expected. The minds
Of the Jurors should not be- affected 10y the Iolh' py W
fiction. by the fury of this prosecution.
Colonel mgcrrol. after u minute hhail -i- OF 'Ic
charges u the indictmcnt-uo one of winch ne tHh
was eIst,iucd-said hc came 10 speak OF his client
Stcphcu " Dorsey, friend OF his, man who was MOI
simply politician but statesman. lie thcn HliaA Htd
the charges brought against Dorsey, claimed tla the
evidence wholly failed to sustain them ana went I'M" a
accumulation OF those charges, which, he asserted
consisted of two mistakes and .onc impossible offence
Dorsey had been called rohbcr ana tnci, b the cNl-
dcncc showed that lac vas AN honest man
Tie Court adjourned. MI lngcr~ou having stated nat
h, woud close his address tomorrow forenoon. The
Attorney General will follow him.