The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-05-03
No Politics in the Case.

1ufif2 Iuc pIepdrdtlOn -OI the OOutu
Carolina election cases for presentation
10 the courts, Attorney General Brew
ster addressed two letters to Sanders,
lspecial attorney for the United States.
These letters were written since the
Senate called for other letters of the
Attorney General on the prosecution of
the South Carolina cases, and were not
included among those sent to the SEN
ate, In the. first letter, under date of
April 4, Attorney General Brewster
writes Mr.. Sanders, saying:
g What desire to say expressly to you, and
through YOU % Mr.. Melton, Is this: That these
sre not political prosecutions. Politics does
oe 81 s ss 4 as Ason %
the performances of his oficial duties repre-
of snas s = Il
isa question OF enforcing the Law, TO maintain
that law which g the Cornerstone OF all our
nsututionS- Idid not write you FOR poi1t1cal
purposes or to produce political effect The
thoneht never entered my mind. I am not
to enforce Obedience to law, and that / am de
termined 70 do; and am resolved TO exact
trom T a, @ snoss wno 5n,s ~ All fhelr
he public eIcitsnlsnt that sslrrOunds them:
that presides over the Investigation Strike at
the top, no matter where II hits, Democrat or
sense has nothing to do With this, but politics
in a broad sense has The life of the Nation
dS E long s +
~ snffraee. Sreeiv fs5rlv1 and oneniy tex-
pressed, and honestly pronounced by those
whose duty Z is to pronounce the result OF
Say to Melton that the whole force-judicial
force, legal force-of the Government must be
sv r.,,,, Ssses \, ,,ss anu he
ton ton obtained 6y legal means 81 in a lawful way ~
great crininaIs IF tiiey result in acoiIittai IT
r 10 be hoped II will be a iust acouiftal. ana,
and osd 20 M tsaf fhs scanda1 % nI,t mon p,i
lie efections or anv, mart Of the country fs
Wiped ont Rit n acouiftals are procured by
irreoniar means or undue populsr infiuence
exerted and local hatreds exofted. they will
be Q disgrace upon those who have procured
much daTraded ss II they had been convicted.
ernment @ % ana to he Sccused' but fair and open
trials accordine To law. and accur(inR to
forms forms Of orderly administration Of public
'SrrSs. nm. =. . 49,. \. :. : =, fr
Ihe second letter Is as follows; ~
d. C., April 10, lsS2-To NY Dear Mr. Sanders: :
Your letter OF the eth of April Is now before
RonS and 9ndse RrPyssn "a IL can not see ha,s
Judge Bond or Judge Bryan could have de-
cided other than they have decided, but II ap-
contsininr such charres for conspiracy should
have been prepared before this, and aled as
n fffoffnGf R0mnlQfnfQ
new psrties art Who were iErea1,arly ttruded up,
on the former Information. 1t is rather late IL
the day These things % might isS haze been n pre-.
cause of the escape OF some of these persons
or Involve the Goyernmeut in heavy expenses
o1ght to hayye been or o,,ght TO he 'Ss IN
dicfed. or there would not he an atfemr,t now
to put them 7, these information asSs1 ss It is much
doinS hSsiYess Mr- Northron the person
who, You say, Med those informations, must
hans II NAV be said. and II Is oniy lust and
fa{r 10 assiirne IL could he said that he WINS moi
In possesson, ION, OF II me xnoM,eege you nov nave
franad R,It as soon as that rmafion was
ohrained then new infofmations could have
49,, tisd ana fl,axy osiorhf 10 have heaD fled
% i,,dict,nents conld have been nresented
and ought to have been presented. Il do MOI
Ss,t fbeae matters i,1voive m5esfions OF areat
maonitlIde and the public At large. the Tbols
1 country. are saiivo to il, and any neglect OF
1nese case Il ght o t hsfora ead 4
letter which nave sas that sSsve
| Charleston and all the leading lawyers in the
,,sox,ed and that fhe Affnrnev-(3erler Is or,
PaGSed AZ on hehalf of the siefendants Tbe bette
ftey are reoniariy defended. the better II viii
pc LOT IN. me-. a1,d a,,..la
anu. ana sne , esended tha ,,ore Arm snd ,,n,s
lenting should be the ii,s pSs PERSECUTION, sd H. S s.
thai thai 5ssrce ap,t nan p n trving er condnca;n,
\ ,hase great osses IL they are To he con
4 d,'cteds IN a sioyepiv or careless way ,inor
eitSe,. side. His honor e attemptinr to do In
tforxar,i vyay what sourhf To Re done n.
maftsr who onnoses and what the result ma,
| - 7 ~ the etf6rf he 10 strive 70 atfain m.
,ss,nt % res,,It That "a aIl,that can he asked n
sp.ss- a,sne NJ ,aatfar xvSat nav he the conse
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@ @s.atiee ,d os - IN, tpat hsve ,of ~ ysSa ,,
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th,e ~ iid not asF for Mr. Ker or n steno.rra
t n T,es. ~, has si,,cr calte ~, a,,d 6s, y,
i - Pner. -, s,ryiIod whsf ehiecf to is that
o. ssas ~, asksd In time. and thSf these thing
M Mwes ,ics set aY,t,cfnafad ~ % a ,,orasssrS cons
nero ny - o,t . 80 Se,ios - s.s,t
quehce oI tn's S11la la, 81 " Ct az ,nrtI, J
himseIf = nne He had considered the subject wit