Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-02

means, as every prudent contractor did
under similar circumstances, and did in
that way get some increases on four or five
small routes. In June, 1879, I turned
this whole mail business over to other
hands, and from that day to this I have
never had anything more to do with it than
the president of the United States has had.
From that time have never written or
received letter or communication of any
kind from Gen. Brady Or any other official
of the postofice department..
To show my appreciation of the value
of these contracts, gave one half inter
est IN them to the person who took charge
of them for his services. Up to the pres
ent moment l have never received one
single penny of profit from any of
these contracts, or from any other contract
with the government of the United States.
AS to the conspiracy charge, it is sufi-
Gent to say my acquaintance with Mr..
Brady was limited to official relations. and
l never saw him anywhere until the COM
mencement of this case, except in his Office
at the postofice department. There never
was personal letter or communication of
any kind passed between US. Vale
never saw but two Or three times in my
life before the trial began, the last time
being in April, 1879. Miner I had not
meet since April, 1879, until the trial. Col.
Peck is long since dead, and J. w. Dorsey
went out of the mail business in April, 1873.
L had not seen nor had communication
with any of these men for nearly three
years.
The card here recapitulates the points
made In the above statement and proceeds
The attorney general of the United
States who has descended to engage in this
trial personally, chilly, it seemed from his
speech, to heap abuse upon me, wrote a
letter few days since to the president.
made up of denunciation and epithet. OF
falsehood and SANDER, of malace and i'm
potence, in about equal parts. Brewster
has dragged the robes of his great office
into the filth and slime of debauchery so
many times that it is to be expected a per
son guilty of such atrocious acts of immor-
atty would be guilty of equally Infamous
acts in the administration of the Office he
holds and dishonors. He occupies a quasi
judicial position, but in advance
of the trial and in an official
communication to his chief, in language
that would disgrace the merest police
court shyster, this attorney general of the
OAA$NA N0"eOS UOAiOuAC0S tIiS uSl0uuduCS IN
the star route cases as ''banded robbers
great rascals,'' thieves" etc. The prose-
cutting officers, attorney general and presi-
dent OF the United States, know just as
we'll as l know that my statement given
above Is absolutely and unquelifedly true
In every respect. Each one of these men
knows as l know that never made a cent
out of the star route contracts. Each one
OF them knows as do that no more con-
splred against the government of the
United States than they have. Notwith-
standing this knowledge, while the
records show and from which there
Is no escape, these people are daily
sending out to the country through
the press the most monstrous falsehoods
ever uttered by man, until the people have
come to believe I am the head of great
ring which has zen robbing the govern
nent Of millions of dollars. I will pay
$1,000 for every dollar the prosecution can
show ever made out of the treasury of
the United States, excepting my salary as
senator.
There is another thing to which I wish
to call tie attention of the public, and
that is the removal of Marshal Henry.
Postmf Ter Anger and Assistant Parker
on pretense that the marshal had in some
way aided me in the selection Of jury in
my interest, and that the other gentlemen
were in some mysterious way implicated.
The charge against these gentlemen is also
charge against me. My opinion is the
removal of Anger and Parker was simply
decoy, the real object being the removal
of the marshal that some one might be
procured who would really do for the gov
ernment what Marshal Henry was charged
with doing for me. In other words. the
removal was made in order that the Sc
lection of the next jury might be abso-
lutely under control OF the prosecution
that is to say, packed. The removals were
also made for the purpose of terrorizing
the entire community, to give notice to
every government official that he had no
right to be friend of any defendant;
that he had no right to express an opin-
ion, no matter how honestly entertained,
that any of the defendants were innocent;
that friendship, gratitude, opinion and
manhood must be sacrificed upon the
altar of this prosecution, and that
every official must consider himself
a dog ready, willing and anxious to obey
the ''ste-boy"' of the attorney general.
The removals mean that no official in any
department of the government has right
to differ with the department of justice.
Perhaps 1 might not be justified in max
ing the charge that the marshal has been
renewed to the end that the jury may be
packed by more subservient official, spe-
clally appointed for that purpose, were it
not for the part played by the department
of justice in the last trial.
All the facts which I have stated as to
my connection with the star mail service
with much greater detail were placed in
the hands of the president and given to
the attorney general early IN 1881. They
have never been disputed, and they never
will be, but still the work of falsehood and
defamation will go on to glorify the men
in power by crushing those who placed
them there.
Signed STEPHEN w. DossEY.
Military Matters.
SALT LAKE., Dec. 1.-Gen. Sheridan will
return from Beaver tomorrow, and soon
go East. It is in contemplation to disccn-
II oy1 l.