Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-02-23
TJIE STAR E0UTERS.


III. ar lutte Trials have drag 'su
hrir weary lengths along at suen
fling dong" pace that every body mas
grown sut. Of patience and almost ceased
-. read the tircsome testimony. Every
n.,w and thea ia rushing your eve down
tLs Star Route column in the daily
papers, you would come TO a little dia-
l,gue between Mcrrick and Ingersoil.
which would excite some interest from
i,s sPiciness or spatiness only to be fol-
lowed by the usual routine testimony"
e. some Of the papers call it, Readers
have no doubt missed much Of the NTH
o. the trial, for, as we have been iuf,rn
Ed, the main interest has c-n,orod !.
mr.. ingersoll whose efforts to be funnv
aud witty and fright, and to keen tho
sudience IN good htnior have been
Immense. Indeed Bob forgot himself
one day and said. Good Lord deliver
G! or words to this effect. which
Ae audierce seemed to think tart;cul,r.
y amusing, but which being involunta-
PLY spoken may have indicated that Ro- |
bert has seen better days or that away
down in the depths of the mans being
there is a consciousness of something
outside and apart from him on which he
will call some day for delivcrance from
some Of the pangs be now processes to
sneer at.
Such has been tho condition Of these
trials heretofore, but new interest has
been awakened in the last ten DAYS bv
tue confession Of guilt by X. rdell. one
Of the lesser conspirators who, with an i,
other, was found guilty by the corrupt !
jury on the former trial, aud by his tes-
simony which, If true, conclusively
proves the guilt of Dorsey and Brady. :
Cer'ainly his statements with the other
testimony will conclude the case for the
government if this jury be not false to T
lis trust.
There Is one thing in Rerdelrs :,
testimony which should make the adj !,
nirers of the great (2) apostle of diluted !;
agnostlcism hang their heads in shame :,
Herdeatrstifies that at the entreates and {
Oars of Dorsey he prepared a statement
which Dorsey corrected aud interpoated
denying and retractng certain charges
which he had previously made, with :.
ruth, to ihc attorney and Postmaster .
Generals against Dorsey; that he swore
10 this statement and with Dorsey and
i"g|rsoH took Ibis pcrjured affidavit to
he White House; that he (RerdelD re- >
i'siaed down stairs while Dorsey and
ngersol went up, and that that was the
ass he saw Of that perjnred paper. This :.
Eould seem to show that Mr.. Ingersoll
as o'er-stepped the bounds of profess L.,
ienal duty and honesty in helping hiA -.
lent before the trial to be suborner of
too
,erjury if it do not point to deeper com "a
'licity in aud knowledge Of the stupen- al
ous frauds from the consequences of the g
,erpetration of which he is now striving o
o shield his client. Not all his social !
d wit and humor, his aippancy and doo
..c2sm or the fact that he retorts npon .,..
lcrdell by calling him "A creature ,ho
''' '''''u ~" '''' Wv just
= every no"o'' "'a" ~ ~ f'0''9''N it 0
'agnostic" or not.
The conduct of the prosecution in this :.
ase, lead by Mr. Merrick, has been sou
nasterly and above rcproach. There is RAJ,
very prospect that the government will "'O
lose in few days, and we cannot see ah
hat the defense will occupy much time oe'
/ will be relief when the case is con- 'e''
luded, and if it end in the conviction of ma
Dorsey, Brady ct al, we shall take re- tue
'swed hope in that righteous verdict sou
AZ been given despite the use of money du'
,slitics aud such influences which are so
,otent now a-days in controlling judg inn
nents and verdicts even in the most cou
rifing trials in some OF our most Insig for
,i6cant courts lat'