The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-19

,f days since In Dublin Tor lhe
murder of fonp CAyKRDsn and NIB
prnKr, Ia another striking illustration
OF the despatch witnessed In The ao'
Of justice IN "rea'
Britain. The crime was, for q Ions tline'
mystery, and IL was feared that the perpe-
traitors thereof would escape detection 81.
together, but lually that murder VIII
out was again demonstrated, and mum.
Der of men, supposed to be principals ava
accessories, were arrested and the hrst coh-
ylction, as mentioned, has taken place.
While the civilized world regarded Win
horror the cowardly assassina' ion oil
CAvENDIsH and BURKE, and hoped Tor the
discovery and punishment of their murder
ers, it is doubtful if the same general SYM
pathy will 60 with the authori'
ties in the peculiar manner ana
methods by which BRADY has
been convicted. The trial was rushed
through with such dispatch, and court and
Jury seemed so clearly to have been deter
mined and organized to convict, and that at
oace, that the trial presents the appearance
of having been conducted in too cold
Hooded a manner. 1t doesn't look so much
| ike spirit of justice as spirit OF revenge
was debating the prosecution. The yigor-
Gus administration of justice is consum-
nation most devoutly to be wished, but
when passion dictates the proceedings oil
courts rather than the cool ana undimmed
determinations Of reason, it were for the
people far better that the doors OF the tenn
ples of law we're closed. AS general thing,
the English system and court proceedings
owing to the freedom from responsibility or
account TO the populace and the consequent
independence and dispatch of business from
that fact, is more to be admired than our
own, where, mingled with the sense OF duty
is the fear of the public and the ballot. But
cases like this Of BRADY show that the Eng
lish judiciary establishment and system
are not free from criticism, and have not
vet reached that perfection where passion
and desire to recompense the appointing
power play no part in the court records.
| BRADY in few short weeks has oeen
caught up, placed on trial before a special
Judge and jury. confronted and accused by
public intormers and self.contessed con-
spirators and villains, defended by counsel
appointed by the crown, attacked by the
charge of the court, and sentenced to be
hung within an hour after the retirement
of the jury. In case surrounded by SUCH
mystery and of such significance to both
the public and the prisoner, such haste,
such iron inhexibility, such illiberality on
the part of the prosecution, are
not only unseemly, bat reprehensl-
Bile in the extreme. The evils OF the
administration of justice, convincing
and impressiDg the public that the majesty
of the law has been upheld by strict
compliance with the demands of even
handed Justice, will never be met by such
proceedings, but the courts and the law
will, on the other hand, strike the popular
mind as mockeries merely and engines OF
oppression. 1t would have been better for
Great Britain, and much better have tailed
with the enlightened sense of propriety and
Justice everywhere, if the government had
been less vigorous and hasty and noto-
riously prejudiced from the beginning oil
the trial, and with equal determination to
do its duty had manifested more magnan-
unity and fairness, greater disposition to
give its prisoner and victim the fullest ben
eft of every doubt in his case. Justice is
mockery and terror when administered
in the spirit that seems to possess
tie authorities of Great Britain in the man
agement of the cases against the irish sus-
poets and Invincibles. When crime has
been fastened upon man after calm,
prolonged and fair investigation, the world
will applaud the execution fearlessly OF the
seyerest penalty of the law, but when the
courts appear from dav to day as preju-
diced tribunals aud engines of oppression,
practically denying the law that they are
seeking ostensibly to uphold, the worlds
sympathy will leave the crown and reach
out TO the prisoner. Humanity will con-
denim murder and arson and the wholesale
destruction OF property by the Fenians and
Irish agitators, but it will condemn with
equal lorce the blood thirsty and revengeful
proceedings IN the courts Where the Grimm
ais are arraigned for trial, and from the
FIRST step thereof are VIGOROUSLY con-
demned men whatever they may
have to urge in their behalf
Brady will undoubtedly be hung
on the l4th of May, but the fact
would cause less regret, less suspicion of
the victims innocence and impress the
public mind the more strongly with sense
of English humanity and fairness, as well
as mighty power, if his reasonable requests
for delay and preparation of his case bad
not been so impatiently and angrily re-
fused, and be had had the full benefits OF
what Jury trial in an enlightened land is
supposed to furnish prisoner. The more
prominent the case and the more aroused
with reference thereto is public opinion,the
greater necessity for that cslmness and de-
Law that will enable the hotter passions TO |
cool. We cannot but feel that the merci- |
less swlftness Of these prosecutions in Ire
and will defeat the true aims Of The law, |
and hold the administration OF justice up
10 contempt aud bitter criticism.