The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-23
BGgs That France Right the Great Wrong That Has
 Been Done Him.
HAS BORNE SUFFERING
 QUIETLY FOR NINE YEARS
Now That the Guilty Person, Ester hazy, Is Known, He Asks That the Case Be Reopened and His
 Name Cleared of Guilt.

Paris, April 22.--Alfred Dreyfus has sub mitted to Minister of War Andre lengthy letter in which he asks for a re- opening of his case by means of an inves- tigation by the minister as the supreme head of military justice. The letter which is dated Paris. April 21 confirms the report that Dreyfus has been living quietly here for some time.
 It promises to cause tremendous agi- tation among the various elements of the political groups for Alfred Dreyfus. The first part of the letter is an earnest plea for the reopening of the case in the court which condemned him at Rennes, which he says was improperly influenced first by the annotated docu- ment ascribed to Emperor William, and second by the false testimony of one Of the witnesses Czernuski.
 After arguing on the extent on which this contributed to his condemnation, Dreyfus recalls in graphic terms the long subjected
 Style Is Highly Dramatic.
 The letter throughout is eouched in a highly dramatic style. which Is likely to make it one of the notable papers of the case.
 It refers to Esterhazy as "one to stand before the entire world as a culprit.'
 One of the leading passages showing the rhetorical style is as follows:
 "I will not recall MT. Minister, what I have endured since 1894. Picture to yourself the horrors of a soldier whose xayac k. loyalty, and to profound devotion for his country, and who in an instant Is strip ped of his good name and despoiled Of the honor of himself and his children For five years this soldier is subjected to horrible suIferings They seek to crush him physically; to annihilate him moral ly He is absolutely innocent of all crime and struggles in vain to penetrate the mystery proclaiming his innocence and struggling with all the forces of his mind and body for that supreme pleasure or vindicating his good name and charac- ter Days, months and years pass thus in most cruel agony, amid the tortures of a murderous climate. At last he IS brought back to France the guilty one is discovered and the soldier hears himself proclaimed innocent by those who before reyiled him as a traitor. It was thus, MT. Minister, that 1 hoped to see my martyrdom ended.
 Deadly Hatred UnIoosened.
 "Rut alas. if I returned to find the devotion of friends who had battled for the truth, 1t was to find also that dead ly hatred had been unloosened.
 .In 1894 l was stabbed in the back cannot imagine how such conditions can prevail through falsehood and deception. But so it was and my second condemna- tion was but an aggravated reafrirma- fha guilty one was known and unmasked and Esterhazy was recognized as the au- thor of the treason the same men who had cheated justice in 1894 again sought in 1899 to cheat justice for the second time by the same criminal man euvers. Conscious of these methods the government of the republic will not per- init itself to keep In prison one who is known to be innocent.
 Tn constant thought of ultimate legal revision I have reassembled little by lit- tie all the divergent clements of testi- mony contributing to my conviction. I have scorned calumnies and falsehoods. l have remained silent with the. firm con viction that justice would surely have its day of triumph. The victim of crim- inal tactics and violation of the law twice committed against me, l now ad- dress myself to the supreme chief of mill itary justice, and supporting myself by new facts which have been elcited and by the existence of the pretended Bor- dereaux annotated by Emperor William, beg to ask that you institute an inquiry first upon the uses made of this false document at Rennes. and the consequent ces it produced on those rendering judg- ment; second. upon the false and fraud ulent testimony of czernuski at Rennes. !"
 After a defferential salutation the letter Is signed, Alfred Dreyfus"