Year: 1872




The revelations already made IN the remark
able trial of the impeachment Of Judge Bar
nard now going on at Saratoga, fully justify
the action of the Assembly in demanding the
Investigation; and unless the defendant can
show sound law for his rulings and good ex-
cuses for his acts, will warrant his conviction.
Defense there is none, in the true sense of
the word, for the case against the accused has
virtually been made by his own witnesses.
He is condemned by evidence reluctantly
wrung from his own intimates, and by docu-
ments which cannot be distorted to his adj
vantage, though to help his case some other
papers have been permitted by their custodian
to disappear as mysteriously as the vouchers
of the Controllers Office were distracted to
save Tweed and Connolly from exposure.


The chief significance of the present trial is
the development of new matter. The Managers
have given to the Senate for Barnard's con-
viction a much stronger case than that on
which the Committee obtained the impeach-
ment in the Assembly. This was to have been
anticipated. Naturally, the passage of the i'm
peachment articles encouraged scores of law
yers and merchants and financers, who in
dread of Banard's power, had previously
been silent, to come forward with their testi-
mOny and missing links in the evidence have
been supplied, until the secret history of
several of the vilest of Tweed's and Fisk's
cOnspiracies is revealed These cOnspiracies
it is not our purpose to detail in the light of
these latest revelations; it is enough TO say
that the villanies in stealing railways, invading
private Offices, breaking into private companies
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cover of law as dispensed by Barnard, have
never before been half told. An injunction
against the Union Pacific Railroad, OBJ
tained from Barnard by Fisk on an eJ parte
statement, cost that Company millions by de-
preston of its stock from 102 to G5, and twice
as much was sacrificed in land grants of the
Company This, as testified to yesterday by
Director of the road, is but one of scores of
such transactions illustrating the peculiar
methods of the freebooters who lately ruled
in our courts and councils


1t was some time since reported, on such
excellent authority that we gave publicity to
the rumor, that Judge Barnard's friends had
raised large sum to influence the court now
trying him, and that his injudcious adherents
were boasting that eleven Senators had been
secured. This latter statement we denounced
at the time as palpable falsehood but the
bribery fund raised for the Judge is never
theless spent, and some disreputable journals,
whose support is always to be had for money.
indicate where it has gone by vigorous efforts in
denunciation of his enemies. 1t is not worth
while to inform Senators that these Journals
represent no honest sentiment Of the respect
able portion of the community; but it may be
needful to counteract the influence which may
be produced in the minds of Senator's from
distant parts of the State who know nothing
personally of what this people have endured,
by the nsidious use, by Barnard's friends, of
the language of The NeU York Times at vari-
GUS dates. 1t is sought 10 be shown that this