Year: 1875




Is SO low and vile as no English wcrd
can suitably characterize. 1t is as ex-
pressive in its sense as our Chinook
word "cultus." applied to exceptional
and extreme worthlessness. No other
term can appropriately describe the last
issue of the IntelIigencer. 1t fully con-
firms our position, that the attacks OF
that paper upon Mr.. Webster and other
gentleman of high public and social po-
.sition, were actuated solely by booflsh
malice which envies and hates all and
every thing above its reach. The foul
personal denounciation which accom-
panies the false charges CLEARLY indicate
-theirsanimus. The main facts, as we
stated there, remain uncontradlcted save
by the unsupported testimony OF one
Who writes himself down a malicious
And unscrupulous calumniator OF pri-
yate character while professirg to de-
fard nnblic interests. 1t was nothing
to him that thousands of bereaved ana
aching hearts might be wrung by s'a'e'
ments Of what "might have been; no"
Int for the dereliction of government
officer. their friends might have Len
saved. lie only saw in the great ca
lamity an opportunity Of venting lis
spleen upon a man whose sole. offence
was in being gentleman and occupy
ing pubic and social position from
which his own degraded instincts for
ever debarred him. Hence the chafse'
which he reaffirms. that Mr.. Webster
the Collector, had the Revenue steamer
off on pleasure excursion at the time
of the catastrophy to the Pacific; that
Int for this immediate reliet might
have been afforded to the ship-wrecked
passengers and crew.


All this is false. We are informed
nv Captain Harwood of the Revenue
steamer, that he was on cruise unaer
the general orders of the Department
that Mr., Webster had nothing to do
with ordering the trip or participating
in it; that the steamer made the same
trim before, under the command CT
.captain Scammon, anchored in the
same place, and pursued the same Or
dor of examination in small boats; that
the Deputy Collector and the two or
three other gentlemen who took passage
with them at the time, did not turn the
steamer from its course or delay it m
hour in shooting ducks while the ofil-
cars md crew were engaged in making
their examinations Of the various
mouths of the rivers emptying into the
-Sound from the British Columbia side;
that the steamer was back at Port
Townsend within ten Gnstead OF "a,
honrs after the news of the disaster to
the Pacific had been received there, ana
that if they had been there and started
for the scene of the disaster, at the
time when the news was first received
two days afterit occ arred-they would
certainly have missed the man they did
pick up, without any probability oi
saving others who had nearly all per
ished before that time. These facts
entirely and conclusively dispose OF the
charges against Mr.. Webster, OF devla-
ton of duty in connection with that
affair.


The editor, from the same motive, takes
this occasion to renew his assaults on
Chief Justice Lewis, with whom he
assumes to have personal issue. The
-Judpe, in the course of his official prac-
-tice, has just such another personal
issue every time criminal appears IN
the dock of his Court. The most de-
Graded scoundrel always pleads =" Not
Guilty" and whiningly complains of
the prejudice Of the Court. Were the
enterprise and courage of this editor
equal to his unscTupulous malignity,
he would be in the category of the latter
and have greater cause to complain OF
the Judge than he has now. The Judge
now only regards him as "dirty dog "
and does not hesitate to say so. The
.oply favor he has ever asked OF US as
an editor that we would not condescend
to notice charges against him coming
from such source.


The editor says his structures upon
the Judge were couched in gentlemanly
terms until he resorted to the base SUBJ
terfuge (after taking away from the
Chief Clerk the right to appoint his own
.deputies) of claiming that he had a
right to appoint deputies under a Sec
ton of tie q. S. Statutes relating to
the Federal Courts For such du>
-plicity and baseness We denounced him
as he deserved" In other words, the
editor claims the right to assail The
Judge with ribald denunciation and forl
accusation because the appointment OF
Clerk did not suit him: an appointment
recommended andendorsed by the Con-
gressional Delegate elect, the Chairman
of the Republican Territorial Commit
tee, nearly or quite all of the Fedora
officers of the Territory, four-fifths Of
the bar of the District, and only op-
posed by one law firm who had special
personal interest in the appointment of
another man,-to whom we were their
second choice--and by the editor of the
Lnteuigencer, whose several years prac-
tice as lawyer never equalled one case
to each term of court. The right OF
the Judge to appoint his own Clerk Is as
unquestionable as the right OF any mer-
chant to appoint his own book-keeper.
The law provides that there shall be
but one Clerk in each district, and 1t
more are needed it is expressly the duty
of the Judge to appoint Deputies. This
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