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Show 1'lain Talk uv a J uncus. lu the charge by Judge Williams to the grand jury in Chicago, upon the killing 01 Col. Crosveuer, and referring to letters published purporting lo have been written by Covernor l'almer relative to the indictment of Con. Sheridan, Mayor Mason, and others, the Judge said: You should iiud no bill against any party except on the information of two of your members who have a personal per-sonal knowledge of the facts. Neither the jtrosecutinff attorney nor the court has a riff hi to instruct you as to whom you should indict. It would be dangerous danger-ous to private lights aud an invasion of your prerogatives if ever the court should advise you whom you should indict, and if this court may not do it far less may any person who docs not sustain to you any official relation. How wiil this doctrine agree with the practice in this city ? The "danger "dan-ger to private rights" has been of small moment here compared with "considerations of policy," malicious designs, vindictive feelings aud Janati-C-.il bigotry. |