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Show THE 0ODEK " JUNCTION " ON THE 'HERALD" LIBEL. Tho Ogdeu Junction of Tuesday, in an incisive article headed "Judge McKean on the Rampage," publishes pub-lishes the special charge of the Judge on Monday last, in regard to the Herald, adding: The above exhibition of tho undignified anger and axtra-judieial spleen of tho J iidga with a miiaion, was given in the Third District Court yesterday. At the latest advices tho proprietors and editors of the Hkrald were still alive, still able to handlo a pencil, (quills are out of date with writers lor tho press) and still undismayed un-dismayed at tho rage of judges or the ire of the Radical "ring." James B. McKean will gain nothing by ihU intemperate charge on a public newspaper. His eilbrts wit! be classed by the great American public, with other attempts at-tempts to gag the press and stifle the free expression of public sentiment. But with ftdidersnce. It will be counted as a feather in tho same calo with tho ponderous ponder-ous exertions of land and FMinglmv-sen FMinglmv-sen a malignant pull" from a small tyrant, ty-rant, in imitation of the big blasts of the great blowers. The result will be increased in-creased popularity, greater influence, and more greenback to the Herald, and if possible more contempt for the irritable and partisan Chief Justice of Utah. The Junction then refers to the foul libels published daily in the Tribune upon the best men of the Territory as pleasant morsels to his honor, as contrasted with his display of temper at the publication of "a little dig in the ribs" by the Herald from a Nevada paper, and continues as follows: fol-lows: What U Judge McK can's Erst -charge to the preeiit grand jury but a wholesale libel. What cilect was it intended to produce on the press of ihe country? Bv quo'.uig obsolete tlstuws, furring to ex-pired ex-pired temporary grants, Clipping -diicjn-nocted sentences from tabernacle termors, ter-mors, and raking up rumors of uce- plamcd occurrences, ho wanted the inference infer-ence to be drawn tiiat Brigham Young and the early settlers of Utah were robbers, rob-bers, rebels and murderers. That there might bo no mistake- its to his object in disning up this mvPs of sensational han, the- sensitive jurist uttered the infamous falsehood that "hundreds of murders have been perpetrated ia pursuance -of this legislation leg-islation and this doctrine.'' c And now because a paper repeats a bare insinuation concerning this wholesale libohcr, ho invokes the whole paraphernalia parapher-nalia of the law for vengeance upon its head and all its mem tors. But this will not establish his innocynca in the eyes of hi act user. Everybody knows that his dramatic appeal to the grand jury to investigate in-vestigate his character, is the bald,-st bosh, the trashiest kind of a farce, and he wul find that such a defense as ho has I adopted will not stop the wagging of :-ar-! ca -tic tongues, and that an indictment ; against thu Herald will prove to biiuj ai.yluiLj but a Silver Shield. I |