Show SECRETARY BONAPARTE Attorney General Bonaparte is a mysterious peron person per per- son on whom it is hard to understand The other day dayn in n a speech at Pittsburg he bewailed the fact that under existing laws men could d not he be rearrested and tried tried ried over oyer again on the same charges after they had been cen once acquitted by the court He Lie adds Fairly and properly tried these persons should go free as DS air once freed by a competent tribunal And Mr Bonaparte stopped right there He ne did not tell who was vas to judge whether an accused person had been properly tried or 01 not and we do not see how his n rule e could be invoked except by first changing the law aw that an acquittal is an acquittal by adding to it an acquittal is only an acquittal when the trial has hascen been cen fair To determine whether the trial has been fair air upon acquittal the person should be branded by bythe bythe bythe the court on the hand or on the cheek and the brand should state whether the trial was a fair one ono or whether it was a fraudulent ent one in small letters that could d be tattooed Tried and fairly acquitted or Tried and acquitted through the tricks of his friends or attorneys and in the last case he would be subject to and a new trial That kind of reasoning coming from a cabinet officer of the United States government has the effect ef el ei- ei feet of causing men to have less respect for the gov gov- |