Show DEFAMING THE DEAD THE late liberal political anti mormon grand jury whose elongated alleged report recently appeared in these columns was sm an I 1 industrious in dust rious body their labors as can be shown to the satisfaction of all people were more far reaching than those of any other jury of whom history gives any account in this or any other land no age of the history excepted ex marshal dyer in his reply to the strictures thrown upon him by the report of the jury says in so many words that they were used as a spout through which certain parties ties well known to the public poured their spleen upon individuals against whom they had bad personal pique but the question arises in relation to this soft impeachment peach ment thrown out by mr dyer as to whether tho the gentlemen who composed the panel were adapted to that purpose if so why not lot let men occupy and operate in the sphere they are most fitted to fill all schemes require workmen and workmen need tools mr dyer should not worry as the business end of the spleen spout was not a single barrel arrangement it was perforated and the bitter liquid scattered over a comprehensive radius and reached a long distance A great many respected citizens have not only been with spleen but covered by indictments one gentleman thus treated has not yet been found A deputy united states marshal armed with a warrant for his arrest made a diligent hunt for him the other day he did not find the man he wanted but made a dise discovery overy he learned that tho person person indicted and for whose arrest he held a warrant had heen been dead just about one year and a half the deputy very sagely remarked that he would not continue the hunt for him as he had an idea that if he did he would not be likely to return this incident reminds one of the story dory of the he absent juryman the judge shouted does any one know why mr so and so is not here hem A fellow juryman of the arose to explain paying maying if your honor please mr so and sois dead besides his wife Js is quite ill and his business affairs fairs are stop interrupted the judge the first reason seems mems to be sufficient and the gentleman is excused from further service ioe I any other than an anti mormon nl grand jury would have deemed a mains mans death a sufficient bar against his being indicted A grand jury is supposed not only to be impartial but to carefully scrutinize every matter coming be fore them the degree of analysis bestowed by the late jury on matters involving the good name and liberty of the citizen is evinced by the fact of their having indicted a man who has been dead a year and a half they found a true bill against agatin st a man who cannot possibly answer personally and defend himself against a vil lienous aspersion seeing that the late joseph G romney well known by the literary name of gaskell cannot rise from his grave to vindicate his bis good name we take pleasure in stating from a personal knowledge of his character as an honest man that any man or set of apologies for men who say that he ever knowingly wronged a human being of a cent ar are either woefully ignorant of his quality or wilful and Immitt mitigated im gated falsifiers we do da not pretend to state that the grand jury were aware that mr romney was deceased but the fact of their ignorance leading to the finding of a true bill against a dead man is of itself an element of gross culpability |