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Show A FMEJiD DEFENDS. The Brutality of the Salt Like Tribune's Attack on Judgre J. W. Blackburn, Deceased, De-ceased, Commented. Upon. To the editor of The Dispatch; The Sunday Tribune yesterday's furnishes a startling example of that unreasoning and unrelenting vindic-tivenesa vindic-tivenesa which it ascribes to another and professes to abhor. Having had some little tilts with Judge Blackburn in his life time, the Salt Lake Tribune,' even while his neighbors and legal brethren are paying pay-ing the last observance ot respect beside hiscoffiu, iu t!u pciuelul quite of a Sabbath morning, cooits out with an editorial on his death in which it com pares him to "a hungry dog that had lost his teeth," enlarges upon his physical physi-cal iefirmities, represents the inner man as still more warped and crippled, and asserts that his name was tainted, with or without his fault, and that he died without a friend near him. The verdict ver-dict of a civilized aud Curistain community com-munity upon such sava.'e brutality will doubtless make itself harU and felt, but as one who has known him perhaps longer and better than any one else in L'rovo the undersigned would refei briefly to facts. When Judge Blackburn was a candi date for the associate judgeship here, the most eminent menioers of the bench and bar in Colorado, without regard re-gard to party, testified to his character and learning, and furnished as hisih testimonials as have ever been pre sented by anyoue coming a stranger into Utah, and who shall say that his life here has iut borne out the statements of his old friends? That he was not in every particular adapted to the position and duties of the bench, does not affect the truthfulness truthful-ness of those assertions. If to fail in business taints a man's character, regardless of the cause of failure his was tainted; but, if there ' was anything worth bringing up at any time, why was it never brought up in ins iiietime when ne couia aeiena himself? His failure was not one in which the bankrupt comes off with more money than any one else concerned. con-cerned. When he resumed the practice prac-tice of law in Custer county, Colorado, they were virtually penniless, and his wife was so at one with him in accepting accept-ing their circumstances just as they were, that she would not run in debt for a pair of gloves in which to return the calls she received. They were a devoted couple, and able to maintain dignity and self-respect, and to win the respect of those w ho knew them Emperors and empresses, kings an? queens, write to each other as brother and sister. Reigning grnr-.l dukes also enjoy this privilege wh:n addressing kings, but sovereigns not i.ossessing royal roy-al honors aro designated ao cousin. |