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seizure, and a violation of the sanctity of letters unlawfully seized. A letter to Mr. Spies, written a year before the trial, was seized, after breaking open his private editorial desk, and was permitted to be read on the trial by Judge Gary, the prupose of which was to show he had received—not answered—a letter from Herr Most about medicine that was good for the relief of the Hocking valley strikers of 1885. Evidence obtained by a violation of such safeguards to the citizens is a violation of all rights guaranteed by the constitution. Of course, where courts are now constituted to protect vested wrongs in many cases, as witness Justice Field's decisions in California in favor of the Chinese and in protection of Senator Stanford against the Pacific commission, there is no way to estimate the result of even an application for a writ of error in this case. It may be that blood is what is wanted and blood they must have, and thus verify the saying that Ôwhom the gods would destroy they first make mad.'"
"What is your own history and political status?"
"I have held positions of honor under three governors and two presidents. I was on the supreme court bench, a member of the United States centennial commission, was a state senator, was in the Charleston convention of 1860, and commanded an active cavalry brigade in the confederate service throughout the war. I am a Jeffersonian democrat and believe the ballot will redeem the nation."
--Correspondence Daily News.
LETTER FROM A NATIVE OF NEWBURYPORT, MASS.
10 POLAND STREET, W. LONDON, OCTOBER 8, 1887.
Fellow Craftsman:
* * * We had a packed meeting at the Club in Tottenham street last evening—not packed with police spies and disturbers, as attempted, but with your devoted friends and admirers from every country of the so-called civilized world; that is, from the portion of our insignificant little globe where Adam Smith is Brahma, Vishnu, Mahomet, Christ and King. On last evening we had the honor of lining Cleveland street near at hand from end to end with police and constables, while as many as could conveniently stand about the place
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