Norfolk Gazette And Publick Ledger

Equal and exact justice.—We are informed that on the late trial in New York, the testimony of Mr. Swartwout, the marshal of the district, was of a nature to make favourable impressions as to the agency of government in the affair of Miranda, and that since the conclusion of the trial he has been removed from his office by the president of the United States.

In the name of morality and decency, is it possible that there should be any connexion between these two facts! Will the administration leave room for even a suspicion that an officer under oath before a court of justice must accommodate his testimony to their wishes at the peril of his office. We greatly fear that there is something rotten in this affair.

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MARSHAL SWARTWOUT.—It is reported, but we know nothing of the truth of the report, that the President of the United States has removed Mr. Swartwout from the office of Marshal of this district.

It is sneeringly intimated in the Evening Post of Saturday last, that the removal ought to have been made, if made at all, previous to the late trials of Smith and Ogden, in which case Mr. Coleman seems to intimate that the marshal would not have had use in his power to select a jury to answer certain purposes. As Mr. Coleman, and the heads of the federal party, and the friends of our excellent and incorrupt governor, and the marshal, etc. have acted all together on this occasion, he may be presumed to know something about it. There never was on any occasion, or at any time a more profligate, a more audacious, or a more unprincipled combination to calumniate the National Executive, and embarrass the operations of Government.