The Kansas City _Times_, in its issue at this period, uses the following
language:
NO ONE WILL CENSURE.
_Gratitude for Judge field's Escape the Chief Sentiment._
Deputy Marshal Neagle acted with terrible promptitude in
protecting the venerable member of the Supreme Court with
whose safety he was specially charged, but few will be
inclined to censure him. He had to deal with a man of fierce
temper, whose readiness to use firearms was part of the best
known history of California.
It is a subject for general congratulation that Justice Field
escaped the violence of his assailant. The American nation
would be shocked to learn that a judge of its highest tribunal
could not travel without danger of assault from those whom
he had been compelled to offend by administering the laws.
Justice Field has the respect due his office and that deeper
and more significant reverence produced by his character
and abilities. Since most of the present generation were
old enough to observe public affairs he has been a jurist of
national reputation and a sitting member of the Supreme Court.
In that capacity he has earned the gratitude of his countrymen
by bold and unanswerable defense of sound constitutional
interpretation on more than one occasion. In all the sad
affair the most prominent feeling will be that of gratitude at
his escape.
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