" And Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, in his
message to the legislature of that State, pronounced the
officer appointed by the marshal under the direction of the
Attorney-General to protect Justices Field and Sawyer from
threatened violence and murder as a "_secret armed assassin_,"
who accompanied a Federal judge in California, and who shot
down in cold blood an unarmed citizen of that State.
CHAPTER XX.
THE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE SECOND
TRIAL OF SARAH ALTHEA'S DIVORCE CASE.
With the discharge from arrest of the brave deputy marshal, Neagle,
who had stood between Justice Field and the would-be assassin's
assault, and the vindication by the Circuit Court of the right of the
general government to protect its officers from personal violence, for
the discharge of their duties, at the hands of disappointed litigants,
the public mind, which had been greatly excited by the proceedings
narrated, became quieted. No apprehension was felt that there would be
any reversal of the decision of the Circuit Court on the appeal which
was taken to the Supreme Court. General and absolute confidence was
expressed in the determination of the highest tribunal of the nation.
The appeal was argued on the part of Neagle by the Attorney-General of
the United States and Joseph H. Choate, Esq.
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