The Arkansas advocate., 1832-10-24

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 should like to he your Governor ,or some thing such as that.
 Rocky .Nountain Bard.
 To BENJ. JOHNSON, one af tte Judee,
 Vfhe Superior Court ef tAe Ierri,0rs
 G .4rkansas:
 SIR-1 ou have been invested with the authority of one of the Judges ol the United States Court, for the Terri. tory, during the last ten years. The late%term of four years, for which you have been commissioned, is now about to expire. The office which you have held, has created npon yourself many heavy and highly delicate duties, for the proper discharge of which consid- erable share of moral courage, patience. and legal requirement, were necessary l: but above all, a firm, manly and disin- tereSted attachment and yeneration for the laws aud institutions of the country. and aa infexible determination to pre- serve and enforce them, regardless fin dividual feelings or private interests. were indispensable.
 On the part of the public, they have been and are yitally interested in the commission you have held, and in the manner in which you have discharged your duties under Il. So faras govern ment regards the community governed. the judicial power Is the right arm ol every government; upon it the com manity depends for the security of ev- cry thing important and vaIuabIe.- To the Judge every power of the go- vernment is made subordinate. The military are bound to obey his call. and assist in enforcing his deerees. The tranquility of society, the lives of tie citizens, their homes, their property. and rights of every description, are pro tected by the Judge, and the manner in which he administers the laws.
 As one of the Judges of the Superior Court, every citizen of the Territory has been deeply interested in your coh- edct as such Judge. As Jadge of the Circuit Courts of the second circuit of the Territory, the people of the coun. ties ot Pulaski, Crawford, Pope, Con way, Jefferson, and Hot Spriug, have been more particularly and directly in- terested. You have had in those coun. ties the exclusive criminal jurisdiction, and, consequently, the suppression of crime and the preservation Of peace and order, have depended upon our con- ductal The laborer who tolls from day 10 day, depends on the Judge, di- rectly or indirectly, to secure to him, by legal means, if necessary, his wages, theproceeds of his industry, upon which his wife and children depend for their support. The merchant, the mechanic every man in whatsoever business en- ployed-must look to the Judge for the protection of his person and to secure to him the profits of his labor.
 The office you have held, is. and has been important, in another point of vew-if not in an equal degree with those mentioned, yet certainly deserving much regard. It is we'll known. that it the neighborng States it is generally said and believed, with how much inc justice l need not say, that crime, out rage, and insubordination to the law. prevail in our country to an unusual and alarming extent. This opinion exists so generally, that 1t is believed and re. ported without contradiction, that on this account the Territory loses every year alarge number of the most respect. able citizens, who are deterred from this cause alone from emigratng to the country.
 This state of things gives the public another and high obligation upon every judicial officer to enforce with sternness and energy, the penal code of the coun- try, and to infiict punishment with cer- tainty upon all who have been guilty of crime, that this foul calumny upon the community al large, may be refuted.- All,respectablc and honest citizens in the country, have felt themselves in some measure individually concernedin the prevalence of this belief. and have looked to the courts of justice 10 free them from this implied and foul impu. tation. Seeing, sir, the deep concern to all involved in the discharge of your official duties, you will readily admit. that, he who took no interest in your conduct, was blind and indifferent to his own safety and happiness. Your duties have, not been alone confined to the Courts in which you have presided. Y ou have been Iiabie to be caiiesi on to extend the benefits Of the laws, to the citizens of the Territory, every day during the last ten years; and this you