The Arkansas advocate., 1832-05-30
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 editorial remarks of the Advocate cfthe 18th ultmo, | see the announcement of (. 5. BIBB, of Frankfort, Ky. asJudge .of the Superior Court of this Territory. vice JAMES WooDsoN BATES, dismissed. To the impartial and enquiring mind, the question naturally arises, for what cause has this been done? Has it been done because Judge Bates talents and legal knowledge were not commensurate with the duties of the office? The an- swer to this enquiry is obvious-No! for no one who has any knowledge of Judge Bates would have presumption enough to impute his dismissal to this cause; and it is an infallible evidence of profound ignorance, or of super cIlloas aifeetatlon, to speak of any thing without information. Has Judge Bates been dismissed from the high and eleva- ted station which he filled, and for which he was so pre-eminently qualiG- ed, for wilfal derclietion of duty or judicial corruption? IaDswer, moi and every honest member of the bar an swers, not and the voice of the commu- nity over which he presided spontanc- ously responds, no! and their just in dighation would be aroused against the wretch who would have the effrontery to promulgatc a charge so iniquitous.- True, Judge Bates has made some fail ures in not holding courts, in some of the counties of which his circuit was composed, but no cuipability rests up- on himin consequence thereof. Causes beyond human control, have prevented him from attending some of the Circuit Courts; and when the locality of the country through which he had 10 travel, and the many almost iAsuperable diff cultIes to overcome, are takeninto con- slderation, the failures are accounted for, and Judge Bates will stand excul. pated in the judgment of every candid man. And no man who has ever pfes- ded on the bench, fromthe organization of the Territory to-the present time, has surpassed Judge Bates in dignity, cour- tesy and integrity-no one has render ed more satisfaction to litigant parties no one has given more general satisfac- 'tion to the bar; and he will ever carry with him the undiminshed confidence Iof those who had the honor to practice before him, and they cannot but feel an honest indignation at the sacrifice of such man.
 Let us extend our enquiries a little further, and see if we can arrive at the true cause of Judge Bates dismissal; :; and here let me say, know not what |lnsidious charges have been preferred to the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Theyare yetundeveloped, and perhaps 1t may be best, if any, that they should remain so, for there IS no just cause of exultation to those who hasc had any agency, either direct or indirect, in procuring Judge Bates dismissal.- Perhaps some one of vivid genius and fanciful imagination, has, with glow ing pen, painted a lively picture of the precipitous mountains and deep vallies that have been traversed, and the tur- 1 bid streams that have been crossed, to arrive at the forum of justice, where they might astound their hearers with ] the thunders of more than Cieeronean or Demosthenean eloquencc, and all their anticipations of immortal renoWn, from the development of their orator lcal powers, were disappointed in con- sequence Of iio Judge, and in return homo Owinu ta f,rtu;fo,,e x;ro,,r,etar n ces, had to encounter the wonders ol night in the dark vallies alone, where all was desolate, until the dawn of day came with its consecutive charms Some, perhaps, may have represented him at the altar of Bacchus, paying de, yetien to the god of wine-a charge aIl- founded.
 But, fellow citizens, (not wishing te invoke your sympathies in behalf O Judge Bates, but to give you state ment of facts, that you may duly appre ciate them,) the cause, and the only ostcnsible cause, of Judge Bates dis missal from office, may be found in his rotc at the last August election. He without consulting the powers that be and yielding implicit obedience to theil will, in the deliberate exercise of hi' elective franchise, one of the deares' rights of freemen, gave his pnbought unbiased suffrage to Col. Desha, ( man not of mushroom growth, but 0 sterling merit, and whom any commu