South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-09-19


convicted and punished by unknown
and irresponsible authority "a most sa-
| cred principle consecrated by our Bill
of Right is that Of being confronted
with accusers and witnesses, having
the right to call for exculpatory evil
| dence,. and Of being tried by an impair
tial jury. This principle has ofiate IN
frequent instances been wholly disre-
| garded, and prscedents established for
the sake Of Furnishing guilt, which be-
ing established, take away all security
from innocence. confess, ! regard
them With much apprehension, 81 think
it not inappropriate to refer to them,
for the purpose Of stimulating Grand
Juries, TO exert energetically their lie.
gilimate powers, so as to deprive the e.
vii disposed Of all apology or excuse for
assuming such as are at once highly
dangerous and manifestly illegal.-ls
is in your power to inculcate an habit !.
ual respect for the Laws, by shelving
that they are not dead letters but ac-
tive rules of conduc. which may not
ia any instance be violated with i'm
punity. If cases occur not provided
for by the Legislature, let the law be
amended, but in the mean time fearless
ly present any aan or combination OF
men, attempting to supply its suppos-
ed defects by arbitrary and licen,lous
violence, lest you rouse the sleeping
lion, and see triu nphant power ca
PRECIOUS, despotic and irresistible.
Ia the progress Of the observations
am about TO submit TO you, l hope to
make it appear, that in Virginia at
least, there is no occasion for the APP
plication Of Lynch or Vicksburg law,
since there is scarcely an offence of
any magnitude from which danger may
be apprehended (including the most
exciting Of all subjects) that you may
not enquire into and present-eith a
reasonable assurance Of its being Sc
verely punished, provided the guilt Of
the accused is established before his
constitutional triers by satisfactory evil
dence, &c., &c.
Co We would inform the Cumberland
Advocate that we have learned historic
cally and additionally, that Gen. Harri-
son was first brought into public notice
by Gen. Wayne appointing him one of
his AIDs!DE-cAMP that he was after
wards brought into further notice. by Mr..
Jefferson appointing him Governor Of the
Indiana Territory; and, that he was
brought into still further notice, by MIR.
Madison appointing him commander,in-
chief Of the North Western Army at the
commencement ofthe late war. Wheth-
er Mr.. Jefferson and Mr.. Madison wore
BLACK cockades, or WHITE cockades, we
know not and TO our remark, that Mr..
Van Buren, is the candidate of the Office
holders only, we add. that he is SO espe-
cially--Gen. Jackson and those who
hold office at his will are the very men
who brought him into view, and heis EN-.
phatically and truly their candidate and
not the candidate Of any disinterested
portion ofthe people originally. Tho Bal
timore Convention only registered the
WILL Of Gen. Jackson.
Look out for Counterfsiss on tho
Bank Of the Valley.-Yesterday NOR
ming we saw in the hands Of gentle
man Of this place, counterfeit twenty
dollar note on the above bank, paya-
BILE at Winchester, dated 23rd Nov.
1888, Letter H. No. 500, Waite,
president, and Brent, cashier. The
whole face Of the bill indicated its
spuriousness the large figures $50"
placed on each corner, were coarse
and clumsey in their execution and
irregular in their form /; the profile fa-
ces at each end, fronting to the left and
included in an eliptical border, laid
upon the vignette, were exceedingly
rough--and scarcely distinguishable
from the back ground. The full fac
ed head near the centre of the lower
margin without any border, end with
leaves, tendiils and flowers intermin.
ged with its curls, is course in the
extreme, and not bad caricature Of
Meducais head and the word taoen-
ty which is repeated four times in a
line at the top and bottom, are rough
and irregular. The signature of the
cashier is badly imitated--that of the
president much better, except that the
.....n a. the end has the appearance Of
the letter e, so that Waite seems to