The Arkansas advocate., 1836-11-04
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sise elections fef Circuit Judges and Prosecn;n torneys- congratulate the Legislature upon hI ,a IL character they have carried for themselves and . estimable benefit they have conferred upon har " 'a- try by the discrimination, discernment and na,r;a displayed n these elections They have 6le9 a measure of their goryhe meas,,ra of ta 'ae of the State they have made to overflow at tba s.f From the whole talent of Arkansas they hayb S,. s.' those most eminent, exalted and distinguished m tai endowment, for legal attainment and for ntelIoa magnifcence; and with dsineresed devotion welfare of the country, sternly and magnanjmoplMM M M gardless of the high claims of party, they have US bench whose judicial decisions cannot fail tn n those ofthe high Courts of England in their most ooa and palmy days. We may now strike down finn Ss Sa niches in the temple of judicial glory the inaoes ae Kenyon, Ellenborough and Eldon, and heir comoears and put up there, in place of these fathers of En:p law, the TulIys, the Hoges and the Cadwels of 5rl ansas.
 Men can sometimes jest while the iron Is ente,;ns their souls. In some such mood have written tHns far. The stern severity of would bette, la6 the occasion-for imagine that hear walnp cry of anguish go up from the face of the whole land. m buking me for my sacrilegious leyity. In my fomef numbers 1 have written calmly and codly. Passion has had 10 share iii their ception or production, Now feel moved and more excited than would de. sire. Anger, pity and contempt mingie together in my feelings to produce unutterabe disgust All the es.
 
 lence erontery and baseness are than realized When degraded and miscreant press dared, frstd lnsinuate Ill whispers and then openly to announce tO asonlshed people the insulting doctrine that party sycophancY and parasitcal zeal ought of rah! S5- warded with the judicial ermine, fondy hoped that there would be found among the Representatives ofthe people so much virtue as that they would spurn from 1 them the miserable ayower of political creed so po fgate, unprincipled libeler and more than ra tor 10 his country. To hope this required no over strained and exaggerated estimate of the moral quail. ties Of he mental capacity of those Representative ] l had supposed that of common inelligencs and decent selfregafd would suffer such suggestions to be made to him, without thruspg back with hon. est indignation into the dark obscurity of his pollution the base pandar to party who dared breathe them his ear. The hot blush of shame, had thought, would burn on an honest mans check whenever such doe lrne whispered 10 him possible guide for his conduct or his vote. 1t is moi my faIling to attach too high value to the honor virtue of man, but in the present case have been most grossly deceived. The clouds of the unforeseen tempest have come upon me without warning, and am suddenly enyeoped in the papabe darkness which the effect of political comp. ton. It overshadoWs the whole land like noon.day eclipse. | am astonissed, amazed, disifiaysd. had hoped that our high and important Courts of iudcature would be left stand in their naked subl- mity and purity high above and far removed from the tossings and conyulsions of political strife. had 1 and dark lanes of partizan corruption would never be suffered to approach the temple of Justice like cloud of locusts, defilng its pure floor with the slime of their racks-that the rank weeds of syeophancy and lnsO- lent pretensiou would be permitted wind round the Dorc pillars choke up the gateways of that - l flee. had hoped that the mai iesy of the Courts ot justice which inspires awe not more in the ignorant than in the intelligent of the community, would abash and reprove the ferceness of vulgar parzan zeal and that in these elections, for very shames sake, regard would be had only 10 talent and learning, to intellectual and moral wealth. In all this have been disappon- ed. l see men supereminent for imbecily and gno' rance, the parastica minions Of power, the sarvns cormoants of party, elevated to the Bench, and gifted with the high prerogative of sitting in judgment upon the property, liberty and lives of this people. recog nize in their eevaonor rather in the sinking ol tho Bench to their level, solely the principle that to the vctors belong the spolls It needed no informalonl assure me that they elected on party grounds. Beside political creed adopted for mercenary pupo. ses and partlZan services heretofore rendered or W them to be henceforlh rendered the Bench they had no claim which they could by possibility set up to the office. Profoundly ignorant of the law, and thorough. y incapacitated by the leanness of their intellect from ever obtaining competent knowledge o that sciencs by even long and arduous study-wlth hardly the eou cation which parish in the east gives founding pe fore II binds him apprentice III cotton iactory-ahu yet with quite much learning their brain IS capa be of bearingdotards, by kind of precocity before they old, they certainly had claim upon the Le' gslaure for any office whatever except that they were party slaves, and as such entitled to new livery. n their election the Legislature has reversed, nninea and aside the positive and manifest intentions ol nature. It has elevated to high office the very oess and lees of the party, mental eunuchs, whose mPoel, ey must ever draw upon them supreme contempt anu inextinguishable pity.
 There in all parties who are useful only q, outrders and footmen. Paupers upon the pafy' avs having the power of self-sustenance, loafers Vps o political charity, the leaders consider 1t an ncunDea duty to provide for them with the unimportan omce' c and the menial stations which they hold Tn inef sn:' These men the ..snappers up of unconsdeIel s'