Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-03-28

Time, IN the history OF Virginia, and that no, yer,
! long since, Wien the presence Of Judges IN Poty
conventions was denounced as an offence OF no
oiahsN grade and when the persons aud characters
oi the judges themselves. thus offending. were bit
'e'iy assaulted in high places, by gentlemen attached
10 mat party, IN whose Conteuton recently conyok
ed IN kiehmond,we bohelda Eedtyal judge deriving
n's o'1ee aud salary from tie men whose reelection
he Is thus erdeayorng to pGomote,-thoush We will
not say that his eiiorls IN ther behalf was the CON
diion OF hls appointment and ihret State Judges,
one OF them President OF the Coult OF Appeals -
Whether It be right and Iloper lot a Judge lhus
actively to mingie in the plfty struggles OF the
lay, Is one quesuon-whclher Judges should
do this, whose party h denounced similar con-
"oe' IN Others is another ard very different
question. An action innocent in itself become
criminal when performed by one who believes II to
be base And hcnce,we my very property approve Of
an defend The course Of judges Brooke Cabell aud
Stuart who attended Wing Convention IN 1928,
and YET condemn Judges Tucker Parker, Niuho-
las and L. '. Daniel, who made then Appearance IN
the Convention Of the newly-christcucd party.
Though the same old Foderasts in mnsks) held IN
Richmond ON the 18th the present month be.
cause tins party tudcy assacd aud hafshly con
demned the Wing Judges IN 1s2s-aud sill more
because, II we have not been mlsn(ofmcd by gcu-
IIemen whose opportunities OF knowing the fact were
most ample, among the most decided directors to
tue coulse pursued by Judge Brooke, IN conserving
to preside over Wing Convention in ls2s, was
Judge Henry ST. George Tucker, who himself prc
sided over the Democratic (fcdelaD Convention IN
1889 We suppose that Judge Tucker is some
what in the prcdieament Of Benedict. in the lay,
who, when he said lac wouidde a bachelor, did not
think he would live to get maucd-when lie con
demned judge Brooke, he hm no expectation OF
himself being Judge Tucker or that being Judge.
political aspirations would induce him to do patty
service, for the purpose OF reaplne parry hobots -
However, this may be- he stands before the commu-
nifty SctcondemHea; and surely he has night to
coaplan that his deuuncatlons one of lls present
Associates are visited upon himself and that, |
the poisoned chacc, whose deadly ingredients lie /
mingled for another, is commended to his own lips
There lived IN ls25 amost extraordinary maa-onc
whose genius as brilliant, and eccentric IN us
IN pllestatiogs the comet, to which 1t has been
SO often and SO safely hkened-and that man was the
half brother to i,.ige Tucker We aIlude to John
Randolph of Roanoke. That gentleman was Then
it Congress, making upon tic adn. iaistla'on
o.the Blaedeg and tie Puritan" az, in the free 7
license Of his fearless and bitter tongue, lie denom- |
naied Mr.. Adams and Mr.. Clay Inornsed At the
imposing character Of the Convention held durinr
thutelr, in Richmond, for the purpos, ofsusaining
lhat administration Imposing for its numbers. but
stlmore on account of the illustrous characters
oil tauy of The members, whose names would have
re iced lustie upon any cause-Ml Randolph
VIII was then in the House Of Representatives pour
clbut upon their heads, I'D particularly upon the I
Jgee5 who mingled Ia the scene, torrents Of the T
mot violent ilyeoriyc. A(ler grossly insulting T
ppona allusion To one Of those gentlemen, he sad I
Ind the advice is, in more tAan one respect strict
lYpplicable to the Judges who were members ofthe
llmocralic (fedefaD Convention Of the 18th Of
1rch-" Let them stick to then dull heavy vet
HIT long wnded Opinions in lie Couu of Appeals
scle to our sorrow and to our cost they may play
',r Orace'--whcfe, when they ope heir lips, no
t. must bark-but what they say must be received
paw in the last resort, without appeal. Yes let
DIN keep to their privileged sanctuary. For, if I
dse men uIo arc great Jg tiae and olee oaiHs shall
aempt to interfere between men at arms let me tell
,im that lheir Judicial Asuoogy will stand them
ilirle stead: There is no Royal road to the Ma |
tmacs; and these CT olfcio champions " III fare |
lie the delicate Parirician troops of Pompeii at the |
lule Of Phar.aia. The tenth legion will aim at I
,cir faces and fair weather knights must eX-
let to meet with cracked crowns and bloody noses,