New-York tribune., 1841-04-12
THE CONFLICT OF MORRIS.

1t il the common resort Of LocoFoco,m in defending
the conduct of Recorder Morris the Gcntworh business
to assert that though his may have been Illegal and
violent his notircs goodthnt though be may have
wronrcd individuals he only do justice TO the COM
nlunity Let us this assumption:
Suppose somebody had called Robcr II Morris just
before the last Eec,idn and informed him that he had dis
covered great asca1cs committed by the LoeoFocOs Of our
Cty in the Election Of S39-thu they had imported voters
from, PHILADELPHIA voted twice got Naturalization pa
pers wrongfiy. and pollcd thousand votes
than they Justly had-in short that IT, armed with the pow
c of judicial process he could blow up the Fon Buren
party and consig, it, leaders ntamy Suppose that Client
worth and Stevenson instead of accusing prominent Whss
had come forward to mpcatc Mcssrs Ca,ajrecag, p "
Hctsesye F. UIood. Eiy Moore and j. Ncheon IN the
Election fraud. charged BY them Does any believe
that Robcr, H. Morris would have constituted IN
QUESTION to ferret out the alleged oacndcrs,hnt h. would
have set with G. w Matse the bench of that tribunal
,ha, he would have dragged the alleged cupris without
moments notice before him. after another AID questioned
them in the est rigorous manacrtat he would have
brought in all the active LocoFoccs OF 1888, taking
care that they should have opportunity speak
with each other and examined them make them If
possible contradict and conyic, cach ohcr-hat he would
or counsel dressed it up for the pres. and , week
before the Presidential Election put into h htg papers
and despatched il all over the country Had he done this
who would have tai confessed thai the Recorder had
acted not as an upright and impartial Judge but dshon
and ucrupuous partisan re-orting TO corrupt and urus
,ifabc means to uphold a toerins party asccndancy
Blu; suppose he had vcnturcd farther than th>ha
irpcled by the same motive and eccssy bent
! II ri,. th, {
the principal offender ogains, rcon farther testimony
,,ss needed since his confession and the positive
dencc Of confdan both positively implicated him the
olcncc-and hcro seized By thrcn; Of the sealed pr
vatc papers of that cupr kept them for days his posses
ton. and wheu their undoubted obtained writ Of
replcvia for them and peaccab recovered
hands OF the rcr Of his house that Judge had violently
wreste,! them from, the hands the Sheriff spirited them
away in the mel6 and afterward broken them open read
them and sent them to the press for publicatoawhe
could man be found justify such and pronounce
them well intended and legal How eloquent would have
bcn the Erening Post. how cmpcsiuous the Ne" Era in
their denunc;aton
We ask every Freeman of NeNi ori to weigh these
siderations and act on them bets the high Responsibility
Of rrcenen. Let foT Robert H Morris,
and hold himself gutle,s Of the fatal tendencies ofa;
Every ballot for i in favor prstuting
the character and powers of the Judiciary to the de-t
purposes OF faction. He who for Morris deiberary
ay.n -lgh every Judge do all that he has done
shape his Official by the necessities ad ends Of
partv-,o publish examination testimony seriously
duplicating many citizens against whom process has j.
sued thereby ,s.,only nuras them innocent, and allow
ing them escape If gy,o seize BY threats OF violence
the scaled private papers Of citizen accused of ,ielneaa-
break open and publish them The world though many
them have rpstion 10 the oeaec charged upon him
IN ne, do whatever he may thi useful to his party IT,
garle<- of the laws and the sacred rights OF Freenen II
Norr proceedings ris., then citizens have rights
against Judges. Il they right then Judge
be wrong and would be idle cvcr to rss: him If