, 1843-04-22
TFor the RADICAL

particularly directed to a communication
in your paper of the 18th ult., in relation
to the building of a new Court House.
recently ordered by the County Court,
and signed by the Hon. Hiram G. Ed
wards, President of the County Court.
l propose making a few remarks on the
production of the Hon. Judge, and wish
to be distinctly understood in the outset,
r as not intending to cast any reflections
whatever on the conduct Of the county
court in ordering the erection ofthe :Hew
court house, nor have l the slightest
wish to revive the controversy, or to
cite any feeling in relation TO the "vexed
question" Of the permanent location of
the county seat" So far as the writer
of this communication knows or believes,
there is not the slightest intention on the
part of those supposed to be most interested
in the removal question to agitate the
question again; while he (the writer
has good reason to believe that some of
those supposed to be thus interested, are
now opposed to such removal, on the
ground expressly understood, that such
location, at the '.favorite point" would
operate to their injury by exciting or in
viting too much competition, thereby di-
viding the business now concentrated in
a few hands, and by inviting capital that
would lessen their profits if it should
not supplant their business. l further
state that | have every reason to know
that this petition did not originate with
any citizen or citizens of the "favorite
point" but with citizens of the interior
and different parts OF the county. Hav-
ing said this much by way of introduce
ton, | will proceed 10 state in as brief a
manner as l am capable my objections to
the Hon. Judges communication.
In the first place Mr.. Editor, it seems
to me to smack not a little Ct arrogance
in his Honor, TO assume las it seems to
me he does to speak as if he were the
court, and as if he had a sort of general
power Of attorney to act and think for
them. This conclusion seems the more
plausible as he does not intimate that he
had consulted the other judges, either as
10 the matter or expediency ofthis extra
judicial expose of his, or their official
conduct, without their being impeached,
assailed, or condemned by any thing be-
fore them in an official form, or in an
offensive sense. But letting that pass,
and taking it for granted, that he has in
his W language, and in his own "re-
sponsibility" stated what he knew to be
opinions and actions ofthe court, vet still
sir, l deem the right of his Honor, or the
Court, whether it be embodied in his per-
. son or not, in this MANNER, publicly, and
in a newspaper squabble. (for SO Il may
l turn out, as he has led the way,) to pre-
judge and forestau public opinion, ard to
assail the motiues of parties in relation to
= a matter that is yet to come before them,
and so "A. as he knows may not come
before them at all. And has he not done
T all this? Certainly he has. l ask sir
1 what would be thought of his Honor
: Judge Hunt, if he were to go into the
{ Clerks office, or the Clerk should be
"kind enough to call his attention. to the
$ fact, and there find some process or ac-
ton commenced in relation to a matter
e which would come before him for trial,
e and even before the process was served
q on the opposite party, should come ont in
= a long and labored newspaper article, in
: tended to show that one party was alto
gether in the wrong and the other party
# altogether in the right. l ask sir, what
e would be the universal opinion of all
honorable and intelligent men in any
community? Most unquestionably that
!: he was unfit for the station which he now
so honorably fills and that he should be
h hurled from it as soon as the forms of the
n law would permit. And yet sir, such is
precisely the case with his Honor Judge
Edwards, with only this difference, that
d in the supposed case of Judge Hunt the
y controversy would be between individu-
G ais, and in the present case it is between
e the people on the one side s. the people on
the other side, represented by the Coun-
ty Court, in the nature ofan appeal or ap-