The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-03-22

preservation VIII you, can YOU. volun.
iarily submit yourselves TO lgnominy and
Want These will agtandze themselves
aud swim in Opulence.
Have they not mooopnI2cd your Pros
perue' aud what is wanting but Time TO
draw lron' you the las, Fduhn. who that
has the least Spark Of Love to his Country
orto himself would bear the Deuson
In special Manner then, lot US, at :his
Election rouse all our Powers 10 act like
Tree public spirited Men, knowing that he
that bctTays the Cause now belrays his
Country, and must SILK IN the general
Ruin.
Aud as the Inhabitants Of Rowan could
get no Indictments preferred against their
Officers IN Salisbury Distinct, they had
sent 10 Va and j. ll-r ~cut 10 lhrlr as
slslance aud BY tie Letter following you
may form some Idea how Matters were cur
ced on, ris.
Salisbury SEP. - 1860.
To Mr.. HUSBAND, Representative for
Ofange touuly.
SIR,
Agreeable TO The Resolutions Of a Com
uIttee, he'd at Joshua t., last
Month, about SIX or ven of US attended
Salisbury general Court 10 lLdc, our OH
Gers; when, to our As,oushmen,. We found
the Grand Jury to be Composed Of our in.
ycteratc Enemies, and Of such Us has been
or greatest Opprcssurs. No less than five
Of them we're old Sheriff.. la fine, there
we're but two or three but What we're
Limbs Of tho law. However, We we're re
solved 10 try What Justice could be Obtained
ss &c have been - often referred thereto
by tho Governor, aud others Of tho fira
kGnk IA tho Province, v DO had 50 repeat
Is urged us 10 gal Steps, assuring vs., We
should every where Obtain ;la hl.,h hest JUS
ucc aud ono had told Us ue always would
be there and see ,hRt ae bod Justice So
relying 90 these Promises, aud bong con
scious the Laws Sas o.nins, them Who had
80 repeatedly broken tpcm. besides the
Cres Of the People was SO great, aud 0p
prcssious 81 many, that Ne defsi hardly re.
turn home before lanl made We applied
to Mr. II, Deputy under Attorney
General, lac appclfci ~ell pleased With our
Design, end assured Us he would do all 10
his Power 10 serve Us.
Btl vas Preferred against - ~
EXoulon, 70 tukng E'sh. Pound. Five
Shliha.s ol the W d4w G., lor tie
Cost 81 on Indictment a1airs, her. Add
ihc Bll found lgnofanus It VAS proved by
the O.ib Of J---h ia that he
paid the Money to tie Sub Sheriff lur the
use q The sid R-k oud proved ~ tie
oath 81 - D, Llvyer. Tia, be
got The Rpcc,p. Of the " dow some Tune
ago, 10 Order % procure Redress ior her,
bat that he had lost Il, Bot tina, /, was Coz
Ugh, Pounds Eve Shlilngs. Add IN
ca proved, that F----k asked him.
when he was making GU, The Etil against
TIA WIDOW, ~hat Circumstances she vas
10 he said very good. and had money By
hcr II that BE- the Case, says f---k, |
must double the Bin.
However, the bal vas found lsuoram-
90 &c.
Tas Letter vas longer --htcr giving
an Account OF several more Trials and all
found lgnommus, they we're informed b,
rue e the Magistrates, witch vas confirm
ed bY an Assea,bymao, that the Jury was
not the same Mcn which Vas appointed by
Authority.
'liis Letter nas read before our Assem-.
Bis, aud IS in the Geek 5 Office there.
Another Petition vent from llillsbor
ough Court which after rectting over how
much the Governor and Authority had re
commended ns TO the Law, cones 10 tie
Matter IN Hand, thus, tis.
So that to tho Law We must 20 to find
Redress. Accordlnglyto Law 40 went, and
the prescn, design Of this Paper is, IA as
brief a manner hs possible to lay before you
our Proceedings and Success therein.
Before the first Court happened, Troops
we're talsing W all Quarters, - vas said, 10
guard the Court The ELECTS Of these
Troops was, that every Man coming into
Court was examined What Business he had
And every Que Nho dared to own that it
waa TO complain Of Officers, was i'll lscd by
the Guards and Soldlety. aud scared away
home hut some few who would not he scared
away was ordered out of town by the Com.
manding Officers al a few Minutes Warn.
ing, None could stay but Prisoners and
them denied Of Auornlcs, unless they would
give Bonds for Fifty andto Three Hundred
Pounds to each Attorney.
But no,wilhs,and all which, by the In,
dus,ry Of one Of the Prisoners, some was
encouraged 10 come back, and three or four
Actions against On Officer was tried md
the Officer convicted, who was fined Oae
Penny, &c.
Daring the Time 10 the next Court, all
other Officers, except this one, continued
TO take tho samc cXtorlionary Fees ns be,
fore, And no troops being raised against
US, AT the next Court, People il9eked IA to
make Iulornialious But besides the Diff.
Guilty Of attending Courts from thirty to SIX.
IL miles and the Officers threatened TO sue
for malicious Prosecutions, aud take all 9th.
or advantages Of the Law. Besides all
this, tho Attorney GenornI did not attend
the two or three frs, days Of Court so tia,
nost of Inc peonis had uonp IIofnp