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

Among other Things, that the Jury was
I picked and calculated Of such weak and
low Capacities, that when they had agreed
90 verdict, and mixed among Men before
they gave i, IN, by hearing others Senti
ments, they disagreed 10 il when given in !;
And Tins was reported SO often, with such
Marks Of incapaclty mlxed w!h honest
4 Principles, lhat Tie Consequence was such
Confusion and Contradiction that the Jury
was discharged al the Bar, after a verdict
agreed 10. and then disagreed. And other
Confessions that two Of the Jury oYerruled
the rest and the Action was continued TO
+ The next Court; and this court adjourned
4 We found, afterwards, that these two
I men Of the jury that oyerruled weto much
prcludlccd IN favour OF the Officers. This
\ Discovery put US on examining haw the
4 Juries were appointed, ard finding thai, 10 be
the Province Of tho, Justices Of the Inferior
/ Court We made some Complaints OF The S
I age 10 our Justices. Pu' hearing Of the
/ Proceedings Of Salisbury before cur general
! Court came on, We chiefly prepared our
selves for Observations and The first We
had 10 make was, that the Chief Justice and
Attorney General IA whom only We had
much ConGdcueg that neither of them vas
al THIS court.
I'd. We observed tho Deputy Attorney
and both Associate Judges, lodged wth
HIN whom.we looked on as our chlei Enc
my, and Cause OF our Expressions. s.
that men OF common Modesty vas deferred
from applying TO him.
31 We observed the Petty Jury vas
not Picked this court, bot the Grand Jufy
aas to all lnlcu,s.
lh. We observed 90 Petty Jury Caus
es we're Try d this Court against The OF
GERS So tia; poor Men who had attended
all last Court, aud most Of this, before i
was known aud thirty or forty Mics from
Home, must attend third Court.
Some, Who had more Bodness than 9th
efs, aPplycd 10 Deputy ----- aud made
Information agalGsi the Clerk Of the ln'et
ur Court lor lakirg Three Pounds -Four
Shhllnss aud Sk pence Tor his own Fec oU
Coamou Attachment He told them he
must have the lntormatlons ID Writing
They found G CLERK, and carries i ia writ.
,nc. Then i, wanted Date or Name, aud
then Something else Until a, length they 70,
orc almost rehl Lat bad gone from Oaic'
10 Ofice 50 often, that oue OF the clerks
D--d lhcn fort Pack o. Sons OF BIS
aud dcuiod serving them
il. pIiy Attorney came also ou' Of his
Foulhca,lon into the Street, aud complalud
no had been SO much harrassed, ihut he
sas almost SICK.
TIE Rli ogaius, tho Cork, aud some
more. beng q, length preferred, was all Il
noramus.
N0Al Day Deputy told W B----r
he would hear no more Of as and as W
B--r made Complaints OF this TO the
Court, Deputy said, /, was Lie aud that
10 only refused Tim on his VI Behaviour
and sad he was an ilisPcrson; running
about, taking other Peoples Business 10 10,
Bu, ia this tie vas mistaken, cor Buliofs
Business aus his own; though some OF the
others according TO the GovcTnot's Drec
lious, waa wiling 70 mako luiormatiors to
single Jl0,ices ST pouy Fines tho Cousc
qucuce OF which was, JUdgmeu, went
against the Defendant for tie Fine and
tic plaln,n tor tho Cost md the Justice,
With Loud Voice, bcratag hun lot near
p!lfgl lrformer.
Others applied to tuoruics 10 bring Suit
on The Penal Laws when they not oaiy found
by late Law that the Clerks Of Courts
was hedged IN from tho Force Of tho Penal
Laws BY ordering SUIT to be brought against
them By a Motion To Court, and the lus;l
ccs 10 huo them al D.scfctlon,'lf II appear.
ed they had wrlluIly cStortcd, &c. BY all
which we could understand tho Pfosecu.
tor, as Matters now stand, would get his
Labour for his pans, and the clerks clear
Of any Cost, &c.
THIS Letter, ~ hich contained much more
was also road before the Assembly in DC
tobcr, 1860, aud IS IN tho Clerks Office
there.
We draw nov near to an End, for our
Assembly was dissolved before they could
DO any business of Consequence so that
al Things re lef, in Confusion aud Dlsor.
der We had thirty odd now Members
this session atd We hope few more Of the
old Ones will DO lcit out against another.-
We shall conclude, with Plea IN Behalf OF
a Motion that WIS made in the House last
Sessions for encouraging the first Settlers of
the Back vacant Lands and two other
Pieces. entitled SERMONS being an 4
budsemen, Of Pamphlet Of nameess
Author.
The Order IN which We shall Proceed in
the Plea Is, First, 10 give n Relation Of The
Circumstances tina, the Petitioners letters
on tho vacant Lands in the Earl Of Gran
Vile District nre in, and the Dagger there
is Of their suffering Injustice.
IDLY, To show that the Spirit Of tho Law
from the most unceptionablo Authors, is 10
do Equity and Justice 10 tho Poor, where
the Letter OF the Law may be wanting or
agains, them. \ proper Work for Assem-
blles.
Sdly. To shew, that il has been the
Opnou of all the several Legislative Bod
les, both Of Groat Britain and her Colonies,
that pcoeeablc Possession especially Of back
wasio vacant Lands. Is n Kind of Ripht