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."CLrlZENS' MEETING"

ION the 29th Aprll'last.
The meeting was held agreeablr to'puo-
lie notice and is said to have been well at
tended. The avowed object of the meet
ing was to "draf resolutions expressing
the sense of the meeting in relation to the
withholding of tiquorIicenses by the Court
of Common Pleas at itsrecent term" Ben
iamin Hanna was called to the Chair, and
DR., George McCook and George Garretson
were appointed Vice,PresideTs, and Ro-
bert Whltacre, Secretary. Whereupon
committee consisting Of seUeHteen was ap-
pointed to draft resolutions expressing the
sense of the meeting. The committee, in
"a short time" returned with preamble
and resolutions which were adopted unan-
himously, (saveonly, two dissentingvoices. J
The preamble eulogizes Judges Roller and
Riddle to the skies for the stand they took
in opposition to the granting of%iguor H.
censes. OF Judge Clark, the other Asso,
ciate, the preamble and resolutions are
|<edumb as tomb Stone." But Of "JoHN
hPEARcE, President Judge" they are lavish
of abuse in the most unmtigated terms,
They charge him with "disregard" Of the
wishes Of thousands with'violating rule
he had laid down for himself in submit
ting the license question to his associates.
They charge him with not only voting to
fasten the license upon them contrary to
their wishes, "but in'the absence Of that
dignity Of character and impartaity of
kconduCt which so we'll become the Judge,
manifested his eager desire for liquor IL
cense in a manner plain CROUCH to be no.
tced by the casual observer" &c.
The resolutions numbered i and2 de-
nounce the practice of selling lquor, sc.
The Sd resolution speaks of the position Of
John Pearce, as Judge, his "feelngs,"
"'wahe5," in favor Of Hgaoy license, &c.
! &s. Tha<lh, 9Th, g.h Qnd7th resolutions
are Iardatory Of Mcs5rs Roller ana Riddle;
the 9Th thguas W. 2. Ewing, James B.
B.ocEs-m, and John Clarke, E&ls, for
their grea. rTer,ions in Court sgainst the
tceqse "Wj,hort money or Price" The
9Th epPointa q committee Of Is to furnish
Messrs pe6r2e, Roller and Riddle, with
the proceedings ottl5 meeting, BE-.
1t conrludeg VITA the uauaI order of pub
LEGATION in the newspapers, 6zc. &c.l!
Ofrhe resolutions Of the meeting con-
demning the use and sale ofSrdent spirits,
the granting or not granting licenses to
tavern keepers to sci! liquor, 'we'have no.
thing to do. We express no opinion about
it, either one way or the other, but we do
think that portion Of the preamble and re-
solutions which apply to Judge Peace, ar
r0gGm and impude1h in the extreme. By
the laws Of our country the Judges are re-
quired to be stern, to be infexible, not to
swerve to the right or the left for public
favor. Not to "court the rising sum-" but
to deal out justice toevery man or set Of
menehke. No friend Of his country would
desire to see our Courts converted into a
mere niachne--a nose of wax, to bermov-
cd and acted on by extraneous circum-
stances,G mere engine Of popular opin-
ion. They are not set up for that purpose,
and the movers Of the meeting alluded to,
have shown avid and infuriated zeal in
the temperance cause, which the more Sc
date and stable men Of the order must de-
precate. Indeed we have confidence in
the honesty of some of the men whose
names figure in the meeting, and believe
that when reason resumes her empire they
will regret the course they have taken to-
wards Judge Pearce.
We were at New Lisbon Court, arrived
on the first day Of the term in the even
ing, when we went into the Courthouse
the crowd formed a kind of Suuhedrein a.
round the council table, and the excite.
ment looked to US more like a trial before
q Yeow-creek Justice, where two roguae
were oonrending, much to the snusemon.
of the bystauders than Ike a Court oI
Common Pleas, But to inquire into the
position Of Judge Peorce and his accusef
little farther--what are the fc'sl
Judge Pcsrce, at the Court in Tuscara'
was, allowed the Associate Judges to de-
termiuo the matter Of licensing for them
selves, and The result was that in par.icu
lar townships no licenses were granted tt
; sell liquor. What course Yves pursued b!
the Judge and the opponents Of licensing
at New Lisbonl
The Judge intended, and so expressed
himself to any one who asked him las W
D are intormed,) that he would let the Asso
ciates determine the matter Of the lcens
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