New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-15
Meeting of the Bar.

At a meeting Of the organization OF the Bar
formed for the purpose of presenting Judicial nomins
tons to the Electors Of the First Judicial District held
at the Vice. Chanceors room, City Hall the 18th Of
May inst at p. NJ JOHN ANTHoN, Esq took the
Chair and NORRIS NJ. DAVIDSON, JOHN c. DEvEREUX
and J. WYHAN JONES Esqs were appointed Secretaries
The Committee reported nominations for the various
Judicial officers within this District and etters
read from some of the nominees declining snominson
whereupon their places filed by the meeting, and
the following list was unanimously adopted
For Supreme Court
JOHN w. EDMONDS, LEWIS H. SANDFORD
WIN. CURTIS MOVES, DAVID B. OGDEN
For Superior Curt
THOMAS j. OAKLEY, ChiSf Justice,
MnRR. pyE Hos sP1 assistant justices.
For Common Pleas
MICHAEL ULSHOEFFER, First Judge
PANEL PASBI r. P. bS6 GRAZ and asst Judges
Fer Disrict Auorney JOHN MchEON.
The meeting then adopted the following resolution
Resolred That Daniel Lord be recommended to the
State Conventions TO be assembled At Syracuse Tor the
nomination OF Judges OF the Court OF Appeals, "a can
didate from this District 10 be elected a. Judge OF
that Court
The following Address tohe Electors Of this District
was read and adopted and ordered to be published with
the proceeding of this meeting
ADDRESS
To ne E,c'ors Of e First Judicial District Of ne STATE Of
Nelc- York
You are shortly to be called upon to perform duty Of
momentous character You are 10 select from the body
of the community certain number of men who may in
the of the changes and chances OF time act direct
lyupon your property your liberty your lives before
the power to correct any error In your selection can
under the Constitution, return 70 you.
The exercise of the elective franchise IL certainly al
ways important but in great variety OF csses u acts
upon comparative distractions, nasmuch as the officer
N a sphpre remote from the electOr
or In OF perfect Indifference 10 him. You are now
however 10 make hitherto untried experiment you
are 10 elect Judges and other officers Tor the admins
tratiOn of justice in whose hands the good order and
safety of society emphsucally placed.
In the performance OF this duy you must act as men
selecting magistrates who may be called the day after
their appointment 10 act directly your own indYid
ual rights and dearest interests.
Malice fraud isadventure all Unnecessarily at work
In every circle however humble producing results re-
curing the action of the law.
him from these contingencies The revolution OF a
day may place the best among you at civil or criminal
bar and bring under the direct action Of the officers you
about 10 create your property your liberty or
your lives. Hence this election varies from all others
In its immediate interest 1t comes home In very deed 10
every mans hreside.
In this view Of the subject do you wish your most i'm
porant personal rights to be placed under the protec-
ton of men whose devotion to party may lead them In
certain contingencies TO make cfaiags 10 party. or
would you feel more In the hands OF the learned
and the upright VINO VIII De Tree houi aA suNn unuue
coercion or influence
Certain fthe Electors of this Judicial District having
from professional position additional interest In this
subject assembled themselves under pledge which
they hope will commend their suggestions TO their Tel
low electors Ia this important matter. The result Of
their deliberations Is now before you. They have Sc
lected gentlemen Of integrity and learning. They do
not pretend that they the most worthy they have
proud consciousness that their equals perhaps their
superor are TO be found In that body from which the
selection has been made
They are however, in their judgment, good men and
true 10 whose Judicial ability and integrity they would
willingly trust their ghts and liberties, and az such
they recommend them 70 their fellow citizens
The following gentlemen were thereupon appointed
an Executive Committee to carry into effect the OBJ
,ects Of this orssnization viz
WILLIAM : SEARS william NJ. EyARTs,
DAVID +. WHEELER JANIS I. BAApY
CHARLES G. EGAS.
JOHN ASTHON Chairman.
M0ERIs NJ. DAVIDSON
JOHN G. DEvEKEUX, : Secretaries.
J. VIVIAN JOSEs,