Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-10-08

| Union county, gain a cause in which he
was the only counsel for one of the parties?
As a general rule We answer never. There
may be exceptions, but like angels visits,
| they are few and far between
As for Judge Burnside's opinion, it may
be all well enough; but this we do know,
and we believe we can prove it on five
minutes notice, that it is not more than
two or three years since Mr.. Linn declared
him to be "an old too!!" But " circum-
stances alter cases." 1t is not at all nee
essary, but, if it were; We could readily
endorse Mr.. Casey's qualifications, by the
testimony of Judge Watts, and many others
eminent in the profession, and also by many
of Judge Wilson's intimate friends, who
feel constrained reluctantly to vote for him
from social and political considerations,
but who freely admit Judge W's defects,
and at the same time declare their belief
that MIR. c. will make a safe, competent
and efficient Judge.
But the most laughable part of Mr..
Linn's statement, is that which represents
Mr.. Casey as " descended from naughty
British family whereas he happens to
be the son of al Irish schoolmastcr-about
as aristocratic as our friend, James Aiken
and who did not happen to be quite so
well off in this worlds goods, as another
of the same sort who, it is said, put the
silver spoon into the mouth of James F'iens-
ing Linn, Esq. But Mr.. Casey, himself,
was born and brought up in Cumberland
county, in this State He was halter by
trade. and followed the business till it
broke down his health. He then spent
some time as clerk at an Iron Works, and
as travelling, collecting agent. He next
read law in Carlisle; commenced the prac-
tice in Perry county and worked his way,
from the first, without assistance from any
quarter. Yet now, strange to say, he is
denounced as "British aristocrat," and
over the Ridge is abused for patronizing
and paying the mechanics of his own
town.
The polite assaults upon oursclf, are
foreign to the issue, and totally uucalled
for, however righteous Mr.. Linn may think
them and We have little to say in reply
If we felt disposed to retaliate, We might
fire raking broadsidcs into him every week
for year to come, and then not half ex-
haust the magazine of materials which his
long practice supplies ready furnished to
our hands. But it would be an ungener-
GUS and unwelcome task, and We forbear
1t is true we are not so avaricious as to
seek to monopolize the trial list. But in
our five years practice at this Bar, We
think We have had as full a proportion of
the causes in Court as the "righteous !"
and eloquent gentleman whose profession
al jealousy has prompted HMM an un.
guarded moment, no doubt-to libel and
defame us. And We think We could point
to some whose importance troubled the court
no little, and made that same gentleman
toll and sweat as if the Union was at
stake, and his own neck in the halter be-
sides And after all he would have total
ly failed, if, at the last hour, stupid and
aeeomtiIs!1! aSaa fSr him what - =. Il
Mr.. Linn's general statements with re-
gard to ourself are simply untrue. And
there has been no case in court answering
to the one he pretends to cite We do re-
member one day-after becoming surfeit-
ed dd ndueHm with the prolix and un-
checked efforts of our learned friend to
darken counsel by words without knowl
edge" and tired of watching the trem-
bling oscillations of the Judicial needle,
which seemed unable to settle to any de-
terminate point Of the compass-we left
the Court House, and were recalled some
fifteen minutes afterwards, to produce some
documents in cause as witness mere
ly, although we had been 'of counsel in
it, but withdrew as such because our testi-
mony was needed The case was never
on the trial list before, had never been
continued, the suit was not brought in the
name Of the wrong parties, and the two
other lawyers who then had it in charge
were in court when the case was called
The case was near the bottom of the list
came up very unexpectedly could not
have been rightfully forced to trial at that
time under the special rule of court
which, however, his Honor then announ-
ced, for the first time, was annulled the
plaintiffs witnesses were some of them out
of the county and inaccessible; and the
Defendant, who urged the trial, had not
subpGnaed his witnesses until the middle
of the court. A continuance was suggest.
cd, and could have been demanded of right,
but in his Honor's newborn zeal for dis
patch, was denied. As a recent decision
of the Supreme Court had developed a tech
nical flaw in the case, nonsuit was
taken, to save trouble and expense,
and reach the merits in new suit, to be
tried under new Judge.
If the parties and witnesses in all the
cases on the list attend, but few cases are
tried and heavy, useless expense is en-
tailed on the rest. Ifthey don't all attend,
confusion ensues, and injustice is done, be-
cause the business is not regulated by sys-
tenn, and there is no rule to cure the evil.
And how often has it been that the first
week Of the court after the sitting of the
Supreme Court, has been almost exclusively
occupied with the trial of reversed cases.
We had not made any complaints in this
campaign on our own account. We spoke
only of such thinrS rs vern of publ;c intor