Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-05-20

| More than three months ago = number ofthe friend
and supporters of thai pure and ght iurist Judge
A. WILSON with the view of vindicating him from ia.
unfoandei charge of 'ardiness and neficiencyn upor
the Bench which had been jndustriously circulated
to his prejudice, Published through the public press
series OF ARTICLES confirming carefully
from the annual reports Of the Clerks Of the countie.
OF his aud his competitors district showa the number
OF cases that had been tried and decided by each fo
the perip Of the las Twelve ears. This statement from
the record utterly confounded the opp pens of Judge
Wilson, since it proved inconestabv that he had tried
and decided cases than their boasted model
candidate by upwards Of frrentg- f1e AnHdred.
From that moment To the present no attempt what
ever has been made. through public press by the
friends of Judge Leigh 10 sbstaninte or even give
color their shameless charges against Judge Wilson
They were boldly aud confDunded by reference to
the official records of the respective the dis
frct and attrmp has been made through the press
by any OF the friends of uge Leigh the issue
they hil wanton.y provoked by circulating the most
uneuaded representations against his competitor Thi.
significant fact and worthy remembered by every
who may be psiUatey appealed to- and upon the
most shallow pretexts. his vote against Judge
Wilson
We have heard upon reliable authority that some of
the friends of Judge Leigh parts Of the dis
teic have cndeavored impair the force of the
nens copied from the official record, by saying that al
though IT appears from the annual reports of the CLERK
lhees, that Judge Wilson has decided vastly ca
'es than Judge Leigh, such is in fact the case, be-
cause the Clerks in Judge VS.. courts have entered
many decided that merely begun and
transferred to some other Circuit Court for final adj
Jud'caiion Never was there bascr fabrication, and
desperate indeed must be .he of the who is
sought To- be b"Istcred up by such miserable device
Every Intelligent knows that The duties of the
Clerks OF the different Courts prescribed by law
and that they pake record of the
bust ess transacted by the Court How dare they then
tasty The record by catering decided that have
merely been transferred another Court. They could
not do so without peruring themselves. But il is need
less to dwell upon such topic II merely mentioned
TO caution the public against the miserable pre.exts by
which it is sought to prevent the reelection Of pure
able, upright and iuthful public iunctionarv.
IL appears too, that persons, residing without
the limits o. the district, and far distant the
city OF hichupnd, taking particular pains enlght
en- our benghted citizens in regard their duty by adj
dressing letters to some prominent persons about the
different Court Houses giving partial statements of the
business heretofore performed by the candidates.
aud urging them to support Judge Leigh. A letter Of
ths so't from member of the Richmond bar,
derS'nnh, was read to the people at last Buckingham
court by TREND OF Judge Leigh stating among other
hings t1at fewer appeals had been taken Judge
Leigh than from Judge Wilson's decisions, and that
tewer OIL them had been reversed by the Court of APP