Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-09-15

certificate is made out TO the master, and
only five dollars, if no certificate is given
This other FIVE dollars, he thinks, "was in
tended merely to compensate that officer
for the extra writing" But how stand the
probabilities Of this guess? When a slave
is remanded. there may be no trouble in the
hearing and determining the case but when
the certificate is refused, there always is an
Investigation, and probably IA protracted one.
It probable trouble was provided for, the
double fee would Just 60 the other way
But those who are claiming the "labor and
service" OF one man for nothing, have not
the labor and seroicc of another so much
in view as his serviceabeness in the parlic-
uIar matter in which they employ him..
The explanation is another failure in this
learned opinion.
Allow us to state an opinion 1t is this !:
Our Judges generally are too talkative.-
They have the vice of nd c0ptandum elo-
quence in most malignant form 1t is
never so much out Of place as IN explain
ing and defending he slave laws of this I'm
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that "the least said is the soonest mended."
The Bench will keep exposing this scandal
of ours, until we shall die of shame. Es-
pecialy do those gentlemen whose circuits
traverse Mason and Dixon indulge them
selves in rhetorical hourlshes about duty,
compromises, constitutions, reluctant neces-
stiles, and patriotic alacrltles, TO the full
measure Of their license We would as
lief hear lady talk all the time about her
chastity; it would prove the thing itself as
we'll And their tenderness Of conscience
dcesstake ihea oldest sort Of turns Heap
Judge Mclean on the dignities and deli
cacles Of his position: Occupying The sd
cred office of Judge, have no right here
to indulge my sympathies. 1t would have
been gratifying to have found That this de-
teudant was free man, instead of slave,
because such result is gratifying to those
whose feelings are opposed TO Slarrry an
the abstract. In such case il is the stern
duty of the Judge to use more than ordina-
ry caution"
That is the way to stiffen heart none
of the suftest to duty Of doubtful obllga
ton and worse reputation. If the Judge
suspects himself of leaning to the side of
liberty and mercy, he must give himself a
decided tilt the other way. And it would
he gratifying, because it would be crafty
ing to abs.raclionist Abolllonists TO find
the prisoner free man. What second
handed qualification
The Union, the other day, renarkng OH
the longevity of judges, notices the fact
that three of the pattern instances Of the
tribe have lasted US ever since the founda,
ton Ut The Government, and the last is not
worn out yet Jay, Marshall, and fancy,
from 1889 till 1853 aud some time to come
What wonder, ihlt a lawyer gone to seed
keeps we'll in the granary? And what is
there III an orthodox il &c THAI could take
any sort of compainl,nr feel any sort of in
Jury? If "tanner will last yon nine ear"
in the grave, because "hls hide is So tanned
with his trade tina, he viii keep. ont water IA
great while" why may not man mumnl-
ed alive hold out well on the bench!
The fugitive was reminded The claim
ant entering into bonds for two thousand
dollars for the return of the slave into the
State of Ohio, if 1t be decided that the
case can be taken to The Supreme Court
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