Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-20
For the Grant County Herald.
Madison Correspondence.
MADISON. July II. 1854.

DIR. Editor The long agony is over-judge
HUBBELL is acquitted! His friends and 9TH
ers are now gathering around him--shaking
his hand, congratulating, &c. but the eloquent
Judge can't speak, and tears instaad Of words
''break forth" II must be a proud and happy
moment for him, if he feels like Hastings did
fan all supporting consciousness of rectitude
within" IT'S Wright nova beautiful moon
is shining over forest and lake. Still you hear
the hum of voices, and the shout of triumph.
There's mob in the streets, and some fellows
of the CHASER sort'' are burning Mr.. WILSON,
who preferred the complaint, and Mr.. RYAN,
in efigy.
Well, the people have now to decide upon
this whole matter, and pronounce sentence on
the Judge themselves. As one of the Judges
of the Court OF the Sovereign People, sane
ton the vote of the Senate. At the same time,
Judge HUBBELL shall never have my vote for
judicial Office, except upon the 'Elesser devil"
principle; princip that has, and will again,
secure his election in the Second Judicial Cir
cult, whenever the peop'e are called on TO COM
pare HUBBELL, not with 'purity; = but with
the jealous, envious, malicious dema--
gogues, who became vocferous for judicial pu-
rity, only when their own unprincipled ambi-
ton has been disappointed. Well, did not the
prosecution prove any thing? In one respect
it proved too much-it proved that its whole
origin was in personal malace-an extensive,
al e.
league among HUBBELL's enemies to ruin him
plate and Herod shook hands. The con-
sequence was that the Senate made no intend
ments faxoreble to these disinterested preach
ers of judicial reform. They did not disguise
their motives, land the Senate asked proof strong
proof of men who would evidently scrup'e at
nothing to accomplish the ruin of their victim.
This they could not give. In fact, the prose-
nesses. The eloquent counsel for the ''prose-
cution'' denounced FINCH one of the promi-
nent actors in the drama, and principal wit
ness, as "Jesuit' another was simple
'|young man." Yet believe every one admits
that the justest part of Mr.. RYAN's speech was
his terrible castigation of his own forces. The
strong and enraged elephant attacked his own
keepers, and drove his own auXiiaries off the
battlefield. The state of Wisconsin was
knocked out of the ring F; it was a mere con-
test between individuals bull-fght at the ex-
pense of the state. The Ajax of the prosecu-
ton left the impression my mind that HUB
BELL was about ''the whitest devi.'' in theCir-
cult. He was only ''black-leg," but his dis
tinguished opponent was '.Jeslit' The
"back-leg" won the game; of course the To-
sers were enraged. The Senate has admins
tered just rebuke to these disappointed politi-
cal gamesters. Let the voters of the Second
Circuit decide their quarre!s, and adjust their
respective claims to merit. The state should
never have entered into the contest. In fact,
after the closing speech of their counsel, the
state felt it had no longer any thing to do in the
matter and l observed that the seats of the
bravo committee were ''signifcantly vacant.''
Since HUBBELL has not been convicted, and
1 have no Doubt the gAnAral unica will sanction
the verdict Of the Senate, it is a matter of re-
greet that every man cannot feel that no shade
of suspicion rests on the fair fame of the accu-
sed. This modification becomes painful and
almost insupportable, when we reflect that his
enemies acknowledge him to be their moral
superior: they will trust him and vote for him
sooner than they will trust and vote for each
other. Besides, Judge HUBBELL is the official
measure of integrity and honor in his Circuit !;
for he was elected by large majority over his
strongest opponent, when all the charges urg-
ed against him in the late trial were fully
known--published in hand-bills, supported by
afidavits and all other modes of electioneering
testimony. The people of the Second Circuit
have the power of Impeachment in their own
hands /; they have either pronounced the char
ges false, or that they are satisfied that bribery
and corruption shall dispense justice. Certain
ly no Senate should believe chages that had no
visible origin, except the vengeful feelings OF
disappointed aspirants, who esteemed Judge
HUBBELL more than they esteemed each 9th
err, and have elevated him to the very station
from whence they are now endeavoring to dis
lodge him. Yours truly, J. T. M.