Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-03-26
4 Political Judiciary.

~ announced in this State has been recommended TO m.
democratic Party OF Mississippi in the year Of our Lord 1853
a Inc true policy submit the question as to who shall
be the candidate the arbamen of fairly constituted Con-
venlon OF the party THAT Isl who shall be candidates for
Judges, District Attorneys Sc We shall meet this question
at the Threshold and while we have voice a5ains
it. and hand capable Of writing line in * both
shall be exercised to crush now and hope for ever eyerv
attempt bring the judicial Bench and the Bar into the
ofPoics becomes every who desires an
Judiciary one Of talent and learning one above Tho
tie times the whm of party majority and above ndbevond
ALL free from the leprosy and corupons of party and the in
lence oil the party demagogue yet more independent of
the magn slang the wit and the passion of mere party
we say that becomes those who desire an elevated Judi
GARY to crush while they may the attempt to drag our udc
al system, into the political arena
no dare go beyond us in RELYING upon the wisdom md
patriotism OF the People We believe they intend to do right
ard the history of Republics prove that when left to themselves
AID their good that they have with sagacity as
clear as 1t was methoca employed the very designed
by higher than earthly wisdom apparently to work out re-
suit best adapted to their necessities only when the voice
of the political hack is heard in their counseIs
that they are liable to seize upon the plausible and usually
dangerous systems, and by hem betrayed errors
which for years after they only enabled rid themselves
Of by patient labor and suffering This question of Political Ju
dicia elections has points commend party appo
baon but to those who look beyond its immediate
uence upon party We are told that our opponents concen
rae upon the who represents their opinions and under
sh feoiaas Of I1ernacraex
votes enough defeat the Democrat and elect the wing II
this proves anything it shows that now our judicial cleo
tons much the subjects bargain and that instead
drawing them still further the Of party sound
and an enlightened pa3 would endeayor separate the
Judicial from the Political election by distance still wider
The legislature has several occasions attempted this but
the party press, fearing that OF its levers be stricken
away either suenor silent, and hence the people
ullntormed OF the real issue.
But have the question sprung direct FORM and
deliberately recommended nominate by Conventions
candidates for Judges District Attorneys, &C. This, and
call upon the People note it. is to be PARTY The
Judge be selected by the Convention because is PAR
TY MAN. He is dependent upon Party for election, and
must, of course administer the law according usage
Alone responsible to His PARTY for his CONTROVERSIES wholly
beyond obligation to the minority, and partisan, he
the opponents OF HIS PARTY justice than
the interests OF the majority would seem If told
that this pushing the system extremes, truly
that but ask when the time in the history Of
that they have People, voluntarily abnegated power
they possessed where they have yielded profitable
without equivalent If told that this extreme is not what
is desired we'll may not be, but then these are
the recorded results whenever and wherever the Judiciary has
been dragged into the OF Politics. England three
casons has been with Political Judiciary Poor Ire
land the land of patriotism and eoquence is wading
through the coecive rule Political Judiciary. France has
drawn from that fountain its bitter thirteen different
occasions, and this hour its Judiciary system mock
tribute in blood through several centuries for her Political JH
dietary Almost every State OF which historical re
cord furnishes damnng proofs against Political Judiciary.
1t natural for incline towards those with whom they
agree either politics religion almost every controversy
still more natural for incline towards those whom
they indebted for position and honorable power And
be encirced with moral power far be
You'd that with which endowed capable OF ri
sing both the natural incnaOns of friendship and tn
pruces of PARTY We know how stubborn these pTejudi
ces are how impacabe these haeds become The
irritation but adds them, and the abrasion of time
but te II any, OF the cankering which grow but
tend deeper their poson Shall then locking this
tio not as one down thin ts horizon umned
mere party lights but affecting the masses, operan
upon humanity not for the hour but reaching into aI
future be denounced when say, that human restraints
howsoever ingenious they may be, prevent Political Ju
dietary working Wrong and OPPRESSION when based upo
Party success The ancient maxims OF Justice and Law
the presidents which Time and wisdom of the cvilze
world have stamped genuine and the statutes of ii
hour would all be warped the demands Of parsa
controversy Instead of entering tue Halls OF Equity, lit
giants would be dragged before political forum, and instead
decisions of Law should have profound analysis upon p
cal Jurisprudence and learned opinions upon the Rights
Majofi;ies synthessed This is inevitable.
We shall be told that Judge could retain his again
ne tide of Indignation such conduct would conure up He
lies fatal No Judge would step from the law prec
dents into the charmed circle OF political precedens He
incines at first in that direction Every of reading
reflection, knows the The path political despot
stepped by inches and yet there time enough in four
eraon reach maximum Of evil sufficient which ii ope
ed at once to spirit of rebellion the single dr.
that destroys the it, by steps cautious
made that the rights of minorties well the freedom
maorites are sapped But the political judge seeks the
pause party than the serenity OF approving
science His judicial existence hangs upon the caprice OF
y and he hugs the syren that showers upon his head homo
Party the Deity he worshps, and incense is sweet
his nostgis as the ground swell OF the multitude
What if his decisions according precedens
statutes have been warped and Equity been smothered?
Judge is and he is the organ not OF Justice but
Party His errors there be- together with all his
paons belong party and party responsible Tor them
has read the annals OF but little purpose who has ia
ed learn that unbded power fatal possesso
that least all is toerab, where the responsibility the
check upon excesses is destroyed by the number amo
whom divided The Judge Is but the exponent OF Par
and his sins ii he sins in the direction of party interests
the common property party and divided among the
n.y. Every little whep Party feels both honored and Dig
fled by being permitted become the defender of the dirty
OF OF party.
O. Associated numbers may do with mpuny that which wol
sink individual in depths deep that the hand of
or would reach him. Whatever is done III the MAJ
or Of and for party and adopted by party simple dvi
d. among numbers the labor the individuals and the
IT. Dor is but the propagation of evil the individual is the recipe
NO Bipartisan gratitude and aduaon just proportion he
IT. have been abused and aduced by the opposition Is
lat Natural History, the rawlings of dsordered fancy
ILL., There is no great national railway freedom any
than there Paradise Isby patient exertion and
u.s. oresye additions to their influence that freedom acqui
his by people Rational freedom is the growth of day
he growth as slow wealth from individual toll and
da1,toT astab fofo hob