, 1854-10-28

l Judging? Did not one of them on the 10th
demand of two magistrates that they SHOULD
violate q fundamental maxim of our law
Did he not yehemently press as right
that an. accused person should be put OIL
, his oathy This is ono Of your precious lie
: gislators, who helped to create this them
, selves, and appoint the man law-makeI
in rage, because he could not prevail up
, on the magistrate to become Lac-5reaksr
Another Of these NJ. C's. too, knows 81
much Of English law and common Justice
that when q man, Jas. Broad, in Marcel
1858, was brought before him upon {
charge Of assault, aud wished to bring wit
nesses in his defence, he was not allowed
and told peremptorily that the case wa,
closed, and he was committed for three
monthsl What said the Justly indignant
man-"commt me, and not allow me to
bring witness in my own defence!' No,
you eau bring no witnesses, the case is
closedl My English blood boils at the re
cital of such an atrocity.
feel ashamed Of my sovereign who was
so represented This is another NJ. c.. A
third is father-in-law also to the employer
Of the man who turned out to be thief,
and whom they all tried to screen from
justice as long as they could, trying at the
same time to condemn and ruin that man
who had already been injured, both by put
ting him by Cameron's means, in the place
of the thief, and when they found this was
not enough, using other means in other ca
pacitieS to remove so obnoxious to them.
The principal persons, it may be observ-
ed, who have signed this petition, have al
so signed another which has for its object
the ruin Of that individual, whose innocence
all the skill, knowledge, business habits,
colonial experience, and malice Of Cameron
are not found sufficient to overthrow.
Here is one speeious argument, so very
shallow, but making SO great an attempt
at appearing reasonable, that it is proper
to bestow few words upon it, and very
few will suffice 1t is said, 80 short was
bis tenure Of Office previous TO the date of
that petition, that be had no equity cases
to adjudicate upon" True, he had not held
this Office long, but he had held another
judicial Office quite long enough to show
what sort Of aman be was he had exhib-
tied his character as magistrate in such
q light as 10 make il any thing but desira-
BILE that he should be promoted TO the Of
fee Of judge. Or would these petitioners
say, OH but this was as an equity judge,
and that is quite different from a criminal
Judge" What them Is equity of such
nature that a man may be presumed 10
make an excellent dispenser of equity who
had shown himself gross peryerter, and
opposer of justiceI Is there room for par
tiality and malice as o magistrate, but
none for their exercise In court Of edui-
tyI Are these your arguments? goodly
arguments forsooih! Why a notorious thief
or highway rObberj convicted villain
might be promoted to any Office, and par
tisans might defend his appointment, and
If the common deeency of the whole coun-
try were to, as it would, rise up at once
and demonstrate against the appointment,
and ask that it might be annulled, they
might, with as much justice as these petit
tioners evince, be told, that $50 short had
been the tenure Of bis Office previous to the
date of their petition, that he had case
to exercise the functions of his Office upon"
and therefore, this circumstance must
stamp their proceedings in opposing his ap-
pointment as ill advised and hasty in the
extreme" When you see child fall into
the water, do you consider it ill-advised,
and hasty in the extreme, to attempt to ex-
trieate it, before you have waited to see
whether it will be drownedg When you
find that a person has swallowed poison, do
you delay any remedies until you perceive
whether tits fatally operatingf Yet this is
exactly the reasoning fellow colonists, on
which your proceeding in opposing this
mans appointment is SO aippantly, with
such an air Of contempt adjudged by these
petitioners to be 'ill-adviSed, and hasty in
the extreme" @ .1
i do not judge it is ill-advised, and doubt
not you will agree with me, to avoid dan
ger as much as possible, aud the greater
the danger, 1 opine the greater haste ought
we to have to get out of its way
Daily experience shows that It is free
dom Of action which is particularly hateful
to the present authorities who at
tend public meeting TO discuss their most
important affairs, their dearest interests,
are by the government termed saditiOHs.
If there is freedom Of action, it is not to
these petitioners nor to the cause they ad-
vocate. As for life and property being Sc
cure-notoriously they are not-this, if
called upon, Twill prove in proper place.
| can prove it, and in proper place | am
ready. As to property, did not Mr.. Cam
eron do his utmost to render the tenure Of
property insecure! Did he not labor We
hemently to make it appear that the prop
erty Of one man was the property Of ano-
ther, and that the Innocent man had feloni-
ously taken what was his own property.
Was it not manifest undeniably, that if he
had had the power, if he had been left to
himself, this is what he would have done?
Mighty security, truly!-and reputation,
character-iiberty too, is secure, suppose,
is it noty Away with such impudent as
sertions, let them not look into the face Of