Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-02-16
LAscAsrrn. January "a. 1854.

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posed. | mean the locality of the United States
District Court. As would suffer If he lived
in Herschel at too great distance from the sun,
SO he smarts, if at too great distance from
Courts; from the gladstone light of jurisprudence
The oppression arising from the distance of Judge
! Mlilers Court has become SO great in this Coun-
ty, that 1t has filled the people with something like
| alarm and terror. All kinds of cases, where the
plaintiff affects non-resdence, especially eject,nents
mines-or its attorneys have, whose business it is
to rake up business, and few men with gov
eminent patents in their pockets, feel secure
! Now, Ben, ycu most certainly can see all the
workings of the system, and its bearing the
western and north western Counties. What avails
a perfect title, ii man is sued living in Grant.
and required to appear in Milwaukee? He must
employ counsel either living here there If
here, he must pay his attorneys mileage TO Mil
waukee. You know what mileage is Then be
must pay heavy expenses-his lawyer must be
paid for leaving the theatre of his business; must
be paid for his stay in MISUNDERSTANDING for
two three trips there Ii he employs lawyer
in Milwaukee, he must pay bulky fee. cores
Pondng with the size and dignity of the city, and
the necessity which the lawyer knows his client
iabors under. The client cannot have those per-
sonal frequent consultations with his advocate. that
the continually arising exgencies of his defense
may require. To procure Witnesses (the attend
ance of living witnesses is sometimes indspensa
bic, you know, and paper profles viii not Go)-
| this would be ruinously expensive. To freight
testimony aHre from La Crosse Bad Axe, or
more distant points, to Mlwaukee,-iust think Of
it! And what would be the freight on living ev
idence from this county to the apogee of the Court
al Milwaukee or even its perigee at Madison p
Now, Mr. E, you see the reason of what has ac-
tually transpired in this and other western coun-
ties. Men of small means. with good titles, have
actually surrendered their 'paernal acres because
the theatre of war, far off, they could not
afford the expense of an expedition thither Of
course, they surrendered unconditionally But
even surrender did not satisfy the memorable
Justice of the Court Executions for costs issue
the claws of the Court penetrate their pockets,
to the quick, to the marrow of their bones DE
fault, Default, Default is the watchword of the
Court, the form of all its judgments; when the
Court pronounces this potent word, the snug and
cherished homestead drops from the hand of its
possessor and becomes the spoil of the officers of
that Court that in effect, violates the great pTin-
ciple OF constitutional and common law, that no
Court or legislature can take away one mans re-
ality, and give II TO another. Under the operation
OF this system. property in this county is chan
ging hands, without tral-defendants are perfect
ly impotent, and the Court can bestow on non
residents. the possessions of our citizens easily
as the Administration can eject New York Col
lector, and install successor in his place. know
of no oppression equal to it in any country of
treemen. twas something like it, when Old Eng
land transported State prisoners across the Allan
tic, to try them at Westminster. or Old Bailey
But TO facts Now l know not your personal feel
ings in the matter. / have myself no personal
pique against the Court. TIE general, ard bitter
and increasing hostility 10 Judge Miller, arises
perhaps, from his distance from us-like tomatoes
we light relish him better. by and proximity.
We are consumed in the very focus of the doc be
convex lens OF the United States Court; could we
get nearer the fearful glass il would not burn US
Men do not often enter the Courts of Wisconsin
now, to enforce just claims the expenses and haz.
ards too great Plaintiffs are generally extor-
TONERS, who know that defendants will buy their
trequented for such end, they ought to be abol-
shed AT least such is the operation Of the Dist.
rict Court of the United States, in Wisconsin,
But have promised facts. You know that poor
Andrew Wood was indicted for perjury in that
Court. From the falls OF Black river he was
dragged over TO Milwaukee TO give bail there he
had to go TO be tred-there his witnesses and law
yer had to go-there he had 10 pay his tavern
bills and his travelling expenses to and fro. He
was acquitted, but he mortgaged all he claimed to
pay the expenses of his defence his innocence
ruined hirn-he left the Court shaven and sript
of every thing but his character. The stones of
the Bastiie, had they tongues, could not tell a
more revolving story OF wrong. Here a
poor mbe:man hauled like Hector to the Mar
shal's chariot. three hundred miles twice told. Is
there remedy, redress-or no Rcuenge p
The infatuated devotee of Juggernaut is better off
than defendant in the District Court, who lives
on the Mississippi. The latter must make an ex
! pensive pill grimage beg his way TO Milwaukee,
before he can enjoy the satisfaction of being crush
ed TO death under the OF justice But the de-
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disc; but no body in thsregion, believes that Mil
waukee lies the road to Heaven. and does not
wish to travel in that direction unless temporal
considerations impel him. Your private opinion
mas be that Wood is a scoundrel. think OF him
as the jury did, that he was an innocent man.
! But this makes no difference; what | wished TO
show, is, that an Aristides, the hottest martyr
NAV be indicted in Milwaukee bv a malianant en-.
envy, and be utterly ruined by expensive transits
across the State TO defend his character And
here ought not 10 forget the lumber indictments
and suits, the tar and turpenne' prosecutions
! in that Court From the sequestered sources of
the hickapoo, Chippewa and Black rivers-foun-
tains as hidden as those of the Nile poor lumber
men have been found by timber agents-the Ad-
ministraton is determined TO destroy these cater
( pillars. In the rough attire OF the woods, with