Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-04-12
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN
COURT


The following account of a most singular pro-
ceeding ia one Of the Courts of Indiana, iscom-
Inunicated to the Richmond Palladium:
At New Castle, we found quite an excitement
existing In regard to the President Judge OF this
Circuit, Hon. Judge Anthony. The court met
on Monday morning. but before proceeding to
business, q member of the Henry county Bar
presented a petition, signed by every member
of the bar in that court, asking, in most respect
fol terms, his honor to resign his seat upon the
bench. The gentleman who presented the pc
tition. stated, however, that in case he would
not resign the petitioners had agreed among
themselves that they would not do any business
in the court so long as he presided. Another
gentleman addressed the court, re-asserting the
determination they had agreed to, and urged in
very plain terms the necessity Of a resignation.
Another followed, expressing the high personal
respect he entertained for the Judge as gen.
tleman and a tarern-keeper, but justice required
him to say that he regarded the present incum-
bent of the bench as utterly unqualified for the
place he occupied, and hoped he would resign.
He was followed by another, and he by another,
and he by another, until every member had in
plain terms expressed their opinion as to his in
capability, &c.
With nonchalence peculiar to his Honor, he
think Of the natter and in the meantime proceed
to business. He called the cases upon the dock
ct, and every case which had not been compro-
missed, was continued until the next term of the
court. Court was adjourned for dinner, and in
the afternoon petition signed by the jury was
presented to the Judge, asking him to resign
His Honor asked time to consider when the
lawyers proposed to him, that if he would agree
in writing never to come to that county again
for the purpose Of holding court, and would send
some one in his place, they would be content to
drop the matter so far as they were concerned
The Judge again took the matter under aduiSe-
ment, and we are told finally promised never to
come to that county again for the purpose OF
holding court, until he should be sent for, and
would either send some other Judge TO hold the
court, or permit the Judge of the Court Of Com
mon Pleas to hold court in his stead. So end
ed the matter for the present
Not one word by way Of justification of the
course of the attorneys is required of us. All
who know anything of the Judge will sustain
the plea of full justification.
THE FEELING AT THE SoUTH.-The Charles
ton Evening News, speaking of Gen. Cass' late
speech on the Nebraska bill, gives utterance to
the following disgraceful attack upon Gen. Cass.
Such malice will fall harmless The view taken
of the effect of his course is somewhat different
from that which many take.
"This is an unparalleled instance of atrocious
disregard of the Constitution, of impudence to-
wards the sovereign States Of the Union and
their citizens, and of cool contempt for the
South. Was there no Southern man-no con-
stitutionalist and patriot present to hurl into
his teeth the just Indignation of the whole coun.
try!
+" This political old fogy has done the South
more injury than any man living or dead; and
because she would not make him president, he
gloats in his revenge. May her Kisses of scorn
continue to burden the winds of his sky. The
doctrine came from him (frst intimated in his
Nicholson letter in l848), on which the Con-
gressional legislation has proceeded, whereby
the last and all of the vast territories belonging
to the States united, have been lost to the South
and to her institutions Now, follow to the
grave, vindictive old man, thy lustrious prede.
cessor John Quincy Adams; you can be Of no
other use in this wOrld. The South can yet de-
stroy you-you and your compeers."
WANT OF CoNFIDENcE.-The Jour. Of Conn.,
records what it calls singular instance of want
of confidence which occurred in New York: A
dry goods jobber doing business of nearly
$l,OO0,00O per annum, supposed himself worth
$4,000, and concluded to retire while prosperi-
ty smiled upon him. In the winding up of his
affairs, however, several ugly losses reduced his
anparent balance until his creditors who still