New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-24
JUDGE WORsfUPERs.

| JUDGE WORsfIPERs.
II is commonly said that the sovereign people
rule in this country There is however large
and highly reputable class among Us whose po-
Iitical theory either does not acknowledge At
all this popular sovereignty, or admitting it 10
words, yet seeks 10 enact and in fact to nullfy
it in favor of quite another sovereign In the
political mythology Of these wise men Of the
| Fast - for New-England is an eminent and
principal seat Of this doctrine-the people play
precisely the same part that Ahriman, the in
carnation of the principle of evil, does in the
old Persian theology. They are in part the
source Of all mischiefs; TO guard against their
motives and their folly requires perpetual effort
and ceaselcss watchfulness. The Ormusd of
those sectaries, the principle of good to whose
benevolent sentiment and enlightened wisdom
they exclusively look for social order and har
mony, and protection against popular ignorance
and wickedness, is-the Judiciary "While
the rest of mankind are led away captive in
the chains of their internal enemy says
Gibbon, "the faithful Persian alone re-
"seryes his religious alteration for his friend
and protector Ornusd, and fights under his
"banner of light in the full confidence that he
"shall in the last day share the glory of his
"triumph. At that decisive moment the en-
frightened wisdom of goodness will render the
"power of Ormusd superior to the furious NAL
"ice of his rival. Ahrman and his followers,
" disarmed and subdued, will sink into their
"native darkness, and virtue will maintain the
eternal peace and harmony of the universe.
For the word Persian substitute american
.Judge-morshipers-and our American sectaries
may be so called with even more of propriety
than the Persians were denomlnated Fire-wor-
shipers-and for Ormusd read the Judiciary,
and the above quotation will exactly describe
the sect of which speak.
As the ancient Per.ians, not content with
worshiping Ormusd alone, distributed their
deyotons among countless number of genii
of various ranks and orders, through whose
agency Ormusd was supposed tn act, so our
American sectaries bow down to and worship
with profound alteration individual Judges of all
sorts and sizes, from your saye-catching Com
missioners, like Edward G. Loring, up to that re-
markable embodiment of placid rectitude and
serene justice, Judge Grier of the Supreme
bench of the United States.
A Judge, big or little and especially Fed
eral judge, is invested by tie superstitious re-
verence of these votaries with remarkable at
tributes. The mere appointment to seat on
the bench at once transforms to their minds an
acknowledged and admitted blockhead into an
inexhaustable fountain of wisdom-a shrewd,
mereenary attorney into a pure source of I'M
mixed truth and incompatible justice-a bar
room BLACKBOARD into guardian Of peace and
order.
They invest Judge with all the infallblity
which the most ultra-mOBtane Catholicism
eribes TO the Pope, and with all the freedom
from personal responsibility which the most
Tory loyalty bestOws upon the English monarch.
They are as much Mortified at the notion of the
removal of Judge Loring, for instance, as English
loyalists are at the idea of the execution of
Charles THAT great act Of retributiye and po-
litical Justice which first taught the princes
and the people of modern Europe the much
needed lesson that Kings and rulers are but
men, and as men must answer for their acts as
Kings and rulers
Surely there is no less need that these Ameri-
can Judge-worshipers of ours should be taught
that Judges too are but men. SO long as they
confined their worship to Judges OF the SUI
preme Courts, State and National, their idoa-
try, however gross, might perhaps be tolerated;
but when they take to bowling down TO slave
catching Commissioners as TO personlicatlons
of the principles of justice, peace and order,
some thing is surely necessary 10 rouse them
from so pitiable a delusion and to keep so detes-
table w~rbip from spreading. The worship OF
noble animal like bull, however gross the
superstition, has yet something respectable
about it. The OK plOws, the COW gives milk
one can easily see how most animals come 10 be
worshiped. But what apology can possibly be
made for adulations paid to crocodile, even
though be may drop tears as he devours his
victim
THE SLAVERY CONFLICT.
The Union is uttering ieremiads over the