Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-28
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MONDAY, MAY %. 1855.

JUDGE WoRsHIPPERs.-I 1t is commonly said
that the sovereign people rule in this coun-
try. There is, however, large and highly
reputable class among US, whose political the
DRY either does not acknowledge at all this
popular sovereignty, or admitting it in words,
yet seeks to enact end in fact to nullifv it in
favor of quite another sovereign. In the DO.
litical mythology of these wise men of the
East for New England is an eminent and
principal seat of this doctrine-the people play
precisely the same part that Ahriman the in
earnation OF the principle of evil, does in the
old persian theology. They are in part the
source of all mischieis; to guard against their
motives and their folly requires perpetual eff
Tort and eeaseless watebfulness. The Ormusd
OF those sectaries, the principle OF good to
whose benevolent sentiment and enlightened
wisdom they exclusively look tor social order
and harmony, and protection against ponular
ignorance and wickedness, is-the Judiciary.
"While the rest of mankind are led away
captive IN the chains of their internal enc
my, says Gibbon, ''the faithful Persian alone
reserves his religious alteration for his friend
and protector Ormusd, and fights under his
banner OF light in the full confidence that he
shall in the last day share the glory of his tr1
umph. At that decisive oment the enliehf
ened wisdom Of goodness will render the
power of Ormusd superior to the furious mall
ice OF his rival. Ahriman and his followers.
dlsarmed 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 aoorSbtppers, and our American secta
res may be SO called with even more Of pro-
priety than the Persian were denominated
Fire worshippers- and for Ormusd read the
judiciary, and the above quotation will ex-
aetly describe the sect oil which we sneak.
AS the ancient Persians, not content with
worshlpplng Ormusd alone, distributed their
deYotons among countless number of genii
OF various ranks and orders, through whose
agency Ormusd was supposed to ACT. 60 our
American sectaries bow down to and worship
with profound alteration individual judges of
all sorts and sizes, from your slave-catching
Commissioners, like Edward Greeley Loring.
up to that remarkable embodiment of placid
reeutudc and serene justice, Judge Grier, of
the Supreme bench of the United States.
judge, big or little, and especially Fed
eral judge, is invested by the superstitious rev.
erence 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 inexhaustible fountain of wisdom "a shrewd
mercenary attorney into pure source of un-
mixed truth and incompatible justice-a bar
room blackguard into guardian of peace and
order.
They invest judge with all the infallibility
which the most ultra montana Catholicism
ascribes to the Pope, and with all the freedom
from personal responsibility which the most
Tory loyalty bestows upon the English mon.
arch. They are as much Mortified at the no.
ton of the removal of Judge Loring, for in
stance, as English ioyalists are at the idea of
the execution Of Charles THAT great act of
retributive and political Justice which first
taught the princes and the people Of modern
Europe the much needed lesson that Kings
are but men, and, as men, must answer for
theri acts as Kings and rulers.
Surely, there is 10 less need that these
American judge worshippers of ours should
be taught that judges, too, are but men. So
long as they confne their worship to Judges
of Supreme Courts, State and National, their
idolatry, however gross, might perhaps be toll
Grated but when they take to bowling down
TO slave catching Commissioners as to person.
LEGATIONS of the principles of justice, peace
and order, something is surely necessary to
rouse them from so pitiable delusion, and to
keep SO detestable worship from spreading.
The worship OF noble animal like bull.
however gross the superstition, has vet some
thing respectable about it. The OK plows,
the COW gives milk-one can easily see how
most animals comes to be worshipped. But
what apology can possibly be made for adula-
tons paid to crocodile, even though he NAV
drop tears as he devours his victim - Neeo
York Tribune.