The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1857-03-31
From the Pee Dee Chera,o Herald
APrOEer Subject For Legislation.


We regard it as great evil that the citizen
who, in the faithful discharge of duties imposed
upon him AS public servant, should be made
liable by the laws ofthe land TO pecuniary dam.
age on account Of his strict conformity to the
rules prescribedfor his conduct in. such capaci.
ty, and supposed that the Legislature would
iuterpose in such case to save him harmless
1t is not so, however; tie citizen who undertake
public service, runs the hazard Of seri6us loss
if in the execution OF its duties he happens to
give occasion of offence to another
We have special reference to case within
our knowledge, in Which citizens of the Distric.
were put to considerable expense Of costs in de.
Tending an action brought against them as man.
ayers of elections for refusing votes on the
eroupd of Color. The chject OF the plaintiffs
III oherIng taeIrvotes, was to make the issue ia
Court, that their status might be established -
the votes were retused-the managers were
sued, aud the jury found verdict for the drfen.
dants, the managers, thus endols sing and sus.
tanning them iG their refusal to receive their pro-
fered votes;-yet the plaintiff being ''nulla bona
the defendants are requiredto pay some $3.50
or 5000 costs. Application was made to the
Legislature at its last session for relief, but the
House refused it-so these public officers, for
no offence in the world except their zeal to
preserve the purity of the ballot box are muIct
in a asevere,penalty, to say nothing of,he Fees"
which their counsel required them to pay for his
services. No matter what opinion any one may
have had as 70 the propriety oftheir refusing
the votes in the first instance sal must now adj
NIT that they were correct, inasmuch as an in
teligent jury; before whom all the facts Of the
case came in review has passed upon it, aud
pronounced in their favor.
Werepeat it, it ba,d 'ease;requires legis.
lation, otherwise, it will be gross imposition
upon an honest man to put him in position
of public trust, with no salary attached, and re
quie him to acturder the STANDARDIZATION Of
IN oath. The duties of citizenship do not in
our humble estimation require anysuch sscrfc
as: this. Because man is competent to admins
teri the laws in tle>eapacity of manager of cleo
,ionS, it does not follow that he owes it to the
community to plcdyc his private means for the
faithful performance OF the duties attached. TO.
the office, much le.s ought he to be suhjectedto
loss or injury when he has done for the public,
IT, .,ch cases MIN sIlo r,;i,,;,i,l car 10
sustained by the verdict ola jury, the expenses
slpuldhe borne out Of the public fund s-tbsS State
Should Fay them. Ifihes officer was; at fault
there might be some ground iortiie positioa that
be should defray his own expenses, but even
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Seiror of Judgment, of W;ii1f asGce. ss q
The Legislative having refused Asy AID To The
citizens whose case we have been Considering.
we trust that something will be done for their
relief by tie people oil The District for whom
lhey were acting. They are pot able to bear the
expens e.ofdefonding an action in which the peo.
Ile are the real defendants, norought it to he;
exacted of them. :"
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