The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-09-28
Clagges puts Lawyers, Witnesses, Ju.


rers-Puss every body through!
What . pleasing subject to himself and
friends. How happy is "the Court" in the con
temptation Of it! How his Honor gloats over
Il, talks about it everywhere, rolls it under his
tongue % q sweet morsel. 1t is the saccharine
matter that sweetens his Judicial existence
It 10 his comfort by day aud his solace by night
1T 10 his billiards, his ninepins, his old sledge
and poksr-his whisky punch and lager bier,
his brandy smashes end mint juleps, in short his
every thing. And when he is deprived of this
glorious privilege of putting everybody through
he will be supremely miserable, will subsds to
his normal condition.
A it has been rather clearly shown how
happy Clagget 10 in putting Others through
how much it delights and amuses hm-what it
costs and who pays-it might be well to inquire
how the same pleasing process operates upon
his own nerves when he himself is the party
trotted out-the trottee instead Of the trotter-
the person put through, instead Of the person
putting others through. And here it may be
proper to remark upon the vast power which
circumstances possess over cases. The pleasure
arising from the contemplation Of SCORING" 10
very materially influenced by the question whes
ther or not you own the Bull or the Ok. As
long as it 10 your Bull which is disemboweling
your neighbours OK, the spectacle is pleasing
and very entertaining. But when the order of
proceeding is reversed there is apt to be slight
revulson in feeling. 1t was thus with "the
Court"
Last winter parties who supposed they had
been ''put through" without law,-who thought
they had been the victims of Judicial oppres-
sion and outrage, sought that redress which
the hands Of the Legislature. They asked whasit
was their right to ask and what the Legislature
had no right to refuse, viz: that the conduct Of
this Judge should be investigated. They claim
cd that his short career upon the bench had
been marked by injustice and oppression, and
that scrutiny be made.
What was the RESULT Did "the Court" say
TO the Legislature, investigate as soon as you
pleAses Did Judge Clagget invite scrutiny into
his acts and dongss Was he willing that an
intelligent tribunal should determine how he
had performed the duties of his high Officer
Not BIT of it. He issued a long address to the
people of this district deprecating in the most
feeling manner any investigation of his conduct
% Judge, because impeachment would break
him Of citizenship and disgrace his family! He
started pell-mell for the capitol, when he heard
of the application, where We are told by those
who saw him, that he employed every device to
escape scrutiny. He pleaded and begged for
ouartcr-he swore and howled-he treated and
bled-he button holed and champaigned the
Legislature and the lobby-he fed the State
officers with oysters, fried and stewed,) and all
others who he thought could or would interfere
to prevent his being "trotted through
The Judge escaped. He was not "put
through" The Legislature let him off upon the
plea that his term of office soon expired, and
up to that time just or unjust, fair or foul, he
must be borne in the LIST District.
He 10 now before another tribunal and is
seeking by the same appliances to escape the
consequences of his acts. Can he do it! Will
the People now put HIN through We shall
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