Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-03-06

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT CONVENTIONS ON
i MARCH 1Sth-SHALL A. NOMINATION BE
| MADE!
By notice at the head Of our leading
column on this page, it will be seen that
Assembly District Conventions have been
called for Grant County on Saturday the
18th Of March. At the usual places Of meet
Ing, to elect two delegates from every dis
1trict-such delegates 10 meet at Mineral
Point on Tuesday, the 4 9th Of March to
nominate Republican Candidate for Cir
cult Judge in place Of Montgomery M.
Cothren, whose term of office is about to
expire. We hear nothing said about this
matter Of holding convention, nothing
about candidate, and cannot therefore
SAY what is intended to be done-only as
the notice directs. Hf.
Judge Cothren announces his name this
week as an independent candidate for re-
election, as he says, at the request of many
friends of both political parties. So stands
the matter now.
| Shall there be convention at Mineral
Point and shall Republican nomination
he made? These are questions for the
people to decide.
OUR PRIVATE OPINION OF AN ELECTIVE JU
pIcIARY AND COURTS IN GENERAL.
We do not believe in the process o.
electing Judges By the people, unless all
Judges, from the1-U. S. Supreme Court
down to Justices, are also elected. This
way of appointing Supreme and Federal
Circuit Judges for life and authorizing
the people to supply the lower courts is an
outrage particularly when we come to
consider that the life appointed Judges
claim Jurisdiction over the elected Judges
and power to review their decisions, rs we'll
as over Congress and even the President
This erects at once throne, because Meth
Eer the people nor Congress nor the Presi-
dent. much less the!State authorities, can
move except under the lead Of the Su.
prsme Court-.this court a life lease or per
petual power "a Thus, the Supreme Court
is higher thanC Congress and the people who
made it-higher than the Constitution ane
President. 70 the Constitution this cour
gives a meaning---any meaning it sees ii
while The President is made the tool tt
execute such meaning as an .inflexible law
1t is as though the people and the stars
were greater than Jehovah who made
them! But, can any power beget great
er than itself! Can the thing formed be
greater than he who formed it? Can ever
God make father to Himself? We an
swer, No! Yet, this vain, potentious aux
Hilary to the Federal galaxy, styled the U
S. Supreme Court, takes to itself a more
potent power than Congress possesses
flhansthose who created such court! 1t es
SAYS that the creature~is greater than thu
creator-a denial Of the very laws of ma
ture and Of all philosophy Thus, it essays
who are citizens---who have righ,s-whe
no rights worthy fprotection-what law
are constitutional; ALSO that slavery exist
) every where under the U. 8. Constitution
that slavery is national and freedom sec
tional, existing only in homeopathic doses
with any further assumptions ofpowcr tina
| it finds CONVENIENT. Such are only few
of the modern assumptions Of this Fedora
dynasty. ~> ~.
WHAT WE EXPECT TO DO ABOUT IT.
J We can say frankly that no man cal
ever have our vote who promises faith ii
and obedience to such impossible impossi
bilities as thisl grand Federal Supreme
: Court arrogates and Eliminate in the shap
, of decisions. We must be satisfied upo1
these points before voting, for these ar
the great questions,upon which all partie
: mus, and will turn from this time forth
Federalists and disunionists can no longe
dodge behind party names and platforms
3 Henceforth, we have treason, bold and de
+,
: fiant in our national Courts as well as i
Congress, to fight. Whoever is right upo
these points, and is qualified for a Judge
: be he Democrat OF Republican up to thi
date, can have our vote. Therefore, "
: can vote Cor no anti-State Rights, Dire
I Scott Decision, Federalist like the presen
: Buchanan MOI any of his Lecompton fol
u lowers. If Judge Cothren is right upo
these old Jeffersonian points of FELLOWSHIP
I and opposes disuuion, We can vote for hir
in preference to any man we know fc
: Judge of our Circuit. The question i