The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-09-10

this IS done with the ease and skull winch oeto-
ken the hand Of a master,
As a jarist, Judge Gibson was ardrntly
attached 10 the principles of the common law
His love OF them beams in his writings as atfrc-
ton will beam in the human countenance. lie
no, only looked on them with the admiration
Of artist, as symmetrical and beautiful parts
Of lgreat fabric but ne regarded them as the
best rampant which The common sense Of man
kind has yet thrown up against The desPotisn
Of the king or the Judge, Of the purse or the
sword. We shall s-e her eafier that the last
thing he ever wrote for publication, was
declaration Of his mistaken loyalty to the doc
trnrs Of the common law A part of the Ian
guage which he applied TO Judge Kennedy,
might as Justly have been uttered Of hmscIi;
for like Byron in many of his characters, he
was probloly describing himself without seeing
that the world would rpcognize the po:lrassA
:He cIung to the common law as a child 10 It's
nurs", and how much he drew from it, may be
seen in lis op1nions, which, By their elaborate
minutenrss, remind us Of the overluInrs5 Of
Coke" The Chef Justice was also an admrcr
Of our PennsylyanIa system OF Law, IN whla
the substantial principles Of equity are applied
under the forms Of the common law. The
wonjrr is that in any case they should have
been separated. To appoint one judge 10 exc
cute the law, aud another to do equity, seems
like creating one nan all head. and another all
heart. To execute the law upon a sntor's per-
son or property, and to allow him in the mean
time to apply TO a Court Of Equity Tor relief, or
to turn him out of the hitter because his case has
no tqui,y 10 it, with the assurance that he will
have no difficulty in recovering in court of
law, IN other words, to permit two different
rules Of legal du' oa the same subject, 10 press
Oh the same mao, a; The same tjme,-is state
Of things which til" mass Of mankind will n@v-
er understand, # each individual ,nan shoul
rival the palriarchs in the term OF natural life
From the day when Lord ErSkne uttered his
quiet humoI on the subject, down to the pnbIica-
ton Of Bleak House, the Seyeresl sarcasms on
this state Of things have been flung in to The
faces Of lawyers, without the possibility of turn
ing the point OF one Of them. The peunSylva-
MA system Of Law is among the few that have
been meaSur5iy free lom the reproacbcs
'''' '.'.' '''' ''''1 I'D 'e ',i-'
N
,.,..t.., .I.a.'.. ....-,. 49,.
sys:em,- and who had witnessed the strides
which thr legal world seemed making towards
:, .a.-,,rl E. i ....,., -.
,y,,, th,. -.,,r :, =, ,..,.;,... .,,, -,
ls,isl,tr~. .a,r,e,l c.-,,;, .-,,,;,,, ,,..,..t;.
,,,I ,ro,,.i, f'r .,,.,,.., --....,....,.
..It ....l...,..-+. :, r--,. 49, ,..s.. 49,.
,.r,o,;.. A a,,., .,, .......-. ..t...-.I,,.,.-.
..,,u,...l ,,..'Il r.,... ,...-., ,.....
,...... p..;l..,t:. ,.,-,...,
,h,o,t, b.,.,,.,..,.... ,i....1,
,,,.,, t....-.l.l ,.l.. -,
r..,...,'.L ,I
,-
= ~ -
tar. hat call., ,r...n int, r,;n- Z, .n,..-.G,r-
=. .,I.;...l.,n. n.......,s - .n.-,..,
t,..-..
10 ba,~ f.,,,.. d., ,..,.,.l...,,I, ..,.,
srst.,,, a.,,;..,.,., .I,o. .,...,,
.,....rf..
....,;..,, ,,.......,. ..~.',,.,I
rn
r:b..,1 o,.....:,,...
~ - al :"
',.'' "
.,.,...r .,.....J