Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-03-17
Supreme Court Judge.

The question at issue in the approaching clcc-
ton for Judge Of the Supreme Court, is being
well defined and clearly stated. We arc glad to
perceive there is 10 hesitaAeH with some of our
democratic contemporaries, IN admitting the true
issue involved. The Fugitive SLAVE act and
be Died Scott dcc;si on, being recognized as
among the fundamental principles Of the Demo
cratic party it is plainly mtmated that
these mast be vitaIized, and pat in working
order in Wisconsin. The present Supreme
Court of the State, is charged with delinquency
because it has failed to enforce these iniqUiies;
by its decisions the Fugi.iya SiaYc act is q dead
letter in the State. Negro hunting in Wiscon-
sin, has thus far proved oscing business to
those engaged in it whsreupon, the democracy
are greatly dissatisfied and seek to make il pay
by putting William Pitt Lynde on the Supreme
Court bench. For this purpose they could have
selected no filter man in the S ate. Lyude and
Judge Miller, are a unit in whatever pertains
TO the dictum Of the pro-saycry court at Wash
ington.
The people of the; State should fully under
stand the principles Of peISoral liberty and OF
State rights, connected with this question OF
Supreme Court Judge. What tights Of vital IN
tefcst to every citizen Of the State arc at stake
Let Us examine some Of them Shall tribunals
Be established all over he State, unknown to
the laws Of the State, and against the eucroach-
ments and usulpations Of which, the people have
10 protection by their own laws OF their own
Courts Such tribunals the Fugitive Slave act
seeks to est ,b.ish among US by The appointment
Of u. S. Commissioners, for determining who are
entitled to the enjoyment Of liberty and personal
rights. Against the acts Of those tribunals,
however unjust and viIlainoHs, the democracy
hold the people have no redress by their own
laws. Such is the doctrine TO which Mr. Lynde
is committed aud such is the rule which wit!
be recognized by the supreme Court Of the Slate
when the democracy shall have obtained the
control Of it.
The right of trial by Jury is one Of the old
safeguards of human liberty recognized where
ever the rights Of man are properlp respected.
This right the Fugitive Slave act strikes down
at a blow, our present Supreme Court believe il
to be right which the Fugitive Slave act un.
consttutionally sets aside The Democracy de
nounce the Court for holding such an opinion,
and now seek to commence rcvolutionizing the
Court by the election of William pitt Lynde,
The bred Scott decision, which teaches there
are persons among us "whose rights white new
are not bound to respect, is one of the cherished
doctrines Of the pro-sayery democracy. Our
present Supreme Court probably have no great
respect for such perversive Of the constitutions
although such dsctiinc emanates from the
great central Court at Washington. William
Pitt Lyndc, it is unders TODD endorses ali the
vagaries of bred Scottish with profound salts,
faction. He believes with Judge Miller, that
officers may be appointed at Washington TO re-
eide among us, to exercise powers affecting the
rights of persons, independent of our laws. The
claims set up by the central Supreme Court at
Washington if yielded to, make the several
States ofthe Union but mere vassal provinces
deprying them of the right of protecting the in
habitauts within their respective limits; allow
ing their scisurc and deprivation Of liberty
without trial by Jury, or a hearing according to
the forms Of law prescribed by the Constitution.
The issue therefore in the approaching contest
for Judge ofthe Supreme Court, on the one side
is the maintenance of the independence and
Sovereignty of the States; on thc other the
surrcndry and subseryiency Of the States to a
central power; the abandonment of the right to
protect our own citizens, by our own State gov
eminent and laws.