Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-03-24
A. SCOTT SLOAN AND MILLER's CUT
THROAT JURISDICTION

1t IS cut throat jurisdiction made on
purpose for outsiders, and wotild give iiuidg-
ment for 20 cents against any Of our cit
gems, though its jurisdiction was confined
ito sums over $500, by the slibterfuge Of
allowing creditors to claim that amount
and it we had another such court. God save
Wisconsin! He knew ifien who were
Ianxiously watching the operations of
that court and daily expect to haveit sweep
away their all by snap Judgment
Such is the court tile Democratic party
Of Wisconsin and the Dixon and Howe
lawyers have mortgaged their souls to for
their feed; such the court that the Repub-
lican party oppose, and A. ScoTT SLOAN is
the man they wish elected for Chief JUS
tiee IN order to break dawn that cut-throat
Jurisdiction. Last spring we elected By
RON PAINE, one Of the chief antagonisms
to that cut-throat court-elected him BY
5000 majority Over the Democratic and
HOWE parties combined
Almost every neighborLcod in Grant
county and the State has been attacked IN
some way by Miller's court; some farmer
has been sued for some trifiing claim of %
cents or upwards, flUminally put at $500
the cost in every case amounting from
5000 to $780, Hundreds such cases are
hatehed up BY hon-residents, suits com
menced, judgments ordered and small
homesteads sold; the owner Of homestead
scarcely ever knowing for what, PERHAPS
never owed the claimant a cent, perhaps
never saw or heard of such claimant. A
gang Of lawyers center in and around Mil
ler's Federal Inquisiiion, and are fed by
breeding and Matching eggs Of ruin on poor
mems property. The rich who are able to
defend are seldom attacked by them; the
poor and defenceless are the victims.
Now, the State Supreme Court, disal-
lows much that Miller claims in the shape
Of jurisdiction, and thus far succeeds toler-
ably in staying the power Of Miller. Hun
dreds Of poor men through the State have
a lease on their property only so long as
our Supreme Court remains antagonist to
Millers Court. Whenever majority Of
thejudges of our State Supreme Court
comes to be Of the Dixon or Democratic
kind, then viii the bulldogs of war be let
loose upon peoples property.
Miller's judgment roll, said tocontain tea
thousand judgments, aided by his hundred
police in the shape Of lawyers and narshals,
and two score of spys and eavesdroppers in
the shape of grand jurors who must always
be Democrats, and his special police around
the records Of every county seat--the
whole army together ready to fight, falsely
swear, hunt niggers, attack property or
character, disseminate humbuggery. catch
Booth and souse him into prison on the
eve of elections, make Pharisaic prayers
before the altar Of liberty, pretend to-
yenerate the Constitution but secretly hate
the Constitution and hug to their bosoms
the friends Of secession and disunior--all
such are combined in support Of AflIler's
cut-throat Jurisdiction, as ORroE calls it
ali are combined to elect Dixon, a friend
Of Miller, to the Supreme Bench--all are
combining TO defeat A. ScoTT SLOAN. 1t
is Federalisinj disunion, secession, sore eyes,
humbuggery and war upon property COM
bined on one side, against the people, the
Constitution and liberty on the other.
Teachers Institute in Grant County at Platte