Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-03-27

certainly have the best means of knowing the
man most fit for the office, and can elect him II
do their business. 1t is their business that i
required to be done, and they, of all others have
the deepest interest in having a proper person,
Is not this so? Yet many, can il be believed
and among them, as 1t appears, nearly the whole
legal profession profess to greatly prefer the old
Independent and irresponsible judiciary system,
with all its monstrous evils to the present lust
and evidently proper system, and are loud in
their praises Of the former and bitter n their con-
demnation oil the latter. By the old independ-
ent system the people were deprived of the liz
erty to elect judge, by the new system they
have that liberty, and are very jealous of 1t; be-
cause they purchased it at great price. This.
the 11th judicial Circuits composed of five coun-
ties, Amherst, Nelson, Bath, Rockbridge and
Augusta; has from sixty to seventy lawyers, as
admitted, and containing from sixty to seventy
thousand people-one lawyer to a thousand PEG
| pie. But if each lawyer had family of six
certainly not true, if am correctly informed, as
to tile Staunton Bar-then sixty lawyers, they
would only represent four hundred and tw enty to
sixty thousand, or six in thousand. What
then! Why, then, sixty or seventy intelligent,
high minded birds Of lawyers, except lonely
one, got up and signed q call on Judge TEomp-
SOD, couched in the most eulogstic language,
coming election OF Judge. Why was this call
so scrupulously confined to the lawyers,
and so carefully excluded from the farmer, me-
chanic, merchant. and others2 1t was their bus
mess he would be required to do; and thought
they had right to have some thing to say, or
should be at least consulted as to the persOn.-
They have been carefully excluded, however,
from all participation in the matter, and that by
lawyers, many OF them the leading ones, so devo-
ted 10 the Old system that deprived the people of
the liberty to elect Judge, and offended al the
new, tor giving them that liberty. 1t aoas a CIR
cunsstance thGt escated great suspicion. What
did it portend9 Was it plan OF these lawyers,
notwithstanding the constitutional rights of the
people, 10 deprive them oil that liberty2 Ii that
be SO then the analogy IS established between
this circumstance and The angry remarks of the
French Emperor to the Austrian minister, and
the tax OF the colonies by the British Govern
ment. To test the purpose of these birds OF law
yers In this matter, after waiting reasonable
time tor some satisfactory explanation of their
conduct, the farmers ventured call to Mr..
tultz, an able and experienced lawyer, man of
unexceptlonable moral character, and the only
one OF the legal profession in the circuit who had
not signed the call on Judge Thompson, to con-
sent to become q candidate tor the Judgship at
the coming election. He consented. Stand |!
Listen Is it an earthquake or an eruption of
Vesuvius9 MOI it is the furious roaring of the
lawyers. Now the papers TEEN and are redolent
with phihppics against Mr.. Faitz for daring to
become a candidate at tie call OF the farmers of
this circuit. Has not the analogy been confirm
|ed2
To one Of these writers in your paper, who
had been laboring in several successive pieces,
over the signature of ~, apparently to establish
satisfactorily to his own mind that Mr.. Fultz in
his card, had made an unkind charge against
Judge Thompson, gave gentle hint, in your
paper OF the 18Th inss., greatly hoping 1t would
have been received kindly, and really never ex-
pected to see him in your paper again.
But, in your paper of the Goth, contrary to my
expectation, found the redoubtable ~" as large
as life. He appears to have forgotten that he is
lawyer this time, however, and cow processes
to have been examining she sleeping docket
Il suppose in the Clerks Office) | am glad to
hear of his new vocation, because | am satisfied
| shall need his services shortly, and request him
to explain some things of great Importance con-
nected with that office. | am little perplexed
in deciding, from the character of mis- last piece,
whether be is alarmed or angry. But as he calls
me ssdear Junius' several times words OF en-
dearing character, | am most cheerfuily led to
conclude he is not angry. Then he must be
frightened badly; because the only thing toera
bic about his former pieces was the style but in
this even that is wanting
Then, again, he uses coarse language. He ap-
pears to have his miEd much disturbed about
some dreadful judgment, and imagnes Junius
to be the s'seoond Daniel" come to try him. All
this is wonderful deluson. Junius has no such
purpose, JUNIUs.