Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-05-08

there was Mr.. Fultz modestly peeping out from
behind his fan, waiting to be gracious, fresf
from the great ocean of liberty, the Constitu
tional Convention, and no doubt just as ''ready
to dance" as he is now, if only any body hat
a1ed him. This was surely portentous CLOUD
over the sun of newly riser freedom, grea
would be the astonishment3of this moonite Wis
itor, after wadng through Mr.. Fultz's cards, anG
the elaborate productions of "Junius," and "A
Countryman's" ghost, that all the lawyers of the
Circuit should be so corrupt, and so ignorant
and infatuated too so unmindful of their duty to
their clients, and of their own interest, as, with
the single exception of Mr.. Fultz, to urge the
reelection of an incompetent and unfaithful
drone, under whose auspices their clients, whose
interests they are sworn to protect, would suffer
and the business by which they live and feed
their families would languish and fall away,
while Mr.. Fultz is scrying in the market place, u
"Ho nv brethren the success attended upon q
laborous practice for the last thirty years ena
bles me- without presumption, to fatter myself
that am not wholly destitute of ability,-here
is my large and lucrative practice-elect me
Judge, and leave it to be divided among you
will clear the dockets-I will discharge my
duties with promptness and impartiality-I will
wake up the sleeping docket and sit all the
year round-I will make the wheels of justice,
now SO greatly retarded, roll on-Ohl that /
were Judge in Israel, for your sakes-I will
make it luxury for every man, woman and
child to come into court, and thus quadruple
your business" The man of the moon could
only exclaim, wonderful, most wonderfully
true-surely mans nature must be turned inside
A. IL. t. \
''Junius" and "Oountryman" allege is SO, and
these lawyers are opposed to Fultz's election
Ii they were virtuous men, they could not hest
tate for the sake of their country, their clients
and the cause of Justice. But then again, if
they were ever so vicious and selfish, the har-
vest of Mr.. Fultz's practice, and the stirring up
OF the business which would follow, on the sub
stitution of a prompt, energetic and able Judge
in place OF drone, would make them the more
eager to espouse his cause. Bot here comes the
trio-I will question them. Gentlemen, you are
new cOmers, presume, perhaps just dropped
from the moon like myself2" mo sir, we are
among the oldest inhabitants We have marked
for the last thirty years, the abuses under which
our circuit has groaned, and have now banded
ourselves together to correct Them" The moon
mans face expanded like that you sometimes
see on an eight day clock, as he replied, "gen-
tlemen, the mystery is solved. l am not moon
struck as well as moon descended You have
been here all the time you say, have seen these
pretended abuses for thirty years-one of you
at least has been lawyer in full practice, yet
your love of country, your love of justice, your
sworn duty to your clients never brought from
you whisper Of complaint. till you became en-
vious of the Judges slippers and greedy for the
Judges salary. Yes, understand all now, gen.
temen. 1t is the old cry of the Demagogue for
reform, the necessity of which is never seen till
he wants the loaf and fish. We have many
such cases in the moon, which have sometimes
come nigh throwing US out of our orbit. !
could no. see how the lawyers, supposing them
ever SO bad, could go for Thompson, and against
every interest they had, but see it all now
They don't believe a word you clamor against
him, and they certainly know how be has de-
meaned himself in office Take my word for it,
gentlemen, unless you can prove yourselves fresh
from the moon, and strangers to these abuses
till lately, the people won't believe word you
have to say. They have no faith in those ami
mails, who, like Balaam's Ass, never speak till
the Angel appears,-who never love the people
well enough to warn them of danger till they
are IAN hungered" or want 'meat." Besides, I
am told by that perverse dog "" that all your
accusations against Judge Thompson are refuted
as fast as they come out, and that your only
hope now is to keep few Roarbacks in train
ing to be let out about the time of the election,
SO as to do their work before they can be killed
off,
This thing about the Receivers bonds, Mr..
Ghost, wont do; you never can pursuade any
body that Baldwin and Peyton, or Mr. Fultz him
self, would have let their clients money go by
thousands into irresponsible hands for twenty
one years, without a chirp. Let that thing a.
lone, you'll hurt Fultz with it. Depend on ii
II" is right. When money was ordered to
be paid into Court, who would receive it but
the Clerka The Judge darsn't, and it would not
do to poke it into an open pigeon hole with the
papers. 1t was then the Clerks duty, as Clerk
to take it, and if he failed to account he was res
ponsible in the capacity he received it. / had
never heard the thing doubted until you brought
it up to help you in storm, and wiser heads
than your have acted on it too long to make
dispute about it in the heat of a canvass. You
must take cooler time to consider it; and am
sorry to see that crooked fellow, ", is getting
you mad. He'll get the advantage over you.-
He has got the advantage of you already. You
say he confesses that Mr.. Kinney gave his bonds
in the very manner named in your article
Now if you had thought minute you would
have remembered that you did not say in your
article that he had given bonds in any manner
you only affirmed he had given no security as
Receiver for twenty-one years. As to the bond
of 1852, you are too hasty about that If you
will borrow the law from Mr.. Fultz and read it,
you'll find that that bond, by the express terms
OF the act, was intended to cover oil prior iabil
tiles, for money in court eyer so far back, and
the Judge designing that it should also cover fu-
ture liabilities directed it in the large penalty OF
$4,000. Your arguments, then, against 'Z''
founded on the size of that bond are all nonsense.
The idea OF $4,000 being paid into Augusta
Court in four years is ridiculous, and if on don't
hold your tongue the boys will laugh at you and
tie paper to your coat tail. Let me tell you,
too, boys, all of you, you have lost the game on
the industry question. You can't persuade the
tpeople to believe that while Judge T's Circuit ex-
hibits a number of cases decided larger than
that of any other judge, this fact does not afford
a test OF greater labor. You wish to insist that
that is owing to the ightness of his cases; but
the average Importance of cases in all the Cir
cults must be about the same and your resistance
of the conclusion in his favor only proves the
unfairness of your mind. As to the important
discussion of the ages of the two men gotten up
by Junius, Judge Thompson's age on his last
birth day was sixty-two, and the best informa-
tion to be had, from persons protesting to know,
Is that Mr.. Fultz is sixty one. So the least said
on that subject the better. Mr.. Fultz was
married in the Spring of 1925, after having
knocked about the world long time. Judge
Thompson obtained license to practice law In
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