Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-03-06
For the Spectator.
Election of Judge.

Messrs Editors You will oblige a very hum
BILE individual By allowing him little space 10
your valuable paper in which to jot down few
reflections relative to the contest now raging in
this Circuit for Judge. | wish to say in the out
set that deprecate, with cordial detestation,
the present popular electioneering system, for
any Office whatever, and most especially that of
Judge. And what is the wordy warfare which
| is now waging in the columns of your paper, but
electioneering9 Now hardly know whether
am lawyer enough to venture ''horse back
opinion" as to the legal responsibility and liabil-
| ity of the two candidates for the acts of their
respective voluntary agents. In the present
case, think it not unfair to assume, in the ab-
sence of any disavowal on the part OF the prin-
cpals, that they endorse the illusions of their
particular friends; and, IN lGo, the acts of the
agent, are the acts ofthe principal. Then if this
be true natural inference follows, which every
one can draw. One of your correspondents who
signs himself ~" in the close OF his last de-
Iectable effort, makes rather mysterious re-
mark, q was about to say imputationD in saying
that Judge I. cannot court the people in conse-
quence OF his absence from home. Does "Z''
mean to say that if Judge T. were at home he
a0oaM court the people for their votes or what
does he mean? This same writer told US several
weeks ago that we should hear from him again !;
and 10! after many days he comes forth, sur
charged with pints of law and yards of argument
to enlighten every body, except lawyers and
clerks, ON she subject of the sleeping Docket"
and "Dry Greek navigations." No doubt the
people feel themselves under lasting obligations
for the important information. | throw out the
suggestion for what it is worth, that the people
generally reward him with liberal fee for leqal
services voluntarily rendered; for he certainly
must have laboured hard on his DRY" and
sleeping" subjects, the latter Of which evident
| ly tatigued his mind, for at the close his head
was full of "bats and OWLS" IT'S q pity he
showed SO much personal hatred and ill-will to-.
wards Mr.. Fultz which | think entirely de-
stroyed the effect of his extraordinary effort !;
for don't think the people can be influenced by
the personal animosties of another.
Now Messrs. Editors, you have another cor
respondent something like the Dulchman's flea !;
for don't know where to place him. For the
life of me, can't tell whether he is a lawyer, a
doctor, printer, a tailor or what; but Judging
from the way he writes, be must be preacher.
Whoever and whatever he is, | think he was
hard run to have to go back to the time of King
David TO find an argument to prove that Judge
T. should be reelected. And how, what Absa-
to do with the election of Judge in the 18th
Judicial Circuit of Va, am at a loss to under
stand.
l heard two men talking about this Scriptural
argument the other day, and one said the writer
ought to try his hand once more and then quit,
but the other said no: he thought this was a
insher.
| beg pardon for trespassing so long, and will
stop by expressing my belief that the people
the sovereign people-"Will give the palm where
justice points it DUE" GUN.