Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-05-18

Scended. Y0u have been mere IA suo sAaAS
you say, have seen these pretended abuses
for thirty years-one of you at least has
been a lawyer 10 full practice, Jet your
love of country, your love of justice, your
sworn duty to your clients, never brought
from you a whisper of complaint, till you
become envious ofthe Judges slippers. and
greedy for the Judges salary. Yes. Iun-
derstand all now, gentlemen 1t is the old
cry Of the demagogue for reform, the no.
cessity 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 not 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 word
you clamor against him. and they certainly
know he has demeaned himself in Office
Take my word for 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 animals,
who; like Balaams Ass, never speak till
the Angel appears-who never love ths
people well enough to warn them of their
danger till they are "an hungered" or want
''meat." Besides, I am told by that per-
verse dog. 'sZ'' 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 Roorbecks in training
to be let out about the time of the election
so as to d. their work before they can be
killed off,
This thing about the Receivers bonds;
Mr.. Ghost, won't do; you never can per-
suade anybody that Baldwin and Peyton, or
Mr. Fultz himself, would have let their
clients money 60 by thousands into irres-
ponsible hands for twenty one years. with
out chirp. Let that thing alone, you'll
hurt MIR. Fultz with it. Depend ON it "z'
is right When money was ordered to be
paid into Court, who would receive it but
the Clerk ? The Judge darsn't, and
would not do to poke it into an open pig
con hole with the papers It was then the
Clerks duty, as Clerk, to take it. and if he
failed to account, he was responsible 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 yours have acted on it too long To
make dispute about it in the heat of can
vaSs. GU must take cooler time to con-
slider it; and | am sorry to see that crooked
fellow ''Z'' is getting you mad He'll get
the advantage over you. He has got the
advantage of you already. You say he con-
fesses that Mr.. Kinney gave his bonds in
the very manner named in yoir article
Now if you had thought minnie 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 1862, 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 all prior liabilities,
for money in court ever so far back, and the
Judge designing that it should also cover
future liabilities directed it in the large pens
atty of $4,000 Your arguments, then.
against ''Z'' founded on the size of that
bond, are all nonsense. The IDEA of $780,.
900 being paid into Augusta Court for four
years ID liuiOulouo' auu IL yOu uoH uoiu
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 people to believe that while
Judge rs Circuit exhibits number Of
cases decidedly 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 lightness of his cases but
the average Importance of cases in all the
Circuits must be about the same and your
resistance to the conclusion in his favor
only proves the unfairness Of your mind
As to the important discussion Of the ages
the two men gotten up by ''Juhius." Judge
Thompson's age on his last birthday was
sixty-two, and the best information to be
had, from persons protesting to know, is
that MIR. Fultz is sixty-one. So the least
SAID on the subject the better. Mr.. Fulta
was married IN the Spring Of 1925, after
having knocked about the world loug time.
Judge Thompson obtained license to pracs
tice law in 1919, when very young man.
| trust, Messrs. Editors, the trio will be
benefited by the sage counsel of this Man
in the Moon. z.