The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-08
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From the New York Daily News.l
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From the New York Daily News.l Fl
JUDICIAL sUBsERVIEEoY. l
If there is any one thing more than an
other calculated to excite melancholy in the
present alarming condition of our country,
it is the base. trucking subserviency of the
Judiciary, with here and there honorable
exceptions, to the despotism that rules us.
The isagacity which can not be misled by
sophistry; the integrity which nothing can
So axe or bribe; the courage that can wither
desPot:o authority at glance, that are
all looked for in an American Judiciary.
seems gone; and in their stead have come.
crlDgins cowardice, presumptuous ignorance,
and time serving corruption. As we read
the judicial decisions since the issuing of
Mr., LlDcoln's Proclamation, one is remind
ed OF those corrupt judges who gave iudg-
ment for the crown in the matter of ship
money, in the reign of the first Charles.
Ihey Wed with each other, who could be
the most servile. Said Justice Crawley, of
the Common Pleas: 1.-THE law knows no
King yoking policy. The law itself Is an
old and trusty follower of the king's;it is his
instru ment by which he governs the pc ople
never heard that leo was re1" Vernon,
another disgrace to the ermine that covered
bis shoulders, gave his opinion in these
degrading words: 1.-The King may, pro bono
p"bLico, charge his subjects for the safety
and defense of the kingdom, notwithstand-
ing any act of Parliament; and the King
may dispense with laws in case of necessitv.'
Nothing is more certain than this fact that,
tnat nation, where any spirit is left, soon
becomes revolutionary, where the Ju-
dlclal power is sub5ervient 10 the Govern
ment, to carry out its DEGREES. When the
streams of justice are troubled at the foun-
nod hn
over the land soon become a curse instead of
blessing. The people become alarmed,
and II there be any virtue left, it will not be
long before they assert their inaIieDabe
rights, and, amid the throes Of revolution,
liberty will be born again, or else perish iu
travail. The servility of venal judiciary
upon this question of ship money was soon 4
followed by the infamous outrages of the
star Chamber. which soon stirred up the
flames OF q civil war, in which the King and
his corrupt judges quickly perished.-
Hitherto since the formation of our Govern
ment the political horizon has been COM
paratiVely calm. There have been some
threatening clouds now and then, but no de-
stroying tempests In the main, the funda-
mental rights of men have been scrupulous-
ly respected, and the laws duly observed
and administered. A learned bench and an |
the system. But reverse has come. Two |
years of civil war have upturned the old |
foundations. Power, tending to augmenta-
ton, as in all such convulsions, has goue ON |
step by step in its usu.pation, until it has !
assumed the form of a despotsm. Instead /
Of resisting its encroachmeBts, we end the
judiciary almost Everywhere encouraging !
and countenancing them. The decision Of |
Judge Leavitt, and the recent ones of Judges
Belts and CadwaIader, make manifest bow
oasely these men are bowling to the storm.
they are but imitators of the servile judges
't the first Charles; in fact they are worse,
because the case before the twelve judges
involved simply question in reference to
The royalties of the King-the questions
now to be decided involve not only the per-
ional liberty of the subject but the life of
he nation. II, amid all the arbitrary prin-
,lPles and arbitrary measures Of the Execu-
I've, be Is to ind his most devoted and un-
luestlonlos supporters among the judges Of
ne land, thenJ Iced, are the liberties of
his people hopelessly gone. We suppose
OOH we shall have the Issue Of orders from
lincoln, to his judges, similar to those once
.iveu by James the First: "You must check
be advocates who presume to argue against
ny prerogative. The popular lawyers have
yer been the men, since my accession, who {
AVE IN all parliaments trodden it under
DOT. Remember the law can never be re-
peeted unless the King is revereuced -
N hen the monarch uttered these words the |
weive judges fell upon their knees and &C
nowiedged their grievous error. These {
nen prostituted their integrity and their !
anne, through fear of losing th cir offices AID
1 mourning the unmerciful and ruiuous I
enalties of the Star Chamber. From the S
pecimens We have had of the judicial in t
ependence in our day, we doubt whether
icy would do any better. They seem to ?
ave as exalted an opinion of Mr.. Lincoln's 3
as the servile judges under t
ames, for the actually held: "That there I
as a kind of paramount sovereignty in the !.
ing, which they denominated his absolute u
over, incident" as they say, "to the alb
ra ct nature of sovereignty, and arising out =
its primary Office of saving the State q
ON destruction" If this is not exactly .
r. Lncoln's war power, and the power Y
lder which all ibis &C ts are justified, we Y
all be happy to learn wherein it differs. u
GTJ Judge Black has been making great sr
eech in Pennsylvania, in which he makes CT
ce little cut at somebody. and it is sup D,