Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-13
Communicated
Oar Jnaiclary,

The road to eminense and power ought not
to be too easy. nor thing too much, Of
course. 1t ought to be the reward Of sterling
integrity and tried virtue. And who in a
Government, organized as ours is, ought to
be purer than the man who by our laws adj
ministers justice. Justice is in itself the
great standing rule of civil society; pure and
impartial justice administered alike to the
rich nabob and the rude savage, who roams
and lives in the sage-brush. t is the firnnest
bond to secure the cheerful submission Of a
people to their rulers and their government.
Law" says Edmund Burke, ais benifcence
acting BY Ystke." Can il so act, when the
Judge who administers it was purchased be-
fore he took his seat : Can any sane man
suppose that II / pay S25,0 900 in cash to get a
man good situation, that the man will not
be partial to me, to say the least Of il 1t is
human nature, and Partially in a judge is
criminality. What good is our boasted trial
by jury, admitting our jurors to be as honest
as Christ, when yenial and corrupt judge
can undo with word, what has cost weeks
of toll and thousands Of dollars to obtain, by
setting aside the verdict and granting new
trial or restraining order, all OF which can
be obtained for money from vile and cor
rupt judge. 1t has grown into proyerb that
title makes no difference If you have money.
The friends Of judges, il they have any out,
side of their fayorites and brokers, say that
even the paying of $4,000 to get Judge
\ North on the bench is not bribery, and the
receiving of rock worth 81, 900 per ton on the
halves from parties litigating in his Court,
nor the fact Of his borrowing $4,000 from
| litioants, in the loose and easy manner in
! which the loan was effected, when the honest
| Judge thought he was paying two per cent,
1 and the mild htigant told him he could have
/ it for one and half. / do not believe he
would be as accommodating to me. II the
! truth was, or could be known, believe he
never paid one cent back in coin. Bribery IS
! the most yillainous kind OF thieving. 1t IS
used BY the rich to crush the poor, but
from the nature Of il, never can be used
by the poor against the rich. / say when a
Judge receives one dollar in a corrupt way,
either in rich rock, or rich loans, or in mules,
/ or in asses, then there is no stopping place.
He is bound, from the nature of the trans
I action, to reach the lowest depths OF ntamy
and degradation. Hugh Latimer Numbered
against the acceptance Of presents BY judges
in England some seventy years before the
English Parliament impeached Lord Bacon.
Bacon proved that he received his brides, or
gifts as he called them, in public, as proof
that he did not take them corruptly, but II
did not save him from being disgraced and
driven from power. Taking all the facts
stated in the papers as true, and believe
them to be so, then what are we to do when
those who bribed and bought them will not
let them resign until they get the worth Of
their money out of them, and ruin US : The
Emperor Cambyses, in like circumstances,
dayed the judge, and commanded that all
!, judges, thereafter giving Judgment, should
sit in the same skin, so as to be wildly re-
minded of the price Of selling justice. l
hope we shall not be driven TO such extremes,
but something must be done. We will not
submit to be forced into courts when We
know, or even suspect, the judge to be pur-
chased. And again, if Judge North was as
pure and spotless as the Virgin Mary, and
am sorry to say that he is hot, is he using
this community right? If his health will not
permit him to sit on the bench except at mid
night, he should certainly, as good citizen
and honest man, resign, and let some man
take his place whose health will permit him
to face the people in daylight. II cannot be
the paltry sum he is receiving as salary.
Scrip at forty cents on the dollar ought not
TO be a big enough inducement TO him to in
trude his "whang the miller looking face,
even at midnight, on people whose pros
perity he has so greatly retarded. Some say
he is q good judge where there is no money
in the case; so was Bloody jeffrey when his
master had no interest. MINER.