Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-20
Judge Trlgg on the Rampage.

Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.
NASHVILLE, Nov y.
Connolly +. Trigg. Judge Of the United States
District Court is following the footsteps of Emerson
Etheridge and a host Of other Union men, who run
well for season. but are now dancing like monkeys
TO the piping Of galvanized rebels. He has already
. shaken the confidence Of all loyal men, and won
golden opinions from the enemies Of the Union
In the Dick Mccain case he went out Of his way
10 decide that the late rebellion was 10 rebellion at
ALL aud that the "innumerable acts Of infamy per-
perated by the Confederate authorities, were IN a
certain sense, legal" He utterly disregards the
laws imposing disabilities upon attorneys and others
hose hands aro red with the blood Of loyal men.
But enough OF the serious. must report the Judge
. I'm the comic role.
4 few weeks since the Frccdmens Court in this
city Captain Laurence presiding as Judge, under
orders from Gen. Fisk arrested and fined the keep
Crs OF an Infamous negrOdance house loC ated in a
settlement Of freedmen Just outside the corporate
limits of Nashville. The house was run by two
men Of very bad character and the place was proved
TO be an intolerable nuisance The Grand Jury,
however, found an indictment against Judge Lau-
renee for CXtortng money under color Of office, and
Judge ITigg issued bench warrant for his arrest.
The warrant was handed to the Judge by the
United States Marshall, but he refused to obey it,
until he could refer the matter TO his superior Off
Ger. He called on Judge Trigg, however and gave
him full statement Ofthe case declining, however,
TO recdehizc the authority Of the Court in the
The Judge very sullen and gruff, ard the Dis
trict Attorney very polite and persistent but the
Chaplain refused to recognize the authority Of the
Court returned 10 his office, asked for Instructions
and was ordered by Major Cochrane, \. \. \. G.
IN Gen. Fisks staff, to "6jSrCgar3 the raruyt'
The Chaplain communicated the order to Judge
Trigg. and in courteous terms declined TO answer to
the warrant. The Judge then sent TO the Chaplain
awtully solemn letter, warning him that resis-
tancc TO his warrant was resistance TO the very
highest authority in the country; that he would be
terribly punished if he did not 20 right up and put
his feet in the stocks, and informing him that No
officer however exalted, in any one Of the depart
ments Of the Government and no orders from any
superior officer, would cXonerate him from arrest
under said process
This was q frightful letter, but the Chaplain re-
piled that as 10 whether Tennessee Grand Jury
could find an indictment against an officer OF the
army, while in the dischorgc Of hi duty under or
dcrs from his sUpcriers and cause such orders from
his 5upeTiOTs and cause such officer 10 be dragged
from his post Of duty ana 10 be thrust into Jail,
OF compelled 10 give bail for trial. question for
his superior officers 70 decide. He presumed how
ever, that Judge Trigg and the Grand Jury had as
sumed toe much: that if they were right, MI the
officers in the army in the rebellious States might
be thrust into Jail within the next six months
What viii hc the issue in this case cannot be seen
yet. ! think, however HAT the Judge has found a
lion ~ his path