The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-05-10
JUDGE UNDERwooD's CHARGE.

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JUDGE UNDERwo0D's CHARGE.
This is the topic Of the day--the talk Of
all the world around US We should he as
insensible as olodc; as inanimata as the dust
of the valley; did we not consider, and anal
Use, and protest, against the doctrines enun-
ciated from the bench here, by this .Joisted
Judge, who comes in the spirit Of Thad. Ste
vens, and his faction, to reproduce, here il
Norfolk, the odious doctrines of possession
and conquest.
In his machievelian address to the Grand
Jury, he appears on the surface to approve of
and sustain the policy of the President, but
it is only meretricious praise that he ac-
cords to him. In reality his views and spirit
are as different and distinct as white and
black, That the people of the North, gen
orally, complain Of the hardness Of our Grim
inal prosecutions, is news to US, and we view
this assumption Of his as only the expression
Of his own personal vindictiveness and blood
thirsty fanatcism.
We know, that the President is DESTROYS, Of
bringing about reunion Of the States, as
speedily as possible, and ve~also know, that
the whole Southern people most heartily en-
dorse the Presidents policy, aud in that spirit
have without hesitation agreed to accept all
honorable conditions. But if ninety-ive per
cent. of the citizens Of the South are to be
treated for ever as enemies aud traitors, to be
regarded by the dominant party as only OBJ
jects for abuse and piuuder, and if ibis doc
trine is to be openly proclaimed ty Judges
from the Bench, the day in which perfect con-
cord and peace will become the ruling policy
of the country is, alas, far removed from us.
AS for bis allusion to the narrow limits
within which education is here restricted we
can pass the SANDER by in silent contempt, as
we can smile at his jeremiad over the ruins
of Jamestown
But when the hoary bypocrite pretends to
expound to us the laws of God, from his own
small standpoint Of view, We read the impious
profanity with disgust and horror lie is an
earthly judge, and, as such, he had better for
his own credit, give lucid legal charge to his
Grand Jury, than indulge his spleen: bad,
passions, and hatred, in gross and uncalled-
for abuse of a high minded ana noble pee-
pie. g.
He, judge, sitting On a bench Of justice
without any evidence Of the truth of his YER
dict, of his own free will and accord, with..
out the shadow Of an excuse, says that the
conflicts Of races that have occurred have
been caused by wicked white men attacking
poor, quiet, unofend5ng. unarulsl and unre-
sisting colored men.
Unarmed, fo-eooth when it is well known
that there is scarcely a negro anywhere il
the State who has not his pistol CT his mus
ket; when they paraded our city in armed
procession, with loaded nauskets and drawn
swords And innocent when they murder
defenceless women and children! Alas!
alas for justice, when man SO prejudiced
and so violent occupies the bench.
He endeavors to impress on the jury not
only that they are to indict treason and trait
ors, but that they are to assume that almost
every white man 10 this State Is an enemy to
the negroes.
He says, 'you are called upon to oppose
the worst<passiona Of every desperate man,
who wilfmake desperate efforts to verify their
often repeated predictions that freedom would
bring ruin and determination on the colored
people"
Thus does he pander to the worst passions
Of the Aboltionists, and endeavor to instill
into the minds of the colored people that al
their old masters and friends are their mortal
enemies.
Woe to country, where a judge becomes
the accuser as well! He resembles too closely
the Infamous Jeffries, Of the times Of Charles
the Second and history will show now much
blood this bold and bad judge caused to losy
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