The Placer herald., 1866-07-07
JUDGE UNDERWOOD,

W. 'ee' " uuty 10 Tue country 10 place
before our readers the charge which this
mana fend in human form-gave to the
grand jury Of the Federal Court in Norfolk.
Virginia, the other day. For studied malig.
nifty, lsbored vindictiveness and brutal enor
mites, it has, under the circumstances. no
parallel in history 1t at once places its
author and his instgators on the topmost
round Of Judicial, social and moral depravity,
while it signalzes the Radicals and their
policy as the embodiment Of hellsh propen
sites. This charge, to say nothing of the
character and status of the packed jury, is
indeed the acme of Radicalism, as it is the
forced result Of cumulative malignity. 1t
outrages every propriety Of life and aims to
degrade sworn jurors into very devils, while
it f1ckers 10 the darkness of surgng passions
the torch of revolution" before the Ameri.
can people. Indeed, it seems to have bor-
rowed inspiration from the "source of all
evil" and fortified its vulgar aims and da-
bolical instincts with the very implements
Of the devil.
There can be no peace, no union, no free
government. no social confidence, no judicial
reliability, no hope for the institutions of our
fathers, no safety for the people so long as
such judge is ailoucd, without the sernest
possible and universal rebuke, to hold his
orgies of revolution on the Federal bench
Yea, the common instincts Of self preserva,
too in the social compec: cry aloud against
such internal and unhallowed habitude oil
judicial treason; while every sentiment ot
personal honor and every impulse Of Chris
tain charity stands aghast at this "s,roke o.
judicial madness"
In the name Of justice, this man, under
the Federal ermine, haa iraiaio~e\y invoke,
the darkest passions and most unbridled 40
taton of the human heart against the peace
the happiness and the honor Of the Amer
can people. In the name and under the as
sumed sanction of law be has let loose lh,
widest impulses of deeply revengeful ma
lure in cruel wantonness on his prescribed
victims. In the name of Union he seeks to
convert this whole continent into "a field OF
blood" In the search of traitors he has
basey betrayed a judicial trust, and openly
rebe|ed against every law, human and divine.
While pretending to instruct and guide the
jury on the pathway of uprightness, honor,
duty, and fidelity to the Constitution and
laws he has invoked them to follow his mis-,
guided steps and studied dupIcty in "lor,u.
Gus ways Of artistic malice"
Can it be that this man thus pre- eminent
in vice, and exceIing in malignty, is but the
"mouth.piece" Of the mad men at Washing
ton. We shall soon see. dtmay be that
this charge is the opening scene Of new
and more bloody drama throughout the
country. We hope not. AT best it is SOL
emn warning to the American peope-a
warning from the bencb-not to "sleep on
their shields"
Virginia and Wirginians need not blush
for this m onster of iniquily. He is no "son
to the manor born" Let The North claim
her own" and mark the treason of her own
son, who but echoes, we fear, the feelings,
and portends the policy, of an infuriated
conc'ave of "sympathizing traitors all over
the North, whose aim is to deIuge the Amer.
ican continent in fralricida blood, or bury
the liberties of the people beneath the "iron
sceptre Of anarchy" Let not this warning
pass unheeded. Metropolitan Record