The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-25

clsion OF the stay law Pass1n y o~A Aset
Legislature has been violently assailed IN
the public prints and in public speeches By
those who, while protesting the highest re
card and the utmost veneratlon for a pure
Judiciary, at the same time denounce a de-
cision because it does not coincide with
their ideas of what it ought 10 be. The as
sertion has even been made that u their
decision they did not have the decency TO
wait for a case 10 come mp IN its regular
tarn. y but were so anxious 70 pronGunce
upon its consfitutionality that they con
scented for case TO be called up to the neg
lect Of other and important business. Ii j.
difficult to reconcile such assertions with
the one of respect and regard for the Judi
ciarv. We thought that the circumstances
under which the decision was rendered were
well known. To prevent all doubt upon
this subject, We viii state that in case that
was before the High Court, IN It's regular
turn. the question Of the constitutionality Of
the Stay law became incidentally connected,
and this case could not be decided without
first deciding upon this question. The
Court took ample time for investigation and
deliberation, ard were unanimous in their
decision This, of itself, ought to have con
WINGED those who find fanlt with it, that it
was according to the law and the facts
With nothing else has the Court anything
10 do. The condition or the pIejudices Of
the people ara not involved in any Of their
decisions. We wonld entertain nothing but
contempt for Bench who would court
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of their preiudices by giving decisions 10
please the masses, when it was contrary 10
the plain principles and recorded decisions
of the Judiciary Law decisions are IN
| accordance with the law and the facts
| Suppose these had been set aside and de
| cision rendered to suit popular prejadiee
/ The dignity Of the Court, the majesty OF the
| law would have been degraded into DEM
aooquery and e paudering to popularity,
/ which would have been a spectacle no less
| degrading than ruiuous to the people. We
/ are content with the decision, because 1T
! was rendered by the highest court known
! IN Mississippi We will uphold it, because
| We believe that the decision is an honest
one When son break down the barriers
| that surround the Judiciary and make it a
| mere "hustings" in which law is admins
tered as is politics at public gatherings, OF
| where il becomes "A tribunal in which law
| is lost sight of aud popularity is eourted,
| then goodbye to the only bulwark that
| stands between the people and their hber-
| ties Look to the supreme Court of the
| United States. suppose politics should he
the rule there. Suppose the radical meas
ures introduced and passed by radical
| Congress should be decided Is Congress
| wilIed, and not according to the law What
a storm, and justly too, would be raised by
| these very men who denounce our OWL
| High Court! Now bring this subject nearer
| home Suppose the same eorruptng in
| fluences were at work here Would not the
result be the same Let the people think
| of these things and not follow the blind
lead of every nalcontent who denounce'
decisions which he cannot or does not APP
preciate Uphold your Judiciary. Keep il
| pnre Elect to il men who have the man
liness and the courage to do what they be
lieve is right. Respect it Is the last bar
rer that stands between justice and op
| y
liberties Respect it as the fountain from
which justice flows and frown down every
attempt that is made 10 lessen its value ii
your sight or to weaken the love in YOU
heart for it. 1t is the politicians who would
teach you false doctrines, that should b'
condemned, not the judiciary that main
tains principles upon which your Govern
ment rests.
1t was but step from the degradation
of the Judiciary to the enslavement Of thu
people in England, James and his som
easily fastened the chains upon English
men when they corrupted the Courts. A
long rs they remained pure and upheld tn,
law, so long did they command respect and
uphold liberty When they became cor
rupt liberty tottered, and buried the free
dom ofthe English people sanguinary
| war failed to restore them. 1t was not
till the English Judiciary was established
| and principles of justice became it's guiding
| light, that liberty revived. Let rs not re
| peat this part of history. Let Strengthen
| the Judiciary. To decry it is only an ev
| idence of the existence of the seeds of tha
disease which, when its progress is no
checked, leads to disaster and ruin.