The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-25
From RoANE COUNTY.
Iudge Leomis Reviewed-Judieial
Oppression.
SPENCER, WEST VIRGINIA.
October 8, 1866.
Editors Of the Rcgister;


Editors Of the Register;
We have had Radical oppression,
and Radical impudence and egotism in
almost every form, but Judge Loomis,
at the last term of the Roane Court,
proved conclusively that he is the most
radical, most malicious, inhuman, and
ungenerous of the radicalest of the
radical. A file of papers was placed in
the hands of This Court, as he very
often calls himself, for his decision on
a point of law; and feeling his Uranium
not full of law, but of some other stuff,
This Court inquired who was Counsel
for the Complainant to which one of
the Attorneys at the Bar replied, he
was, that he had brought the suit; but
This Court discovered, and said,
that a part of the papers were in the
hand writing of Mr.. Duvall, who under
the laws of this State, was not permit
ted to practice law; and if Attorneys
allowed Duval to prepare their cases
or to use their names, they would find
themselves in the same condition,
meaning thereby, that if, an honorable
gentleman who had no malice in his
heart, had no vengeance to wreak upon
any one, who was conservative, noble,
and generous to his wronged and OPP
pressed brothers at the Bar, should
employ Mr.. Duval to do his office
business in his absence, that he,
George LoOmis, Judge, this court, would
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practicing law in this court. Now was
there ever such display of egotistical
ignorance and arrogance on any judicial
seat 7 Surely not in this country. 1t
has always been the practice of business
lawyers, especially those who had a
large practice, to employ n clerk or
clerks, to do their Office business; but
this is part that George LoOmis had
no experience in, while he was sort of
lawyer, for he was always able to carry
all of his law papers i'll his hat, which
he usually did. Judges of the Circuit
Courts in Virgiania have always been
selected from members of the bar, for
their talents, legal acquirements,h honesty
and integrity. Does the gentleman re-
ferred to possess either of these essen
tial qualities, and how was he selected
or electedi Not by the voice of free
people, but under peculiar circumstan-
ces, miserable mistakes and accidents;
and the idea of Judge Lee, Gen. Jack
son, Judge Edminston and Col. B. IL.
Smith, and others, at the bar, practicing
before George Loomis as Judge, is ridic-
ulous in the extreme. Now, who is this
man who assumes the power to deprive
citizens who have been born and reared
in this State, of their constitutional
rightsi A regular, thin-skinned, blue
bellied Yankee school teacher, only a
few years since from the Land of lsms,
wooden nutmegs and poplar gourd
seeds, either Massachusetts or Vermont.
The first we ever heard of him, he was
teaching school in Fayette county; from
that he learned to be sort Of surveyor,
after which, sort Of clerk or partnes of
Mr.. Arniss, and sort of Pittsburg and
Cincinnati drummer and collector, and
more especially a dunncr and teazer of
Sheriffs and constables; and for the
tattOrneys of Woods, Jackson, Roane
and Writ counties, and whether George
Loomis was ever employed in any i'm
pOrtant suit, in any of said counties,
where he practiced, or rather attended
the Courts regularly for four or five
years before he was accidently made
Judge, or rather before he filled the
place of Judgei Not i'll a single in
stance. 1t seems to me that he ought to
be the most generous and liberal of all
Radicals; but for the war, he never
could have been Judge this is fact
we'll known to all parties.
No people ever have suffered greater
injustice, than the people of ROane
county, under the administration of this
man; about seventy indictments have
been found against Southern men, for
participation in the seven days Battle
around Spencer, and some of whom are
among the oldest and most respectable
citizens in the county; and not one on
the other side, no odds whom he has
murdered or robbed, or from whom he
has stolen.
William Allen, an aged man, blind
in one eye, sick in his bed, at home, at
midnight, was murdered in cold blood.
William Price, A. Cattrell, Joseph Ra-
der, Charles Hedges, John Westfall and
others, all good peaceable and quiet cit
liens and nOn-combattants, were all
wilfully and deliberately shot down and
murdered in cold blood, while in their
fields at work at home, and simply be-
cause they were called Southern men;
and not a single Indictment has ever
been found against any of these mur-
derers, some of whom are now living in
ROane county, and are intimate friends
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And is ii not partially the result of the
instructions of the Court Can there
be peace; can our county prosper when
not justice but vengeance Is admins
tered in this manner. We hope the time
may soon come when high places may
be filled by honest men, when the
errors of the past may be forgotten,
when the unfortunate rebels may be
relieved of the cowardly assaults male
upon them, while they are bound hand
and foot, and entirely powerless. But
the cause of the Judges last spleen has
been learned, viz: his brother-in-law pro-
poses to practice law regularly in Roane
County, and the idea is, TO get Duval
out of the way, and, if possible, some of
present members of the bar, and to give
his dear brother-in-law the best pOssi
BILE opportunity for practice. Oh, most
noble Judge! Oh, most honorable
Judge! May the Lord incline his heart
to justice and mercy, peace and self
respect, and some little respect for his
fellow men. More anon. ".
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