The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-15

defence. On this article, there were l6
Senators for conviction and Is for acquit-
tai. Article II charged him with arbi-
trary ruling in regard to jurymanl, at
the trial of James T. Calender for libel
on President Adams, in 1900. There
were 10 Senators for conviction and "a
for acquittal. Article III charged that
at the same trial the Judge had unjustly
excluded the evidence of material wit
ness for the defence. For conviction, is;
for acquittal, 16 Senators. Article ~
charged him, at the same time, with
manifest injustice, impartiality and in
temperance" in refusing q postponement
in the use of "unusual, rude and con-
temptuous expressions towards tae pris-
oner's counsel," Gin repeated and vexa-
tious interruptions" and in "indecent
solicitude" for the conviction of the accu-
sed. For conviction, 1S; for acquittal,
16. Article V charged him with illegally
refusing to admit Calender to bail. Ac-
Quilted unanimously Article VI charged
the Judge with illegally hurrying up Cal
lenders trial at the term Of court when
he was indicted. For conviction, q; for
acquittal, 20. Article VII charged him
with "descending from the dignity of a
Judge and STOPPING to the level Of an in.
former" by refusing to discharge grand
Jury at New Castle, Delaware, because
they did not indict seditious printer.
For conviction, 10; for acquittal, "a.
Article VIII charged him with making a
"highly indecent, Incorporate and in
fammatory political harangue" to grand
jury at Baltimore, attacking the legisla-
ton of Congress, and opposing certain
reforms in the State Constitution In Ma
ryland, thus "prostituting the high Judi
cial character with which he was inves-
ted. to the low purpose of an electioneer-
ing partisan" For conviction, - for
acquittal, 15 A two-thirds vote OF the
Senators present not being given in sup
port of any article of impeachment,
Judge Chase was acquitted throughout.
He held his seat on the Supreme bench
during the remaining six years of his life
The impeachment, though it fell through
in a legal point of view, yet had o good
result in checking that judicial arrogance,
insolence and spirit of brow-beating which
some magistrates displayed, as though
the majesty of the law needed intellectual
ruffianism to support it. No judge, for
the last sixty years, excepting two or
three in fugitive slave law times, has ever
dealt out political slang from the bench,
or attempted to persecute opponents by
his ruling.
4. The last case of impeachment was
that of James II. Peck, Judge of the
United States District Court Of Missouri,
in the winter of 1S3O-'31. He was charg-
ed with ''illegal, arbitrary and oppressive
conduct" in his office as judge, towards
one Luke E. Lawless, an attorney, by
imprisoning his person and depriving him,
for eighteen months, of the practice of
his profession. Lawless had published
a sharp criticism On Judge Peclls decis-
ion in an important land case, in which
he Gawlessj was counsel, and the pug
nacious lawyer was dealt with as above
for "contempt of court" The matter
was brought before Congress asan unconc
stitutional interference with liberty OF
speech and of the press. Tho House i'm
peached Judge Peck, % to 49. After a
' Iwcarisomc six weeks trial, the Senate
voted 81 for conviction, 22 for acquittal
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