The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-06-10
Judge Underwood.

JULIUS Ioppc. Anderson I. II.
Judge tler,vood.
We published. yesterday morning,
the charge of this judge to the grand
jury. In lieu OF any comments of
our own, we subjoin the handling he
receives from tho Richmond papers:
The Times says: Nothing could
have been more feicitous than the
reference of the Court to the law of
the United States Furnishing the OBJ
struction Of justice by threats, init
midations, bullyings, &C., and we
thoroughly agree with the Court that
whoever attempts to impede or ob-
struct the administration of Justice
should be punished. In revolution
airy times, men have been murdered
by unscrupulous officials, who have
intimidated iuries and forced them
to disregard the law and the ovi-
dence.
English history is unfortunately
full of horrible instances Of these
'obstructions of justice. All of us
have read of Jeffreys, for instance.
Juries should not be intimidated by
threats or menaces. There have been
occasional instances Of that sort of
thing in this country, but, thanks to
tie courage Of the bold, fearless and
noble press, such monstrous perver-
sions of justice have always been ex-
posed and denounced. There was,
upon the part of a-judge of the Su-
preme Court, in 1900, in this very
city, an attempt, in the case of John
Thompson Calender, to 'obstruct
Justice and an impeachment follow
ed the experiment.
The Enquirer thus comments on
the charge: ''The charge of Judge
Underwood demands some further
notice. It was charge indeed A
charge such as perhaps was never be-
fore heard In the United States from
under the judicial wing, but charge
whose language was of the sort that
Judges are in the habit of severely
Furnishing under the name of libels;
accusations such as men make when
when their passions run away with
their tongues, and when the indul-
gence Of spleen is preferred to the
maintenance Of self respect. y
''The temper of Judge Underwood's S
charge Is alone sufficient to condemn
ii. There is not u man in Richmond,
save the 'more than ten" Of whom
he speaks, who has not abundant
grounds in this charge to refuse to be
tried by him, as personally prejudiced
and hostile to such degree as totally
to disqualify him to sit as a Judge. 1t
is lamentable exhibition Of aliena-
ton and hostility, where person.
who, as Senator, seeks, politically, to
territorialize the State whose sove-
-reignty he was elected to represent, is
also seen. rs Judge, to avow feelings
toward the people of his Jurisdiction
that would disquaify even jailor."
The Dispatch thus kicks him along:
I'VE have no desire to crafty Judge
Underwood's morbid love OF noto-
Hety. He evidently thinks that ':the
youth who fred the Ephesian dome'
is really much more to be admired
than The t'fool who built it, So
that his name is handed down to pos
terity, he cares not how much it may
no OASSA"CCo. LIS CllulSo IL ~ Dlu 1Of
newspaper criticism, or we are much
mistaken. It is really beneath criti-
e.isn- It utterly ignores the subjects
usually touched upon by Judge, and
abounds in fanatical slang, not to say
SANDER OF the people of this city. 1t
has about as much law in it as there
is IN the authors head, and is rs Gre
ditable to his Honor, as jurist, as
was the order he made in Norfolk.
adiourning the court to this city.
without any authority of law, and
under which order he is now holding
o session of his court, at whicl:, if
any decisions of Importance are
made, they will inevitably be set
aside by the Supreme Court, on the
ground that the session was illegally
held. Such q judge will not be likely
to -njure anybody but himself by his
Incorporate harangues, and we dis
miss his case from our court"
The Ecamiaer thus pays its re-
spects to him: Judge Underwood's
supplementary charge TO his itinerant