Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-09-08
The Judgeshir.
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Secretaries .

Our article of the 25th, has at length
called forth a criticism from the SeHtt3teI
We are glad to have our usually prudent
and proper contemporary come to his
work after so mature reelection. This is,
perhaps, not the less gratifying, when we
consider the character ofthe points made,
after all this maturity of deliberation. The
same old refrain is given to us in little
change of key. The appeal to prejudice
and clap-trap, seems from the beginning to
have been the main reliance of the defen-
ders of Mr., CHAFFEE. A pandering to
passion instead of an appeal to truth
and Judgment. The whole matter is
very concisely put by the Sentinel, as
| follows:
"That the lawyers oftbis Bar are determined
if the people elect a certain man for judge, they
! will place all kinds of obstacles in the way of
the administration of justice, that they have
made up their minds to do what they should not
do, and now hold this improper determination
in terrorum over the people, to influence the
freedom of their choice at the polls we are to
have no courts if we do not elect the Judge
The lawyers against the people, Is the
burden of the song Mean and contempti-
bic as is the attempt TO sap confidence
and respect, and array one class of com
munity against an other, our neighbor
seems to have committed himself to that
work. We recollect but one man during
our residence in this vicinity, who has
had so little regard for the reciprocal
good feeling of society, and whose mind
was SO fit a pool for the indul gence of his
pollywogging taste and propensities, as
to undertake deliberately such task, and
that man was the notorious Richmond
We had hoped, that in his hasty de-
parture no memorial or mantle of his
virtues were left behind
The Bar, asserts its want Of confidence.
in a certain individual, and deprecates
his having place upon the bench. Ex-
preston is made openly and frankly, and
without unnecessary otfensiveness. The
individual, and his friends, from si.aister
motives in the leaders of the movement,
still thrust him forward, and the bar de-
clare that under their want Of conf
denee, they will not entrust the interests
Of their clients to the decision of such a
judge. They have not declared, and
there is no cognisancc of the fact, except
in the editors conceptions, that they pro-
pose to "place all kinds Of obstacles in
the way of the administration of Justice"
They simply mean not to leopard such
interests as are committed to their trust
and care Is not this their right Z?
Where is the teyT01'ltDa, or the Interference
with the freedom oS choice at the polls {?
"That we are to have no courts, if we do
not elect the judge that the lawyers
choose faE u.s." is Misrepresentation.
They informally recommend a certain gen
tleman i'll whom they have confidence,
for the position, but are in no way tena-
cious in the matter, and another man.-an
unexceptionable one-gets the nomina-
ton. In all this there is no dictation, no
threat, no attempt to feist an obiectional
man upon the people. They determine
as they have good right, not to expose
the interests of themselves and their eli
ents to prejudice.
The Sentinel talks of "driving all up
right judge from the BENCH" and hints
at persecution Of innocense-of good
man. This, of course, is good string to
play upon-much like that of the quota
ton given. But il must not be sloughed
over or lost sight of, that the ground of
objection to Judge CHAFFEE, is the want
of integrity. In this objection and ex-
preston, the bar is almost unit They
have not desired to make that objection
tangible and clear in detail, lift could be
avoided. But the course of the Judge
and his friends seems to leave no ground
for the exercise of forbearance or delica-
| cy in treating of private character. The
statements, therefore, at the late Mass
Convention at Madison, were made in
selfdefencs, and a more damning record
of judicial obliq,iities has seldom been
heard. 1t was not mere assertion. The
charges were sustained by officers OF
courts, and reference to records. They
were too well fortified TO be eyaded OF
dodged. We allude 10 them here only