The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-21
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| '' In tried in tho United States District
| Court at Charleston recently JudGo DnYAs niadc
an ordcr compelling tho local agent of tho Western
Union Telegraph Company to deliver to tho Court
to bo uscd for tho purpose OF cvidonco, COPIES of
ccrlnn dispatches that had boon entrusted 10 tn o
wires III full faith, no onlb, OF the invoablo socro-
cy Of that means Of communication. This il nr
important order. 1t affects ovcry public and pr-
vatc interest, md it must qualify seriously tho
faluo OF the telegraph nB part OF modern
mercantile md socinl machinery. With nl
dcfcrcnco to tho wisdom of n Judge who must
DO supposed TO hayo weighed all tho bear
| ings OF tho case. We lean To tho view TINT
| Judge BRY.S's decision OF this point is not good
law; but il il DO good law, then there s ono moro
very stringent reason why Congress should tako
| up tho question of tho telegraph and rcorganizo
| tho wholo systom broad national basis. II
there i1 ono good roason why Government should
| hold and manage tho postal system OF tho country
there aro fifty why tho tclcgrnph should bc OIL tho
| same fuutinS Such vicw will DO forced on tho
people by what must bo tho Immediate effect of
| this Charleston oidcr. business and social sccrols
| OF oyory chnra :ter will bo brought into court
on all sortB Of trivial pretcxtg since il is ruled
| that thoy aro thus available. Julgo BRYAN
could not that tclograms under tho letter
| of tho definition woro entitled to privilege. lie
| remarked that tho case was ono TINT compelled
him to lcgisntc. Sinco ho lind 10 Iogislato ho
slload have gono deeper than tho letter of tlcfin-
lions. lilo Bhould havo weighed tho real nature OF
tlc origin OF privileged communications. 10
| would hayo that in such Communications an
| exemption from tho rgor Of tho law is mndo out
Of regard to rights moro sacred than those TINT
commonly require security Ill court; and with
such Wow ho conll hardly hnvo determined TINT,
II caso invoiving pcrlisps, merely inunoy, lie
would laJ bcturc Tho public lHeHsngcs and stnlc-
lnen,s Tint might mporil rcputation, honor, por-
haps lifo His sole reason was that tclcSr nphic &c
| crccy might bo tho means of giving immunity To
criminals but the sanio reason, basel OH quito as
! good o porhaps can be advancul against nil thoeo
privileged communications that arc actually rcs-
rcStcd by courts. This order needs revision,
We need somo new Inv Oh this imr2 aub
icct." n
JUDoE BARNES, holding court in Tarboro', N. G. ]
adjourned court ond continued tho case, because,
negroes had not been summoned rs jtirors. Yet,
slrangn TO say, tho agent Of tho Associatol Prcss
in his ispatcl, To Now York, presented the matter
in exactly tho oprosito light, and Tho Herald head
cd tho dispatch "An rlmrcrfccty Rcconstrllcted
Jatll:o at Tarbor", N. C.," stating ,tllat "Judyo
1'AuNEs adjourned Tho court bccauso negroes wcro
Summoned as jurors, ho hnyiilg taken tho ontL to
support the State laws, which do not rccoSnizu nc!
grnes To sit on j,lres" Judge BARNES wns In d
s.'"s pet"'Hs '"o -oi 'no oiic Nah',' no was ah
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is one AMI Tho Reconstruction Acl anotlrr, There
wns, inrthermore, paragraph, H.. nf Goncral Or
deis NO. II, FROM Headquarters O; L9 Second bi
tary Dstfct,rSitl,ia which this quoatipn arosc.
Under Illcso c;reunsthncus, tho juilgoElf ho lind
bncn unwilling To nssumo ny'rcstonBibEty Bncli
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timo ngo that tho Commission was sont to lbok