Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-05-14

session, covering the regular session, its extern
sion, and the extra, the large number Of 440
acts, local and general This is the largest
number of acts ever passed by the General AS
sembly during any session. whether we include
extra sessions or not.
What the Press think Of Underwood.
We make the following extracts from our CO.
temporaries, in justice to our moblejudge, learn
ed Judge, Just ,jndge Underwood, who common
ced a session of the United States Circuit Court
in Richmond, on Monday, the 9th inst, with
five negroes and seventeen white men on the
bench, including Bolts:
"Underwood's charge to his Grand Jury yes
terday will be found in our columns this morn
ing. We have no hesitation in saying that GER
wantonly mendacous and brutally libellous ut
terances that ever came from the bench of any
civilized country They sink their author be-
meath the fellowship of the lowest jail birds. -
| It's impossible to give expression to the scorn
| and contempt which every honorable man must
feel for the depravity of heart that can en-
gender calumnies so vile Richmond Whig
Elsewhere in our columns will be found the
charge yesterday delivered to his white and
negro jury by John G. Underwood, Judge of
the United States District Court OF Virginia. =
AS legal charge to Grand Jury it is wholly
| beneath criticism, and challenges comment only
as display from the bench ola igroyelllIn1g NAL
ice towards the respectable people of Virginia,
and nauseating fattery Of Stevens and the
Radical party. AS an emanation from the SUI
preme judicial functionary in this State, it is
diseraceful to his office while, as literary COM
| position, it would not be creditabe to the brain
of thick skulled freedman. '-4fmes.
eff it were the object Of Judge Underwood
TO DISGRACE his Government and the court over
which he presides, he labored in earnest yester-
day to carry it out In his charge to the jury on
| opening his court We publish it in our paper
| to day as it comes from the United States Court
This charge, for the infamy Of its aspersions of
whole community, finds no parallel in the ju-
| dicial annals of any country on earth. The
world will wonder how such a man ever got to
| be a Judge but he will be awarded the credit
of making good use of his Office to secure himself
notoriety in at least one way: that Of the foul
and filthy calumniation of society. ''-Dispdtch
"a paragraph in recent issue of the Wash
ington Chronicle, from John G. Underwood,
was headed From Virginia Judge. Thank
| God, it was falsehood. Virginia has many
things to regret, and some to blush for, but not
| Underwood. This Shiny issue Of deepest filth
| is no more Virgnian than was Verres a Sici
| liam. He halls from the land which produced
Benedict Arnold in the last century, and Ben
jamin f. Butler in the present, and yet dis
graces both of these compatrlots; for we miss
the courage of the traitor and the capacity of
| the thief
''Let any white man in Virginia read this
low, obscene brute Viperous falsehoods, and
remember that he, this Underwood, is the cub
of Republicanism. no better and no worse than
his dam, and ask himself whether he is ready
| for the infinite abasement OF fellowship with
such creature IF not, he cannot be a Repub-
hcan Republicanism means herding with such
cattle, and wallowing in the same mire. And
all the winning notes of editors, Charm they
never so wisely, if they essay this thing, will be
| lost on the men who cheered for Harry Clay.
stIf any Virginian can read this creature S
charge, and doubt the position an honest man
should take-with Underwood and hig party or
against them-we beseech him to read it to his
wife Or sister, and follow her counsel. "-E:cana-
lner.
Judge Underwood charge to the grand
jury is permanent addition to the polite lltera-
ture Of the nation the age and the world. 1t
may be fairly reckoned as one of the best and
purest Efforts of his noble life-the mature pro-
duction of great mind and good heart-the
Towering of judicial career replete with all the
graceS 1t Is indeed DeneIactlOil 20 manklnQ,
boon to civilization and a bonus to humanity
1t is mark to indicate the highest wave of
Progress ever upheayed from the depths of the
Ages and impinged upon the polluted walls of
Barbarian We are glad to learn that an illus
tFated edition Of this and other charges, bound
in black calf, will shortly be issued from the
limpid press Of RURpcutt. Bolts, Segar, Nc
| Kenzie, and five colored gentlemen, will be the
travelling agents for the sale of this Great
Work. '-Lynehbmy N5ginian.
eve hope Judge Underwood's charge to the
Grand Jury in Richmond will be published in
every newspaper in the North. 1.-THE Govern
ment ct the United States does not feel degrad-
ed by such til exhibition, it is not what it once
was.
ut is in this way that the South is being
! brought to love and reverence the Union And
John NJ. Bolts mixed himself up with the dis
gushing spectacle. - Charlottesville Chronicle.
ut is reported that Jeff Davis will be tried
| by Judge Underwood at Richmond next week.
and that Chief Justice Chase will be present to
give direction to the trial. This would seem to
be necessary, for Underwood never opens his
mouth without proving that he has anything
but a judicial mind, scarcely a sane one His
stump speech to the grand jury on Monday,
was more violent and senseless than the brief