Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-02
As TO THAT REVIEW.

not supply the Gniraus Of the article
that their grief does no gush forth
through the criticising communication
referred to. We have heard the article
to A. P. Crittendsu, to Peter
H. Burnett, and to a prominent lawyer
in Virginia city. There is one sentence
in the article from which it appears that
the writer was present at the time when
. certain denounced passage-at-arms
took place between the Judge and one Of
the solicitors for the Savage Company.
As neither Mr.. Crittenden nor Mr.. Bur-
nett, nor DeLos Lake-who has also
been accused Of writing the review
were present at the time specified, in
the Circuit Court, at Carson, the popu-
lar suspicion is closing down upon the
Virginia lawyer. OF course, there are
all sorts Of opinions expressed as to the
character of the criticism itself; ZONE
it altogether, and others
declaring that it was deserved and is in
all respects correct: and proper. 1t is
certainly very binding in some Of its
terms. II accuses the Judge Of gross
ignorance of the law, lack of legal logic
in his opinions, and insinuates as to
motives, etc. II docs not seem possible
thata gentleman, whe has had, and still
preserves kindly relations with Judge
Baldwin, is the author ofthis elaborate
and artful attack. But it was written
by some one who vas present at the
trial, and know intimately Of the record
in the case, even to the number Of pages
of manuscript the Reporters notes Of
the argument made, when extended into
It is said, by the friends
and defenders of Judge Baldwin, that
the merits of the case in Court are en-
tirely ignored by the reviewer, while
little incidents in the progress Of the
trial-at the different sittings of the
Court when the case was "on"-are
"strung on a string" with
omissions, embellishments and inven-
tions, to make out 4 long roll for the
judgment-moral at the conclusion.
Some outsiders think, the paper in the
Magazine was gotten up at the instiga-
ton Of Stewart, and to injure Judge
Baldwin, so far in advance, as a
prospective, or possible candidate for
the United States SenateS before the
of 1869. But how can this
be, when the Judge and Senator are on
the best terms, apparently; though the
Judge did decline Stewards proposition
to have = loye-feast reconciliation with
Brother Blasdel. Surely, Stewart would
not, under the circumstances, make
such intimstions as are contained in
the review. Leaving everything else
out Of consideration, such filings would
come with terrible, terrible bad grace
from William. And, besides, Stewart
has declared that tho Judge will not be
in tho field, whom the Senatorial fight
of; that thsre will be Baldwin,
Blssdel and others in the
canvass, but that they will
all be out, and the slight" be between
and belong, before real action
commences. So it would seem that
Stewart lacks any motive for prompt
ing the review. so far as Senatorial RI
valry is concerned. We do not think
Stewart had anything to do with the
publication. Certainly he did not write
the article; for there are some sentences
it which exhibit considerable polish
Of style, albeit they convey very coarse
suggestions.
The public will await with some anx-
iety. the disclosure of the name of the
Of the article against Judge
Baldwin, which the juno number OF the
Lao Magazine contains; for it must be
lseertained and exposed, we should
think, in relief Of the publishers Of the
monthly in which tho illumination ap-
oeared.
We have simply this remark to make
regard to the whole matter /: It seems
Tery strange that an article Of the kind
to should have been written
md printed in the Lac Magazine of the
coast, after the whole case had been
of. True, an entirely dispas-
,ionate review Of the Judges decision,
alphabetically hostile, might have
been allowed as among the proprieties;
but such a bitter, caustic communica-
ion, it seems to Us, ought not to have
been uttered in . protsntiously digni-
led law periodical, when tho issues in
were out Of sight. Here there
seems to have been q real violation Of
common law rule" which seeks
the preservation of public respect for
Courts as such, irrespective Of the in
chsracters-excspt there be
absolute necessity for condemning.
It has been suggested that the article
had its anisus origin in the fact that
Judge Baldwin wrote editorials for the
last winter, denouncing or
ridiculing the Asssmbly,-ssying that
Speaker Ferguson could recognize mem
bers when they moved their feet, etc.
But we do not think that this is the right
Or . shrewd conjecture. It is altogether
improbable. It is true, some Of the
members may have been in the Court
DOM q. Carson, whom the " scene" oc-
which the Magazine writer says
ne has witnessed lin kindly before, in
Justices Of the Peace courts, but in no