The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-10
Judge Uadcrwootl's Charge

- COMMENTS OF THE RICHMOND PRESS.
-,.., -EErons the WAig.l
Underwoods charge to the Grand Jury yester-
day will be found in our columns this morning.
it's illusions to this city are the most wantonly.
mendscious and brutaily ibelous utterances that
ever came from the bench ofany civilized country.
They sink their anthor beneath the fellowship OF
preston to, tho seorn and contempt which every
honorable m IN must feel for the depravity OF
heart that can engender calumnies so vile.
.- IFtou, the Dispatch.I
INDUSTRIOUS CHARaE OF A JuDGE.-If it wee the
object Of Judge Underwood to disgrace his Gov=-s
eriment and the court over which he presldes, he
labored in earnest yesterday to carry it out IN his
charge to the jury ON opening his court. We pub
lish it in our paper to-day as it comes from the
United States Court This charge, for the infamy
Of it's HBpetsions Of q whole community, finds no
parallel In the judicial annals of any country on
earth The world will wonder how such o man
ever got to be 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 Oalumniatlon Of society.
f., = -. -, From ae 7saaesl
UNDKRwoops CHARaE TO Hm GRAND JuRY.-
Elsewhere tni.om columns will be found the
.scharge,' 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 crlti-
cism, and, challenges comment only as display
from the bench of o grovelling malice towards tho
respectable people OF Virginia, and 3 nauseating
Aattery Of Stevens and the Radical party. AS an
enanation from the supreme Judicial functionary
in this State, it is dissracef to his office; while
as q literary composition, itwoud not be creditablc
to the brain Of thick-sknlled freedman.
's.:j:ss .,,:s - :: tF5ou, The Ezaminer.l
UNDEkwooD's CHAReE.-A paragraph in recent
issueSo the Washington Chronicle, from John c:
Underwood, was headed &C From a Virginia Judge"
Thank God It was a hlschood. Virginia has MANI
thjtgs to- regret, and some to blush for, but not
$ Underwood This slirny issue of docpest filth lis
no more a. Yirginian than was Verres Gcllan:
He halls from the land which produced Benedict
Annld,; ,;r!ih the LAST century, and Benjamin +.
Butleetin the present, and yet dissraces both OF
these coidpatriots; Tor we miss the courage OF tho
traitor and the capacity Of the thief.
Eiad yet, so boundless and bountcous Is tho
mercy af 6mnipotence, that even this grovelling
thing has his uses The effort is making to wean
Y some ofthe gallant people OF Virginia away hom
their magnificent history and glorious faith, and
bind them. to the chariot wheels Of new idols
g6d&hdm their fathers knew not. And cunning
men whisper to these fainthearted ones, weary
with the endless spersecutions OF fate, !" Would to
God that We bad died by the hand Of the Lord, IN
the land Of Egypt when We sat by the hesh-pots;;"
audthey setup;e golden calf for worship, saying,
"thesa be thy gods, oh; Israel." =,
Small marvel il, while the great and good lend
ers are shut out from them by thick cloud, the
hinthearted and the longers for fesh-pots bow
the knee 10 tQlS new ulflulIy, Hplou uiou lanS
Radicalism. But, fortunately, the antidote follows
fsst on the heels of the poison. il
Let any white man In Virginia read this low, OBJ
scene brute's yiperous; falseheods, and remember
that he, this Underwood is the cub Of Republican
: ism, no better and no worse than his dnm, and
Z ask himself whether he is ready for the infinite
abasement Of fellowship with such creature. II
not,ihe icannot3 be alRepublican: Republicanism
means hssding with BnohE cattle, and wallowing in
the sanne nre. And oil the winning notes Of
editors, charm they never SO wisely, il they essay
this thing. VIII abe lost: on the men who cheered
for Harry Clay. -
We have to thank RepubIcanism for the samples
it sends u.s. II They SPEAK trumpet tongued for the
union Of all good men III d hostility more hsting
than Carthagenian's- against these slanderers
highland holy among us. =. -: .s.a
k any Virsinian can read this creatures charge,
and doubt the position an honest man should take
with Underwood and his party or against them
we beseech him to read it to bis wife or sister,
and follow her counsel.