Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1867-07-10
OUR CANDIDATE.

graphical sketch OF Judge Williams, the
Union nominee:
Judge Williams is a native of Con-
ncc,icut, and within few months of for
ty- six years Of age. He graduated at
Tale College, from which institution he
subsequently won the honorary degree of
"Doctor of law" Having removed to
Pittsburg Immediately after graduating,
he became a student in the office Of the
late Chief Justice Lowry. He was ad-
mittcd TO the lar in 1916, entering at
once on an extensive practice as the law
partner of his legal tutor. In 1851 Mr..
Williams was elected Jud dge Of the Dis
trict Cour: of Allegheny county, and in
1861, reelected without any organized
opposition. While Judge Williams was
a practieing attorney, hc was regarded as
one of the safes; counsellors at the bar.
rate; as judge, fearless and upright,
possessing the happy faculty of discern
ing at once the justice of cause, hot
withsranding the difficulties and quibbles
by which it may be obscured. lie is still
in the prime of life, is blessed with good
health, and is capable of sustaining the
seyerest mental labors for many years to
come.
Personally, Judge Williams, while of a
modest and reticent disposition, is one Of
the most popular men known to the mas
ses of the western part Of the State
lie takes lively interest in every pro-
ject calculated to improve and advance
the growth and prosperity of the State,
and during the fearful struggle for the
national life and honor, no mau occupy
ing judicial position did more than he
to serve the cause o. justice and freedom.
lie never for moment forgot that his
country has a light to his first and un-
divided efforts in its Sehalf in TIE hour
of its peril, nor did he grudgc those who
periled their lives in its defense the pc
cuuiary remunerations and the personal
honors TO which their valor entitled them.
A comparison of our candidate for Su-
preme Judge with that of the opposition
establishes the following facts: Judge
Williams is in all respect the equal OF
Judge Sharswood as jurist, while the
former has the advantage of hale and
vigorous manhood to overbalance in force
and energy the weakness and physical de-
bility Of the latter, which totally uni!s
Judge Sharswood for seat on the Su-
rrere Bench. In addition to these facts. |
during all the dark hours of the conflict
with traitors, when families in the loyal
States were Ilven TO contribute supporters
to the Union-when wives gave up their
husbands, and mothers sent their sons TO
battle in defense of the Government
when rivers of blood were poured out to
quench the fame of rebellion, George w
Sharswood had nothing but do.mas con-
corning State rights and the justice OF
secession to offer his bleeding country, in
su!ting its defenders by characterzing
them as invaders, denying their bravery
by denouncing them as butchers, and
subjectipg them to contumely by decar.
ing them engaged in an unho!y war To
this record of the Democratic candidate
tor Supreme Judge, we offer, as COM
parison, that Of the Republican candidate
for the same position. Henry W. VIII
lams never forgot his country in the hour
Of its danger. He was its friend in op-
position to all enemies. He believed and
so acted, that the Constitution denied the
right Of secession. He treated secession
as crime. He supported the loyal cause
against all odds. II never doubted the
justice Of welding military force to CO.
eiS0 eeoSUiLS c'dte. ne never reluS-
ed encouragement to the soldiers. lie
supported the cons:itutionality of the law
extending the privilege Of the elective
franchise TO men while absent fro,n the
State fighting the battles of the nation.
Surely all these advantages in favor of
the Republican over the Copperhead can
dldate for Supreme Judge will result in
the almost unanimous election of Henry
". Williams, of Allegheny county.
SOME Of the Democratic papers are
trying to hold the Republican party re-
sponsible For the failure to try Jefferson
Davis. The Republicans of Penpsylva-
Ha.lorol