Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1868-02-25
THE JUDGESHIP...

The Berkeley Union has the following conf
ments upon our notice of the rumor that Joe,
Chapline was to be made the Judge OF this
circuit =
We are authorized by Hon. Jos. A. Chap
line 70 say, that he is no aspirant. fur the
Judgeship of this Circuit, and the above as
sertion is foul falsehood-- Mr. Chapline I'M
like Mr. Kennedy. knows he is.unft for the
position though rebels know he has brains
enough to spare Kennedy some. The Spirit
has been harping for some. time. about Rene
han & Kirwin, WHY. does it. not tell the peo-
pie the facts---teIl that the above firm are
bankrupts. and John W. Kennedy charged
Mr.. Chapline with abstracting from the pa
pcrs note, and tell how he lawyered his
case out of Court several times by his own
ignorance, and tell that Kennedy swore the
note was lost, after charging Chapline with
stealing it, and afterwards found the note IN
his own green bag. Stop stuffing your paper
full of Misrepresentation. untruths and false
hoods, or Satan and the rulers in the infer
nal regions will be robbed by you of their
reputation.
This. statement, coming from what VIC
ought TO regard as an authentic source, affords
US some relief, and. particularly are we glad
to hear that the Gyasticutis "knows he is un-
fit for the position" 1t gives us better
opinion of him, and fans the flame of feeble
hope that he may yet be reclaimed. But
why Mr.. Kennedy,s name should have been
draggedi into the paragraph, or what, the fact
that the firm of Renehan & Kirwan is bank
rupt, has to do VITA the, question, any sensi-
BILE man will be at loss.to conceive. 1t was
no want of brains that caused Joe Chaphne
to give that finn check uponra bank where
he had no money on deposit, in pay for goods
that he had purchased from them, but want
of principle. 1t is not his ignOrace that we
have continually assailed, but his meanness
and his trickery, and we suppose certain
amount of brains was necessary to enable
him to support these successfully. 1t Rene
han g. Kirwan's customers were ell like Joe.
Chapliae, it is not to be wondered at that
they are now bankrupts.
The statement of the above paragraph that
Mr.. Kennedy charged Joe. Chapline with
abstracting paper,ip the case and swore that
ne StOlS IL, mhICtl pdPeA was aiASA ""iN ANN'-N
in KS green bag is a lie, to give it,no coarser
name, Mr.. Kennedy alleged that the. note
had been fled with other papers in the case,
and Joe. Chaplinc's own guilt supplied the
CHARGE that he; had. abstracted. it, for he, at
once sprung forward to asscverate, his limo
cencc, when no charge had been made. The
note was subsequently found, when too late
for the case to proceed, among the papers of
another case There is another feature con-
nected with this matter which we have never
mentioned To defraud the firm of Rene-
han &. Kirwan, Joseph Chapline filed an oath
Of loyalty, claiming that be was loyal, and
that the members of the firm of Renehan &
Kirwan were disloyal, thus seeking to evade
the payment OF, just debt by having the
case dismissed.
We have no apprehension that, "Satan and
the rulers of the internal regions will be rob-
bed of their reputation" by us, SO long as the
editors of the Berkeley Union and Joe.
Chapline have an existence. They belong to
that party. which boasts its "spoon-thieves"
aud "carpet-bag lifters," and any robbing
that is to be done. will receive careful, atten-
ton from them and their confreres-