Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-08-22

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AZ The appointed hour yesterday even.
ing Of The Trio Of magisterisl tribunals.
before whom Commissioner Sparkling had
been arraigned upon charges already
known TO a majority Of our readers, large
crowd Of citizens were in attendance.
Very decided interest was manifested by
the audience in attendance. and it re1nired
not the sapience Of Solomon 10 discern
the sympathies Of the great majority on the
side Of innocence and against usurpation
and tyranny. The debate was opened by
viii. G. Brien, Esq., who closed his excel
lent speech for the prosecution, began the
evening previous. Mr.. Brien was followed
by ID. W. Peabody, Esq, counsel for the
defense, who 10 the course OF his argu-
ment attempted to Foist upon the court
several absurd and ridiculous ideas, weak,
frail and futile, He closed with the follow
ing invocation to the Magistrates: Though
the clamor of the people, conioiRed with
eminent and eloquent counsel, may be
brought TO bear upon your minds, let not
Partially be your motiVe." Sueh an
appeal as this ought certainly to
have great efect-in the trial Of
this case especially SO, as the friends of
Sparkling, not only on the public streets,
but through their lying public sheets are
attempting to bias the opinions Of the hon
orable gentlemen who form the court, by
denouncing the most prominent gentlemen
Of the Nashville bar az Conservative, but
ternut lawyers" Though the clamors Of
the people well, indeed, We do cllmOr,
for Justice and for the rights Of our people /
inviolale.
Judge Guild next followed in a powerful
argument, in which he showed that where /
Judge attempted to exclude an attorney
from his court and to strike his name from
his rolls, that the liberty of the entire peo-
pie was in danger, and that where Judge
Travelled outside Of his authority TO Break
private malice, he outraged the Judicial
ermine, il was willful and it was malicious.
Who Is this Judge? Is he Lord Is
he a peacock that struts the streets of
Nashville, spreading his pretty feathers,
and the pOpulace aloof afraid 10 come near
him on account of his morbid dislike to
familiarity. Judge Guild then alluded to
the tyrant Jefireys, and wound up in a
brilliant comparison Of Sparkling and JEFF
freys.
Judge Guild was followed by E. A. Otis,
Esq, for the defense, whose argument
was the same almost as Mr.. Peabody's.
c. Scott Symmes, Esqr., counsel for the
prosecution, took up the cudgel, and said
that the offense that had been charged
against DIR. Sparkling was a charge Of will
ful and corrupt conduct under the cover
Of official ermine that the idea of dignity
ing DIR. Sparkling by the name of Judge, |
was ridiculous and absurd. Applause
from the audience.
lie has less authority than a Justice of
the Peace, and a Justice Of the Peace is no /,
Judge. He said that lawyers claimed that
they belonged TO an honorable profession, ,
and that no man has a right TO vent his !
malice upon a man as one of their class. |
If he had right to strike Mr.. Newton's |
name from the list OF attorneys practicing |
in his court, he can do the same 10 any
other attorney against whom he might have |
vindictive or malicious feelings He said |
that the cause of Mr.. Newton was the |
cause Of the whole profession he knew it |
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sultheaped upon Mr.. Newton as an attorney.
He said that it was the duty Of Mr.. New |
ton to vindicate himself and the profession |
TO which he belonged, in the manner that |
he did. If he had not done so he would |
have disgraced the ancestry from which he
sprung. What is their Justification? That |
Mr.. Newton has not an internal revenue |
license. He did not know before that
a Police Commissioner had the right of an |
Internal Revenue Collector. If that were |
a cause for debarring him from practicing |
in his court, how did he know that Mr.. |
Newton had no such license at the time |
that he told him that he should not prac- |
tice 10 his court.
That fact was stated here before this |
court in the testimony by Mr.. Newton
himself.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Symmes' argu.
ment, the court adjourned TO 81 P. NJ. to-
morrow