The weekly North-Carolina standard., 1869-04-28
That Protest Again.

The solemn protest of B. F. Moore G. Co.,
is SANDER as false as it is impertinert and
mischievous. Pray, when did we "see the
Judges of the Supreme Court, singly or en-
uaasse, moved from that becoming propriely
SO Indispensable to secure the respect of the
people, and, throwing aside the ermine,
rush into the mad contest of politics under
the excitement of drums and fags?" Was
it in the canvass year ago when the Con-
stitution was submitted to the people?
These protestants do not mean that contest
surely. For Rodman, Dick and Settle were
not Judges then; and Pearson and Reade,
though the nominees of both parties, did
not utter word, so far as we remember, in
that canvass. The grave charge, then,
vaguely brought against the Supreme Court,
singly or en- aaasse. must refer to the Presiden-
tial campaign, during which the aforesaid in
famous protest was secretly circulating among
the members of the Bar for signatures.
Who of the Court rushed into the mad con-
test of politics under the excitement of
drums and flags during that campaign
We never heard that Reade, Rodman, Dick,
or Settle took any part beyond casting
silent vote for General Grant. Chief Justice
Pearson wrote letter And that letter is
the head and front OF all this offending.
[ We are not surprised at it That letter ex-
posed, with admirable skill and courage, the
schemes Of the plotters and conspirators
against the National peace Chief Justice
Pearson foresaw that the Hotspurs of the
South and their natural allies at the North,
were Matching another secession egg, and
he broke the egg before the chick was
formed. Thereupon these protestants got
very angry, and pirate about judicial pro.
priety We hope that every Judge in the
land, upon like occasions, when the exist
ence of the government is involved, will for
get his judicial propriety, falsely so-called,
and remember his country. II all our Judges
had so acted in 1861, perhaps we might
have been spared the horrors of civil war.
But are not these protestants wise set of
men to lecture upon judicial purity, and to
inculcate respect for the erminel What are
they doing every daya They are patrons
of the Sentinel, and the CHIEF occupation of
the Sentinel has been, and is, to SANDER and
malign' the Judges. If the Sentinel had
any influence, which fortunately it has not,
our Judiciary would be everywhere despised,
and its authority disowned. ..I- t.-
And yet men who are fresh from the
mire and filth of the Sen tinA, hypocriticay
come forward with s'feigned alarm for the
! purity of the future administration of the
laws of the land" Are these the men to
teach us habitual respect for the judicial de-
partment of the governments
Poor disappointed soreheads /! We un-
derstand you, and so do the people,!
The publication of this protest, at this
late day, shows the animus OF its signers
The gall and hate of their defeat maddens
them. They are determined to keep up the
strife against every department of the gov
eminent, and to carry political animosities
into the sacred temple OF justice. Be it so.
We aIe panied at this impotent rage We
should be sorry to rally Republicans, as
party, around the altar where justice is wor
shipped. But if our adversaiies will have
it so, we repeat, let it be so. The Republi-
can party knows how to sustain those whom
it has honored AMI who possess its confidence,
as our Judges do and it means to stand
about them as wall OF tire.