The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1869-02-18
For the Jefersonian.
Chques and Rings.-Judge Duren and
the Gaines Case.

Cliques and Rings Judge Durell and
the Gaines Case.
The above definitions are applied speci6cal-
ly. If we mark the rise and progress of politi-
cal matters, the most Indifferent may observe
that, with party and individual interest there
is perpetual struggle for ascendency: the So
luton of which is rendered, mainly, on bases
which are, in themselves, popular, and which
the general feeling, while it riots in the assump-
ton of its own power, scarcely partakes of the
transitory advantages it is always enioined to
hope for. Congress, from time to time, is en-
gagged in tabling resolutions, which, internally
examined have no other evidence of real inter-
est, than that which belongs to the patrons of
their formation; and premature as are local
and party colored grievances which they incul-
cate or determine to remove, they are brought
into existence by a class, semi-antagonistic to
the great charter, and constitutional body poll
tic of the Republic
In no part of our country is such spurious
and ill-efected disability manifested, than in the
South F.; and, it may be affirmed, that no people
are better enabled to secure internal prosperi-
ty than the Southern people. But as if to
cripple, and finally obliterate every vestige of
human greatness, the ghost of vanquished trea-
son stalks abroad to appal the multitude; sap
ping and running Industrial energy, and embit-
tering the social relationship of man and man.
| The agitators are never seen. In rear of the
populace they stand and count upon the game
! count their dollars and cents and await the re-
suit. If successful they are well paid, and, if
otherwise, the fourteenth constitutional amend
ment, like dry bone, is again growled over,
till their despair assumes the contaminating i'd
iocy of a mania. But we know who they are,
who plot and counter-plot such outrages. We
know who, in the new Tammany Hall, de-
nounced the Reconstruction Acts of Congress,
as null, revolutionary and void and, we also
know and mark their outgoings and incomings,
and predict, with their ruin, the freedom of the
Southern people.
| At present there is a bill before Congress,
! fully characteristic of what we have said above
| 1t is such bill as business men all over the
| State would shake their heads at, and demur
to. Its very instinct is coppery. 1t purports
the creation of Northern District Court in the
State of Louisiana, and assigning the Judge of
New Orleans to that District, thus making
vacancy and an appointment, where both are
unnecessary. The majority of business men
and lawyers concur in this opinion. The bill
is speculation. To make it plausible it is boil
| stored up by vague rumors of corruption,
fraud" and other insidious and fallacy making
insinuatious, but it is obvious that this meas
ure is adopted by agitators, or ring-mongers, in
order to effect change in the judiciary depart
ment, and to make way for tool of their own
peculiar stamp. The Hon. Z. II. Durell, whose
unquestionable integrity and ability have alone
promoted him to the highly important position
of U. S. Judge, seems to have presented an OBJ
noxious aspect to these Observation-Disclosures
who have petitioned for the change. But it
would be well to consider, since his impeach-
ment is idly talked of, that rumor, or whatever
means are applied to filch mans reputation
from him are more ridiculous than sane, since
such matters can only be decided by the cool
reasonings of the law.
For Judge Durell to make any denial to the
charge preferred against him, except before n
lawful tribunal, commissioned for the purpose,
would be equally silly. His learning and ac-
complishments, characteristic of his position,
absolutely prohibit it. Were he to pander to
the disappointments of those who aspire for his
authority there would be no accusation, but, in
this place, the State would have no rights
Louisiana would become field for legal ad-
venturers, from every part of the Union.
Happily it is not so. Judge Durrell, after
many years trial in his profession, has by his
tegrity, displayed the qualifications of an able
and experienced advocate, and for his reputa-
the Missouri Democrat would be preposter-
Gus indeed. The whole sum is this, as quoted
from the above paper, that Judge Durcll was
aboGt to be impeached, on the ground that he
"ty in the case of Mrs Gaines" Startling
amt it, and from the Missouri Democrat, too.
Bus 10 show our readers how far such fabri-
iion is groundless We append the following, du-
: " filed and attested
In 1886, Cavalier and Davenport obtained
y Judgments against certain parties, who claimed
7 through Clark's mother TO be heirs of Daniel
Clark. These judgments were for warrantee
and amounted 10 about $4,000. Lands be-
longing to Clark succession were seized under
the judgments, or oneof them, and Mrs Gaine.
enjoined their sale. An agreement va made