The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-08-31
Judge Barnard-Thc Tribune Repeats
its Libel.


address 10 rcrcatcrs and ballot box suffers,
says
"McCryS cannot bail you ont, nor will BAR.
SApp or CitnEnT have the trying OF ven. " YOU
Mf'''S"' our warning '"u 'n''''''' u '"''' '''
We have nothing to cay about Judge
M,CuNN. And GILBERT everybody knows
is poor. weak creature. He chengcs his
mind so often that VIC have heard it sug
gestcd To nail han up on one Of the stcep!cs
in Brooklyn for weather vanc. But II
seems to us that the IrijuHcS attack on
Judge BARNARD is very unjust. 1t is en-.
t,rcly uawarrantcd Ivy facts, and is
1agrontly wrong 10 Jgdgt BARNARD
mare Mda to any othr cue 0,aa, hotC
TIE Community rtdS0H 10 took for n pprV,d
ten Of Tie Id3ottoI m tbs city. lie sen
tened the first man who was convicted Of
illegal voting before him to the State Prison;
and he at that time announced his determine.
ton, during his tom OF o0irc, to use the
whole power uf the Court 10 pui an end to
illegal voting No one doubts that he meant
Just what L. said. No one doubts that lie
will do what he promised. lie is one Of the
greatest criminal lawyers living.
There certainly is no Judge ON the bench
of the Emitted States Court in this d,tiNt
superior to Judge BNRSARD in ability ard
in knowledge Of criminal law; mud We BE-
lieve there is no Sudgc anywhere who eS.
cells him in fairness and unninching devotion
10 rid,cial duty.
The Tiinr. docs not hold the p,oiiy OF
elections in higher estimation than we do.
We fully concUr in the opinion recently
proclaimed irom the bench by Judge BAR
EARp, that the preservation oil ouT liberties
depends upoh it But at the same time
there are otacr .hinrs Which we regard as
equally sacred. Among these p character
private AID public character We believe
that Judge 3AKSABDhHs faithful! performed
| Lie judGl duty before Co ami man,
and tha lie has as Gecd a right
to the rep I.auon ui an ulrsh. Judge AZ be
has 10 lii, and that il is as prs Jivcly wrong
aud wicked to seek to deprive him OF his just
reputation os i, would lie to -ae,k 10 depriy,
! him oi MS lie We cannot VnGcIstand how
gentleman occupying TIT position which
the editor OF the 7r1rAc occupics--a Ecn
| ,lcmnn whom we ourselves esteem so highly
can persist in making SUE grave, crimina
charges, without any fact. or evidence t,
support them.
Bat party spirit SOMETIMES carries men e
great cxtr,ncs. The 1iNJths seems to tx
ult IN the prospect that Democrats are here
after TO be tried by Republican Judges, as i
partisan preudices Inigl properly have
place on the bench One thing for which
we have greatly admired Judge BABNAEl
is his freedom from such prejudiccs in tn
discharge of bis judicial duties His recon
decis on in the FOLEY case in opposition 1,
the we,m feelings Of all the leaders Of III
party that elected hm-but in consonanc
with the LAWS striking illustration q
this
Itdiscr inmate abuse Of Judges lccaus
they happen to be Democrats is as unjust h
would he the indlscrimiuate conviction an
punishment of all who vote the Democrat
ticket, merely because they vote tina
titkc', and whether they ~" guilty. or innc
cent.
If the 2littHt WI specify anything who
Judge BARNARD has dore hat is wrong, W
Il all then know what it is talking about
hat We cannot see why lie should be abusd
Lecauao Judge GILBERT is not jus, what !.
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