Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-07-28
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To the Voters Of the 4th
ChancerY District.

10 the voters or the 4th
Chancery District.
Since | addressed to you a
former Circular other candidates
have come upon the field, as well
as other considerations not urged
In it, and the impossibility of see.
ling you, induce me to address you
again.
! would, however, reiterate what
/ said in my former Circular as to
the dignity and Importance of the
office of Chancellor-that the Ju-
dietary is the most vital function
lof the Government, because coming
ia direct contact with the people
that the road to Judicial station
should not be made too easy-that
such a long and hard culture
should be required, as to command
1.-THE ablest and best of the legal
profession to fill the Bench-that
all personal considerations should
sink before the public good-that
if elected | should try to take the
tasO, not the ssoord upon the bench
that ] have been nearly thirty
years devoted to the practice of the
law-that as to my qualifications |
referred to the judgment of the
members of the Bar; and now, not
abandoning the high ground of
qualification being the true issue, /
would urge as Incidental facts the
following:
] Lincoln county, which has put
me forward as a candidate for
Chancellor, was established about
so years ago.
During the most of the time she
has been in judicial association
with the most ofthe Counties COM
posing the present Chancery Dis
trict. She has neuer had a single
judicial Officer. During that long
period her citizens have been sub
jected to the loss of time and ex.
pense of going into other coun-
ties to see the Judges to obtain in
} functions, or other flats for their
} protection.
On the other hand, Bedford coun-
ty has had judges Davidson, Coop
er, and Steele.
4 Rutherford county has had
Judges Mitchell, Anderson and
Ridley.
Passing over the new county of
Cannon-Warren county had
Judge Marchbanks about twenty
seven years.
Coffee county, though a new
county, has Judges Hickerson and
Tillman, and Judge Hickerson is
a candidate for reelection without
opposition. -
Passing over Grundy county,
which is new county, Franklin
county had Judge Green first as
Chancellor and then as Supreme
Judge, and now has Col. Turney
nominee and candidate for the
Supreme Judgship, Lincoln coun-
ty recommending him to the Ju-
dicial Convention, after | had de.
clined to run for the same office
upon public call of citizens of my
own county.
After helping Col. Turncy to
the Judicial pinnacle, and having
furnished Judge Green, that great
luminary of the law, Franklin
county, we think, ought to have
had her ambition satisfied, with
out attempting to supersede the
long deferred claim of Lincoln,
by urging the claims of Col.
Marks, whose merits in due time
would have been honored by the
public.
If the proposition were submit,
ted to the county of Bedford, OF
any Other county in the Chancery
! District-to be a0ittoua a Judge to7
, 60 year8-perhaps every citizen
. would vote against it.
Then let the other counties give
to Lincoln the benefit of the judg.
ment which they would pronounce
for themselves.
] Let the voter be calm and con.
siderate. He votes in trust for the
public as well as for himself. As
a part of the public, my own coun-
ty claims an act of justice from
the other counties towards herself.
Though amongst the largest of the
counties, she has been the most
modest and patient.
] offer to the people the best Of
my professional life, and promise
fidelity in the discharge of my
duty il elected.
JNO. M. BRIGHT.
| Julv 18th 1870