The Tarboro' southerner., 1870-05-12
MONEY SENT At OUR RISK,
The Judiciary.

Ill SHAS JoSA~~
had frequent occasion to announce to
our readers the high estimation we feel
and to inculcate the utmost respect for
the judicial Department of the gov
ernmcnt We have been educated to
venorate the Judiciary, because the
faithful administration of the laws is
cur great security for life, liberty and
property; and until recently our VEN
Grafton was heightened by the elevated
moral character of the personnel Of the
Judges. We are well aware how difi-
cult it is to distinguish between the re-
-spect due the officer and the con-
tempt we may feel fos the man who
fills the office. While we regard the
majesty of the law administered by a
constitutional officer, tyranical and cor
rupt though he may be, as entitled to
our obedience, yet We may and do con-
demn every unjust edict, and every
partial ruling, whether instigated by
partizan corruption or otherwise, of
the man filing the Office, and tempor-
arily clothed with a power demanding
our respect.
Are We, because bad man has OBJ
tanned the Office of Judge, to be OBJ
livious to his moral delinq uencies, and
encourage him to prostitute his Office
to crafty his malice or vanity, by
quietly permitting him to indulge his
private spleen without question Or COM
ment? And has it come to this,
that an officer elective by the people,
Judge though he may be, shall not be
criticised by an independent press as
70 his moral status or as to his intel
lectual or impartial capacity to dispense
justice? We frankly admit that the
necessity for such criticisms would not
have occurred if the political vandals
Of the day had refrained from an inva-
sion of the judicial department of the
government transmitted to US by our
fathers. But this sacred palladium has
been polluted by sacrilegious hands
the Bench has been degraded to a
scramble in popular elections among
ignorant and INSCRIPTIONS partizans
and consequently we have now such
miserable apologies for judges.
And are VIC to be told that if VIC
condemn such men and thereby en-.
deavor to bring them into the public
.odium they deserve, SO that we may
be relieved from their corruption and in.
competency, and better men ell theil
places, that we bring reproval upon the
office of Judge aud weaken the respect
due to law and order? We do not sc
estimate our duty as editor of ths
SoUTHERNER, although our criticisms
may be called, in the language of oul
neighbor, petty squibs of MALICE or
in the language of a more elevated au,
thority &C. J. Pearson ga newspape,
squib."
And here we are struck with thi:
faCt-a remarkable coincidence in tn,
conclusions of the two great minds
that control the Carolinian and thu
Supreme Court. They both seem so.
iIcitUu3 that Judge Jones should no'
permit these "squi5s" to disturb hi
equanimity, and assume TO advise hin
to keep cool, and allow them to p.ss
unnoticed. We suppose the Judge
will patiently bear these rebukes, anc
will not enter arule for contempt; bu
really it occurs to US as great presump
ton i'll cur neishbor to attempt to lee
turc the Judge apon .decency, man
Aoad or moral Courage although Judg'
Pearson might venture on this forbid
den ground.
The SoUTHERNER denies, most EN-
phatically, the charge in the Carroll
MAN that there has been any effort il
this judicial district to bring IL e B ncY
into contempt and paralyze the judicia
arm Of the State. Our ueighbor ad