Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-04-29
RAnIcAL CANpIpATE FOR JUDGE.

The result Of late Radical caucusing
has been to bring before the voters of
this county the name Of one II. E. Hud-
son, as candidate for the Office of Judge
of the Criminal Court Our people are
not ignorant of this mans past life, at
least so much of it as has transpired
since his coming to Memphis. He is a
weILknown original carpet-bagger, whose
prime object in visiting the Sonth was to
rob and plunder disarmed and defense
less people. His clique might be
liked TO the parable of the winds,
for /. cannot be told whence they come
or whittier they goeth. II cannot be said
of them that they haze any abiding
pace; but wherever the earrion is, there
can the vultures be found The immigra-
ton to the State of this class during the
perpetuation Of Brownlows dynasty was
quite marked and frequent There was
in this State then feast Of mind and a
flow Of Radical soul that has hardly been
eaualed oaiside the reconstructed terri
tory. Those times have somewhat given
place to better order Of things with us,
and to complete the grand work Of refor-
nation, our people should sign with their
signate the death-warrant of Radicalism
in the community An effective mo-
ment for doing this work has now come
up, and it would be foolish in us not to
take advantage Of it. We can, with one
sweeping vote, assign our enemy to that
forgetfulness from which the trumpet of
Gabriel could scarce be able 10 bring
him forth. The last aspirants for our
political vengeance are the men brought
forward by the opposition as candidates
for county judgeships The people do
not desire that such Judges shall
be elected for the long term of eight
years, whose position would afford them
unlimited authority over the lives, liber-
ties and property of every citizen in the
county And especially the avoidance
should be sought in being subjected to
the partisan decisions Of such con-
temptjble species of humanity as is this
fellow Hudson, whose mind is small,
while his fetid carcass pollutes the at
mosphere, for we take it into our nostrils
daily. In heavens name, we have had
enough of such cattle on the bench and
in the public offices Of the county. Let
us make change, even II il be but
to relieve our minds from contemplating
the same disagreeable object so long.
Some Of the city newspapers have thought
10 characterize this ass as a most ex-
ceIIent Judge; but with al the blowing
M he has received, his excessive large
ness has served only to show = large
amount of mental and moral deficiency.
The court that be has of late presided
over in the capacity Of Judge, is well I'M
derstood as nothing more than a legal
lied vigilance committee. ready 10 fall
with equal vengeance upon both the IN
nocent and guilty alike. We are in favor
Of expelling or Furnishing the bad
members Of society, but a clearly de-
fined line should be drawn between
these and the law-abiding citizens. To
doubt as to the guilt or innocence Of
any accused party should besnfieient 10
relieve BIN from the peFslties Of the
Law. Bal Hudson, it is said, never fails
to punish to the full extent Of the law
ali those who are left to his decision.
He is a merciless little aespot, who de-
lights IN seeing his fellows writing