Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-03-31

that even the sanetity and privacy of Judge
Jones home has been invaded to find
cause against him. .'
Now, Mr.. Speaker, this shows that the
gentleman knows nothing of the testimony
taken by myself as Commissioner in Ply
mouth for he would then see that one
John Jones, body servant to the Judge, a
big black buck negro fellow, testifies that
on one occasion, as he and the Judge were
lying on the bed engaged in social chat
shat Sally TiIghman, alias Sally Boston,
and another negro prostitute was in the
room, and while witness and the Judge
were enjoying that delightful and intimate
social intercourse stretched on the Judges
bed, the said women got drunk On the
the Judges whisky and this, MIR. Speaker,
is the privacy the General Assembly of
North Carolina is blamed for violating;
this is the privacy that is to stand between
North Carolina and one Of her unworthy
servants, privacy common to negro men
even to their occupying a place in bed
with his Honor, and common to the basest
negro prostitutes-so common to them
that they know and acknowledge no re.
straint to their deviijsh orgies even in his
very presence.
He (Mr S. left the question OF tue i'm
parchment of Judge Jones to the House.
but he did say that if drunkenness in the
Marlborough House in this city be sufficient
cause for impeachment, then his test-
mony would convict him, as he saw him
(Jones) the night he left in state of
beastly intoxicatiOn.
The only reason the committee did not
report d resolution impeaching Judge
lJones is that the resolution Of the House
restricted them to an inquiry Into the
Sally Tilghman affair: and the testimony
there was SO conflicting that they believed
they were justified in the course they did
adopt. Sarah Tilghman, the only witness
III that case, was absent and could not be
found by the commissioners, and the com
mittee felt that, in view of tire fact that
she was notoriouslg the kept mistress Of
Judge Jones, and could entirely disprovo
the charge against the Judge were it false,
they were justified in ing the circum
stances did not entirely acquit the Judge
of completely in and responsibility for her
absence.
Mr.. Phillips was IN favor of = speedy
Investigation of the matter. La reference
to illusions that were made in regard to
Judge Pearson's babitual into1icaticn, he
said that the CHIEF Justices inf3n2itieS in
this particular Had been htaoacn M ocer tie
State for thirty years. That the Judge IL
despite of this we'll known infirmity, had
been elevated from the Superior Court
bench to that of the Supreme Court, and
also recently reelected Chief Justice by
an almost unanimous vote. The Chief
Justice almost had a chartered right to in
duIge this infirmaity. He wanted ihi5
investigation to go on and WIS opposed 70
reconsideration, &c.
Mr.. Withers called tho previous qnes
ton on his motion to reconsider. The
oil was sustained and the motion to re
consider was put to a vote and was adopt
ed by the following ballot
YEAs-Messrs. Anderson, Atwater, Books,
Bryson, Carson, Collins. Dic1ey, Dudley. Gar
rison HAMPTON, Hargrove, Houston, Johnston,
of Buncombe, johnson, OF Edgecom o, Jones,
Lassiter, Loftin, Lyon. MaIler, Maxwell. Mills,
Mitchell, Payler, I:ankin, Reaves, id, shull,
Tucker, TCm!insOD, Welsh, Withcrs, Willis ami
! Wilcox
NAYs-Messrs. Armstrong, Ash. Atkinson,
RfOadtoot. Bryan, OF JoEea, Chamberlain, Cope
land Crawford. Currie, Durham, Ellison. FAuH-
Goodwin, arayeop, Gregory, Guyiher, Gsrrs,
OF Guiford, Hardy. Renders n, Hinaat, Johua,
Jorda.. Kelly, OF D4yie, Lucky, Main. dc
Montgomery. Page Phi lips. Regain, Robbins.
Scott, smith, of Anson, smith 81 ahfax, SIM h,
OF Wayne, Sparrow, Stanford ktrudwick, War
ing, Womack, WoOdhouso and williamson.
Mr. Jones' Of Caldwell, moved to recon
slider the vote by which the resolution was
adopted informing the Senate OF the ac-
ton of the House in The case Of Judge
Jones was adopted. The yeas and mays
were called aud, the motion was adopted
by vote of yeas "A, nays 40
On motion of Mr.. WithcrR, the consid
Grafton of the adoption OF the resolution
sending a message to the Senate in refer
ence to the action OF the House in the
Judge Jones matter, was POSTPONED for
the consideration of the per diem ques-
ton.