The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1871-06-03

genteel woman Of color entered suit in
my Office against him, for an Assault
and Battery, there being other business
in the Office at the time, her case had to
be necessarily deferred = for two days,
and then was tried on the eighth day
OF May commencing at z o'clock Pm.
E. Mikell Carroll Esqr appearing for the
defence, would say here for this gen.
tleman, that while he is aliye to the du.
ties of his profession, he is only resident,
and not native of these parts, and is
unlike many of the new made fodgclings
of the Law, who have yet to learn some
thing of legal etiquette, and that Shake
speare done up in bombast, before Il
jury, is not law practice, However
Mr. Editor pardon me if have digressed
from the subject; / will state, that the
defendant called for jury, they were
summoned, all being colored excepting
Mr. A. Loryeu, who is nn intelligent gen
tleman, and Merchant of good standing
in the place He acted rs foreman. After
the case had been heard lcfore the
Court, and the jury charged, they went
TO the jnry room, and failed after being
out, to agree. his jury was thoreupon
discharged and the case carried before
another jury the following evening at
the same hour. This jury 1 will particu-
larly state, was selected from the most in
telligent class of our citizens and num-
bered four white, and two colorcd, Their
names were as follows, -Mcssrs j. w.
Fairsy, Ewd Carroll, j.. Q. Riggs, s. S.
Turner, all white, the two colorcd were,
Thomas Murphy, and Gabriel Faircy,
After retiring they held the case under
consideration for possibly two hours, and
then found the Defendant, "Not Guilty"
whereupon the Prisoner was discharged.
Now sir take up the other case, which is
as follows there came into my Office
colorcd woman who said she wanted to
prosecute a colored man, for repeatedly
passing through her farm, Ho lives about
two miles from this place sent for him
the next day, he came and so did she,
| gave them a preliminary invcstig ,tion,
the papers were partly arranged for the
case, when it suddenly comes to light
that she is half sister, or some other
relation of his they looked smilingly at
each other, and proposed to pay Two
Dollars, half of which was paid, aud
they then departed bettcr-fricuds than
ever. This Oldster in his attempted
burlesquc of my Court, or in other words
the Court of Branchville, would try to
make it appear, that injustice was prac
tiscd, does there seem to be any of it
here; had / not the power in this case,
of turning it to some account provided l
had followed the illustrious example of
some who have been deprived of like
offices to the one hold, by making this
poor, Ignorant, trespasser, suffer for d
time in Jail, in order to swindlc the State
out of an amount largely in excess of the
Two Dollars, agreed upon by the parties
themselves. Now | claim that l do
not only have the honor of holding my
Office by right of Executive appointment,
but by the wish and consent OF honest. re-
spectacle, intelligent citizens of both
parties, and that my official acts rs we'll
as the Docket books, in my Office, are
and ever will be open to public iuspec-
tton as we'll as to that Of the grand jury,
which | invite at any and all times, and
will add that all fines, so far received in
my office for the State have been paid
over, while have not yet received one
cent from it, for the State owes me but
little, while if had adopted the course
of many, it would without doubt have
owed me thousands. now sir will stop
my extravagant waste Of ink on this
Oldster for really | fear by his name he
is Gather too old aud feeble to stand it,
or having reached his second childhood,
it would be pity to brand him a Liar.
Respectfully, and signed
THOMAS. B. POHL
Trial Justice.