The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-10-19
Jonathan Tarbell, Judge OF the
Supreme COurd of Mississippi

When the present MOngrel Admins
tration was inaugurated, the matter
about which the people felt the deepest
concern was the appointment of a sound
able and honest Judiciary. They expe-
rienced great relief. therefore, when the
above announcement was made by Gov.
Alcorn in his inaugural address.
Imagine the disappointment which
ensued when it was known that one OF
the selections for the Supreme Bench
the court of last resort in the State--was
Jonathan Tarbell, mere ADVENTURE
who was not known as a lawyer TO the
bar of the State, and who was presumed
TO be at best a briefless pettifogger.
The highest evidence he had given, OF
any description, of public capacity, was
to run a Loyal League Club, and TO con-
duct partisan maneuver on small
scale. His name had become an odor OF
intense ofensiveness to the white citi-
Gems of the State by his slanderous inn
putations upon them in his testimony to
the reconstruction committee, by means
of which he endeavored TO stimulate the
sectional luminosity Of Northern Con
gressmen to the point of complying with
the application of the defeated carpet
baggers TO put upon the people of the
State, as their permanent organic law,
the infamous DISTINGUISHING Constitution
which they had succeeded in rejecting by
large majority at the polls.
The appointment and confirmation of
this man to the Supreme Court Bench
was not succeeded by any development
of his capacity, qualification, mental
calibre, learning or moral qualification
beyond what the discriminating public
had credited him with. Although a
Supreme Judge, his invincible propensity
to run Loyal League Clubs and to med
die with politics in the smallest way, adj
hered to him.
The public are apPrised that, short
time since, he was arrested on the afiida-
Wits of three leading Republicans, for
violating the Enforcement Act. Ac
cording to the sworn statements of these
citizens, he was guilty of criminal inter
ference with the freedom of the elective
franchise. Two of these compliments
held Office by appointment of Governor
Aleorn, and the third was the President
of the Republican Club of this city, and
has since received the nomination of his
party for sheriff Of Kinds county. With
Characteristic skill Tarbell succeeded in
procuring the decapitation Of the first
two $50 much for Buckingham -but the
latter rode triumphant above his intrigues
into the nomination for sheriff.
This much we have written prelimi-
nary to the publication of the following
document, which we have reproduced to
show how egregriously the deeply wrong
ed people of this State have been still
more grossly outraged in the appoint
ment of Tarbell to the highest judicial
position under their laws IL will be
seen that they were promised "men of
standing that society must not presume
Ito ignore!" "Men learned in the law
"above their fellows!' "Men of cour-
cage and conseiencer This is what the
people clamored for, and they were an
swered, 1t shall be SOL But verify, when |
they asked for bread, stone was given
them; and in place of a fish, they were
given serpent:
WAR DEPARTMENT. |
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE. !
WAsHINGTON. ID. G., August ~ lSG2A |
SPECIAL ORDER.l
No. DOB
tExrRAcrI
20. The proceedings OF the General Court
Martial, which convened at Key West, Flor
ida, pursuant to Special Order No % Of /
March 81, 1854 from the Department Of Key
w est, In the case of Lieut. Colonel JONA-
THAN TARBELL, 9lst Regiment New
York Volunteers have been submitted 10
the Secretary Of War; and the following are
his orders In the case The sentence Of the
Court is that the said Lieut.. Col. j. TARBELL
be dismissed from the service of the United
States. The General had not the power 10
remit the sentence. He could only suspend
it, and transmit the proceedings TO the Presl-
dent, for his determination; (39th Article Of
o.
cision. The Court recommends Liet Col
Tarbell 10 the mercy of the President on
account Of his qualifications as an officer and
a soldier. The charge Of which he Is con-
victed, ~Disobedience OF orders; neglect Of
duty; mutinous conducts and conduct upJe- |
coming an officer and gcHtIeDadn,n are the |
gravest, and nothing In the facts are suggest
ed In excuse or mitigation. The sentence ,rfI
be enforced, and Lieutenant Colonel TARBEIL
Is accordingly hereby dtsmissed he seruice-
TO take effect this date.
BY order OF the Secretary Of War.
tSigned.l T.. ID. TOWNSEND,
Asst Adiutant General.
A true copy ofthe original.
LIST Lieut.. 9Th NV.
Col. VAN ZANDT.
This is the man who was appointed by !
Governor Alcorn-and whose appoint
nent was confirmed by the Radical Sen &
ate-to sit in judgment in the Court of
asst resort, ON the lives, liberty and =
property of the people of Mississippi
In cur description of public men and )
We have avoided the Language !.
If abuse and bitterness. We have pre- .
erred TO let FACTS speak for themselves. 7
Still, we in common with the conserva- y
i've press have been complained of by =
he Radical ofice-holders for using strong .
language in describing them and their
conduct. But has any language ever APP
'eared in an Radical paper here in :
he South, though necessarily drawing
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