New-York tribune., 1872-01-16
,yUDGE B1RNllRD.

JODbE DIh4fbhD
The Hon. George G.. Barnard has suddenly
grown anxious about his reputation. 1t has
stunk in cvcrybOdy's DOstrils except his own
for several years, and an Od0r as OF something
corrupt seems at last to have reached even
the judicial nose Judge Barnard calls upon
the Grand Jury Of Oyer and Termincr TO find
out what is the matter. The meaning of
his appeal to this inquest is perfectly well
understood. Charges looking to the i'm
p6aehmcnt of him and his kind have
been transmitted to Albany by Commit
tee of the Bar Association. BY examining
that Committee and certain persons connected
with the newspapers which have denounced
his misconduct, he purposes finding out what
evidence has been obtained against him, and
breaking It's force by whitcwashing report,
or terrifying witnesses by a little characters
tic bullying, or perhaps cOunteracting the most
damaging testimony by still more unscrpu-
lous acts familiar to men of his kidney.
Judge Barnard will fail. He has outliyed
the friends who supported him u year ago.
He is only a relic of the great Tammany sys-
TEN of fraud and corruption demolished last
November, and he must 90 the way of Tweed,
Connolly, lIaggerty, and Baulch. The scan
dals of his administration Of injustice are
notorious. If he wants a more public eX-
pOsure of his support of the Crates, his abuse
Of the writ OF injunction, his alliance with the
Fisk and Gould Ring, his connection with the
Albany and Susquchann9 litigation, his raid
upon the English shareholders of Erie; if
he wants an inquiry into the circumstances
under which ho came from POughkeepse,
and signed Of he did sign at half
past ten o'clock at night somewhere near
the Grand Opera House, an order appointing
James Fisk, jr., Receiver of the Albany ana
Susquehanna Railroad; if he wants an
investigation into bis relations with John
B. Haskin; if be wants IecXam-
ination of the charges brought against
him four years ago by Mr.. Thomas G. Shear
man in THE North 1mercda RerieC,-he can
be accommodated-he will be accommodated
at the proper time and in the proper place
But it is useless for him to buster. He has
tried that before. The world has not forgot
ten the celebrated scene between him and the
late James 4. Brady in the course of the
Drew-N vanderbilt suits, nor hls threat at that
time TO proceed against the writer of the artl-
Gle in The North Americ0n RerieW, nor the ex-
traordinary manner i'll which, when time
had been set for the examination Of David
Dudley Field by Mr.. Brady upon points that
would either have convicted or vndicated Mr.
Justice Barnard, that ornament 10 the bench
suddenly stopped the whole proceedings IL
he courts an investigation into all these mat
ters, he shall have all he can stomach.
As for the oyer and Terminer Jury their
duty is very plain. While thoy are kept
together the indictments against the Ring
thieves in the Court OF General Sessions can
not be presented. The punishment OF Tweed
and Connolly IS more important than even the
whitewashing of George G.. Barnard Ii Will
only be a measure of common prudence Tor
Judge Ingraham to discharge his jury; and IN
n few days Mr.. Barnard, il he is still impatient
about his fame, can have new one. But he
must dismiss from his mind one deluSiOn. 1t
is not Judge Ingraham's Grand Jury that
tries impeachments, or takes cOgnlzance OF
judicial offenses so heinOus as to warrant an
instant resolution of removal. That business
will 90 on at Albany, with serene indifference
to powelless New York Grand Juries.