The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-28


will be polled at this end Of the State.
The Trial Of the Judges It Albany
IL II Farce or What ID TT
On the morning after our last November
election the reform party Of this eight little
island" looking towards Albany, lifted up
their heads and hands in Thanksgiving, and
then proceeded to 'splice the main BRACE" for
they were sure they saw in the northern
horizon the dawn of the millennium. The
people, rising in the majesty Of their strength,
had spoken, corruption had been rebuked, the
Tammany Ring had been dethroned, the
spoilers and robbers of our city treasury would
be delivered over to justice the den Of the
forty thieves had been captured, and as for
these criminals, the iron doors of Sing Sing,
screeching for joy, would soon be turned upon
them. Yes, the good time was coming when
there would be an end of corruption, an end of
high taxes, high rents, high prices and high
crimes and misdemeanors, and the city of New
York, glorious in her beauty and in her white
robes and orange blossoms Of reform, would
shine like bride at the altar. "Allah
mashallahl" God be praised
But this golden vision was ON illusion,
mirage, lake Of the desert, lake without
water, a ghostly mockery from the burning
sands. Our reform party have hung up their
harps on the willows and are weeping by the
waters of Babylon; our reform Legislature has
come and gone and we are as we were. We
have had q strange dream, in which we were
carried safely by the castle of Giant Despair
and through the valley and the shadow of
Death and up the Detachable Mountains, to o
view of the golden city; but it is all over.
Twas bright, twas beautiful but tits past.
And SO, the curtain having descended upon
the dissolving scenes Of the appointed spec
tacular drama, we look upon the trial of these
judges by the Senate at Albany as q super
duous farce. We have had already something
too much of this, and yet it still goes on,
and we are panied to think that the Senate
intends to eight it out on this line if it takes
all summer" King David, in one Of his
lamentations, says, II am distressed for thee,
my brother Jonathan" And so we are for
Oul DLOLACI OOuuUudn nv hlDuuys " ID ulb-
tressing to think of the Senate and the ac-
cused, and the prosecution, and the counsel
for the defence, and the witnesses, sitting
from day to day, in these sweltering
summer heats, upon the receivers,
and the Crates, and the various orders in
council, given from time to time, fshed up
and brought to the bar against these accused
judges. The reflected and collected heat
from the surrounding hills, factories and lum-
Der yards of Albany makes it q fearfully hot
dont see how justice can be done. To those
Senators from the rural districts who are ac-
customed to the fresh dir Of the green fields in
june it is cruelty to coop them up from day
to day in the sweating drudgery and mummery
of these judicial inquisitions. Our humane
Mr.. Bergh (may he live to grow fat, God bless
him y ought to look after these unfortunate
men.
Judge McCunn has thrown up his hand on
the plea Of no jurisdiction, and if this plea
will not hold with the mercury among the
nineties when will it hold? we should like to
know. We are sorry that the State constitution
...avs no attention to the thermometer. It
should be :smended So s a.. =. &c rroviae that no
legislative, judicial or any other work taxing
the overheated brain shall be done when the
thermometer is above ninety in the shade.
Here Is great oversight, which began with
the fathers of the constitution of the United
States, the supreme law Of the land; but the
country was then nearly oil woods, and the
fathers did not feel the heat as we do now.
They did not think of providing for the
climatic changes that would come with the
clearing away Of the forests. They were in the
woods and did the best they could with the lights
before them; but if they had known oil then
that we know now, on negro slavery, for in
stance, they would have done q great deal
better. We know that it was in July when
they considered, drew up, perfected and
adopted our great Declaration of Independ-
ence; but the hot season was appropriate to
this undertaking, for hot work was before
them, and that glorious old sun of July
warmed them up to it, you understand.
We want no warming up, however, in such
engagements as the trial OF these judges but
here we want cool heads to secure cool justice.
This is on important view of the subject and
it cannot be too deeply considered. For fear,
however, that it may be called side ISSUE we
dismiss it, and return to the main question,
the Senatorial Investigations into the alleged
misdoings of the accused judges, in view Of
their removal Is this business bona .fide or a
farce? 1t may be bona .ide, but it impresses
us as long drawn out and tedious farce. The
Bar Association have made their charges
against these judges and have laid them before
the Governor the Governor, on reading them,
has recommended a Senatorial inquiry, and
the removal of the accused parties if found
guilty; and SO these trials are dragging their
slow length along. But we have ceased to be
interested in such cases ever since the great
commotion, the terrible excitement and impo-