Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-24
8atIand Qaitp gerald.
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY. JULY IS, 1878.
LOUISIANA.

LOUISIANA.
rmay bcasking too much of defeat
apoIitcians that they should be reason
.he in ANYTHING, and we had not ex-
gocreI that the mongrel combination
t.a. melted by desire for the spoiIs of
a'..r and stung to the quick by the sue
a...fuI protection OF the Treasury and
mblic interests from their little jobs, by
an rprght and honest Administration,
entered into the unholy alliance of last
SIMMER should at once abandon their
fra Re, of deuunciatiOn and wholesale
SANDERS when the Presidential canvass
.usd But we were a good deal aston
blaia few months ago at the howl that
went up from the press and orators of
b. Democratic and Liberal combination
over the judicial action of Hon. Edward
n DurcII. Judge of the District Court
Of the { uitcd States for Louisiana This
mrrt, acting within the sphere Of its
wsjic,ion, upon bill in equity, regu-
rlv filed on a proper prayer for relief,
granted an injunction which had a bear
ing 0pon the rights and actions of parties
engaged i'm "A contest for the office of
Governor Of that State, and for granting
that Injunction, and on account of sub
~1umt orders of the court, issued to
protect its authority and nforCe its pre-
cpt, the political elements in sympa-
mywith the unsuccessful candidate COM
muc-d an unparalleled and malicious
assault upon the judge of the court, ac-
msug him of corruption, imbecility and
dmnkonncss The Executive depart
mut of the United States, following the
aw au3 practice Of the Government,
sustained the judgment of the court,
and insisted that it should be respected
until regularly reversed, and from this
the whole controversy as respects Judge
Dwcll arose.
In this controversy we will confess
,dat we thought the injunction might be
0owarrantable from the newspaper ac-
counts of it. but we insisted, as we do
BOW, that the court was Untitled to the
resumption that it had acted honestly,
under the law as he understood it. We
knew nothing Of the personal character
f Judge Durell, but the charges against
..m, coeiing from the same source as
others Of the same character against
other men, we thought it safe to consid-
~thcm equally unfounded, being salts
fed that if they were true efforts at i'm
roachment would soon demonstrate them.
Veal know the excitement attendant
npon the gubernatorial electionin Louis
lana, how Yarmouth on one side and
Kellogg ON the other were carrying mat
ters with a high hand, how the courts
and legislature of the State were used to
further the interests of the Yarmouth
totion when the injunction OF Judge
DTell iuteryened in behalf of Kellogg.
We cbave recently had occasion to read
m abstract Of the bill, the law of Con-
gress upon which it was founded, to-
ge'ber with the statutes of the State
bearing upon the subject, and the aspect
of the case is changed, and it would be
difficult, upon consideration of the case
made by the bill, to come to any other
result than that arrived at by the court.
There bcingnothing in the facts of this
case to convict the Judge of corruption,
we naturally turn to his record to
see if there is any further evil
aenee Of his integrity or dishonesty. We
lnd that he has been a resident of New
orleans for more than thirty years; that
mall that time the breath of SANDER has
not uttered aught against the purity of his
PERSONAL character before, and that since
DIS elevation to the bench by President
Lincoln, his official integrity is fully en-
aorSed by all who had official or profess
sonal relations with him. Deeply SEN
stye to the censure heaped upon him
IoF his course in relation to Kellogg's
ol in equity, he determined to resign
bis office and retire to some position
Where an honest discharge of duty would
not subject him to such unwarranted as
@lIls. This drew from the Louisiana
0ar remonstrance worthy of learned
ana noble profession, and one that is ex-
uemey fattering to the character, lear
n'ag and habits of Judge Durell. and
als too is signed by men of all political
parties, and is headed by Hon. John A
campbell, late Judge of the United
H,ateS Supreme Court, Demo crat dur
Wy NE, ard rebel during the war.
We know that some of the Senate
committee on Privilege and Elections,
ensured the action of Durell in this
sSe' but now that the excitement has
1'ou Down, and the case upon which he
a''ea Is made public, we cannot but be-
1--WE mat the members of the committee
0lo made that damaging report were
msIed by the exciting circumstances,
1Du That although the action of the
'0uft may have been mistaken and un-
'Yund, yet the evidence is conclusive
i ua' The Judge is an upright, earnest
,usL Of spotless judicial character,
',iu mat with such endorsements as that
'ne bar Of his court and by the prom
-Iu' men OF all parties in the State
"Nere his labors are known and appreci-
reu' Judge Duren can afford to be ma
,sned by the small fry politicians who
lust denounce somebody, although they
lave been able for once to deceive the
mittee