Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-09

interests were indentical with that of
most of the people of the State.
WEAVING. THE EIsIsSE--MOD-
ElsN E,EDERALESTS.
There is a nice lot of people on the
bench of the United States Courts just
now. From the North and from the
South, from the East and from the far
West, come the cries OF the people
against the men into whose hands has
been committed the administration of
the laws in our Federal Courts. II the
people themselves be not corrupt the
word Federal viii ere long become a
stencil in their nostrils.
Federal Judge Hugh L. Bond stands
first alphabetically, at least, on the
list of those to whom we shall refer
this morning. OF him it was publicly
declared on the floor Of the United
States Senate that it would he prefer
able for an innocent man to run the
gauntlet Of the bullets Of q squadron
of cavalry rather than TO he tried be-
fore his Court.
Next in order comes Federal Judge
Delahay, of Kansas, who was formal
ly impeached by the late United States
House of Representatives for incapacI-
ty because of drunkenness. He has! the
habit sometimes OF preferring the gut
ter to the bench. Ia cxtcnuation Of
his conduct it was urged, We believe,
and without contradiction, that he had
never stolen anything
Federal Judge D1lrel, OF Louisiana,
is next upon the list of Judicial worth
les. This man is the plant tool VINO
inaugnratcd the difficulties that have
so long afflicted the people OF Louis
lana. This is the IMAM who, according
to the report Of the Committee 81 the
United State, Senate, organized Il
Legislature by an order OF Court, in q
suit to perpetlate testimony He is
the man OF whom even Radical Senator
Morton says his conduct 'cannOt be
justified He - grossly exceeded his
Jurisdiction. " and was guilty - OF gross
11surpation." This is tlI,: nIan whose
edicts the President supports at the
point Of the bayonet. This man, as
well as DeIahay and Bond, wears the
judicial ermine.
Next comes Federal Judge Sler-
man. of Ohio. This man belongs
to the bluest Of blue puritan blood.
He is a descendant Of ANY plumber Of
Shermans of former times. He IS no
''poor bockra" or "cracller or ''poor
white trash" He belongs TO the top
of the pct of the Northern aristocracy.
His father MAS = .Tndge before him
He IS Il brother Of United States Sen
ator John Sherman, Chalrana4& Of sen
ate Committee on Finance. lie is
also brother Of the General Of the
Armies OF the United State, William
Tecumseh Sherman. "ho recently
issued tie infamous order about
the inter determination of a band
of savages, without regard to guilt or
Innocence, age or sex. This is the
man who cinimed ten thousand dollars
from parties III New York for inlucn-
cling his brother, the Senator, il behalf
of certain legislation favorable 20
them This is the man that tie Reso-
lutions, proposed i'll the Bar Associi-
ton Of Cleveland, Ohio, call upon TO
resign, for the reason that he has
evinced such want of integrity and
such a moral turpitudc as to destroy
all confidence in his judicial admins
tration and regime, that he should at
once resign and relieve the Federal
Court from the embarrassment conse-
quent upon his continued occupancy
of the Judgeship. But we must not
omit to mention another distinguished
member of the Sherman family. We
refer to Federal General Miles, who,
if we mistake not, married a daughter
of this eminent judicial lobbyist.
General Miles is the hero WHO put
upon Jefferson Davis. \
nice family, that
Last upon our list stands Federal
Judge Underwood, of Virginia. This
is the man who once from tho bench
took occasion to make sport and Jest
of the sufferings President Davis was
then undergoing at Fortress Monroe.
This is the man whose conduct, at a |
ater day, the Supreme Court Of the |
United States declared to be ga blot |
1pon our Jurisprudence and civ1liza-
,ion.' and the Supreme Court of
Appeals Of Virginia declared to be
enough to shock the moral sense of
very honest man.
These are the men who administer
Justice in Federal Courts !
Fellow countrymen, what do yon
hink of them ?
1t is stated that Colonel B. T. Saw
er and DR.. r. I. Hampton, OF Rome,