Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-07-30

Judge Royce and His Slanderers.
It is quite natural, butuot very high.
minded aud honorable course for defeat
ed party in Court to ascribe his defeat to
an undue bias Of judge, jury, aud witness
es toward the adverse party. And We Ger.
tqiuly never saw NOR marked and fragrant
case Of this than 10 a letter published in
the Springfield Republican Of last week,
written by their special correspondent, Mr.
r. T. Sanborn, from st. Albius and if it
we're not that the statements made in that
sheet were largely circulated among a class
Of readers who were ignorant Of the real
merits Of the case, they might better, per-
haps, be passed by 10 silent contempt
There is no occasion for us at this time to
defend Gov. Smith and his associates or
predecessors in Office from the charges
which he so recklessy aud truthlessly burls
against thcm.' Their cause has been heard
before the proper tribunal and their
course has boon substantially INDICATED.
But Mr. Sanborn goes further and attacks
Judge Royce, aud intimates that he has
been captured by the Smiths; that his
course upon the bench is completely con.
trolled by them, and that he owes his
election to ga series of accidents not with
ont hvoritism."
When this correspondent, or any other
party attacks the Judiciary Of Vermont,
and calls them remit and corrupt, simply
because they have lost their case in court,
we generally know without much trouble
Just what value to give to their charges.
There is very little fear that Judge Royce
will suffer from them in Vermont. Here
he is known as an able, upright and honest
man, and an excellent judge, He does not
owe his election to a series of accidents
but on the contrary to the almost unani.
nous will Of the people that he should serve
them upon the bench, made against his own
oit-repcatcd declarations that he could not
and would not so serve 1t will take q
great deal more mud than the Republican
can throw to degrade him in the estimation
of the people Of Vermont, and we have nc
fear of his degrading himself by any unjust
or venal decision.
But Mr. Sanborn has followed his in.
structions faithfully and literally. Travel
ing in part Of Vermont to which he wa,
confessedly stranger, for the purpose Of
gathering information on which to write ut
the Vermont Central and its management
he has sought counsel and knowledge almost
solely from the "paid attorneys of the
opposition to the Central, and solely of it.
most bitter and malignant opponents, re-
fusing to hear anything from any Other
source. And his iulormants have mad,
him their convenient mouth. piece for retail
ing such untruthful and slanderous GOSSIP
as they have never dared TO lisp themselve.
in public aud which they well knew wouC
find its only believers among those dwelling
without the State, who know nothing of tn,
merits and dement's Of the case.
Mr. Sanborn, as an interviewer and re.
porter from Vermont, can hardly be called
success. His letters from this State
during the last Presidential campaign were
extremely ludicrous to those who knew any.
thing about the relative strength of the par
ties in the State; and the later letters from
him contain even less germs of truth than
those be wrote during the campaign. Send
us somebody else, next time.