The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-07

Judge Fleming and the Torbett Issue
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Mail, an ably edited paper recently start
ed at Columbia
The decision Of Chancellor Fleming
touching the Torbett or new issue of the
Bank of Tennessee has provoked hostile
comments from the Memphis Ac0lanche
and the Knoxville Chronicle that are in
TO degree justified by the facts Of the
case. Here, in Maury courty, where
Judge fleming is known, and where BE
has been known from his childhood, he
needs no defense. No touch Of calumny
can stain the white radiance of his char
acter rs Christian gentleman or as a
judge He is as far above the mire of
persenal dishonesty or official corruption
as the stars are above the earth. The
State of Tennessee can boaet of no purer
or better man. When the Memphis
Aralanche and Knoxville Chronicle come
to know him as he IS known In Middle
| Tennessee, they viii be ashamed, as they
ought 10 be, of the charge they have
| lr ught against him-a charge which Is
! false in every particular and which can
=, fact dishonnr only on themselves. IF
| the dearest friend Judge Fleming has on
! earth had owned every dollar of the Tor =
| bett issue, and upon its redemption by the
| state had depended the eternal salvation
| Of that friend, the fact would rot have
| had a feathers weight of influence in
| shaping Judge tleming's decision 10 the
matter. These are strong words, but
when the fair fame Of Just, upright and
! honorable man is wantGnly assailed-a
man whose character has never before
! been t0uc'ed by the breath Of calumny,
and who regards his good name as the
! best heritage he can beJueath to his
! chiidren-there are no words too strong
| to be used in denouneing his cRlumnia-
! tors We have known Judge Fleming
/ for nearly n quarter Of a century, and we
| know, as we'll as we know any thing on
earth, that the Bank of Tennessee never
issued money enough to buy of him de
cision or any other act, as either Judge
or gentleman, that did not accord with
his convictions of right ard justice.
1t has been charged that Judge Fiem-
ing was Influenced in his decision Of the
! Torbett issue question by the fact that
his son-in-law, Col. d. 3. Cooper, owned
large amount of the new issue, which
would be worthless if repudiated by the
State liz reply to this charge, Col
Cooper declares that at the date of the
publication of Judge Fleming's decision
in the Nashville papers he did not owr
one dollar of the issue IN question and
had not owned a dollar of 1t for more
than twelve months prior to the datH o.
that decision Thus the whole charge
against Judge Fleming falls to the ground
as was inevitable, even without the de-
ciaration of Col Cooper.
All that we have said of the character
IF Chancellor Fleming may as truthfuIly
be said of the character of Chancellor w
f. Cooper, who is as far above suspicion
of official corruption as anv man couI'
possibly be Both he and Judgs File M
ing knew that in making selfish and IN
Just decision in the case of the TCrbet
issue they would have everything to los
and nothing whatever to gain. The.
knew that the decision of the Chancello
would not be a final settlement of tn
question--that the case would come be
fore the supreme Court of Tennessee fO
adjudication-and that the Chancellor
decision could have no influence IN tn
ultimate settlement of the matter, ana
therefore, the charge that Judge Flemin
was actuated in framing his decision b
interested or selfish motives bears tn
marks of the widest absurdity upon it
own face There are certain facts, nc
generally known, connected with thi
: matter, which, although not at all needle
r for the vindication of Chancellor Elem
ing's character as an upright Judge, "
propose to give in the next number of tn
Mail
! The Brownsville States says there al
many good citizens" who are wifeies
This may be true, but we confess we al
I at n loss to know what such CRITTERS III
good for -RepubHcan.
} They are either good for nothing {
{ good to get married.