Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-09-16
THE SUPREME CS,URT.

For reasons entirely satisfactory to itsel
and to the members of the bar of East Ten
nessee, the Supreme Court, upon sitting il
free bench at Knoxville on the second Mon
day of this month, adjourned the term IL
tie third Monday in November, "to sit til
Jan. l, 1874, if necessary to clear the docs
ct" This very reasonable action on the
part Of the Court was seized upon By the
Radical organ at Knoxville, and made the
pretexs for g series of indecorous assaults
upon the Court, in which the Judges were
charged with gross neglect of their public
duties, and with having fed from Knoxville
through unmanly fear of cholera. In jus
tice to the Court, the members of the bar
of Knoxville and other points in East Ten
nessee, irrespective of party, have joined in
the publication of 8 statement, showing why
the court adjourned, which we reproduce
elsewhere. And still the Radical Chronicle
is not happy. It's comments upon this thor
ough and non-partisau refutation of its
charges against the Court, would appear
highly amusing, but for being too deeply
marked with puerility to excite comforta-
bic smile. Asa specimen, We quote: .
"Whether they were to try only the pris.
onsrs in Jail or in addition go on with such
civil C uses as might be ready, is immateri-
al. They came, and their coming brought
Attorney General Heiskell all the way from
Memphis, and other members Of the Bar
from East Tennessee. Their coming was
generally known along the line of the rail-
road and it had the effect to confirm truth
full reports as to the health of Knoxville
and to allay unfounded aDxieties. A ses-
ION of even q week would have been gen.
orally known throughout East Tennessee
and would have inspired that confidence in
the health of the city which real facts wsr-
rant" "They ought to have
known that their adjournment under the
circumstances would create uneasiness and
spread exaggerated stories about the health
Of The city. A few days session would
have shown that they were not alarmed and
would have enabled them to do justice
10 the prisoners in jail. This is
the issue we take with the Court--their
adjournment spread wrong impressions
abroad and il it had been followed by q
half dozen cholera deaths, might have Gre
ated 8 panic from which our business
would no. have recovered for months"
Whether the Supreme Court will survive
that tissue" we can not yet tell, but if 'the
business interests of Knoxville" can survive
the labors Of one more such champion as the
Chronicle, they are sufficiently well-estab
lisled no. to be ''panic stricken" at the bare
possibility that the cholera may blow =
passing breath upon them. We have high
regard for the people of Knoxville and re-
joc9 a. the continued evidence of their
city's prosperity and freedom from the
scourge of the pestilence; aud more than all
we have too much confidence in their good
sense to believe that they would, for mo-
ment, sanction the idea to which the
Chronicle would give currency, that ses-
sion Of the Supreme Court could, at shy
time, be necessary to save the city from
panic or ''its business Interests" from bank
ruptcy and ruin. Kuoxville's brain is stead
Ter and its trade is more substantial than
that. We take pleasure in vindieatiDg the
city from such championship.