The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-10
TWO JUDICIAL BLAOKBIRDS.

The scorching decision of the United States
Supreme Court in the matter Of the North
Louisiana Railroad has been published anu
the men who have been publicly branded as
swindlers and moral frauds, Ludellng, lay
and others. can never again, though tney
should live to be thousand years DID, wipe
out the fonl stain upon their escutcheons
There is no such thing as living down such
a fearful assault as that; it as b!ighting and
whitening as the dreadful Simeon, and all
honorable men will shrink from contact with
the debasee and corrupt members OF the ring
which was formed with so much care, for the
express purpose of defrauding number OF
innocent but helpless people.
| The Chief Justice of Louisiana, after the
cruel vivisect;on by the Supreme Court of
the United States. would, if the last particle
of decency had not departed from him.
quietly retire to some retreat where man
kind would not be constantly reminded OF
his unfortunate existence. But it may be
every sentiment OF honor rs to collide with
Others to consummate so daring and villain
Gus q fraud upon persons whose interests he
was representing, and so unblnshlng as to
attempt to legalize the robbery perpetrated.
will not be restrained by any feelings OF del
icacy from exhibiting himself
He must be made to assume virtue it he
have it not and must be taught by a stern
lesson that a dishonored man cannot be per-
United to occupy the exalted position Of
Chief Justice in Louisiana. But there is an
other parsonage against whom the decision OF
the Supreme Court is scarcely less severe than
against Luleling x Co. There is one man
who, after perusing that decision carefully,
must feel like hiding his head in shame for
ever. That man is the Judge of the United
Stat IS Circuit Court, W. B. IVoods-the man
whose outrageous rulings and decision in the
Grant parish cases have made his name odl-
Gus in Louisiana TIE man who, when the
lives of a number &C innocent gentlemen hung
trembling upon the verdict Of a negro jury
which he hi,nselt had harangued, and which
Beckwith had endeavored by every ingenious
artifice to mislead, actually sat in his private
Office and played setback euchre aeM that
us,uping Executive fraud, VIM. p. kellogg.
What says this shameless judge at the de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the United
States, which is the most singing reprimand
and rebuke that could possibly have been adj
ministered? What all this patent and tre-
mendous fraud laid bare before the Judge Of
the Circuit Court, even as it was exposed be-
fore the Supreme Judges themselves, and
escape his observation. nay receive his ap-
proval!
Is it possible that this shrewd judge should
not have detected the game of Ludeling and
his co-conspirators. If SO, then he must
have been binder than justice usually is-a
sort Of judicial mole in fact, quite unable to
see.
OF course Judge Woods will not resign, but
we scarcely think his position on the bench
will be more enviable than Durells of, and
there have been times in this country when
SO scathing rebuke from superior tribunal
would have forced the erring judge to doff
the er,nine. The reproof administered by
Justice Bradley was pretty severe, but the
last in which the entire court concur ought to
be infinitely more hard to bear.