The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-29
A JUDICIAL ASS.

Yes, DR.. johnson must have been correct
when he defined man as being "a biped
without feathers" even II it did follow
that plucked chicken was man. How
otherwise, shall we class that Philadelphia
biped that soils the Judicial ermine, ycleped
Ludlow, styled, by courtesy, Judge Lud-
low, as a man Not that this ornament of
the bench is plucked chicken, but that,
being only biped, be cannot be classed
zoologcally as an assault he Is an insult
fcrable ass after all. Excuse US, Judge,
you can console yourself as a certain other
lawyer-accept our apologies oh members
Of the American bar for calling this Lud.
low lawyer---did when he desired TO show
what id fool Blackstone was" 1t
may soothc your vanity to believe that in
stead of being an ass yourself, you have
only shown Judge Strong, of the supreme
court of the United States, and those other
God in the constitution" fellows what
idiotc asses they all are. Their and your
positions, both, cannot be tenable, and
utNt yOu bOt tiI ibftht tiuth IL 10 UOt
every jurist--heaveu save the mark that
can base his illegal opinions as an ever
present fear of punishment for contempt
Of court before Our mind conpels us to call
it, upon so sound precedent as that fur
nishcd by the recent action of so learned,
reliable and respectablea body as the North
Carolina house of representatives. You
probably remember, oh most eminent and
learned judge, that those immaculate
legislators expelled a fellow member because
his religion did not exactly coincide with
thers-thus letting il be understood, fol-
the first time, that they made some preten.
sons to the possession of that article. But
| Judge, had YOU come on earth little
sooner, they would have been spared this
disagrccabe duty, and their professions &c
religion would still have blushed unseen
For, If that expelled legislator had not beer
a voter, he could not have been a legislator
and had you only expounded the law, ht
never could have been voter. But every
| evil has its COMPENSATORY can never
receive a nomination from the hands of tho
Connecticut democracy. You will ever re
main Il spared monument to the bench-un
| like Phelps and Foster Of that state, YOU
cannot become democratic candidate for
member of congress. Connecticut demo
Gratis say that II is COMPOUNDED mean TO re
fuse to vote for man because he has re
| ligon Of one kind, or because he hasn'
got any at all but, you say, judge. that 8
man can't vote unless his religion suits you
That other legal lumnaries may know how
not to 90 il, We report the case. One Ju
Illus Nieland applied to this Ludlow, hold
ing court in Philadelphia, for naturaiza
ton. He was of proper age and possessed
every legal qualficaton-we speak afte
the manner of mentor naturalization, an(
had complied with every legal prerequisite
thereto, but the judge,in some unexplained
manner, found out that Nieland wasn'
much on his religion that is to say thai
his views of religion were infdelic-and
therefore refused to make him a citizen
Oh shades of the immortal fathers, wht
framed the constitution, how you mus
stand abashod in the presence of this decl
sion, in the dignihed presence of this judge
Ie tried to establish a government, found
ed upon religious liberation and no pro
scripton for opinions sake, but you mis-
erably failed For Ludlow knows. lie
the "God in the constitution" society dis
band, or turn itself to other reforms, TO
Ludlow decides that your proposed work i
one Of upererogation-and Ludlow knows
or, else. Ludlow is an egregious ass.