New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-05-21

without discussion obey the judicial man.
date.
Judge Woods is then Bipartisan" We
have had no knowledge of the political
status of the party convicted of having
violated the revenue laws. We have
shown that if he is Republican our con-
demnation would be as decided as in the
case of Mckee or Mcdonald. If, then,
Judge Woods has acted the partisan, it
must be because the person convicted be-
longs to different political party from
the judge. He is, then, We infer, . Demo-
crat. Is not the inference, then, fair that
the Bulletin is partisan in condemning
the court for ruling which it deemed
proper? The juryman Bringier complains
of maltreatment and compulsion by his
colleagues. This they deny. The SYM
pathies of the Bulletin are excited for q
colored man, whose version of the verdict
is preferred to that of eleven other men
and the ruling of the court of the United
States. In such trial neither the court
nor the press would have any right to
play partisan. When the law gored our
stock we stood it. When the law cores
the party friends Of our opponents they
question the integrity of the judicial
tribunal.
The jury next come in for severe CEN
sure. They are charged with Offering q
verdict under "a false pretense." The
verdict is called "a foul business" and
the people of the whole republic should
know whether or not the right of trial
by jury is to be transformed into despi-
cable mockery."
The zeal with which the Bulletin has
taken up the cause-not of Fehrenbach-
but of "a worthy colored man, well
known for his integrity and general good
character, " is supported by some singu-
lar reasoning. The er parte statement of
the juryman Bringier-which we believe
first appeared in the columns of the Ba.-
letin-but contradicted by his colleagues,
is assumed to be true, and it is now
argued thus:
If the majority in numbers are Der
mitted to overcome the minority BY perse.
cutiOn and threats of violence, the sacred
shield and imminent of the rights, the
liberty and the lives Of citizens will soon
be trodden down.
We have seen the doctrine that the ma
jority should not be allowed to govern the
weight and intelligence of the minority
maintained by learned attorneys and by
shanty taxed philosophers. 1t is some
thing opposite to find the supremacy of
minority affirmed in respect to juror so
ignorant that he appears to have been
unaware of his right to call for the pro-
lection of the court and its officers, and |
80 dependent that, according to his eleven
colleagues
He stated Tuesday, fifteenth instant, that |
he would rather take poison than sign the |
verdict, and that in case he did sign it he |
would sell out his business and leave the |
city in two hours, Is he could no longer re-
main here.
It is added:
1t was then We told him that we were
assured that he had received q bride. and
Tor this reason was afraid to sign the YER
iict. When he did sign it, he did so volun-
;srily.
To set up the assertion Of one man
against whose independence the powerful
lgencies of fear and necessity are thus
'lleged to have been brought to bear
gainst the majority of eleven, seems to
Is to press the baronial doctrine to an
bsurd extreme. 1t is, moreover, to con-
radict point blank the White Lacquer
whose unfavorable opinion of colored in
diligence and integrity is too notorious
0 require comment. When the word and
pinion of one man, and he freedman,
J preferred to the word of eleven other {
,en, and the ruling of a court, then are [
70 approaching a period when the rule I
one man in church or State may be {
onsidered as of more force than that of {
ny numerical majority whatever.
We attribute this misappication of doc t
inc to an unwillingness to stand up to {
lvestigation, whether of Republicans or {
emocrats, whether by court or by jury. c
ur Democratic contemporary kicks U
yainst investigation. It seems to be the '
partisan" Of Democratic convicts, be- c
Iuse it charges the court with being =
partisan" and says Of its fellow-citizens,
e jury: 7
The jury room of the United States Dis c
let Court in this city has been the scene n
one of the foulest and most atrocious
outrages upon justice ever perpetrated o
any land where the right of trial by Jury Il