, 1876-10-30

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things, no matter what their partisan politics
mny be-.
JUDGE M'ALLIsTER'B DEFENCE.
Wo aro disposed to give Judge MoA1L1B.
TER tho full benefit Of NIL tho defense ho cau
produce for his extraordinary conduct in tho
SULLIVAN case, aud wo therefore reproduce
tho testimonial sent him by few lawycra.
| Il is rs follows:
| CHICAGO, Oct. 81, 1sTG.-The Hon. 1V. Il. 1kc.
| Anister-siR: The undersigned. slaringlong known
| yons judicial career, toke pleasure In eayng to
you. in View Of the present excitement now being
raiecl against you, that 4csFhoM trprtssing any
opinion az to your rulings upon the tate frid! Of
SULLIVAN, they nereFfAttss 6tfitrt all your decIs-
ions wfre hoatttly ana toase4entioMsly made. and
that ron arc utterly incapable Of Intentional judi
cial wrong, and they isapproye the cali Tint has
been made upon yau, by portion of our citizens,
to fcaIsn your position.
c. Il. LAWRENCE, c. DEcgwtTn,
W. c. GpupY+ l.. j. j. NfsaEN,
Il. +. ATEH, luA o. W,LKEHsoH,
L0rS y. IEwETT, CHARLES IIiTCIIC1EK,
:. u. KaLEs. WILLIAM II. nAnSuM,
n. F. Tu1EY, GE1NuE ". G1AY,
MsLvt1LkW. FuLLER, !. N. Srl1Es,
lso1xEr llEMyKr, CHARLES W. GnluGg.
THOMAS I. WrTunow,
We direct attention especially to that
portion Of the testimonial which we havo
printed in italics. Blcsars. LAWRENCE,
GouDr, and just fifteen others Of tho outiro
Chicago Bar have done nothing mora than
ask Judge MoAI11srgn not to resign, whilo
thousands Of the citizons who arc Just az
much his principals and employers ~
Messrs. LAWRENCE mud GoupY hayo expressed
q desire that ho shall resign. Conceding
that tho abovo-named lawyers havo the same
right to protest against the petition that tito
thousands Of citizens had to prepare 1t, they
have deprived their protest Of all weight and
Influence by purposoly and conspicuous1y
making m exception Of hia rulings in tho
SULLIVAN caso, which is tho point in issue.
II these gentlemen had desired to do Judge
McAL11sTEn real service they would hive
indorsed his rulings in that case. But per-
hal'a they were not willing to stake their
legal reputation on tho assertion TINT Judge
afoA1usTEn waa right when he impressed
tho jury with the idoa that man
mny lawfully carry loaded re-
volver aa habit, and TINT, having
dono so as hnbit, that tcircumstanco relieves
him Of nll suspicion Of nlalico when fe kills
n fellow-crcaturc. Perhaps they also hesi-
tatctl about inaorsing nj proper legal practice
the judicial tolerance in q courtroom of a
mob organized as partisans of tho accused.
1t is also possible that thoy do not caro- to
publicly indorso the iden TINT m armed man
may attack mn unAr1ncd mnn in hia own
home, first knock him down and then shoot
him ~ self.a,efense when tho victim rises to
resist his assaiaut. But, rs tho testimonial
studs, it is in no souso q justification of
Judge MoA1L1srEn's conluctiu tho SULLIVAN
case; nobody las accused him of netting
corruptly, and therefore 1t ,yns not necessary
for these legal gcntlc,non to rush in to tcs-
tify their belief III general that his decisions
aro ''honcstly and consciontiously ,atlo."
In his reply to tho lawyers who signed tl,is
meaningless certificate OF character, Jut]po
MoA111srxn again invites criticism. Ia
should l1sve stopped when he Ind properlv
thanked lis friends for their exprossiona ~
confidence, Instead of TINT. l,o aea;n Rcc1,a
to mislcatl by giving ont tho impression thnt
tho petition for his resignation WIS started
to overawo ana intimidato him in the appl.
cation for bail for Sul11yAH. Judge Neal
LITTER knows, III does everybody elso. TINT
tho bailing Of SULLIVAN has cut no figure In
tho caso. At tho tinlo the petition was pre-
pared nobody had thought of the tailing
Judge AIoAl11srER had adjourned the Grim
inal Court for tho day, and Ind gono about
other business. Nobody hati thought Of lis
reconye,ling court hnati!y to entertain tho
application for bail. Perhaps there was not
fifty signatures to the petition before SUI
1tyAs WIS bailed out and FREQ. The subject
Of bailing waa nut mentioned in thu
petition; it Las not been QUO Of
tho complaints agaipst AloAL11sgsn either
before tho petition was propered or
since several thousand signatures have