The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-10-19
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- Grand Jury or Wafauga.

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-. = Grand Jury OF Wnfausa'
IRON the Piedmont lS. CD Press.I
1,,dre cloud. i'm his charge to tue grand
,,rr at Watauga court, said:
gentlemen of the jury am glad 10 "
s,th Won In the good old county OF WatauSa'
INC law requires that the grand Jury y.
composed Of good men OF moral character
who have paid their tax. we can nav ~
assurance that the grand jury WIZ Periolni'
their duty unless it IS composed Oh ihoia''
character men. You have got pretty s.n W.
try and should feel proud OF II. ny s; n
o"~ered with pretty ivy and oeauti-
f,,l observation-disclosures, ana mol
hec,nse the sparkling rivers ana creeks
~ conrs;np down the. hillsldes ana
IN the crass-covered valleys. NO,
~. ,Scse Int YOU have pretty country
he No. Won have good citizens. The county
;s n,,c, indebted to the grand jury and
nthar officers OF the law for its character.
Thcv give tone to the county. 90 into a
comfy where the Jury do not perform their
duty, and that will be spoken OF as oaa
Mace why. NV dear sirs. they will talk
ahont It n hundred miles off:-so they Will.
Laws are intended TO regulate society. l on
are a good-looking set OF men; you see u
the grand Jury does not do its duty tue Jaws
cannot properly be administered: All the
people In Wasausa look very welt. Every
man Is bound and necessarily compelled 10
fulfil the laws. Noperson has protection 1or
life or property except which the law
gives. therefore it should be respected. An,
yes, but it's mighty hard to respect some OF
the laws made by the last drumhead Legs
Iature docking towards the late representa-
tives). II there were no laws, the bls' strons
men would do Just what they pleased with
ali the little and weak men. The good charac-
ter OF YOU Jurors depends upon the way
in which YOU perform your duty during
this court. 1t is creditable to Watauga
county that ven have such small docket
only about forty-four cases on State
docket and thirty-one on civil docket.
This speaks we'll for the county. This Is the
smallest county in circuit. Why, down
wonder in Rowan on Surry county it is four
times that much. Here we do not have but
one week court, according to that know-it-
all Legislature but when we get down
here to Sparta-yes, Sparta; stop right thar
now, for that name has got to be changed.
You see, down in Allegha-Alleghany.
That's the tail-end Of the whole thing. I'll
tell 'em all about it when get down there.
Well, down there they have two weeks
court. Now, want to caution you against
this. No man or lawyer takes deception to
When you see two Legislators taking sides
with each other you may know that there IS
something wrong. Now want to tell you
about illegal voting. This is wrong. Down
in my county (Surry) there were two men-
Dobson and Brower-candidates for com.
missioner. The one on our side claimed
that he was elected, and the Democrat
claimed that he was elected. Don't you see
there were illegal votes? One proved that
the other had received thirty fraudulent
votes. and the other proved that the one
had received sixty stuffed votes. trleo
NV best to get the grand jury to lndlct the
whole set of them; but, don't you see, some
of the Jury was Republicans and some Dem
ocrats, and they agreed to not tell on each
other. Now, don't you see they were not
rood moral-character men? / caution you
against any such conduct as that thar jury
is guilty Of. / beg and deplore OF you, for
the sake OF the good name Of Watauga
county, to stop such mischief. Stop right
thar. There is disposition on the part OF
the grand juries, the Legislature, the news
papers, and everybody to favor lawlessneSs,
and this is what makes the people
SO bad. The war, the last Legislature,
the public press, and the politicians have all
Joined together, and work or: connive at
what is right-they are responsible for
nearly all the mischief. will give it as my
opinion that crime is on the increase. My
experience since the war shows that there
is great need and much room for doing bet
ter. A great many OF the offences that are
now only q fine and imprisonment will be
penitentiary offences before long. This
will have to be done in order to improve
society. / think the next Legislature or
the one following it will fix this matter all
right.
According to law there are four capital
offences: Murder, rape, arson, and bur-
elary. II we had laws like those OF our
forefathers just after the Revolutionary
war there would be but little DEMONSTRATING
and man-murdering. The people would
be better-so they would. Murder is the
taking of life with malice and forethought.
When man kills another with deadly
weapon-a. gun, pistol, or big club-the
law presumes and pronounces 1t MUIR
der. Then in lily litigation it is for the ac-
cused to prove to the contrary. Man
slaughter is when one man kills another IN
self-defence-withou malice or premedlta-
ton of the act-this is attributed to the
weakness OF mankind when in the heat OF
passion, : Arson is the burning
of a house in the nighttime. Burglary
is to enter a mans house In the night
time and carry off his property or 90
other damages. To burn barn, stable,
or any other house Is capital offence
very high offence. The next fmng
which this court will call your attention
TO, and over which it has Jurisdiction, Is
periury and forgery. The Legislatures
have led thousands and thousands to
commit this sin against the law. l do
not speak OF political parties; for a Will
swear for 3, and B will swear for A, and
away it goes. l want you to watch out
for these scoundrels who are always putting
false names to papers, notes, and such.
Stop right thar now !! Let me tell you what
these dirty fellows in Caldwell have done.
They have changed the name OF Turkey
cock mountain, and now call it H-i-oe-l-b-r-i.
ten. The last one OF them should be in-
dicted. Now, watch out-watch out,
SAVIOR some Of them loye-struck puppies
will be running up here to Watauga and
change the name of the Grandfather noun
tain. Then, don't you see, here'll be the
Grandmother mountain standing alone
without companion, just like the Turkey
hen mountain in Caldwell. This is all
wrong. It's got to be stopped. Indict
them; bring them into court. Let me tell
YOU, q man came from Virginia to my town
h .saI n bod N