The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-18
THE COUNTRY PRESS.
Various Views of tho Country Press on
the subject Of the Anderson Decision.
and the Comments Thereon.
[MOrehouse Clarfon.l

tMOrenOHSe ClarlOn.I
We note with much regret that several
prominent journals in this State are disposed
to abuse and villify the Supreme Court on &C.
count of its failure to convict Anderson, the
notorious felOn and transgressOr. We hearth
ly wish the result had been otherwise. Moth
ing could have transpired that would have
given us more genuine satisfaction than the
Incarceration OF this wretch In the State PEN
itentiary. No one will deny the great wrongs
he has committed, or attempt to shield him
from the infamy with which his name will
20 down to future generations
But all this is neither here nor there. The
case as presented to the supreme Court,
would not permit that august body to confirm
the verdict Of the jury that declared MT. An,
wisely chose TO be non-partisan in the prem
ises a howl Is raised and Unwarrantable abuse
theaped upon it. The people do not appreciate
such, and we are of that number who propose
to reprove and discountenance any such
policy.
[St Landry Democrat
The Natchitoches Vindicator and New Or
leans DEMOCRAT have both been unusually
severe In their administrations upon the SUI
preme Court for their decision In the Ander-
son case. The editors of these respectable
and influential journals are certainly unac-
quainted with the personal histories of the
present judges of the Supreme Court OF Lou
spotted integrity, of unblemished reputa-
lions, who, under no circumstances, would
have become parties to any agreement which
would have brought the judiciary OF the State
into disrepute even IL such agreement had
been necessary to save the government.
Whenever any paper, 1t matters not how re-
spectacle it may be, where or by whom pub
lished, charges that such a man as Judge De-
Blanc land we believe his associates on the
Supreme bench are his peers In every respect)
has been guilty of making any bargain or
performing any act tinged with diShonOr, 1t
asserts what not one man, woman or Child In
Southwestern Louisiana, where his name Is
the very synonym for everything that ia high
toned, chivalrouS and honorable, would be-
Heye.
[Opelousas Courierl
Whilst vein common with all honest citi-
Zens who desire to see the guilty punished,
whether he be a petty thief, or member OF
a Returning Board, guilty OF violating his
their political rights regret the escape q An
derson through the instrumentahtyio OF tne
Supreme Court, yet il the Judges OF that
court were honest in their convictions, ana we
believe they were, they have given evidence
TO the world Of the possession OF qualities
that should distinguish all judges independ-
ence of character and moral courage; FOL
surely, never was there decision uttered by
any tribunal that brought greater disappoint-
ment and disgust to the people than this one
has to the political friends OF the State admin
iStration. a...s
When this prosecution was first begun, OF
rather when Attorney General Ogden first
mooted 1t, there were not wanting Democrats
prosecution unwise b..eause impolitc. We
were not of these We on the contrary ap-
plauded the action of the Attorney General
we encouraged the work upon which he was
about to enter; we said it was not prosecutor
to prosecute man charged with the commls,
sion of a crime against the State; we asked
that the accused be tried according to law
and if found guilty that he be punished. Il
not, that he be liberated. He has been tried
ton, high resolve and ability of the Attorney
GeneraL-he has done his duty fully, faith
fully and well. The result OF the trial was