Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1878-12-26


name of what be is pleased to call
his Saviour.
The sense of decency and good
order OF the respectable people in
The vicinity of Edges work at last
became so outraged ar the lewd
and lustful practices of this foul
tend that he was forced to flee the
country between two suns, but his
followers claim that he will return
again panoplied as a prince and a
God.-Huntingd0n Vindicator.
A Judge Om The Jury System.
(Judge Miller Of the Uni,ed States
Supreme Court before tie Nc,o
York Bar AsSociatioa)
1t reqnires all the vencrat1on
which age inspires tor this mode
(trlal by iury) of dispensing justice,
and all that eminent men have said
OF its value in practice, to prevent
our natural reason from revolving
against the system, and especially,
some Of tie in nyredlents. Ii cult
waited Oriental were told for the
first timo that nation, which
claims to be in advance of all others
in It's love Of justice and Its methods
of enforcing it, required as one OF
its fundamental principles of jurls-
prudence that every controversy
between individuals, and every
charge Of crime against an offender,
! should rc submitted to twelve men
without learning III the law, often
without any other learning, and tnat
neither party to the contest could
prevail until all the twelve men
were of one opinion in his favor, he
would certainly be amazed at the
proposition, Nor have the Europe.
an nations differed much with him
in their estimate of trial by jary. 1t
has been well understood and re-
ceived the careful consideration of
continental jurists for great many
years, without being adopted by
any of them, in the form that we
have it from England. Many at
tempts have been made to introduce
it in some modified shape, but |
think it safe to say that it has not
in its essential Anglo-Saxon feature
net the approval of any peo-
pie except those of that race
In the days when kings exercised
albitrary power, the jury was
among the sturdy, liberty loving
Engllshmen, valuable barrie,
against oppression by the crown.
But ID this county, where the peo-
pie are sovereign, the jury is but
too often the mere reflection of
popular impulse, and the safety OF
an innocent man is more frequent
ly found to depend on the frmness
of the Judge than the impartiality
of the jury. Still it Is probably
wise That no mai shall be convict
ted Of his guilt I am also forced
to aGmlt, however, that even in
civil clses my exre'ieLce ce as Judge
has been much more favorable to
jury trials than it was as a prac
titlcner. And | am bound to say
that an intelligent aud unpreju-
diced jury, when such can be ob
talned, who are instructed in the
law with such clearness, precision
and brevity as will present their
duty in bold reliet, are rarely mis-
taken in regard to facts which they
are called upon to find.
The PEACE OF COP NOT BRAIN-
Work. Thought, however sincere
and deep, is powerless to reach the
deepest springs of truth and can
ISOLATION It seems to me the me-
cessity which in our time is forced
upon thoughtful men-of intense
and continuous study of religiorf,
questions-carries with it danger
of trusting to the intellect for what
it can never give US hy itself. Our
thinking has not done us its fr II
service until it has brought US to
the point where we can be open
and receptive to those great and
uHS pSdhdOlG I6dli'IeS, WuiCu dt
times flash themselves home TO onr
consciousness. The peace of God
passeth understanding.
A poem commences, Under the
willows hes lying" He must be
a tramp. They lie under all sorts
OF trees. One was discovered ly-
ing under an axle tree the other
morning. The owner Of the wagon
made him wheelright round and
leave,
, Children are unconcicus pIliloso-
piers. They refuse to pull to pieces
} their cnjoyincDts to see what they
; arc made of.