, 1879-05-03

y noid as to appoint Vanderbfls's cRI, son-iu
| 'Aw r. Receiver OF the road.
+,as ane %sang.es that took place in his court II
W. sn9en ~ ua5s we're simply revolving. His yenal
own presence. be joining iu the dialogue IL ,
most vigorous ray Once he had the pleas
Wy " nearing = personal friend OF his tell
] Vow naV,d dudley Field bad offered him fthe
~ lt'JGu2 & eov1o to influence Barnard IN favor
! meeting Barnard afterward, told him OF il,
anu then went on to admit that be had some.
| times agreed to influence Judge Barnarii t.on
tae SUE OF right" To all Of this be Is said 70
have Ia Mstenea In singular silence. But usually
which were charging him With corruption, asked
wnnesse. the most extraordinary Questions
aoout private matre1s,-vhether for fnstanre-
] they mad not met such and such persons at such
ottlse, AND such and such things had not been
from the bench that other persons had had do.
tect1Yes watching him, and now he had detec-
tfves watching them. uc had to submit to
some pretty rough treatment sometimes out
side OF bis court as we'll as inside. IN one order
judiciary, ne was named as \ member of a
"conspiracy with the Vanderbilt interest 10 an
Injunction worthy OF himself, bur Issued by an.
other Judge Of the Supreme Court.
THE SORT OF ORDERS He ISSUED.
Lawyers still mention one Of his orders In the
Black Friday cases a. one Of the most astound-
ing ever made. Jay Gould and his trm Of
Gould ct A., instead OF being arraigned for
trial, sought aud obtained from Barnard a1 in.
junction prohibiting their victims from pressing
their claims against them anywhere but before
him! With one more instance ot these judicial
monstrostties, | must stop. Jnts was when
Fisk and Gould Ind watered the Eric stock bY
about 100000 shares. They had sold 1t at
about 20 to bear the Market and bad run the
price down to about IS, For some purpose they
wanted soon after to bull the market, aud so
they gravely stated to Judge Barnard that there
we're some doubts as to the legality Of the issns
(which they had made) and asked to be allow ed
to buy IT back with the money OF the Erie Road
at any price less than par. Barnard did as he
was asked, Of course, and they ran the price up,
using Erie money to buy bacE 1t higher figure
issued.
Why MEN FEARED HIM.
). It is easy to see the humorous side Of these
things now, but they were grave enough then.
This man, and other Judges like him, had enor-
nous power. They could ruin almost any man
who Incurred their enmity. Men we're afraid to
attack them. and they we're Gssven from Office
only after eampaign full Of discouragenent
and defeats. It was easy enough to join IN the
hue aud cry when the ring Vas in full flight,
but to attack It 1hen it was At the hight Of Its
power took great courage. Tilden, In his IA
nous letter to the I'7nes, gives description,
which can easily believe, of meeting early in
the campaign between himself and George
Jones, the owner, and Nr. Jennings, the editor,
Of that paper. They met almost By stealth IN
basement room in the City-Hall, and the editor
and publisher, who had begun a newspaper~war
upon the ring, and were just beginning to real
ize that such Judges as Barnard might be used
to- crush their journal out of existence, were
pale and trembling.
Like many such men, Ba-pard seems to have
had an afectionate and cultivated family. Ris
wife died Two years after his conviction, Of q
broken heart, and since then he has devoted
himself to the education Of his children. In pub
lie he is said to have maintained an Appearance
OF indifference to the stigma resting upon him,
while in prisate he often gave way to bursts Of
grief- Alas! why do s1eh men live without
thought Of the future until they have laid up
bitter pust{ ROUNDABOUT,