Daily Republican., 1879-04-23
Thsss Parsisan .Jury Panels

self. In order to get an argument 1t
has secured the nation all over to find
cases where United States Marshals
have chosen partisan juries or rather
iuriss purpossly to convict, and it H.
nsily fell back upon the poor persecu
ted, despisea Democrats Of the South
who it says are sent fr, m one Circuit
Court to arolher, hundreds Of miles
from their homes, to be tried for politi-
cal ofsnc-s, trumped up by lying ne.
grses, before iuriss sworn to conviot.
We thought it would come to this, be-
cause we knew that the "Gazetts" al
ways keeps q collection Of such out
riges on hand for such occasions-out-
RACES, such as the wicked lying mig
g.rs" numbering poor inofsnsive white
D 'mocrats, taking possession Of the
p Ills and bulldozing the Democrats
away from them ;stuffing the ballot boxes
With tissue paper ballots and electing
soltd dec, ,ations OF "niggers" to Con
grsss, while the poor white Democrats
on account of these terrible persecu-
tions are fleeing from the South
and hunting q home as exiles in a
strange land. Oh, those wicked lying
"niggers !" Not satisfied with murder
ing the Democrats aud carrying the
elections by force and fraud are now
packing the United States juries and
sending the few Democrats left to the
penitentiary. This may be a little
strongly drawn, but 1t is sug-
grstively true after reading the
"Gazett-'s' article. The editor
must have smiled when he was writing
it and wondered IL there was any body
Of commoA average intelligence silly
enough to believe such balderdasn
We must give the Gazette" credit for
not denying the partisan aspect Of the
juries chosen for the May term. ts.es
1t plainly, and We are sure it does not
approve Of it, but it puts it lit .le 100
mid when it says thati: occurred mere
ly by accident. Our neighbor weuld
have gained more respect from we'll
thinking people if it had come out and
Condemned the juries, and those who
put their names in the wheel. 1t was
no accident that eight Democrats and
one Republican were chosen from this
city, while the great majority of our
eading foremost business men are Re
publicans. Ii the Levy Courtnan from
the country, who chose the juries from
Wilmington, had been blind. folded and
started up Market from Front, with
the purpose of stopping at nine bust
ness places, and every place he stopped
at summoned the proprietor az a Jury.
man, tive thirds OF the nine would have
been Republicans, unless attracted by
the odors of drinking saloons he had
stopped only in such places, then tn.
whole nine Ould have been Democrats
This how emer il merely speculative, and
shows that there must have been
deep resolved design in the choice OF
the Wilmington jurymen at least.
The Gazette" is mistaken in
saying that we denounced the Jury
system some months ago. We only
made OF lection to the manner in which
jurirs were selected, that in many cases
it was we'll known what the verdict
would be in advance by the feelings
and opinions of the juries before hand
and when juryn.n we're selected Oh
account OF their yielding na:ure-easily
svayed by the eloquent bat subtle
words Of an attorney, and prepared
to render 3 popular verdict, it was then
that We iRtimated that justice would
be better subseived by the abolition Of
the entire jury system, and the bench
of Judges sitting as a jury be allowed
to decide the cases. We have not
sTerved from that opinion yet, and tn.
choosing OF the present partisan jury,
We are sorry to say, has . tendency to
bring trials by jury still farther into
contempt. We wish it to be distinctly
understood that we are in favor ,f trial
by jurits-intelligent, consc; sntious
juries, not chosen because they are
Democrats, or because they are Repub.
licans, but chosen to do in. tice, and es-
pecially juries that will render verdicts
unintlut need by the specous pleadings
Of an eloquent attorney, ju,ies that
will not hesitate to say that a white
man wLo kills neg is as guilty OF
murder as negro is that kills a white
man. II we cannot | ave the y kind Of
juries, then let the jury system be
abolished, and let the b nch Of judges
stand in their places AMI Judge right
eously between man and m N. Is there
any wloIg in tlis, fi,nd "Gazrtte ?"
A LEADING Dan ocrat and member
OF the | ar said 10 Us ", terday that