The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-09-27

The R92G1uSE6fp 1880 1yyssssss~e s
- s. Of Appeals.
,rhs fact has been. well known to g
x,,n Il, for 4 long time, though concealed
and denied by them unit, lately, tina. one o.
tna leading purposes of the Readiusterss'
sho,,,d they ever get the power, would q pe
to revolutionise the Constitution anu IT. $.
model the Judges Of the Court OF 4 Ppes. y
OF the State. When the fact was Guar Gu y
an N 4ssEY some weeks ago as one OF MS ,i''
u,terar,ces In his speech vt Bath Courthouse
he and his friends tried to wire CUT OF II ''''.
III IL was fastened upon them by the moss
indispa;able testimony OF gentlemen pre-
sent. When thus cornered aud driven 70
she wall. they became more bold apd des'
nera,e in their declarations; and now we
see that In MAHoSE's speech at Halifax
court on Monday last he,1 too, was driven
10 the wall by Colonel McKINEEY r. In In ms
mastery speech, and, as reported by the
correspondent of our afternoon contempo-
rary, was made to give utterance 70 the LOT
lowing boastfui declarations: -.,. ~ I,
THAT we will certainly control Inc next
LEGISLATURE, and we will have no increase o.
faxes. and we will repeal the McCuhoch
,iu. and 20 to the courts with such men as
william j. Robertson, Conway hooinson'
and James Alfred Jones, and not with EAR
son Massey"
Here, then. we have it from the Grand
Moguls own lips that II they get the power
in the next Legislature they intend to "re-
adjust" the Court OF Appeals OF the state
by turning out its present unsullied mem.
bers and placing new members on the oench
to reverse the past decisions OF that hlsh
court.
What will all the fair-minded people OF
yjrninia-all men who respect law ana
honor and the high courts OF the states
think of such corrupting and revolution
ary declaration rs this of MALONE and MAS
sEY? All will remember that when LIN
COLIN was elected President a majority OF
the Supreme Court Of the United States
was found to be Democratic, and one OF
the first OF the most infamous acts OF the
Federal Congress was to pass law, not 10
remove or abolish any member OF that
curt (Which they could not have done I'M
ter the SOnSIilutIoHJ, put ~ et''" " >
number OF the court, so as to give ma
jority 10 the Republicans for political
purposes. That act to subvert the highest
courts OF the country, and reverse for politi-
cal purposes the highest judicial decisions,
was pronounced Infamous and revolutionary
by the best minds and purest characters in
the world, and is to this day, and ever will
be, the darkest blot on the last twenty years
OF Radical administration. But was it as
corrupt, dangerous, and subvarsive OF all
free and constitutional government as the
one announced as in contemplation by the
rinsleaders of reconstruction, MALONE and
MASSEY?
There is one thing we are certainly sure
of in this matter, and that is that not one
OF the distinguished members OF the Vir-
sina bar mentioned by MALONE and Mas
sEY would ever consent to accept the high
est judicial honor in the world on the hu-
initiating terms involved in MAHoNE's sug-
gestion. But the people will never subject
these eminent gentlemen to that humilia-
ton, nor to the temptation OF yielding TO
dishonor. /