The Russellville Democrat., 1879-10-02
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mean? Judge Engllsh's name is the last in the State, that we think could be coupled with navy sixes." He is eminently man of peaceful and quiet habits. If the Judge has been using navy six, or any one of the thousand sultors in the supreme court, we never heard of it. In jus tice to the chief iastice let the DEM ocRAT unbosom itself-Gazette.
 We'll do itl And in doing so we will freely acknowledge that our for mer article WAS, perhaps, some harsher and b,tterer than it should have been, considering the high po- sition held by the distinguished gentleman. But in extenuation of our severe remarks, we must plead the magnitude of the provocation.
 We don't know that the Chief Jus tice HAS been using navy sixes." Nor do we know that any one of'sthe thousands of the suitors in the Su pfeme Court" has been using them, but We DO know that our Chief Jus ticehas succeeded ln getting his name coupled with navy sizes, notwith- standing his peaceful and quiet hab- it's, to such an unenviable degree that he will not soon hear the last of it. We DO know that all over the State wherever there is desperado, or bully, there is rejoicing over the recent DECISION of the Supreme Court, sent out over CHIEF JUSTICE ENGLisH's signature, ruling that the carrying of navy and army six shootere does not come within the pale Of the law making 1t criminal offense to carry deadly weapons up on the person. And this is the way Judge English has got his name coupled with navy sizes. Only last week at our circuit court we heard a grand jury man say that he knew Of one fellow, who, he expected, would eat, drink and sleep with his six shooter on, as soon as he found that he could do 50 without being indict- ed therefor. Hundreds of other worthless characters will do the same. Peaceable men will be plac- ed at the mercy of these perambula- ting batteries, stalking about the land armed and equipped "for the common defense" What glorious liberty this common defense" is to these bullies. Peaceable men don't want any such privileges, but now that the abominable custom has been granted the bullies of the land again, peaceable men will hunt up their long laid-aside deringers again and the hip pocket will be a necessity for man to protect himself when one of thes navy six cusses is about. It was universally admitted that the law which this unfortunate de- cision now almost kills, was one of the best ever enacted in this State. When Gov, Garland issued his proc lamatiun notifying the public that the law would soon go into effect and calling upon all civil officers to see it strictly enforced, his wisdom was complimented and Arkansas at once was elevated to higher sphere in the estimation of the whole country. Is it. therefore, not very cunsidera- ble provocation to any one who is jealous of the fair name of our State, to see such blow as this dealt to one of the most salutary laws we have ever had; and, that, too, under the spacious argument of allowing it for '.the common defense"
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 We do not question Judge En- glish's honest convictions in render Ing this decision. but we just simply don't want any future Chief Justice for Arkansas who holds that re- markable kind of convictions.
 We don't know that we would have pitched into this matter so soon; but when we saw others trying to ring the present incumbent, who is largely responsible for the obnox- ious decision, in for reelection, as the Ashley County Times was doing, we could not refrain from expressing our self upon the subject
 We have now "uubosomed" our self, and we would like to know what our esteemed contemporary, the Gazette, thinks about it.
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