The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-27
DAILY INTgLLIGRNCER.
Tuesday, January ~. 1886


DISTRICT COURT.
Court convened in Squire's Opera
House on Monday morning. Chief JUS
tice Greene presiding. In the afternoon
the following Grand Jurors answered
to their nsmes and we're sworn In;
Ronald C. Crawford, foreman; David
Graham. Richard Williams, Edmund
Carr, James II Colmau, ] B Hewitt. d
L MCGOWAN. VIM DeShaw, Hugh Ross,
DJ Sackman. Albert II Brooks. Chas
Case, jacob Isaacs, Frank Gutenberg.
FIN Guys and Richard O'Connell. The
following IL the Judges charge:
GENrLRMEx OF THE GRAND JuRx-
The God mentioned In our nations
Declaration OF Independence, pointed
70 in our annual proclamations, and
named upon orr coins-He who both
gives and numbers the days Of oar
political life and weighs our political
worth-has brought 10 TO new year
and to new services. Happy 10 the
man and loyal the citizen who delights
in the love that gives such gifts. Ev-
cry public act OF such . citizen is in
spired by patriotism that, above his
fstherland, venerstes bis Father. God.
Courageously and confidently he hopes
for and awaits the time when, BY the
exhaustive assize Of the Almighty
Judge, criminal dockets shall have
been dispatched once for oil and for
ever. and the nation that Is to be shsll
live without offences and without pun
ishments.
Often it strikes my mind q . fesrful
and lsmentable spectacle, this biennial
sssemDlage Of the Grand Jury to in
quire Of villainiea Many and many .
time have been panied almost beyond
endurance while l have contemplated
society sitting, like . suicidal person,
in chains and bands of criminal law,
shamefully but nesdfnlly restrained
from self-destruction II straight jack.
cts do not cure outrageous disposition.
then no law shall ever cure our rolit.
ical maladies. Never shall We have
relief till He whs 10 mighty not only
to impose law. but TO make and remake
society. shall geo flt to renovate. Good
citizenship IL faith and hope in Him.
Chains are proportional to the strain
they have to bssr. Held down, then.
by such an amazing network Of repres.
sion 40 our fabric of law. whose separ-
ate c.,rds arc being continually repaired
and added to by our Legislatures, and
reapplied and drawn tight by our
Courts. what must the disposition that
requires such incesssnt aud vigorous
attention be. Responsibility Of the
gravest sort rests upon you aad me-
who are met to administer law, tina,
we intslligently spprehend the nature
OF it, aud the situation that makes II
necessary; and il we lack perfect un
derstanding. then that We entrust til,
direction aud control OF ourselves <
some One who indeed has it. In oul
oaths you and I have confessed thai
unaided we are incompetent to do wha,
We are called to do; for. % part Of on,
Qualification. We have solemnly avowsi
practical reliance upon God for holp
Since this 10 20. let not our acts bell,
our words. To Him lot us indeed look
remembering what il written, that Hi
eyes : run 10 and fro throughout ID,
whole earth. to shew Himself strong il
the behalf Of them whose heart 10 per.
feet toward Him."
/ am. gentlemen. . religious man
through and through. always add i,
every company; aud since /. beiul
such, NEST OF necessity appear TO b
such, I do neither desire to affect no
to avoid such IN appearance. Shout,
the appropriate and harmless and i'm
pregnaDle political truth contained il
these few Introductory remarks be re
ceived by you In the same spirit il
which it 10 uttered. you will DO enabled
to exhibit in the discharge Of your du
ties IN elevation Of soul. . power and
purity in action. and. above oil, sigma
success which certainly does not belonl
to the criminal classes.
The general scope Of your Office, gen
tlemen. % 70 inquire Of such crimes AMI
misdsmeanors against either the Unitet
States Or this Territory - have beef
committed within tho bounds Of th,
counties from which you come. Here
in causes to which tho United States j
4 party. you represent the people of tn
United 6tates; IN causss to which th
Territory 10 . party you represent th
people u the Territory.
Even handed. impartial invsstiga
ton. y public servants. - what each o
these great political bodies require 0
you. Under the dissrib1tion OF power
that prevails in this country. you nav,
no authority 10 make Law OF vary from
OF unmake the Law, or eyen define q
announce tho law. None bat thoes 4
whom the people have delegated aucl
trusts can assume them. Eos you III,
Law IL made and declared by other con
etituted organs Of the Government 4