Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-23
THE TRIUMPH OF RIGHT.
THE CHAINS OF DEsPOTIsM BROKEN.
OF the supreme Courts Recent
Decision.

October Is, 1880.
10 the Editor of the Lancaster INTELLIoENCEE:
GENTLEMEN: Your noble endeavors to
to maintain your right to criticize the
judiciary when it does wrong deserves the
united praise of the country, and say of
the world. Your great victory will be re-
membered hundreds of years hence. 1t
has instilled new life into lawyers and has
raised them above slavery to the Judiciary,
and has made liberty something more
than mere name as it has been SO long.
You have served the ends of civil
liberty by your gerat victory, as re-
ported in the New York Sun, more than a
hundred battles could have done. Your
victory has flashed across the wires and
has awakened anew all over the land the
spirit that uttered those memorable words:
"We hold these truths to be selfevident,
ETC., etc.,
Pennsylvania, over 100 years ago, sent
forth those words, but through the acts Of
some of the Judiciary they were fading
away and becoming mere idle words
But Pennsylvania again, after hundred
years of our history had elapsed, in life
stirring sounds, peals forth her thunder,
breaking the chains of judicial despot SIN,
proclaiming to America that man is free
again. For that blessing thanks to your
supreme court and to the noble judge who
stood by the right. The supreme court Of
Pennsylvania decides: "It is now the
right and duty of a lawyer to bring to the
notice Of the people, who elect the judges,
every instance of what he believes to be
corruption or partisanship."
How differently that reads from the fol-
lowing: just before Judge Barnard was
impeached in this city the Legislature of
New York made a law to punish a man
as for a crime, ifhe said that judge did a
wrong. But just as the governor was
about to sign the bill its nature was dis
covered and the bar of New York pro-
tested against it and the governor re-
fused so sign it.
Almost every lawyer knows that fraud
and perjury are common in our judicial
proceedings, thereby apparently dcceiving
our judicial officers into granting orders
Of arrest in civil actions, depriving the
victim Of his constitutional liberty for
years, or of his property.
The pretext is SO apparent that the late
Chancellor Kent said that to allow such
recovery to stand should shock the COM
mon sense of justice, but when judges will
disregard law and right and oppress the
victim, it amounts to judicial slaughter
and the victim cannot help himself.
But thanks to you and your supreme
court, the remedy now is plain and a law
yer now cannot be imprisoned Or dis
barred because the judge desires to stife
all knowledge of his own wrong. We here
say that you deserve great praise and pro-
pose to raise fund to subscribe to your
paper, so that:a copy may be sent to every
club and public institution. enclose you
81, and send me a copy for year. I will
remit the balance when l see your terms
as printed in it. If you have copy with
the opinion in it Of the court, please send
INC one Or more, as want to raise fund
for.the above purpose. hand you a copy
Of my paper, which you are at liberty to
use. am contendiug for the public good
and will not submit to wrong. All this
will soon plainly appear.
\ monument should he raised in Phil
adelphia, to cost not less than 5000, 900, to
commemorate the grand victory gained
second time in Pennsylvania over despot.
ism, and the worst form Of it, for such is
judicial despotism. l shall try to raise
funds by popular subscription of five
cents each to erect such monument.
Yours very truly,
H. A. FROST.