The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-01-12
Judge Anderson.

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Judge Anderson.
We ask the Philadelphia Bulletin and
Providence Journal to read the following
article, and do Judge Anderson justice.
Other northern papers ought to do likewise
TO the Editors of the Richmond Dispatch:
II Is apparent that the Richmond Wing IL
preparing the way for the ReddjuSters ESQ.,
called to reconstruct our Court OF Appeals
an idea which their leader, General Ma
hone. seems to have been disposed 10 re-
pudiate in his correspondence with Major
Daniel In the late canvass as TO what he sara
| i'm Winchester. In the late issues OF the
| WIG, besides filings at the president OF the
court, conspicuous only for their spiteiul'
ness. an attack Is made on Judge Ander.
| SOP, based on garbled extract from bis
dissenting opinion in the case OF Latham,
by, &C., Us. Latham, reported IN Both Graf
| tan, page 341, which extract seems TO have
been perverted by a Republican news
paper. In order that justice may be
done TO one OF the purest men who
ever graced the bench, / would
ask Of you to publish the entire text OF what
Judge Anderson did say In the matter con-
corning which he has been so unfairly at
tackled. 1t appears by the statement OF the
case made by the reporter and by the Court
that the plaintiff sued for a divorce from
her husband menSd Ell Mor0 on The
ground OF cruelty and desertiOD. In refer
ring 10 one OF the allegations OF his bill
Judge Anderson, at page 1852. says:
"The plaintiff charged in her bill that be-
fore they went TO DaDvlle the defendant
required her TO conceal her want Of sympa-
thy with his political cause. She says the
shock was great 10 her when she found,
after her marriage, that her husband. whom
as a girl she had admired and honored as
one who had done his duty TO his native
State in arms, and whom she supposed TO
| be still true, had in fact allied himself with
what are known in Virginia as Radicals. &C.
The defendant in his answer AYERS that it Is
not true that the plaintiff was ignorant OF
| his political relation, and he AYERS that
before he sought the office he now
holds he consulted her wishes, and she ad-
vised him to seek it. and that the second
time he met with her she was guest in the
house OF the most decided and outspoken
Republican in all that section Of Kentucky,
then on long visit to his daughter, the
most intimate friend she ever had. This
might all be so-but there is no proof OF it
IN the record-ye 1t is not responsive TO
the allegation Of the bill The Uice charged
was not political, for doubtless honorable
and patriotic men are Republicans; but the
shock and modification to her was to ind
that her husband had not been true that he
| had deserted his friends with whom he had
been con.ederated during the war, and had
gone over to the enemy and joined him IN
waging a more cruel war against them than
the war OF arms whilst arms remained. III
was he perfidy--the moral taint-which she
felt attached to him, and which would likely
exclude him from the best society OF the
State. Ii was the idea that her husband was
not true that caused her the shock and sense
OF humiliation.
"And now it was, when her husband was
about to introduce her at Danville into such
associations, she says that he required her to
conceal her want Of sympathy with bis
course. Such would naturally have been
his with, but he denies il, and II is not sus-
ceptible OF proof"
Who these political associates were is
brought out by the letters OF Mrs. Latham
to her mother-in-law, produced by the de-
| PENDANT. On page 355, in giving her de-
scription OF them, the Judge uses the fol-
lowing language: "She calls them fishing
,oOrmS, and apologies to her motber-in-
law IOT bIit uSc VI tudI SApiCoSiOhs say
tao .P (her highland t-se.t 49,. t.S' s"1
word 1t would seem from this that he had
no better opinion OF them than she had, and
vet he complains that she refused to culti-
yate their good will and friendship"
The Wing will hardly deny as yet, al
though it seems to be rapidly becoming re-
publicanized, that the bulk OF the white
men in Virginia who Joined the Republican
party after the war were not recognized as
belonging to "the best society OF the State"
and that the Confederate soldiers who joined
that party for the purpose OF getting office
were not true to the friends with whom they
had acted, and that the great reason why the
Radical party in The South was so detested
was because IFS action towards the white
people of the South not OF that party was
felt 10 be more cruel than the aoar Of arms
,chi!St arms remained.
All this the Wing as journal and its
present managers as individuals doubtless
have taught in times past. Why, then,
should Judge be denounced now who re-
counts the facts as allegations OF bill, or as
facts OF history known to all? The answer
to my question is doubtless on the lips OF
your readers. The Wing is attempting to
kill two birds with one stone. To repu-
diate the State debt it must get rid of hon.
est judges on the Court OF Appeals, and to
keep together the party Of reputation it
must please the Republican party of the
State. CRITIC.