National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-11-30
SOME SOUND SENSE.
Crimes aud Criminal JudEes-yyhat sensi.
bic People should DO.

To the Editor Of TirE RErunLIcAS.
When Justice. in all her majesty. is as
sailed and threatened In the upright discharge Of
her duties It seems that II is time that the people
should. rs one man, speak out In her defense. II
matters not who the criminal may be, nor what
his crime may be, Il he is In the custody Of the
law he should be given the privileges guaranteed
him by the law. aud no more. 1t is no trining
matter to threaten n Judge in the discharge Of his
duties, even though there may be nothing IN the
menace The threat is the same from the writers
TO Judge Cox as from Napoleon III. or the Car OF
Russia And any reader OF history, especially that
OF the French Revolution, knows that the mob ty-
rant Is the worst OF all tyrants II the trial OF
President Garfold's assassin had ended, and the
accused had been declared not guilty on false in.
strctons of the court u would have been time
then for ccnsurc, but never
FOR THREATS oP VENGEANCE.
No one who knows the first principles Of the law
can rightly accuse the judge before mentioned of
any net in the assassins trial savorng of mafcas-
ance or unfairness. Right here 1t may be said tint
comparatively few criminals are punished; hut It
should be remembered that every one charged
with committing any grave otTensc is tried by
jury, who are the judges OF the law aud the .cvi.
dencc aud terminals escape the people the jury,
arc at fnult. not the law or the Judge. There Is
another thing that should be remembered: Every
person who threatens Judge on the bench or nd
vocatcs mob law Is n criminal. Would any limo.
cent person desire to be tried 10y such persons and
In such manner rs those persons propusc2 II
mob law once gets q start no one can tell where II
will end. only one week ago man was taken by
a mob and told to confess the crime OF which he
was accused and. on asking
WHAT WOULD ne DONE WITH HIN
II he did so, and being promised that he woud be
taken back TO jail and tried according to law, he
was when he so confessed, hanged by the mob.
There was not positive proof thathc was the Grim
inal. Many innocent men have thus suffered.
Circumstantial evidence will not always do. Sew
cral years ago German came TO this country. lie
took LODGINGS in n city with q man and his wife
| He did his own cooking, lie could not UNDER
| stand English. The man and wife often quarrelcd
| One day while the German was cutting his meat
with II carving-knife the man and wife qunrrelgd
nnd the woman ran TO the German, sno,chcd the
| knife from his hand and stabbed her husband to
| the heart The German saw the man was hurt,
| and ran to him and pulled the knife ont of the
| wound. As soon as the wOmnn saw what was
| and screamed "Murderl" The police came us
| the German held the man aud bloody knife IN his
| hands. That poor German was hung for the crime
| that the woman confessed on her death bed
| NoBs ALWAYS ACT BEFORE THEY JUDGE
| and In passion SO long MS there are laws and
courts they should be respected. 1t is very easy
| for n man who seeks notoriety and who has found
the same to Judge aud condemn another at siOO
an hour. 1t is not m easy or thankful thing to
be Judge under all circumstances II Is certainly
| cuough for n Judge to be worried by the disputes
| of counsel aud the harpings of demon by day,
| without breaking up his rest Mt night and hinder.
| ing him from looking up points of law-or judges
do not think they know II abby trying TO terriy
| and yilliiy him. The assassination OF James A.
Garfield was great calamity All good people
grlcvc over II. But, could President Garfield know
| To-day that a Judge had been nssaied MS has the
judge OF his murderer, he would condemn IT, TIL
speech to the mob, and let the law take its course
| The crime of the Presidents assassin disgmced
rebukes to Judge Cox will bring disgrace upon the
| American people. FAIR PLAY.