Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1885-07-10
THE COURT OF APPEALS AND
STA UNION,

The Court of Appeals adjourned on Saturday
la t. to meet at Staunton in September. The term
here was an unusually short one, due to the fact
of cases not being ready for hearing The rule OF
the court u.s. that all costs must be prepaid or the
cause cannot be heard and the stringency OF money
matters prevented compliance with this rule by
litgants. Nearly all of the Judges with their fam
lilies. yet in the city. and will remain during
movement is on foot by the Judges Of the court to
have one term of the court abolished, and have on
Iy two terms a year. In the event OF the success
of this movement, it is likely that the term al
Staunton will be abolished, and all the business OF
the Valley transferred to the court at this place
We would then have session OF from three to
four months. WytaeUU.e Dispatch.
The above was published in our Wythe-
vile contemporary Of last Friday. On the
same day. the VINDICAToR contained an
an appeal to our county Supervisors to en-
large the plan Of their new building SO as
to accommodate the court in such way
as to make stay in Stanton desirable
to its members. Our Wytheville cotem-
porary is mistaken in supposing that the
| ''term at Stanton will be abolished"
That term is fixed by law and cannot be
omitted by the court, but the court can
in effect abolish it; indeed, it very nearly
did so at its last sitting here. The court
met on the 10Th of September having bus
| mess enough before it to occupy its time
| for seven weeks. Instead of staying, it
adjourned on October 9Th and took the
cases before it to Richmond. 1t can do
this, and more, at any time and thus in
effect do away with the Staunton term.
The accommodation which the court has
here are cramped and disagreeable and its
library limited. Taken all altogether the
presence of the Court of Appeals brings
| not far from 5000 per annum to Staun-
ton, and some effort should be made to
| have it's terms here of reasonable length.
| If the county would add another story to
its new building it could get $3.50 rent for
it which is 10 per cent. on So 500; in that
addition every arrangement could be pro-
vidsd for the convenience of the court
including large library room in which
the -esent Law Library, owned by the
Stanton bar, could be united with that OF
the court, TO the Improvement of both-as
the court has authority of law TO expend
$500 per year in adding to its library. 1t
appears to Us that if those most interes
ted would show some enterprise in this
matter, the accommodations Of the court
could be made SO acceptable without COS!
to any one, that there would be no more
desire for, or talk Of abolishlng StauntoI
as long term point. If the county vii
rot accept this opportunity, then the city
ought to do it.
The YINDIoAToR, with a curious yet char
acteristic Bourbon obliquity in logic and
morals, pleads against the penalties denounc
ed against Bourbon crimes the reduction O.
the Congrs ssional representation of the South
ern States] instead of condemning thos'
crimes. and demanding their surcease.-
Lttc1tnao,ad Wig.
| The Whid seems to have fallen, inextri
cably, into the slough Of Bourbonism. l
is loss to progressive journalism fo
our esteemed cotemCorary, which nov
aud then shows an appreciation of th'
fact that the world moves, to be falling
back on the bloody shirt. intimidation
bull.dozers, and the rest of the ancien
Reconstruction issues. At the last Presi
Dental election not a black man wa
shot, mobbed, or inundated throughou
the broad territory occupied by the United
States; not even Republican journa
could discover a case until after Blain'
was announced to be defeated. Ia such
peaceful, bloodless election, where are W
to find the cri mes Of which to demand tn
surceass? The American Nation canno
afford to guarantee the Republican vut
on the color line as shown in the census
| That vote must remain subject to the sam
mutations as the vote of other political OIL
CARNATIONS. It will probably be regulate
by the price of hack-hlre on election days
the Democratic ticket, and the fact tina
the Republican party is now lying fat G
its back, out of power and out Of fund
; Ali these 9. ates manliFe reascn.s;,,st ha [
taken into consideration before the Nation
will undertake the expensive job Of put
ting the black race in q hack and carrying |
it to the polls to enable the Republican
vote to measure even with the census re-
turns. The Wing often pleases US With the |
fresh and quaint way in which it puts |
new ideas, but when it undertakes to take |
the ancient Negro scarecrow and set it up !
in the political field, with its straw insides |
and threadbare outsides, it undertakes a