Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-06-04
WITHERIsG SETTLEMENT.
IN insurer From Mr.. Goldsmith.

PORTLAND, Or, june i, 1856.
To the editor of tie Oregon:an:
| have always refraincd from ventil
atlns private grievances through the
public press, or in DONG SO, to mention
names, but the attack upon me bv Jus
tice, in his communication of Nav 81,
compels me in self-protection to ask
your indulgence for once, and if this
communication hurts the parties inter
ested, | have the justification that they
provoked me to it. They have not hes
itated TO use my name freely, hence /
claim the same privilege.
/ can conceive no greater evil for a
community than to be afflicted with a
syndicate of lawyers, who on technical
grounds Try to upset titles to land, and
thereby rob the people of their home
stead property; and when such SYN
dicate is assisted and supported in its
nefarious schemes by some Of the
Judges of the bench, from motives
which the law forbits me to mention,
then, indeed, the country is in a most
deplorable condition: for to-day it may
be 1 who am robbed, and tomorrow it
may be my neighbor; and if the people
allow such a state of affairs to exist,
the time will surely come when we ali
will have to suffer for it, for "Justice,
outraged, cries to Heaven"
My family and myself have been un-
justly deprived of our property by a
syndicate of lawyers, composed of
Willis Il Seneca Smith, and Gllliland,
book-keeper of the First National bank
of this city, aided and abetted in this
worst of judicial outrage by two Of the
judges of the supreme bench, one Of
whom has already been retired by an
outraged public, and / hope the other
will follow. But not content with the
wrong done, they, like certain similar
class engaged in like work, set up the
hue and cry of s'stop the other man.
SO as todraw attention in another direc
lion. "Justice, in his communication,
says that it is my desire to get another
man than Waldo elected to the supreme
bench, etc. In this for once he speaks
the truth. [ do desire Utmost heartily
and ] can conceive of no greater ser
vice | could render to the people OIL
Oregon than to succeed in my desire
When he says ] am willing to sacrafct
all other candidates on the Democratic
| ticEat RI cooura tbo aioo+;o,, &c S,4.oL /. =.
he prevaricates most outrageously ant
measures me by his own standard.
In his letter "Justice" is also pleased
to call the locks and canal ''Barney
Goldsmith's lock and dam swindle,''
l am willing to leave it to the peopl,
of Oregon whether there was any swim
die in the building of that grand work
I claim that in building the canal anc
locks | have done more good to th
state and to the people of Oregon thai
all the Willises, Seneca Smiths, Gill
lands and Waldos, their ancestors an,
all their branches and connections hav
done or ever will do.
TO those who have no knowledge Q
the "true inwardness'' of the Bale
$ claim matter it may sound harsh to us
q such plain language, but to what cor
clusion can any fair-minded man com
when property is taken away, amount
!. ing to many thousands of dollars, fror
r the owners and given to other partic
and the court which takes it away, i
!, plain violation of the constitution:
: provisions, fails to file any opinion c
give any reason why the parties inte
s ested were divested of their propert,
For the first time in the history of OF
o state the court fails to file an opinio
or give any reason for reversing forme
well considered adjudications. Let I
hope that it may be the last time th;
a court of this state is guilty of it.
o Respectfully, B. GOLDSMITH.