The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-26
vo.r.,.e-or. MINI. s,rr. q. 1859
.'oATH" ON PUBLIC MIN.
Among the sharpest and wisost

lu6ts LIS AAoNoEACOA AO+Oa~AVo ~sS
pertinent and instructive, and his
general observations and inferences
excellent A recent letter ON the
killing Of Terry by Deputy Mar.
shall Nagle is one of his most stri-
king and impressive contributions
to journalistic literature. It en-
bodies truths proper to be set be-
fore the public eye in regard to
the actions and ambitions of men
Of wealth and high position, and
the events which give them fame
or notoriety. We copy few pas
saRes which We think will repay
the readers attention 49,.
Speaking of Terry's fate he OBJ
serves:
..:rhis is where the egotist who ahoots
or stabs logically will wind up, if there
bs no Interpolation in his fate. Ours
is the only land l have ever heard Of
where judges have been slain for their
onief justice was killed by y pike in the
hands of an lrishman, III Robert Em-
NETS brief revolt. = \ The fact that
the United States government has to
order its marshals from tho office Of
the attorney general to protect It's
highest judges from assassination. or
insult which is intended to he the pre-
lude of it, is a terrible commentary up
- n,ki
is not considered abroad with reference
to its East or West, center or frontier,
but 90 one country responsible partlo"
niarly to the federal standard and au:
thority. In this ljGht tho whole life OF
Judge Terry has been = murderous re-
flectiOn upon tho entire country, q
blow at our public credit and civiliza-
tion. This man set himself down be-
fore the law to ascertain just what 1t
was, and how men should behave uu-
der . legal fabric of society. Plac-
ed upon the bench, lie wAa 40 much In
love with violence, 50 anxious to re-
move a political opponent by crime. 50
sensitive not to his Judicial name bnt
to his extravaQant inner oR0tlsm and
love of blood, that he resigned his
place for the pleasure of killing man
who was in every human qualification
his superior and WAS his full equal in
courage. in that Droderick went forth
to die, aud Terry went forth only to
kill. Tie public we'll diacriminxted
between the two men, md set the
name of DrOdevick hOnOrably near the
cornerstone Of their state fabric. The
managing duelist. with all his misera
ble pnrapl,ernalia of seconds. bmiiies.
hair TRIGGERS and tricks Ut the code.
was allowed hy Providence, or natural
selection. to live s'cng. surviving the
crime 3r years. In that interval what
must he haye sufr"r"h in hia bandit ma
ture from modification. vindicttve-
the sense that however many per'o
he o6uld kill there was public opin'
ion he never could overtake, and new
er plunge his knife into"
Our critic does not spare Senator
Sharon:
II will nat d.. however. to omit Sen-
atOr Sharon, who forms the third Of
thu trio of criminals tn this case.
There VA gnan whose licentiOn0 dis.
honesty was squsl to Terry's murder.
inc dishonesty. Trrry was avaricious
to take anOther's life under nearly all
circumstances; he did not differ much
from the average assnssin In soma Of
tho hard drinking sections. who. like
\ hvena sh., has once tasted human
feah. cannot let more than two or
three years pass without whipping ont
his pistol and killing another gentle
Dan."
Concerning Justice Fields an
bition to be a Presidential candi-
date Gath remarks
Field has been silly In presumiDg
that he ever had tho lesst chance to be
pomina, ed for President Of tho Cnited
states. or all those Judges nominal.
ed by Lincoln he has had the least
chance Of any to bo tho candidate Ut
any time. Davis and Miller have had
the better chances, but neither OF them
over had main chance. All the four.
think, unless Davis be excepted. had
aspirations to be chief justice. There
occurs no change in the corporal ele-
ments OF q man after he becomes a
Judge. The suppositiou to that he will
modify his ambition after that: to the
equitable character of his office, and
not expose his court to the animad-
versions Of tho public by seeming to
have more ambition than the fustice in
his eye. A friend Of Judge Field
recently said to me that he sympathy
I'd with that Justice on account Of the
great mental worry he had 1ufEered fol
some time past. 6rst from disappoint'
ed Presidential expectations, and next
from bodily antioip pations of insult and
perhaps death from Terry AMI his f.
male. It rather weakens our view OF
the Intelligence of q justice of the su-
preme court that he 50 fondly cou.
oeives himself within reach Of the
Preside ntial office. when evory one car
see that in the nature Of things he has
no chance whatever to be taken Nd BY
\ popular nominating convention
Tho ambition to proceed from th<
bench to tho Presidency IL not new
ono, but tho puniahment Of tho ambi-
tion il eqnally old. I"
Summing up the whole affair
our critic concludes:
I'm tho mortar Of . iuet chemistry
the lust OF Sharon aud the bl0odthirst.
iness Of Terry should be beaten togeth
OF, and for the third Ingredient adj
tho wandering AMI Eeatless woman
who forgets her marriage settlement
and IL out in search of male prey; tn,
result is gunpovdel. In this combina
tion Sharon was the charcoal, Terr,
tho sulphur, and the female the saltpe
ter. We need not be aurprised ut ex
; plosions in any society where the sadu
cor. the murderer carrying arms habit
ually, and the advonturesa are pf0wl
ing separately, each upon a aslash er
rand, In the shades of night. Sudden
ly they come together where street
meet in a crowded city, and somethi in
exceeding q cat eight on the fence IL Il
once heard. Pistols 20 of. teeth NJ
act. taits are in the air. Hence tn
trio we have described. in their triar
Rulation. are Of no more considerable
in n.turo's balance than two tom cat
on the fence dispnti1'e over the kit