The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-11-26
United STATES COgEaE.
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From the tlcr5ou county Grand jury presentmenl
.ncm most serious ditflcuifv ti,4t.o oar poo |
=. are l.boriug under at the prpsrnt limo |
j. lie .lisfiirhclj condition .f ,.l,tv ari~ir.,
f.. I'm tNr rnaAln4r ~ which ci.,zrns Of the |
r.1.fv are heinz prosecuted h-,uT. .hc
J,s,ed ~;a,cs Citrut Conf. Al Jacksonville.
III alleged violations 81 ~. tIeefjon laws.
;4e general election hrJ IA November
i>~9. This j. fhc third rr.D,l jurv ,hai ba.
--t in The county sI,4ce th,I iinc. NJ
complaint has reached ~ nor nlr urr,lp-
r.--0rs. so far =, y.p.h have huen .l,i,. - fin
III. 3.anv wroor ,inint, j that election
! .a.,.l off nrtr.flll,. and n,i.fl,-. me
f-il.t was ACCEPTED without - mu,mrr; no
.p,9jutcll c.tr,ll,}tin eyer otT.rr3 .o mr.
t.- ;e-linnnv hp.ore tte.t GRAND iii,e-
| l... he f.a3 been ii,i,,rcl or d,tr.ni,'t. no
| committees have here ln4ae4 auy coma
| ...i,.t a.. nnf,i, t,.,.,n.n, ,,.,..,i ,A,ir
| s,l.. friend, Tine I-nj.r3 ~,atc- Cour.
| ba. Since ti,a hall il ,crn, IN i'm ,h.. .}i-
.i-,,it, of t1,. .lf,llict vj,h,u. ti,.ltur ..s<
.t.,1nlt.nt arai,t~l onr ri,iy.,. inr .,ca
c.n-,... Notwiibs;.in ilog mi, - s..cci4}
;ctl4 or the cplr WAS ordered nj Juck,on-
lille on tie first Monday in October And
we Ic,! il 70 he cur dutv TO call attention To-
some Of the acts 0l THIS court and it's otficer-
brc.,n,e we believe thew IRE IN yiolatiuu II
the constitutional RIGHTS of our citizens. and
The laws n,s4.1 bv the National CDnrre,s
for tneir protection.
| j. well remembered that soon after tn,
war. the United States Courts. in this sec
ltion. were made use OF as q means OF op-
preston. The iron-cAd oath cXcludcd
from the iurv box the great BODY of the OLD
lciti1onshin If the State. The people were
nara..el by political prosecutions. Preiu
diceaud nartisanshin overthrey for a tune
me Foundation ot the Jury system. The
enormilv Of This evil at length aroused tie
tho ,,,trntion nj line country. and tht. TWO
houscs o, Conoress nassed y law with the
manifest Dnrnose Of restoring an unbiased
and non rnrIjsan Jury system. The iurje-
IN ali future cases were 10 be drawn from
names turnishpa in equal numbers oy OH
c,rs >, th, court of ol,pn>ite poli,jcal par
lie. The faithful execution ol This law
must ,r.nl in sn,nr,hin. hike ,ol1Iilv ~
Ia IA. f.rmaiinn OF iu-je, with re ,.renrp Ia
l'hrir nojjfiral comnlryljou. But. ~ the
,,r,..,i, session of M. United : are. Elrci
: tnu,, il !. admitted that % ont Of % Grand
;nrl,,s .un,,,,l.r,h;. lave are n.mhcrs
'r me- same noljtirli nartv, and il i, under
.tond .h,t he u,.,it inry drawn dirrc1lv
mar !. in nearly tnr e.,me condition and
the attention. al the conrt beng called +,
rn..a r.mnrlkah,e results i accented Them
g lr,it,mate and honesl. and failed to re
love i,srlt If M. terrible sn,nicion of > will
, nj ,,;rI.,ior hv co.ne nt ia n,yn officer, If
tha snirit ar the letter Of the law in ;. par
l,;,on snir;, ,or a nurnose. The public
charce of stuffed inrv box was not even
,mvns,iga,e1 The impartial Jury law i,
. inns practically repealed We see before rs
: renewal OF ,roubles which wrought us c
. mich misery and Injustice while clouds oi
war still fingered in tb. horizon.
Rnt the court has gone further and alb.
! rooated the rule established in the past. fol
r the purpose of giving the citizen his ancien,
privilege of being tried by Jury of vicln.
age. The Northern District of Florida
= was by an act of Congress, divided int,
!, divisions. and terms of the court were ap-
no,nted to he held in this division of the
8 State. for the trial of cases arising here
. Under this law rule of court fixed The
e trial of all cases from this and other coun
ties of Middle Florida at Tallahassee
i Without any reason being given, this rule
), has been sddenly swept away aad citizen,
of this county. accused of crime, are here
after to be tried at Jacksonville, 100 to 15(
i miles further from their homes This SC
increases the cost of getting to and from
court. with their witnesses, that il amounts
u hv ho apDr,nous q nh IN upcpSSQrx