Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-09-28

ays old father Coke, sis the perfeo- J
ion Of reason" which is common
ense; and the one place where COM q
non sense is in special peril from T
Try rot is in the head of the editor
hat knows not only how to run his 4
'wn paper, but also how to shape
he policy and direct the conduct ,
Ird opi,ae the purposes of his con-
]
Thirdly: "Look at TIE ARGUs's
superlatives," says the Citizen. Now,
really, we are positire that conlpar-
ztive review of all the writings of
The ARGUS would reveal few super
latives. So that the righteousness
ness nesses that the editor Of she
Citizen calls upon its readers TO gaze
upon incur simple comment on Judge
"charge," are not there at
all; hence their vision Naturally
turns to rest upon him whose finger
would point them in giggling ridi-
cule to what none but he can see.
Fourthly: AS to Judge Shuford's
charge being a "liberal education"
and the inuendo that he "claimed"
anything regarding it, for, re>
ally, we did not ask his opinion
of his charge, either before or
since writing our comment thereon,
what is a judges charge for if not
to educate the grand jury in the law
and their specific duties as grand
inquest for the protection of society
and the vindication of the laws of the
commonwealth? Aud that Judge
Shuford in his excellent charge has
succeeded in rivaling for condensity
and comprehensiveness the famous
Introduction to Adams Equity, or
Blackstone's chapter on Pleading, is
the mere to his credit and to the
benefit of all those in whose hearing
it is from time to time DELIVERED
regardless of what the Citizen may
think to the contrary.
Finally-no, not finally, either,
but Fifthly while the editor of tie
Citizen intimates that we don't know
any law, ,"no how" and 'aint'' "thor-
oughly qualified authority" as to the
merits of Judges charge, we must
say that the editor of the Citizen im~
presses us that he has had smatter
ing of law himself, in that he asserts
| that "a Judges charge has no business
to possess literary merit" We know
that the glory or the reproach of the
law has ever been that it was dry,
arid and remorseless in its rigor of
speech. Within its dreary walls the
figures of rhetoric never form and
the flowers of fancy never bloom. 1t
has fenced itself about with "the
divinity that doth hedge a king
Amplitude of general knowledge
| Eforescence of oratory and acuteness
of humor are intellectual coins which
| the narrowness or wisdom Of the le-
gal guild have ever viewed at ruin
GUS disceunt-pleadings for judicial
distinction to which a fatal de-
murrer has always been interposed
Judge Shuford, in his charge, hal
violated these prescriptive traditions
and thereby entailed upon himself the
ua-"qualifed" commendation of TIL
ARGUS, for which we, in turn, arr
) "sat upon" by the Citizen. True
Chief Justice Stone had already en-
dorsed Chancellor Kent's reference
to the 'torch of Omar" in discussing
the rule in Shelley's case, metaphor
that, no doubt, in the eyes of thu
Citizen, has done much to impair th'
just renown of Kent. But perhaps
the renown of Kent can stand it.
j Finally while the editor of th
Citizen can "see no Signs in on
, humble writings that We are at al
u "qualifed'' for the task, VI
!" beg our readers to pardon tn
4 personal allusion and indulg
t us for moment while, in self
s defence, we hurl the bald fact at tn
Citizen, that we had an interview
once Upon time, with the Supren
s Court. of North Carolina wherein
!, THAT honorable body found us pos
sesscd of ''sueh competent knowl
: edge of the Law" as to enlitle us
g admission to tht learned profession
Y and while we have advanced i
. years in the meantime, We feel tina
we have. at least, not retrogated i
the knowledge W which we possessed o
T that nomentous occasion and prou
: moment of our young manhood.
Write Your Senators
To the Editor of the N. Y. World:
If each and every person inter
: ested in the settlement at an earl
: date of the silver repeal bill by th