The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-02
The implement Company,
1902 ard 1904 E. Main ST.,
RICHMOND, VA.


! tore the Campbell and Crawford affair
| had even happened. anC, that Judge Wood
| drew his yenire trim this list, as required
| by law? Could there have existed at
that time any motive to stock a list of
500 Jurymeny Was 1T practicable? Could
any thing have been fairer? II this jury
/ list was Illegal then are the trials in
Amherst since this list was made OUT
| null and void" and the jail doors should
I be thrown open and any prisoner so
/ held should sue for false Imprisonment
| 1t the grand Jury was stocked" it was
! stocked this wAy--it consisted of one who
| had voted for and six against Campbell,
| Tor although Judge Campbell wanted to
/ be tried and indicated by jury of his
| peers L know he did Aot want to be brand
| as feon in an indictment. and it was un-
| just to be sent out to the world when
/ the commemorative Attorney ought to
| nave known. did know. and did admit In
| court that 1t was only a mtsdeneanor-
| did before argument OF the case. abandon
| the charge of felon in open court
| and he cannot and will not
| deny this being the case; ha
should have laid an Indictment before
| the grand jury for 4 mlsdemeanor. had
1t certified down to justice for trial
and saved the taxpayers the immense
/ and unnecessary cost of q trial in court
/ ana this gasconade about Judge and jury.
[ hold that under our free Institutions
! and laws u judge or n preacher is pro-
| tected only on the bench and in the pull
| pit; in any other place they are private
t citizens and nave the same right to re-
/ sent an insult and fight as anybody else.
| Thanks to ollr. political sages and learn
I ed JIriSts Of old. who framed our Con-
I stitutions and laws. Wa have no class leg
! iSlatton and grant special privileges to
none.
I,r,T9, r,ro1v,, e,1.- ,.iy {. 49, nj s,- -, or,
| than one hundred and twenty years such
q case, thank God, has not arisen as that
| provision had to be made for the trial
of a Judge upon a criminal Indictment In
his own court. 1 Will cite an iIlustrtous
precedent. with which he will admit he
is as familiar as am:
our tate lamented Judge billiard, who
adorned the bench of Amherst for eigh-
! teen years, and gave universal satistac-
ton, when he conceived himself ag-
| grieved made assault and committed
q battery, was arrested by an Amherst
| Courthouse Justice (wtthout any COM
| paint being made to HIND and sent the
case before the grand jury selected by
| the Judge An Indictment was found
| for common assault and the party as
| sat1ited Immediately and magnanimously
| submitted statement in writing as pro-
| v1ded by statute, that he had received
| satisfaction. and the case was dismissed
1 Dy lIlc tptllllbilNtcLllIIS 4Att'iltty MS 81
| case NO. l. Cases No. . and 3. Judge
| Brown VIII not deny, when his meory In
| refreshed. that the distinguished judges
| OF his county and his law partner, and
the no less distinguished CommOnwealth's
! Attorney of the same county. choosing
] to exercise their rights as private citizens
to indulge in a little Knockout and
did commit an assault. &c.
The officers very property never took
any Coguizance of ii that [ ever heard
Of Now did any one ever think or say
that either OF these honorable gentlemen.
by committing a technical breach OF the
peace. brought dlshonor" or degrade
ton upon old Virginia."
[ would nave d1snked very much 70
nave told either of them such a thing.
unless had been fully prepared to
"hand in my checks and to pass on to
! the great beyond" Then why perse-
cute poor Campbell? Echo answers
/ ~ ny2" Is the person of a Yankee
parson more sacred IN the eyes or judge
Grown than that of Il native EirSintan?
The natural inference. logical deductions
from the sum and substance OF Judge
/ Browns most remarkable contention is
rnis in n nutshell. that IL any person
mold an office which makes him i con-
Senator of the peace, viz. judge, COM
mouwealth attorney, justice. etc, and
then breaks the peace, he has Drought
| ssdfSnCnOr ana FtegfdGlIlcEi ttIblL liz StfttS
&C. and if anybody calls him liar. you
rrrs+ saw savou are n liar back again"
Tr one calls you a thief. or tells you your
,yanghter Is, a harIot. you must bring suit
FOR Dana ge-'sue Il beggar and get a
for1se mad rather be Il dog and bay
the noon than judge on these terms.
we don't want the sons of the heroes OF
the Lost Cause lnoculatto WIN any
Esucb heresles as that. We greatly prefer
rew more knights OF the cow-htde''
+kan e1,cb aastards and cravens as would
10 Judge Browns "ipse dixit'' or
..oblter dictun.'' that Campbell has noe
peen legally acquitted 1t is simply
Ttc,,ruIa,is. we ask II Campbell had been
RI me penitentiary would Judge
r,rnun have said that ne was not legally
i ncrvtcredp Section 1893 provides that he.
Il f,,,rorbf.Gl. should select the judge without
! e,csrtions as to who Is to be tried. Tbs
! IsgtsLature intended it so. upon the pre-
SUMPTION and hypothesis that all the
| honorable men whom they had selected
nc Judges were unimpeachabIe and that
! q puguacious Judge under indtctmenc
might select any he chose, as the interest
/ ar the Commonwealth was safe IN the
| hands OF all or any. That section StasAna
| Ike a stone wall 10 protect the rights
| of the accused Nothing short OF twelve
/ butchers for jury and a Jeffries for d.
( nudge would satisfy prosecutors Of Judge
! ,.anlpneu. whose greatest offence Is sue
| cess. Like Hercules. he cleaned the
/ Augean stables bearded the Nemeau
/ lion Gin his den,' and with his "Sa!adin
| blade" made the heads OF a vast host OF
| aspuants roll in the dust of defeat and
! hence this much ado about nothing.
.tnis tempest In a teapot"
c. 3. CHRISTIAN.
Amherst county Va. August %
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