The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-29
Judge Moore's Reply.

Selma, Ala, March A 1868. Battalion Brigadier General O. L. Shep-
 herd. Commanding Sub. Dist of Ala,
 Montgomery, Ala
 Sir: Your communication of the 21st inst. informing me that my actions in confning the sheriff In the selections of jurors to the white registered voters is regarded by Major General Meade, com manding the district, as a violation of the General Orders Nos 53 and 55 Series of 67 and that if l am not willing to acquiesce in that decision l will be re- moved from office, etc, was received by me this evening.
 I beg leave to state that so long as l was permitted to comply with the laws of this state by selecting as jurors men of intelligence, impartiality and hon esty" who were registered voters l felt it my duty to hold the courts, as the ends of justice would be thereby att tained.
 But I cannot consistently with my duty and obligation as a judicial officer of the state consent to put negroes on the jury in violation of these laws and to the detrlment of justice I cannot therefore carry out the construction now given to these orders by the general commanding the district requiring me to put negroes on the jury. under even the penalty Of removal from office. As the Judiciary or state is powerless against military force I am constrained However great the wrong) to submit to it. I shall therefore discharge the juries tomorrow morning and transact no business except as IS necessary to the winding up or the court.
 I am general, very respectfully.
 JOHN MOORE,
 Judge First Judicial Circuit
 Meant Much to Young Men.
 When I read this and realized what 1t meant to young man not yet thirty, elected to one of the most honored judicial offices of the state, relinquishing It Tor poverty and a broken practice rather than sacrifice his oath and his peoples con science I do not grieve-no-no-l weep and thank God that had such father.
 And vet. twelve years afterwards, when reelected by the white people of Ala bama, and during the twenty-four years that he wore the ermine of your circuit, your own valued testimony, the words or sorrow throughout the state, the tears which I saw at his grave shed by white and black. tell me mat no one, how ever poor or however blaclS ever appealed in vain for justice before him. am now a citizen of another state, but my heart goes out to the people of my native Alabama, as 1t has never gone be- fore. I love them for the memory of the dead. honor them for the honor they gave to him. I thank each and all of them-the dear people of Greensboro, who were with him and ministered so ten derly to him at the last the friends of my sweet old home, the thoughtful and sympathetic friends of my father in Dallas, Perry, Hale, Wilcox and Bibb- to each and to all to whom l cannot write and thank personally, I send this token of love and appreciation.
 Cb I know not, l care not where-but well do I know that the last faint sounds which come to me will be the Voices of the Past and the last lingering light my eyes shall ever see will be the light which fell, as I remember 1t last, upon the tender, erect uplifted white head of my father.
 JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Columbia, Tenn, -Aay 20 1904