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ate during the war, he afterwards
him j. p. 1t i said in Caswell
that when he joined the league, Giles
Jeifreys and other respectable. negroes
refused to shake hands with him,
which 50 affected him, that he shed
tears and hence his sobriquet, 'The
Weeping Squire"
After a Lawyer.
(Sentinel, February "a, 1S.O.)
The matter of VIM. Biggs, barred
as an attorney, by Jaybird Jones' is
now being argued before the Supreme
court by Hon. B. f. Moore, who was
heard on Tuesday from ten to one
O'Clock
Chier Justice Pearson asked Mr.
Moore II Judge Jones had counsel in
court. Mr. Moore replied he slippo3ed
not, as the notice was alone to inc
c'efk TO send up its record, and Judge
Jones, pe"hars, was not aware of H.
In the course of his argument. Mr..
Moore said. if the attorney, in a state
of nudity, We're to appear before the
court. he could not be punished By
beng debarred
Judge Read: do you saw. Mr..
Moore, that the court could not pun-
ish an attorney who appeared naked
before them 2"
Mr. Moore: 81 did not say that.
The law has fixed the punishment for
contempt. The court could fine and
put hlm in Jail; and if they attempted
to punish in any other way. they
would violate the law themselves. For
the punishment for contempt is fine.
and Imprisonment, and so fixed by
statute.
If drunken judge can't be told of
his drunkness out of court, or called
Jaybird, then it is time to close your
courts of justice, and let vice and
lewdness rule.
Trying to Prevent Criticism.
(Sentinel. July 1, 1900
The Legislature of North Carolina,
composed of carpet baggers, negroes,
honest men and rogues. convicted and
unconvicted, are hard at work on a
bill to protect their character. The
design of the bill is to make slander
a misdemeanor. BY this bill any
rogue in the State may have any citi-
zen arrested for calling him a rogue,
at the States expense, to a distant
county for trial.
If the hands were capable of ap-
preciatirg reason, we would endeavor
to show them the folly and injustice
of their course in the matter, but they
will not listen.
The only argument they use, out O.
the House is ''d-n John Turner. we'll
have him in Jail when this bill is
passed.
We will say to the hands that this
bill cannot give some of them any
character, and 1t is generally thank
less of persons who have bad or very
doubtful characters who are always
resorting to expedients to patch them
up.
But to the operations of the bill. If
the Sentinel should say that one of
the hands" Rev. Jas. Sinclair, for
instance, was inipcached by his
church for kidnapping and selling one
Keff Mitchell, a free negro, into per-
petual slavery, when he had bought
him for a term of years, to pay some
court expense, the Rev. Hand" could
go home to Robson and get a negro
jury or a scalawag jury to indct us
for slander, and put us to the trouble
of attending, perhaps two or three
courts, and force us to cal on Capt.
4. GOQWln ana the authenticated
church record to prove what we had
asserted.
Suppose Chicken Stevens, Senator
from Caswell, was to be published by.
us as having stolen chickens in Rock
ingham he could have us indicted by
a negro scalawag jury in Caswell for
SANDER and see what fix we would
be in We would have to go all the
way to Rockingham for a copy of the
record and then to Caswell to prove
that what we had published was no
SANDER The jury might acquit us:
indeed, we are sure of that, and then
the State would have the cost to pay.
For Tourgee would not make Chicken
Stephens pay it, seeing that it was
proven to the satisfaction of that
judge, in open court, that Stephens
was a man of good character when he
gave him license to practice as
twenty dollar lawyer and sit beside
Judge Kerr and Colonel Dillard, who
drew the bill against him for stealing
chickensi
Besides this, Judge Tourgee is
Stevens guest, when he holds Caswell
court, and of course, he wouldn't
make him pay any costs, he could
saddle on the State.
Now, Hands" it is plain that, this
bill can recommend itself to none but
men who have some doubt of their
own characters. or to fools.
I'VE don't like to use this last term.
as applied to lawmakers of the State,
but it is the only word we can find
to make the sense and sentence COM
plete:
We drop the subject l. rro fHr the
present but will resume it when the
hands resume the consideration of
the biz.
p. S-Since the above was written
and in type, the Senate has acted on
this bill and killed it by one vote.
This was a sad disappointment to
some of the hands, no doubt, who
were anticipating to make of this bill
q. moose for 10 Turner's neck.
Those, however, who have been thus
sadly disappointed may console them
selves with the consideration that
whether the law passed or does not
pass. il will make very little difference
with the Sentinel. for we expect to let
the people know the frauds, rascalities
on3 ipooropatnnco of Radical office