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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, December 31, 1867

THE N. Y. JUDICIARY.

By Editor

We took up the following paragraph for the purpose of making a comment on it for the Review, but conclude it needs none. It is a description from an unquestionable source, plain enough to show to any one that we have reached the time when “judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter.” Such were the days before the flood, to be acted over again just before the coming of the Son of man. Of the N. Y. Judiciary, Henry Ward Beecher thus speaks:—

“All the framework of society seems to be dissolving. On every side we find men false to the most important trusts. Even the judges on the bench are bought and sold like meat in the shambles. One must go into court with a long purse to obtain justice. The judiciary of New York stinks like Sodom and Gomorrah. Men say they hardly know a court in which to trust a case. It is no longer an honor to sit on the bench, for if the judge be an upright man his character will be contaminated by the great majority of his associates”