. . ;.._: '_ ~~: H PIAcE MATTERS .._ . . EPEEPH` OE GOVERNOR blattrtolC • paFviars. ixAIT J1X1333 30 . 3311 /3 am.aannwr • • ' orrrips smiths./ avisma, sou: 18rn. Noverruir Johiligon 1 3 / 1 0 on the platform which bait been prepared for him to speak en, but - so large was the crowd, that he was compelled to go mote towarde the middle of the meeting in order to 'give tdi no . opportimity of hearing He was reedited tni with,lo-c.heers and said, Felloiroitiiens illow me to thank you „for year attendance ben this evening, in 'as. muelt as In this lirge aeserablage of the:, people, I. think I - see a desire on their parts to criticize, and we- Sully scrutinize the conduct of those whom they haie Placed iniPower: Governor Johnston pro ) eeeded to thank them asepublic officer, because ' • they.;had thus poven him :an opportunity of frankly expressing those oppinione which had rgoverned his conduct in matters of publio poll: ay, 331/33 he thought that no men should wish to obtain .tikevota of another person, with whose ' hews he . could igt agree. • lie thanked Gm for that attendance, eerie , ',WAY wheelie considered the importaice of the approaching elect-lea- He did'notfoltade to this , with a view, of creating any alarm in the public_ . Mind; but theiesults ok that election 'Would ha f rE ht 1111 W matters ; of the gravest coma -- • q Ince, not only; to the community, but to the of to be Oman. They,would ae r ie - hint to ay that nor, for l i the first tine, the people wotlld.- elect the eistire officers of the CorisManweallb.: Heretofore they jhad, only been called on to ,choose Portion.* • .them:--thso Executive and legislative bl'anokea--nor they Would berequir. ed to makes selection of that portion of the paidicreac were more important, to the people thaziallel,..* Regicide& to thsJudiciary.. Now it was theirpoweV to make ratlactione 'either for weal or, o. He - asked them, as, hi • had at other - aske d his fellow citiz ens, to 'consider the ;importance of this new duty which devolved-nion them. .That in his opinion, was Efiea - tfr thin 'ail Others. - The elsai Were called on nitimately to decide' all questions affecting the Property, the li ves, and the reputation citizens . • -The pe ople were now asked, for the f ant time, to selo the offi cers 'of that, tribinial4roni whose jedgmente then vws no 'appeal. . They Meat fota4y . decide Ma all quotient)" arising tinder, thi tinittitutio* -and the lawn. The suprpoie court was endued, by the constitution with enormous potters and_ diseittiod;and they we're' required, in - ozde? th dieehage - Ithosei diodes, to be learned in the Jim. • , ; • It - that the' 4 woe : c.c e ' ar j, -4 a , - Airborne, incorruptible, fearless, and far beyond I/Wreath of petty pre judices , ;nor most th ey be liable to be excliedby passion. These were some of the requirements which it woe necessary for the judge& of the Supreme Court o possess, and If tbs people felled Ito !select men possessing these qualifiestiona, the coneemencin would be:felt not only by, them, but , by - their posterity. A Efiof patdoti.sm would not suffice to do away the mmragneneet of a single lase step with ee -1 gird to the electionlof these judgem for &ilium& icons true that they could be impeached, yet they in it great measure gave their interprets, I donna dishier, andeould only be =noted in cen. llequerras of emus gross violation 'of their public ',duties. He mentioned these facte merely for the purpose of=Nig their ittentiontotheimpertance of the duties which they were. called on to per form, and trammel be mished • to thew Oat ell am under enclicircumstances, should attend the polls, if, in conselttmce of the non attendance of some person 4ho stood before him, an in competent of64r ;Omni& be placed on the branch of theYStrprome Court, how could he ever repair the mischief attach be had done?. 1 The representative portion of the Ocureinment night pass bad ' lows, but !those . lore were the enlejecte of analmdMent and repeal, for all the RepresontativeUwere directly and immediately sin= the pointer the people, who conbithange the unworthy and elcatothers more'compatent tee flit their planes. Their gueutivebrinehmight ' fall inthe climbs:gear that duty Ida required him tif eremite theimmand he couldbethaaged lot a better offient; but lee 'knew of, no power ithiaratO a. ' Width mold reach the Bo proms Court. Now he asked them, when such eras the Mete of Me bow culpable was every man, who failed ',to vote 1 Henry one should at tend the Pollse'ttnd Idea= it his Privilege 8 44 duty to vote, acid not only esteemit a duty and privilege, but its Mechem =roll, be pleasing to him, and he shoal strive to elect those offi ces who would give peace and contentment to his own More immediate neiedrarhood, and to all the State. I I ' • . ' 1 1 . They would belealled on at the coming elec. nen to theme a OssMl Commissioner, mid here - wetted to my that they had hitherto been less careful' in selecting him than .thesy should hare 'teem He warned them that ltreoniredno mil .mary man to .di charge the arduous duties de volving upon hint, in such a manner as to pro. mote thejntemesta of the Commonwealth. If - they reflected for one moment. that the state works, which cost sixty milline - csofdollars, forty Of which rare - now- remold, vele put under the Sontrol ,of a boxed consisting of two or three Commiseirmers—if they cousideefid that thong s:dello:24a vast system of public improvements, reqedrhagihalf a million or a million of dollars per amuse, to keep tam in repairs, fell tether; and it was either 1.12 their power to build up the 'Mans, ar to red= it: .o banknaptcy, they would See the ' portance of electing a suitable Ca mal •'over in the ensuing election-- Hemmed them that 'a system so vast in itself, required ISO ostibiall man to manage it.— He I shouldlae a person of strict integrity. His knowled& should be great, since he ought to be perfectly conversant.with the commercial laws and intercourse of tlie emit - try. This not 'be oralined to his' ORS State alone, but he