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Show i . I "I NEVEft allow myself to intimate to a jury, in charging upon the law, whether in my judgment acquittal or conviction ought to be tho result, though I cannot avoid sometimes holding hold-ing very decided private conviction; and I am awaro that it is far too common com-mon for the bench to usurp tho fuuu-tions fuuu-tions of the jury by weaving its convictions convic-tions of fact into its elucidations of law." Jitthe AIc''(in to a correspondent. correspon-dent. We are sorry for the judge, very sorry, sor-ry, that he should so forget hia past record, re-cord, of which we cannot give a briefer epitome, man by reproducing tue lot- , lowing extract from (he Sacramento Union. Discussing the Hawkins trial, tho Union says: We are more than ever convinced that judge McKean, who occupies the place of one whoso business it is to administer ad-minister law according toils truo intent, is as confirmed a biot as any Mormon he desires to persecute; that he is utterly ut-terly wanting in sagacity or knowledge of law; that his purpose is to compli-; cute difficulties where none need to ex-' ist; and that he ought to be driven ig-1 nominiously from the bench. His whole course as judge, since the prosecution of the leading Mormons began, has been I that of a narrow-minded zealot, tin ig-j norant of law as he is reckless of the i consequences of his extra judicial acts. Ilo started out, not to investigate, but .to convict. All his utterances anil his whole conduct have shown tho iiniimiH i of the man from Grst to last, lie ex-i hibUs tho worst qualities ol" a lunatic, and it is nlmost safe to say, from his I doings, that he is a religious bigot of some sort, and is better fitted to per- J form the part of a wandcriug dervish than to ait in judgment where the liberty lib-erty of one of an opposing creed is at; stake. j |