The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . descend into the street tostudy the doings and spectacles from a nearer ap-proach, and stop to ask the meaning of it. Ah ! itis county court day in Kentucky; it is the Kentuck-ians in the market-place. II They have been assembling here now for nearlya hundred years. One of the first demands of theyoung commonwealth in the woods was that its vig-orous, passionate life should be regulated by theusages of civil law. Its monthly county courts, withjustices of the peace, were derived from the Virginiasystem of jurisprudence, where th
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . descend into the street tostudy the doings and spectacles from a nearer ap-proach, and stop to ask the meaning of it. Ah ! itis county court day in Kentucky; it is the Kentuck-ians in the market-place. II They have been assembling here now for nearlya hundred years. One of the first demands of theyoung commonwealth in the woods was that its vig-orous, passionate life should be regulated by theusages of civil law. Its monthly county courts, withjustices of the peace, were derived from the Virginiasystem of jurisprudence, where they formed the aris-tocratic feature of the o-overnment. Virginia itselfowed these models to England; and thus the influ-ence of the courts and of the decent and orderlyyeomanry of both lands passed, as was singularlyfitting, over into the ideals of justice erected by thepure-blooded colony. As the town meeting of Bos-ton town perpetuated the folkmote of the Anglo-Saxon free state, and the Dutch village communi-ties on the shores of the Hudson revived the older. CONCLUDING A BARGAIN. ones on the banks of the Rhine, so in Kentucky,through Virginia, there were transplanted by thepeople, themselves of clean stock and with strongconservative ancestral traits, the influences and ele-ments of English law in relation to the county, thecourt, and the justice of the peace. Through all the old time of Kentucky State-lifethere towers up the figure of the justice of the by the Governor to hold monthlycourt, he had not always a court-house wherein tosit, but must buy land in the midst of a settlementor town whereon to build one, and build also thecontiguous necessity of civilization—a jail. In therude court-room he had a long platform erected,usually running its whole width; on this platform 94 COUNTY COURT DAY IN KENTUCKY he had a ruder wooden bench placed, likewise ex-tending all the way across ; and on this bench, hav-ing ridden into town, it may be, in dun-colored le
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