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1 Impeachment of West H. Humphreys, Judge of the United States District Court of Tennessee 1862

handle is hein.trials/weshumph0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 37TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT 2d Session. ( No. 44. IMPEACHMENT OF WEST H1. HUMPHREYS, JUDGE OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF TENNESSEE. MARCH 1, 1862.-Ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. BINGHAM, from the Committee on the Judiciary, made the fol- lowing REPORT. The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred by the House a resolution of inquiry into the alleged official misconduct of West H. Humphreys, a judge of the United States district court for the several districts in the State of Tennessee, respectfully report: That by the letter of the honorable Edward Bates, Attorney Gen- eral of the United States, of date 25th February, 1862, it appears that West H. Humphreys was commissioned United States district judge for the three districts of the State of Tennessee on the 26th day of March, 1853; that he still holds and has not resigned said commission. Your committee further report that by the testimony of honorable Horace Maynard, Mr. Trigg, Mr. Lellyett, all citizens of the State of Tennessee, who, by order of the House, were duly examined upon oath before said committee, it is made to appear to the committee that said West H. Humphreys, in a public meeting held in the city of Nashville, in sAid State, on the 29th December, 1860, in a discussion then and there held, declared in favor of secession, and refused, when interrogated, to declare South Carolina subject to the laws of the United States. It also appears by said testimony that said Hum- phreys, about that time, published articles in the newspapers at Nashville, in which ''he took strong ground in favor of secession.- (See testimony of Mr. Lellyett.) It further appears, upon said testimony, that said West H. Hum- phreys has neglected his duties as United States district judge within said State ever since the adoption of the ordinance of secession by the legislature in May, 1861; that he refused to hold his court because he considered the authority of the United States obsolete in Tennessee, and that since that time he has officiated as judge for the rebel con- federacy in that State, and has held citizens of the United States to answer before him, as such rebel judge, for disloyalty to said rebel confederacy; has advised a citizen so charged and brought before him

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