mr a from had made it that five of the nine judges reside south of and s line is unworthy of a it is not denied that a man may be as honest if he live on the one side of the line as on the other � the man who can in his heart believe that five judges would decide this question on grounds must be prepared to pronounce them corrupt and unworthy of their stations an opinion justified by no event oi their past lives we would say nothing except for the truth s sake to the character of the supreme court or at all disturb the praises which mr has seen fit to bestow on the members of it but it is a fact well known to all who choose to inquire that the for the last fifteen or twenty years have been party that the just alluded to before their appointment and it may be to gain that were warm � more conspicuous for party activity than for eminence in their profession nor was the power mr remained in office as secretary of the treasury the s d of september on which day he was dismissed on that same day the d mr was appointed and on the th in with the will of the president he performed the act of his signature to the order for the of the and made himself a to what the integrity of his to execute the report of the secretary of the treasury mr j in the first pan with a of the fact if this assertion p i have directed is regarded in any other than a mere formal sense it is not true the secretary may have been the instrument the clerk the in whose name the order was issued � of henry clay m th of the in the of the considered with those impartial feelings the reasons of the secretary mr i am constrained to say that he has entirely failed to make out his justification the secretary has entirely mistaken the case � remarks of john c in the on the january is in what manner and for what purpose was the present of the treasury ht into office he came into office through a breach in the constitution and his very appointment was the means of the law and the public faith he was brought into his present station to be the instrument of � speech of mr on the tn the of a� on confined to t em for there were men less active in party politics � more devoted to their profession and much more distinguished in it � and drawing to themselves a great deal more of the confidence of the country who could have been found to fill the offices for no one need try to conceal the ct that the present supreme court on very important questions does not possess we confidence of the people in such a degree as a supreme ou t to be most useful in matters of individual claim where party and feelings are not at all aroused are but such is the case many state courts that could be mentioned we are not among the number of those who believe as one would be inclined to think mr did in an entire of character for tiie better by an appointment to the supreme court if a man is mean before it he will be mean true he may mingle less in crowds he may engage less in matters that interest most men his temptation may be less but so far as his office goes he will the same being � only a man and having the trials of one but thinks that this question will be decided strictly on constitutional grounds and that the majority of the court who may be the five judges that in the states and in the midst of a population will not be at all influenced in their judgment on grounds indeed he goes so far as to say that he who believes so must be prepared to pronounce them corrupt and that a man may be as honest on one side of and s line as on the if we could bring ourselves to believe that really thought this question would be decided as he has represented or that he had no design of g the influence of the court to bear against the who made the remark or of attempting himself to it we should be led to suppose him a very and man and therefore an of any power for does he not know tiiat the southern members the majority of tiie court themselves practise tiie system and some of we do not intend to the pro or of the the foregoing to which many others of a purport be added are given simply to prove what view was taken of the present character by men now of both parties mr was to his present office on the death of by general by whose direction the were removed speeches on slavery pretty deeply that if they pronounce it constitutional even in the they do much to strengthen it everywhere and greatly increase their popularity at the south if they will be called there be rendered odious among the and find it next to impossible may we not say impossible to reside among them as they now do does he not know indeed that to decide it in any way is almost if not quite to giving up their present situations and what with most men is above all things of losing caste among their associates whose practice they think most whose opinions they most value and for whose society they are best fitted this loss of caste or consideration indeed the certainty of being made odious at the south in the event of entertaining or of being strongly suspected of entertaining anti slavery sentiments has 