Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1847-08-27
From the Pittsburgh Gazette.
Sketches Of the Public Mcn Of the y. y.
BY ERAsTUs BNooEs.-No. TX.
LEVI WOODBURY..

L'W Woodbury., cy.Sacr 1lary OF the Treasury,
ey.S.rrnury Of tho Navy, ey-mcmber Of III.
House ni Representatives, cX.Govcrnar Of New
Hampshire, ex-senator of the United States, and
Il good many other ex.olIiccs, whereof memory
u,iIelh me nj the moment, W. know now ns The
successor Of Judge Story and an Associate Judge
o'Ihr Supreme Court of the Unjtcd States, no.
muuod by the President Immediately after the
delh oi hi3 cnin}ot pred ,c3s7or and confirmed
unanimously, believe, by the Senate. When
Nr. Van Burrn retired from the White House at
Washington. To cUItiyalo his garden Ht Kinder
hook, Mr.. Woodbury., who had been for four
wears his Secretary Of the Treasury, retired al.
so not To ho rnposc Of private life, but the good
luck Of frequent rotation IN office (ln which he
was Theoretically disbclicvcr) aud in the lull
confidence Of his State and party, from The Trea-
sUry v .parlnent, AT one end of Pennsylvania
Avenue to It scat in the Senate AT the olhrr-
lirra hard struggle At home between II. Hub.
bard'5 friends and his own, he was elected Sana.
Tor in Congress for SIX years from the lh March,
i8ll. lie served nearly four years of the six,
aud rosignrd his seat for the office he nows fills,
and which, under the Constitution is made his
irr lie. believe h, has reached "the highest
10 sa'jsr, The ambition Of any reasonable man."
The o,inr of Judge Of The highest court ofthe
Union. where even National Legislation is ravis-
oa the Constitution preserved and the relative
rights btwcen the States and General Govern.
mcm. maintained, is ~ high an office MS any in
tn Union. Offices filled By such men as Mar.
shall, Ellsworth, Story and lay, Baldwin, aud
Thompson, are worthy hh ambluon OF the most
exalted patriotism. The ambition ora Judge, in
any tribunal, is pace Of high responsibility,
hut in c1urt, The last resort whcro only nInc
men, from the extremes Of this vast republic,
meet to hear and decide causes, where their de.
cisjon i' often GnaI aud fatal the position is one
ot III, highest preomiuencc.
Though a warm and ardent politician, Mr..
Woodbury., believe, will merge all his party po.
lines in me dulies oihynew office. have been
Rriryod To- see his name coupled with the poIni-
cal elections in his State, but believing the as5o.
cialjon vas rather the wish Of some mwdicous
friend han his own inclination, the error hes not
al ha own door.
Blwocn Gcorg, Grenyillc, an eminent Eng.
lsh lawyer aud statesman, and Mr.. Woodbury.
there arc some strong points of comparison. Mr.
Burke sp axis Tor the former as having mn appi
caoa unwcarcd and paedas MAJ
who took public business not as a duIy which h,
wa' 10 lulGi, but as pleasure which he was tC
enjoy, and while in Parliament il was saId O
him that he took no delight out OF the iIoas
except in such ,hioes as in some way related t
the business ,hal was 20 be done wlhin il. Lk
Lord GrcnyiIie, Mr.. Woodbury. was bred 10 III
law. hat much ,raduced profession, which oie
fndi contempt with prcjujiccd or ignorant men
brcausc prtiIuegcrs and demagogucs sometime
become boih distinguished at the bar and oracle
with he people. 1t is rather profession whic
has been truly pronounced By one competent t
Judge. "ouc Of The first aud mobiles, Of huma
science which does more 10 quicken and inygo
rat. the urd rslsnding than the other kndi
of learning pat logeher, but which is not up
excep, in 3rsons very happily born, to open an
libaaliz, the mind exactly in the sam, propo
m" Lord Greny.e, like Mr. Woodbar,
wen, from III law to the business of pub ic olic,
fsNas well when all things went smoothly vii
him, but when the tide set sgainss him be wi