New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-26
To which our Buffalo writer makes the follow

There have been but two Chief Justices a, a.
bench OF the Supreme Court since Jeiferson's -
umph, end one of them was appointed by L.
Adams, the snme Northern man whose failure 70 -
ceive unanimous vote regarded 10 a preoe,;n.
extract as proof OF scctioualism
4" There is no intelligent la wyer in the Nor,be,.
States who will say that John Marshall though w.
ginHn rot The ittest in the country io CHI
Justice Of Tho Supreme Court. TIA, he remained ~
the long period Of thirty four wears on the bench ~
due not 10 slave influence "a Tug TRIBrSg sesro, :,
suppose, hut 20 the favor Of Divine Providence IL
successor who is si on the bench, was appointed h,
Gen. Jackson. Although 1t thought al the tina
that Story had strong claims TO the place everyboiv
knows that be passed. by, no, because he yss
Northern man but becsuse he belonged TO the Wh;c
party Chief Justice fancy not appointed be-
cause be was citizen Of Southern State bat Ia
cause he was a Democrat and eminenty fit for the
Office"
Now we are ready to agree that John Marshall
was, under the circumstances of the time, the
fttest msn that John Adams could have ap-
pointed Chief Justice. But Why Not th,s
several Northern lawyers could not be named
quite as we'll worthy of the place so far as abilL
ties and legal attainments were concerned, but
because that once having been held for the
twelve years since lis creation by Northern
men, the South might reasonably claim to have
her turn, and because such was the extreme
sectionalism of the South that she was surs to
grow FESTIVE if these claims were overlooked by
a third appointment from the North. That
Marshall Through the favor of Divine Proyi.
"dence," remained in Office for the long period
of Thirty -four years, was, We should imagine,
very strong reason why the next Chief Justice
hould have been taken from the North.
The appointment surely did not lie exclusive.
ly between fancy and Story. Suppose Story to
have been disqualified by being Wing, wac
there no Northern Democrat capable of the
place. We do not suppose, aud we did not
say that fancy was appointed Chief JUS
iice directly through slave influence. Every
body knows that be got the office in payment Of
the services which he rendered to General Jack
son in the matter of the removal of the deposits
from the United States Bank. Butthat circum-
stance does not render any the less true, or any
the less to the port our allegation that for more
than half century past, the Speakership OF tho
House of Representatives Except for year or
two) and with it the arrangement Of the Com
mittees of that body, the Chief Justlceship Of
the Court of the United States, and majority
of the seats on that bench, have been held by
Shareholders; nor would the apology Of The
Buffalo Adreriser, in the matter of the Chief
Justiceship, even were it more successful than
it il, be nything more than an explanation Of
one circumstance of cumulative proof leaving
DOZEN other circumstances to stand without
snswer Even in the case of Chief Justice Ia
ney. though doubtless p.her considerations led
Immediately to his appointment, yet VINO can
doubt that his being a STAKEHOLDER, and the sans'
faction of the South in that respect, was among
the lubricating considerations that serVeo Ssh
were to grease the ways, and to make Ola Sp'
pOintment possible
Even in the case of Washington himself, there
is too much reason to believe that his being q
Southern man secured unanimity in his cleo
ton as President which otherwise might not
have obtained. Indeed this sectional spirit on
the part Of the South dates from a period ante
rior to the Presidency. Does The Buffalo Com
me,eial Adrertiser know how Washington, mau
at that time comparatively little known hap
pened to be appointed Commander-inC Chief Of
the Armies of the United Statesi Why mainly
because he was Virginian. 1t was udicious
and mas unanimous movement on the part Of the
New England members of Congress to enlist on
the right side the sectiOnalism of the South.
But though maguanim0us and demanded by the
occasion, il still had the effect of cherishing at
the South that overweening spirit of sef-con-
ceit, in which the Shareholders have ever since
INDUCED, and still continue to indulge, however
the interests of slayeholding may Of late have
Obliged them 30 share the Presidential Once
with such Northerners as Pierce and Fillmore.
As TO reckoning the administration of Wash
ingtOn as part of the period during which
Southern seetionalism held the control of the
General Government, The Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser is responsible for that reckoning, not
we. Let US also respectfully suggest that in its
great though unavailing zeal to shield its South
ern masters from the charge of early hostility
to the adoption Of the Federal Constitution,
The Buffalo Commercial has fallen into blunder
hardly to have been expected from journal
setting up such historical pretensions, but which
at the same time serves to show how excess
lively careless certain New-YOrk politicians are
Of the honor and reputation (past as well |"
presept) Of their own State. In the very samo
paragraph in which it ventures to accuse Is,
without the slightest historical foundation Tor
il, not only of Ignorance" of violating tho
chronological succession of events" and Of
"jumbling together things which have DO coz
"nectiou," but even of "willfdl distortion OIL
"the truth, The Buffalo Commercial, by way
of correcting and refuting u.s. and in its excess
i've zeal to save the credit of the slavebolders
makes the following extraordinary statement;