The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-04-04
though they were listening to an Abolition

though they were listening to an Abolition
harangue.
Judge Daniel of Virginia is old, and long,
and lean, and sharp in the visage, and simply
wears the aspect of tremulous and fdgety
old gentleman in glasses. His politics are
those of Virginia STAKEHOLDER and abstrac-
Zionist, who swears by the resolutionsof 1913.
Of course he goes to the hilt on any point
where the demands of the Oligarchy are
concerned
Judge Grafton of Tennessee is a robust,
unintellectual man, advanced in years, whose
judgement would be inevitably swayed by
his political associations, but whose erro-
neous opinions would, as a general rule, more
often result from obtuseness than from orr
ginal sin. Thoroughly imbued wiGdf The
dogmas of his class, Judge Grafton would
have no hesitation in deciding off hand that
the Missouri Restriction was unconstitution-
al, and he would resolutely set to work to
find arguments to support the Judgment
But he would naturally reject the Jesuitism,
the sophistries, and the falsehoods by which
Judge fancy would lnstinctively attempt to
support the same conclusion. In this res
pect, differing very materially from Wayne
uf Georgia, and wholly from Daniels of Vir-
ginia, Judge Grafton placed his argument
against the constitutionality of the Missouri
Compromise on the provisions of the treaty
with France by which we obtained Louisiana
And he listened with good deal of respect
full surprise to Judge Curtis's exposition of
the fallacy of his deductions. But the fact
that his argument was overturned would af-
ford Judge Catron no uneasiness except in
that it would suggest the necessity of a re-
construction of his judicial pyramid. Of
course he would not relent or give way in
his inclusion since it is a matter of princi
pie with every Slavery man to admit nothing
to be sound doctrine on the negro question
that the oligarches do not approve.
OF Judge Campbell of Alabama, there is
nothing to be said, except that on the SUBJ
ject in qestion he is more fanatical than the
fanatics-mOre Southern than the extreme
South from which he comes. A judicial de-
cision from him where Slavery is concerned,
Is of no more value than the cawing of IA
ven. He is middle aged, middle-sized mn,
bald, and possessed of middling talents.
Such are the five Judges from the Slge
States who compose a majority of the men-
bcrs of the Supreme Court. A more pc,
posterOus suggestion cannot be made ths.l'
are entitled to respect or should receive any
consideration among the people of the Free
States. These men are, from position, by
social relation, BY political connection, ire
trievably committed to the support of every
demand of the oligarchs. They themselves
belong to, are prominent members of, that
very privileged class whose ultra dogmas and
extravagant demands are the very topics Of
adjudication before them. They are the
High Priests of Slavery. What stupefaction
is 1t: then, that intimates, under such cir
cnmstances, that their opinions or decisions
on the Slavery question can ever have par
ticle of weight with the party of Freedom
in the North? To expect anything of these
men except to declare that to be law which
the slave interest demands must be consid-
cred law, is to expect what is unnatural and
impossible.