New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-17


general beauty Of APPEARANCE. to which be WAS him
.elf not wholly inseLsible. He was very much eI
ercised in mind during the delivery Of Judge Cur
tss opinion and could not restrain the exhib noe
Of biz feelirg "a during the reading Of il. he COM
nented audibly both to the Ctef.Justice aud to
Judge Daniel, wb - on either side Of him. In
fsct, both be ard - Veteran Daniel seemed As un-
'a'y wbIe, Judge curt;s was reading as though
they we're listening 10 an Abolition harangue
Judge Daniel Of Virginia is old, and long, and
lean, and sharp in the vissge and simply wears the
asIect Of tIemulous and idgety old gentleman IN
glasses. H. politics are those Of Virginia slave
Loder aid sbstractonist, who swears By the res y
lutiOus Of 90 OF course be goes 70 the hilt on
any point where the demands OF the Ohgsrchy
are concerned.
Judge CatrOn Of Tennessee is a robust, unintel-
lectual man, advanced in years whose judgments
would be inevitably swayed by bis political assoca-
tion-, but whose erroneous opinions would "a
general rule. more often result from obtuseuess
Than from original sin. Thoroughly imbued WI
the docmas Of bis class, Judge CatrOn would have
10 hesitation in decidii off hand that the Missouri
Restriction was unconstitutional, and be would
IesOlu'ey set to work To find arguments TO support
The Judgment Eut be would naturally reject tia
Je-uitism, the scpbi.iries and the false hoods by
Which Judge fancy would instiuctiyely attempt 10
support TIE same conclusion In this respect, d'f-
fern G very materially from Wayne of Georgia aud
wholly from Daniel Of Virginia, Judge Catron
placed lis argument against the cOnsltntl0nalty
Of The Missouri COmprUnee On the provisions OF
the treaty with France by which we obtained Lou
isiana. And be listened with a good deal Of re-
spectful surprise TO Judge Curtss exposition OF
The falacy of his deductions. But the fact
that Lis argument was overturned would afford
Judge Catron no Uneasness except in that 1t would
suggest tie necessity Of reconstruction OF his Ju-
d cal pyramid. OF course BE- would not relent or
give way in his conclusion, since II Is mater OF
principle with every Slavery man to admit nothing
to he sound doctrine on the gro question that the
cgarchs do not approve.
OF Judge Cimpbel o. Alabama, there is nothing
t. be said except that on the subject in question
he ia more iana teal th in the Furthermore South
ern than the extreme South from which he comes.
4 judicial decision from him where Slavery is con-
cerned. il of no more value than the cawing OF a
raven. He is mdlle-aged. mddle.szed man,
bald, and possessed Of middling talents,
Such are the FIVE Judges from the Slave States
who compose majority OF the members OF tue
supreme Court. \ more preposterous suggestion
cannot be made than that their opinions, where
slavery is concerned, 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 co1tecilon IRE,
yably committed to the support Oi 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. Ihsy
are The High Priests of Slavery. What stupefac-
ton is it, then, that ntmates, under such clrcum-
stances that their opinions or decisions on the
Slavery question can ever have particle OF weight
with the party of Freedom in the North 10 eX,
pect ANYTHING of these men except to declare that
10 be law which the slave interest demands must be
considered law, is TO expect what is unnatural and
impossible Thus things must reman until the po-
ltical revolution, now attempted, l. re'Oul-
tionzed.
With this majority thus constituted, and its power
thus rooted and finding its nutrineDt and support
in the Slave States, whatever element OF doughace-
ism there happens to be on the Bench will naturally
assnilate. OF this element, the present represen-
taiiyes are esOn of New-lor and Grler Of Penn
sylyana. OF the former il is needless to say more
than that he is New-YOrk Democrat OF the per-
isbing school, He hesitsted 10 go with the Southern
Judges in their revolutionary opinions, yet he had
not sufficient virtue to boldly stand mp against Their
hertsles. He seemed like the wounded pigeon OF
fock, ,s.ayiug on broken wing TO get to midway
positicn Of his own from which he could either soar
or descend, as circumstances might hereafter dc
tate. ,
Grer of Pennsy lyania followed his instincts and
not his convictions If man may be SAID u have
convictions who has not moral stamina enough 10
distinctly avow his real opinions. Grer Is man
somewhat ful>uuut1slool. - NV "''N' w '
cy he is generally considered to be, a per'efse,
iron sided, hard-shelled SOUL ass, ro'Slavery Old
curmudgeOn. If any one entertaln' tins unchariA-
bic opinion Of GTier. We must beg to undeceIe
him. He is 10 such man III the first place lne
Judge is a blonde of rotund figure. This alone IN.
Inmates denial Of the character suggested. And
the judges real cbaracleri,tcs closely CONFORM 70
his external physiological delineatons. He Is OF a
soft and rosy nature lie is face and easy OF sug
peston. He succumbs under toach and re;urns
INTO share on It's removal He is arden. and IN
pressblc. lie is tickle and uncertain. lie would
and Lee would not He is mpulsiSe and precipltate.
lie; Grier associate with none but homes. men, and
be- placed in no difficult or constralniug clrcu IL
.'ar ces and be- would not disgrace himself or his
postiop We concede 10 Mr.. Grier another merit.
ii be- belonged to a Black Republican Court he
would side with the majority.
Such, in brief. X the Supreme Court OF the
United States in their relations TO the great potI-
cal question Of our day-a question which they
have undertake. 10 investigate and decide outside
OF ilpir judicial duties and the decision of which
they have sought TO impose upon the country as the
Judgment o. the highest legal tribunal of the
country. The opinion being outside Of the case,
or, as The lawyers term il, extra judicial has, hap
PLY. no legal bearing or control upon the Courts,
either State or Federal. But II affords evidence OF
The position Of the Court d mOst important SUB
ect, and offers no inappropriate occasion to CEN
slider the animus OF that Court on the Slavery qles-
ton. snd 10 show how li.te weigh. should BE- at
Tackled 10 il. action on such topic. lisp
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