Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-04-09
Merited EuIoriunn.

he following eulogium on Judge fancy, no less lust
han characterized by good taste
Now, Mr.. President, / come to another point in nv
argument, which approach with extreme pain, with
lnfeigned regret From my earliest childhood have
been taught to the judges of the highest court in
the land as men selected to render justice between t
gants not by of their eminent legal acquire
ments than because OF spotless purity of character
and undimmed lustre of reputation which removed
them far, far beyond doubt of their integrity
The long line of eminent judicial worthless which SEEM
ed to have eliminated in Marshall has been continued
in the person of one upon whom the highest eulogum
that can be pronounced is to say that he emneny
worthy of being the of that lustrious Judge
[ know not, Nh. President whether you, as I, have
had the good fortune to that magistrate in the ad
mnstration of justice in his circuit or in the court
sitting below u.s. of which he is the honOred chief /
know not sir whether it has been your good fortune as
it has been mne to hear the expressions of aectionate
reverence, with which he is spoken of by the people
mongst whom he has passed his pure hssimpe and his
spotless life know not sir, whether you have listened
as have with interest to the expressions of respect and
admiration that from the members of his bar in
their familiar intercourse with each other-spontaneous
tributes, worth thousand abored euoges to his emf
nen sagacy, to his vast legal learning to the mild and
dignity of his judicial deportment-above ALL sir
above ALL to the conscientious, earnest almost painful
sense of responsibility with which he holds the scales
of justice in even the impartial hand between the
litigants whose rights depend upon his judgment
Mr. President he is old, very ed The infrmities of
age have bowed his venerable form. Earth has no
further object of ambition for him and when he shall
sink into his grave, after long of high Office in
our country trust that do not rudely improperly
invade the sancty of private life in saying that he will
leave behind him, in the scanty heritage that shall be
left for his family the nobest evidence that he died as
he had lived being honorable to the earth from which
he sprung and worthy of the heaven to which he as
pired.
This man. sir thus beloved thus revered thus esteem
ed has been compared upon this floor to the Infamous
Jeffreys by the Senator from Maine, Mr. Hamlin.l
This man has been charged by the Senator from New
York Mr.. Seward, with corrupt coalition with the
Chief Magistrate of the Union. He charges, in fact
not always in direct language but partly by bold aser
ton and partly by insidous suggestons-that the Su
preme Executive Magistrate of the land and the judges
of our highest court and the parties to the bred Scott
case, got up mock tria-that they were all in CON-
mon collision to cheat the country He represents the
venerable Chief Magistrate of country, whose repu
aton hitherto has been beyond reproach-he represents
the venerable Chief Justce-as enactng solemn farce
in the face of the American people, on the eastern por
co of this Capitol; and he tells u.s. that on the day
when that great of upurned faces here present
ed all looking the solemn pageant that passing
before them the Chief Justice of the nation whis-
perng into the of the President the terms of this
netarOus bargain-and that too, at the very moment
when the former was administering and the latter taking
the oath of Office by which the high majesty of Heaven
was invoked as witness to the purity of his intentions in
the administration of the government of his country
Mr. President accused, thrice accursed is that fell
spirit OF party which desecrates the nobest sentiments
of the human heart and which, in the accomplishment
of its unhoy purposes hestaes at reckless violence
of assault all that is held sacred by the wise and
good. 1t difficult, extremely difficult for all to
sit here and hear what said, and observe the
ner in which it was sad and repress the utterance Of
the indignation that boiled up within All this is
charged by the Senator Mr. Seward from New York;
without the proof of solitary fact without the asser
ton even OF fact which to base the foul charge
Luckily sir, luckily for us, these eminent too
highly placed in the reverence the estimation and the
regard of the American people, to have their bright
cucheon injured by such attacks as these. Mr.. Pres
dent in olden time viper gnawed fle
The South Americans-Kansas and Anti-Ixansns--
Southern Doughfaces Done
For those of the South Americans who have stood by
the rights of their country though it has brought them
into cooperation with their Democratic opponents, we
have high degree of admiration They have withstood
threats, persuasions and preudices. They will per-
haps now admit what we have always told them, that
the Democratic party is the only political organization
capable of resisting the seconaism of the FreeSoes
| To those of the same party who have cherished a
hatred of Democracy so deadly and hope of political
elevation so insane that they have continued in an
ganlzatlon which they despise order that they might
at some critical moment open pOstern in the Demo
cratic deences or desert to the enemy with their cond
ing allies we have only words of detestatiOn for their
medtaed crime, and of earnest prayer that their treach
cry has been uess and their true character exposed
an indignant constituency
From Winter Davis and Marshall we expected little
better The first belongs in principle to the Abolition
list the second had said that there nothing to choose
between Buchanan and Fremont. We have always sup
posed these politicians to nger in Southern councils
that they might effect more by betrayal than by assault
Of Senator Crlttenden we had hoped better 1t
to have required all the temptation of another compro-
mise, with its attractive sequence of political hOnorS to
make him violate the confirmed will of the State and
reverse the indication of purpose which it is said he had
repeatedly given in favor of the Lecompton Constitution
The South has had its doughfaces and these are of
them. The South has had its advocates of the Wilmo
Provso, for that measure received some twenty Wing
votes in the Legislature of Virginia but they have
been long since consigned to private life 1t has had
those who opposed the rpeal of the Missouri inquy
but they have been swept from the halls of Federal egs
atlon with an unsparng Bosom. 1t has had those who
hoped to see that measure enstate and would have built
up party upon the pledge to do So but these--the
Bolts, the Rayners, the Donadsons, the Culloms-
have been scattered and slenced. And now the few
who had concealed their tfeachery to the South and
proessed indignant and excessive devotion to its in
terests have avowed their true character and will be
speedily sent by the people Of the South to keep company
with their brother doughaces who have been heretofore
exposed and exied from public confidence fthis Kan-
taught the South its true friends and stopped the breed
of doughfaces.
THE STRENGTH OF THE GREAT PowERs-In view Of
the probability of the general in Europe resulting
from the present complications, we deem the following
statement of the financial resources and military and
naval strength OF the Great Powers of especial interest:
| Countries. annual Revenue. Debt.
Great Britain. ...... g70O0OOOO e8OOOOOO0O
France. ............ .62OO00OO 275OOOOOO
Austria .............25, 100000 100000 900
Russia ...,...........35,0 100000 100000
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