The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1858-04-08
From the Wabash * grsss.
VIM. ID. Griswoid, Esq.

This gentleman was put IN nomination Tor
Judge of theSupreme Court, by the lale he
publican Convention. Il has not been consid-
cred proper for candidates for Judicial oIiees
to address their fellow citizens during the can
vass, as is usually done By candidates tor other
Offices. This rule of propriety has been de
parted from i is true. Il was done IN the
9Th Circuit, in 1852. but the improprIety OF
doing SO is almost universally admitted. A
Judge is not called 10 the performance OF poll
teal duties, but TO expound the law, and ad-
minister justice. Before the law all men are
equal and IN administering justice, the up
right Judge can recognize 10 political ba's.
Judges of the Supreme Court are elected
by the voters of the State al large; and as
many will not have the ordinary meaus OF
becoming g-iuainteJ@ -Fsth those whc are pat
in nomination. it is expelient that the qnallti-
cations of candidates should be cauyassed By
their more immediate neighbors. We hope
this will be done; and as Vigo county has
been honored with a nomination, in the per
son Of the gentleman whose name heads tins
article. we shall lead the way. In doing 50,
it is not our intention TO employ the language
OF panegvric; nor 10 enter upon an extended
biography. \ brief newspaper no:!ce Is all
that is practicable. or desirable.
WILLIAM D. GRswoLD IS native Of Yer
mont, and IS forty-two years of age. He : a
graduate Of Middiebury College; aud, in point
OF scholarship. may safely say, without
the slightest disparagement 10 others, that II
he has an equal, he has no superior lwtth
single cxception) upon the State ticket OF el-
ther party We have said. "with single ex-
cepton." The pre- eminent scholarship. and
superior literary attainments of Judge orro
Will at once indicate him as the exception;
and no one would concede 1t more readily
hot 10 S4Ihiapt of ttiS q
Mr. GRIswOLl, came to the West in 1885,
and was for a time successfully engaged IN
teaching, pursuing, in the mean while tue
study Of the law. In 1887 he entered the
office of Messrs. FARRINaroN, WRIaHr u
GooK1Ss. of Terre- Haute then the leading
law firm in this part of the State, where he
completed his regular course OF study; was al
mitted to the bar, and entered upon the prac-
tice of his profession.
In 1870 Mr. GRIsw0LD and JoHS T. USHER
ESQ entered into partnership. aud tor several
years the firm of GRIswoLD Il USHER were
among the m ost successful practitioners IN the
State TIE rapid advance in the price OF real
estate consequent upon the expansion OF 1885,
brought lands into notice which had been tor
wears neglected by non resident owners and
the consequence was that the litigation OF
land titles at that period formed leading
feature in the business OF our courts. This
firm participated largely in that practice.-
n such sero5i IKE dfasffs " afs a the best - law ~
yers are constantly learning. and that the
practitioner who enters with vjg6< upon this
branch OF the law will Sooa become expert
in those deep principles Of his profession which
will b. sought elsewhere in vain Ia this
school Mr.. GRIswoLD was most digent
and successful student.
The monetary crisis Of that period gave
great activity also to the practice in CONNER
cial law, practice in which this firm partici-
p ted largely.
1t WAS ua Ter these favorable circumstances
that Mr. GRIswoLD entered upon and pursued
his profession. He mastered its principles
and qualified himself in eminent degree to
expouni them from the bench.
For three or four years pas,, NJ. GRtswoLD
has not been IN full practice. As President
OF the Evansville and CrawfordsvilIe r abroad
Company, his usual energy has been devoted
to the accomplishment Of great ends with
small means; and his usual success has not
failed HIM there. He had sreved his connec-
ton with that business, and was about to re
sumo the practice, when the voice Of his TEL
low citizens called him to the position he now
occupies before them During this temporary
suspension OF his professional duties, he has
not become rusty" upon legal questions
His mind is Of class which has not the
slightest tendency to rust
Mr.. GIswoLD although always man Of
decided political views has never. we believe
been in office; a circumstance which qualities
him none the less for the discharge Of the
high duties of the bench. Under The old ar
ran rment of parties he was a Wing; under the
new. he is Republican. He entered warmly
into the canvass of 1856. and by his private
influence, aud in able public addresses, sou 5ht
20 secure the success Of that party.
There has been attempt 10 prejudice the
minds OF some, in regard to Mr GRIswoLD' 5
position on the immediate question OF the day
Is the policy Of the dominant party in res peel:
to Kansas. We know whereof Ne affirm.
when we say that Mr. GRIswJLD has uni
tormly declared the Lecomptpn Constitution
to be a ftauI anl swinlle He has however.
said, as we ourself have said and as many
other good Republicans think that Mr.. BUcH
ANAS iu his present course, Is perfectly coa
sistent with the principles involved III HI
election. M GRIswoLD thinks as we DO. thai
the gllring inconsistency is on the part OF
those who with their eyes open. went itto the
support Of man pledged 10 the pro-sl sllvery
constitution Of their platform. but who now
deuounce him for carving out the principles
they endorsed By voting for him But as To
the right Of the matter. rather the wrong
Of il, he stands where We all do
Mr GRfswoLD. If ,l4c'ei. as we hope and
rus, he will be, will be found to be man Of
liberal aal enlarged views. and OF a logical.
vigorous and discriminating mind H pos
sesses. in an eminent degree, the mental dis
ciphna requisite in judge, which gives
conci seness and completeness 70 the enancia-
ton Of legal principles. In wiring opinions
he will not indulge in arEbling dissertations.
,,Ia IN of shraIs rathe-aI he-a and 49,,
and woven into arguments more suitable to
the lecture room, than . the bench He viii
Be disposed to regard the Constitution a.
Announcing principles Of Government. ani
limiting the powers Of The Legislature. rather
than as furnishing the detail OF law. which
with the exposition which has been given tn
some OF It's provisions and made It bundle