The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-04-05

pAspndA Il iS36. sssSsl. I 4 DO prsaIaln1
~ six-snd- thirty ysals, disl Ara nov
The Arst strictly politit1al lntneat 4
. the bench No made.
II 1883, Duaas,S Secretary 81 10 Treasury,
irsfosed y rsnoys The Federal depoSits fto1l
To United 8tates Bank. Thersapon jack
tsoa fsnovsd hin from olles and appointed
KoEef = fancy II biz place, il The recess Of
sne Sensts. fancy pronptly did tho job
The Senate refused 70 confirm his nomina.
ton, and be went back 10 private life. Two
years atterward, MarshaIl died Jackson,
willing 70 reward fancy for doing an odious
political deed, bestowed upon him the er-
| mine that fell from the shoulders of Marshall
Benjamin :. Butler was chen Attorney
6sneral. BY the rules Of The profession, he
should have received this appointment He
had ample learning, Experiences industry and
integrity, for the place But il was %
compensation % : politician who had mot
ocrupied % perform high-handed act at
the dictation Of the Executive. From that
hour, the Court lost caste with the country.
Cslnoun liked his eagle eye upon il and re-
solved to make it the subseFvient hack OF |
me negro propaganda. TO this end, itwss |
necessary to restore Southern supremacy on
the bench Two new seats were created |
under Jackson. Van Buren, filed them |
with Catron and Mckinley, both extreme
slaveholders- former respectable iurist
the latter groveling partisan, And nov
the Court consisted 81 I've shveholders ana
four n-slaveholders, with he. unscrupu.
lOus fancy at ito head And thus il remains
to this day.
Of the Eve Chief Justices Of this Court,
two were from the North, and presided IN
che aggregate years while the South has
furnished three, who have presided so wears.
VI the 81 Associated Justices, 10 came from
the North, and IL from the South the az
gregate period Of the former being 1911 years .
and Of the latter, PA years During the y
nrst 10 years of the existance Of the Court,
ne Judges were selected equally from the .
North and South Throughout the snbse-
luent 90 years, the South has had q major
y on the bench, excepting about years :
: has controlled the Court for the last %
ears Do not forget that all this time the :
equation and business of the North has ex- :
eeded that of the South, and that, fora
uarter OF century past, this preponder-
nee mas been great and constantly increas- = =
The Attorney General is an important !.
oxlllary OF the Supreme Court; its public "
40 private adviser. He is the law-oficer :. Z
the Administration and Of Congress. The :.
lave-Power has kept ito eye on this i'm !,
ortant Office During the seventy years Of >,
n constitutional existence, seven Attorney q
enerals have been taken from the North, n,
hose aggregate term Of Office amount to II.
years; while the South has furnished Is Of
40 have held the post 40 yeare. Does any ii.
,dy believe that this persistent possession an
these two branches Of the Government, by
9 Slave-Power, is the result OF mere &C. All
dent3 Ger
This tribunal has important functions to
rform, not only in b0nco, but at the Cir
Its: These are most unequally, most 1
andalously arranged. The Free States GOV
divided into four Circuits, and the Slave an.
@ I'VE; the judges Of the two sections cit to
3 IN the Circuits where they reside. The 'h /.
neral business of the Circuits differs e. ~
1uaidy from tnat Of our State Courts. 1t
chiefly OF two kinds-suits On patents for III
'entlons. and civil and criminal cases aris- n
out OF maritime business and the revenue y
Vs. It is notorious that nearly all patents SCI SCI
issued to the manufacturing States Of
North. Hence, there is the seat Of this
% OF litigation A patent suit in the s
lth is az rare as "honor among thieve.'. :
en- Of the first two Circuits, j. g., New . :,
gland and New York, afford more such n
e yearly than all the FIVE Southern Cir thai
to. The great bulk Of business springs Eng Eng
ectly and indirectly from the commercial gui.
rlne. The amount of this marine in the =
erai Circuits is much surer test Of their PLI
Ideal business, than population. The If
'stsred and licensed shipping shows the p was
ent OF TINS marine. Let - apply this rEA
The four Circuits Of the Free States, this P pTs
pplng measured, in the last year, 4, O79,- L
tuns. In the five Circuits Of the Slave Ar sau
tes, It measured 84l ,538 tuns or scarcely Blot
re than one-ffth 40 much. The admiralty ia, =.
revenue business Of the Circuits is about bad
TINS proportion. In the first Circuit, com
opposed Of Maine, New Hampshire, Mas !, !.
husetts, Rhode Island, the tonnage is L. no :
;, i4|-or nearly double that of all the M Hn1
tn. In the second Circuit, composed Of viii
rmont Connecticut and New York IL il mat,
59,257 tuns-or more than double that Of Urn vrs
five slaveholding Circuits. The Circuit from
which New Orleans and Mobile are sit HEA
ID, has only 24O,245 tuns and that -
ch boasts Of Charleston and Savannah. Pc
l33 IN tuns We doubt not that more old
liralty and revenue cases are heard in a AMI
er one of the first two Circuits than in all to II
South. Js
W ,n;hA .. !. !. parf
A1lAAC cAtonU InJ60 0CaCleCl0S ln0eh tenn
~. We fOrbe0r These addncod shnv c0Ns
this Court, as now arranged, is scan Of oT.a
'usly sectional, grossly partial mOckerv They
be Constitution q .orr IL tho .i..o .o,-o p.
! 0SAA y. NA0 0."v0 PV"o1, and
ulSkEdce 70 the country. truly ma form
al Administration will NIT fail a. n - used
it as to regain for it the confidence Of ~ Eos \
people BY adapting it to the ends for q
ch it was created tie, %
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