Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-29
Ohio 6tate,s,mrair
Letter from Judge of the U. 8. Su-
'"preme Court.

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Some time In the latter part Of last summer
President Lincoln appointed Daniel +. Miller q
Judge Of the Supreme Court of the United
the appointment was announced, the question
was asked by almost everybody, "Who is
Daniel 4. Millerw He was man unknown
10 fame, and the general impression was that
"the honest Abe" had elevated to the,highest
legal tribunal of the nation an old crony Of bis,
with whom he had been accustomed to crack
Jokes, during court term, In the western dis
tricts. At length we learn something of the
man from himself If we can not ascertain
isho he lie, we are st least informed phat he is;
and the information is satisfactory to us. II
Judge Miller is as sound q lawyer "a heisa
politician, We must give the President credit
for having made one good appointment. {,
| The Judge in Q letter dated "Keokuk,
Iowa, Nov. II, 1862" declining on account OF
his professional engagements to attend g
liberty and Of the, Union," thus declares hia
sentiments: -
The recent elections have gladdened my heart
more thanI can find language to express, for
feel that by the success of the Democracy we
shall have Q speedy restoration of the Union
and Constitutional liberty.
Tam an old Clay Wing, as you all know, and
when that party went down, united with the
Republicans, in the hope and belief that 1t
would succeed to all the loyal and national vir-
tues of the Whig party, and that we would
have Whig principles and policy prevail under
another name. But got more than Ibay9ained
for. IL was not in the covenant thatwe should
have civil war as consequence Of Republican
success; that the public treasury was to be
plundered by Wholesale; that "free soil" 10 10y
al States should be covered with martial law;
that "free speech" should be chained In the
dungeons Of the baatile; that free homes should
be sacked to desolation, and the free men
should be confined in its practical application
| to the negroes of the South, and the Abolition
wing of the Republican party at the North. -
No! We old Wings, in uniting with the Re.
publican party, did not consent 60 be party to
any such violations of the Constitutional lib
erty. t 81. sus
Had the counaels of Gen. Scott, Mil
lard Fillmore, Johr ]. Crlttenden, Stephen
A. Douglas, and indeed Of all the wise and
good men Of our nation, been needed, we
would not now be afflicted with the civil war
that is upon US. They could not have prevent
ed South Carolina from her attempt OF revolu.
ton, but the Crittenden proposition would have
saved all the rest of the Southern States, and
long before this, at q triAing expense of money,
| and at a small loss Of life, that rebelliOus
State would have been humbled before the flag
of the Union. "a 5 r.
But how did the phrenzy of the Abolition
leaders meet that propcsition2 They eaid
away with it, away with it, and cruelty all who
advocate il. They farther said, leave the slave
States 90. We can do without them, and we
will speedily reap the advantages of o eepara-
ton. When the conservative element of the
nation proclaimed itself for the Union, then the
AboIitionists assumed that they were the war
party, and denounced all others as rebel gym
n,thizsrs. .,,. - :, q, s.t
That the Abolisionists are in favor of prose
cuting the war for their love of the Union,
am sure is not the clse. Their object Is to
abolish slavery only, and If that should fail,
they will again speedily raise their old CRY of
alei The Union slide" -
Gentlemen, it is the mission of the Demo-
cratic party to save the Union.
Il has always been loyal and natl nal party;
IL has ever upheld constitutional law as the oniy
safeguard Of freedom. Il was the party that
hurled from power the authors of the alien and
sedition laws, sixty years ago, and for all that
period they guided our ship Of State success
fully and gloriously through the waves Of civil