Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-12-07

81 psse and Haassiss ra6sDnIak which aflerwasA.
iuss'1 him % distinguished iaiea He wAs Che
impslsepaliu1 % logic. DE was everything ii dear
dAsllkhb ard had tlp gseulsy o. making oshari I'd
soa "A political and legal reaaeaes, no aras
never aeeB tatpAsssa III The coufary. nat even b.
Das.sN Wsbsset Of ri sdIuaicatisas dlsslagsssst.
e jaest has aid The decisions u tie tuprus,s
courts lie ualtsa States have rnlsoa fhs rv.ssan
Of ~ ceaatfy net ~ than they hase confirmed
The sksssitutien IA al parts og tie world he laar
nasntl are Spoken 81 with ssspecG Ia aaludcslons
ef PRIZE Nv are cbds Tor al fislnzs slns Upon
e.asnsfal law h has broaghs n nearly % enc s5s-
ten ipaitlng The pfsbity and tatsfusss Of great
eoniahtcial nation. over IL wiols path faarninr
and lsislllgshes and integrity have ssea tsif cal-
binsa sastra .i
For thirty-ass yeAn chlsf Jastiae Msnhail
sdOraed the saptcme bench. Only I've Or three
quesiisns Of cohgtational Law had ever engaged the
satsniisa Of that court up TO the time when be sas
appslnsea chief Bst during the course u his JEDI.
elsi lie nllastoH questions Of ptacsicai uAtaee,
springing freH Tie eenstitstion and iavuivise M
sefesss Of vat imaginable, we're constantly before
The cvatti aad altnosi Every part Of he
va. tadiesAilS IHsStrfslsd, explained limited and
adjusted 10 his iunaineus and voiunlnous dscsloss.
He more than SD other mon pss together, created
the body Of American Constitutional law.
Alongside % these logical powers and this legal
learning and mastery Of thspgsnspss Of inserprssa-
ton, there vas charming simplicity OF character
and gccd k.nnof that made the Judge p0ralar
citlsen snda eiisrihed social companish Hla "a
voriss aasassaaeus vas The pitching q saoits and
he vsA y long Is be lived, nember Of quot club
10 Richmond, Al whose piace 20 meeting he used 70
spsnd many Of those beass which he managed %
steal from exh4assing Judicial hbofs Il oaghl alo
30 Be sddsA shst, IKE his predecessors, ha wss
deeply religious man sincere believer IN tie Chris
tian faith snd oa more than ons uccaslaa be ttes
The fsllsciei u he iaAdel with The sans titanic
hammer with which be demolisked The sophisssiaof
che lawyers Hi successor VS.
aoasR nEoKE TAxR1.
ualike the great men who preceded him, the lac
chief lsiics Owed biz elevation less 70 eunsnt pr
soaal staesss than 70 political considerations He
wzs hovoscs, very respectable lawyer andra an
amiabls and essinaile man. he was descended
from ~ English Catholic family, which sary netesd
Ia Maryland, and be lived and died In he faith Of
bis fathers. Perhaps shs tenessof his Rsuanss BE-.
lief nay have narrowed the natural breadth II bis
mind. At any fass. IN judicial eats4r Of nors
lksa swenty-ssygs years, from 1851 20 1864 be has
lsh behind him no such aoBuments a. maks the
Inemary Of bic predecessors fragrant and immortal.
HI issdsmsnls Mgrv ne VAR dJssabgpahsa Cor ahl-
u tho court, end his decision IN ths famosn Dred
Scott case even on legal and technical grounds was
pronounced by cnmpesent judges far inferior - thai
u Lis associ4te Judge Benjamin. h gprtia
Our present gayernmsnt has existed jnss seventy
aye years. We have had ninssesn executivs I'd.
AID sixtSsn different presidents. Il
: certainly remarkable that IN This long Entaryal 20
have had hsa far chief justices Of thsE snPreaas
sours. II y nov question not only q natural Gu
riosisy. bu. u grssi pabiio consequence sAs
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