The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-17


it is probable that two convicts will be par.
doned on Christmas day.. w
Washingeon CorFespondenco.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1854.
In the Supreme Court, ON Assem- bling,
the proceedings were insugurated by Gu
logies upon the late Chief Justice. This
was regular and right. And the deceased
well deserved high compliments. He was
. Christian ; q conscientious man ;tao up
right and able judge; but few liable 10
have been appointed would have better
dlled the place. But Why say more than
was due, except in hyperbole which was
understandable by verybody-why say
more, deliberatelyf He was, by eminent
lawyers, enlogised as the greatest Of our
Chief Justices. Every body knows that
was~untrue.E No sensible and intelligent
man will dispute with Chief Justice Mar
shall the frst place in cur Judiciary, on
behalf Of any one. Nor, indeed. ID there
any reason 70 believe that he was the equal
of his successor-though Mr.. Chase may,
OF course, prove less than is to be pre-
sunet, certainly he is, however, intellec-
tGally greater than Judge fancy. He has
. broader mind and more intellectual at
tainments. Assf #Fss
Again: Why, because he is dead, justi-
~ everything he did while hving2 As
much is due to the truth of history ~ to
the memory Of an individual There was
q defense Of his bred Scott decision on that
funeral occasion. But everybody knows
that, in the case Of bred Scott, the Chief
Justice reversed the previous doctrine OF
the Supreme Court, and in unnecessaI y
obiter dicta: there was stretch of duty to
serve the cause of slavery in euch an act
every body knows that he turned his back
upon himself in doing it, for he himself
had previously given negro standing in
Court, and decided in favor Of the negro on
the merits of the case, at that that he
OVERRIDE unquestioned and unQuesti0nable
fbcts, quoted to him by Judge Curtis and
others, to establish the primary basis OF his
argument on that occasion. No. Let tina,
act stand accursed-a blot and O shame on
our Jurisprudence, until it il reversed, and
let him who performed il, fifty accnmpa-
nying it with those memorable words, "A
negro has no rights that white man il
bound to respect" be he dead or living,
wear upon his reputation the ignomiDy
that all just-minded mec will attach TO il.
Tended on that Occasi0n->sO old deed az
thats and it, too, proper "a it might have
been Of itself, and extra official act--an act
which it il hard to deny - above the law.
If not in clear contradiction to IT. a. 4,
Having said this, it il proper to add, that
he probably damned the negro race, ihro'
bred Scott, with less damage to his con-
81, An MA ho ,roatod HE nCr r.cr,as ,v;.,s
q chi,a. IN a k;cdnoe. ~.rrc,- ~ Iss, 80
~ H. Nta ha;rr q ton1.- ~, s..c. has.os..'
inc ! christian hrothsr and : nnra. hes rsad
man, of an old negro servant,-he was
thoroughly saturated with the pro-slavery
notions OF his class, who repealed the Mis-
souri, Compromise, enacted the Lecompton
ho;ies and orsrthrac, ionr.o.ta hI,.h..i :, !.
1;n;.i .o sSens 80 ~ n - a a..noS ~!
e,,,r;-a ~ ur,s,ar car.;t,,ac ~. l.:e
creeI h;s hel;af inSoren ~;th ~. . "a .s
tins, !. conss;ent;nns corv;ct;or tho',..h 4,
!. not IL Ia denied that NJ ccn.c,arca .,a -
misersh,r tntored IL that reoarS ny thss
he followed The direction Of RI mind ind With I.
rifv in that aminent instance
With these criticisms, due TO Liberty, to
Law, and to History, concur In the touch
ing and sincere eulogies on the death Of The
departed. 500 ,..-s.
An Interesting incident has lately come
10 nv knowledge. that Is worth recording.
A short time previous to our Presidential
election . large number Of the leading
Of Cuba put in the hands 81
the Captain. General, petition for the alb
clifton Of slavery in that island, with the
home government for action: He took 1t,
but refused 70 forward it, and gave no ex-
PLANTATION Of his conduct. Since the cleo
lion OF Mr.. Lincoln he has forwarded it,
with the explanation, to the signers, that
the reason he did not previously forward
Z was because, II Mcclellan was elected,
there would be 2 division OF our Union,
one part being slaveholdtng and one free.
q which case II would have been for the
interest Of Cuoa TO have retained slavery,