The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-02-07

I Inc following correspondence IS puO
lished at the instance Of the members
of the Knoxville Bar, whose signatures
are attached 10 the letter to Judge
Trigg:
KSOxvruE, TsSS, Jan. %, 1865.
Hox CoEEALLr F. Taco,
Judge of the District Court Of the
United States for the Districts of Ten
nessee.
SR:-The undersigned members OF
the East Tennessee Bar, who were in
attendance at the last term Of the Fed
eral Court in this place, while doubling
the propristy, under ordinary circum>
stances, of making such communica-
ton as We propose to make, regard it as
proper, lin view Of the fact that but one
term of the Court had been previously
held since the commencement of the
war, and that little more was then done
than to prepare business for the last
term, and also, in view of the fact that
the last was the second Court held by
your Honor in East Tennessee) to re-
mark, that so far as we have had the
opportunity ofjudging, your appearance
among Us was hailed with lively salts
faction 6y the people, and that all were
rejoiced 70 see the authority of the
United States, once more reasserted
among US, though its tribunals Of JUS
tice.
During the last, which was by far the
longest term Of the Federal Court that
ever was held in this division of the
State, your labors were exceedingly ar
duous and perplexing. 1t therefore
became necessary for you to determine
questions Of much novelty and intrica-
cy, growing out of the war, and the re-
centlegislation Of Congress, and we can
not too highly commend your patience
or the deliberation, learning and re-
search manifested by you, in delivering
a number of elaborate and able writ
ten, as well IS oral opinions.
We were much pleased, also, with
the dignity, impartiality, independence
aud hrmness with which you presided
IN Court; and we feel assured that, BY
the exhibition of qualities so essential
TO the pure administration of Justice
you have contributed much to re-estsb-
lish a feeling of public safety, and 10
satisfy the public mind, torn and agita
ted as it has been for the last four
years, that the halycon days of law
and order" will again exist among US.
The opinion haslong prevailed among
the most enlightened jurists, both in
England and in this country, that the
only liberty which is worthy of the
name, is that true liberty which is reg
ulated, restrained and controlled by
law, and that the calm deliberatiOn of
the courts and juries of the country,
extending as they do to everything
that concerns life, liberty and property,
are the safest and most efectual means
OF securing and perpetuating private
and public rights. Constitutions and
laws are not worth the paper upon
which they are printed, if there were
no tribunals expressly created to ex-
pound the one and enforce the other.
And all history shows that the Bench
and the Bar have, as q general rule,
especially in the United States, contri-
buted largely to the acquisition, as
well as the preservation, of public lib
erty. 1t Is alone in the serene halls Of
justice that the rich and the poor, the
strong and the feeble, the learned and
the ignorant, preserve that equality
which is the pride and the boast Of
our free institutions for there alone
all receive patient hearing, and
there alone their rights are governed
oy lnnexlpIe rules and weighed in
equal scales
Sincerely trusting that your life and
health may be long spared, and that
career Of further usefulness to your
country and honorable distinction TO
yourself is opening before you, we are
Very respectfully,
Your friends and obedient servants.
THos A r NIsoX,
GcoRGE Brown,
SAM L. LOGAN,
A. A. KYLE,
JAMES r. CoCKE,
JSo NJ FLEMING,
JSo. BAxTER,
FELIX A. REEVE,
.. P. TEMPLE,
j. NETHERLASD.