The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1866-05-30

pertinent OF lnitlatlng disorder and governmental
collision, to establish order and even handed JUS
tice.o
The minority judges, Brinkerhoff and SUIT.
I'm. In their dissenting opinion, fully sustain
the the state rights and notification theory
and Judge Sutlif, the particular friend Of
Gov. Chase. Celebrates the doctrine in nearly
. hundred pages of the ninth Ohio state re-.
ports. quoting at length, on page 800, the |
resolutions of '9S-'99, reindorsing the Cleve-
land meeting, thus iudicially indorsing:
t.That, as IN all other cases of compact among |
parties having no common judge, each party has
right to judge of ITSELF as well of infration of
the mode and measure of redress.''
That nest-egg of secession, which has just
cost the American people million of lives
and billions of money.
The supreme court of Ohio having refused
to lend itself to the schemes of the nullifers.
they vented their spite at the convention on
Ju I'd, on Chief Justice Swan. for having
arlessly and honestly refused to surrender
his judicial opinions to the dictation of Gov.
| Chase, though the radicals failed to nomin
| ate successor of their own faith, in the per-
| soa of Judge Spalding. but they substituted
Judge Gholson, lawyer, of the same consti-
tut onal opinions as Judge Swan, as meas
ure of personal revenge. But here the re-
| 4 comme ced among the honest masses.
|
pursuit of the PR idential nomination, and
| inst ad of Ohio be- ng a unit for him at Chi
C go-this very action of his, in Judge Swans
&C e, led to the proposal from Ohio to Abra-
ham Lincoln to run for presidency, in letter
detailing the dangers that would result to
the country under Chase's lead to which COM
munication Lincoln replied as follows, which
was his first letter on the presidency.
"spR1NerIELD, H., July IS, 1859.
My DEAR SIR-Your very complimentary, not
say attering, letter, of the 23d inst, Is recev-
ed DR.. R had induced me to expect you
here, and l disappointed not little by your
failure to come,-and yet fear you have forme
an estimate of me, which scarcely be sustained
| on a personal acquaintance. Two things done oy
the Ohio republican convention, viz: The repudi-
alton of Judge Swan, and the plank'lor the rePea
OF the fugitive slave law, very much regretted
these two things of a piece, and they are view
ed by many good men, sincerely opposed TO slavery
struggle against, and In disregard oi the con
stituton and it is the very thing that Will great
ly endanger cause, if it net kept out oil GU
f national convention
2 On the strength OF this letter the movemen
q was set on foot by which these dlsorganlZlnl
doctrlnes were kept out OF the Chicago plat
o form and Abraham Lincoln elected, who hell
n the Union together by coercion and an appea
o to the honest masses ut his country men
, against the advice of Chase and his school, &
,f
m feared that. no matter In what shape the.
e we're brought back 10 the Union, it would de
TT stroy the prospects of Chief Justice Chas
l and all that ilk for the presidency. Hsnc
&c the opposition of the congressional leaders
y Liocoin's denomination, because he was com
J., mitted to T. restoration policy that defeate
d their schemes, and the defeat OF IIamlln b
Ut johnson at Baltimore, only added to thel
lie griets. The pilgrimage ofChief Justice Chas
to the south, preaching negro suffrage, ate
N Lincolp's assassination, was a prelude to tn
<. CON bined movement against the LlncoII
johnson policy, which the people had indor
ed at the presidential election, and the III
1 wonted spectacle is row daily paraded befo,
the public of the successor of Marshall maxim
political hsraneues.
A. The radical leaders in congress are oni
% playing out the programme indicated by II
A. chief Justice in opposing the trial OF Jete
n son Davis, while diverting the people wit
MT speeches about military commission, wine
Y ne supreme court las iust decided to be u
constitutional and which every one know
has no Jurisdiction for the trial of treason.
nm Jefferson Davis can only be tried for treaso
il: according to the best legal advice, where
u has been personally present. Virginia al
iis Tennessee the most proper venues.
. tbe first named state Chief Justice Chase T
He fused to hold court and would leave the Ca
~ TO the plumbers OF Judge Underwood, who
no lawyer Congress, under the inspiratlt
10 of Sumner and Stevens, delays 10 pass any Ia
N. b. which competent jury can be obtaine
.oI md TO cap the climax, the senate refuses
confirm the nomination of Heary Stanber
oi one of the most eminent jurists in the cou
No try, as Judge in the Tennessee circuit, so
iv IT, leave it entirely in the hands of Chase,
| chic Justice, to decide whether, under exit
a- ing law, any other supreme judge can be sc
,ot into the vacant circuit otry Davis. Yet da
~. after day the radical leaders in congress W
Ia pour out their walls of abuse upon Preside
10 | Johnson because Davis is not punished I
of treason. Let congress pass the necessary la
Id to get jury, and the public will soon kno
IN where the responsibility rests Chief just
IA, Caasss friends cannot long saws him fra
that ordeal of poetic justice which will
for mand from him the public Judicial retractl
IA of the state rights resistance school. viii
on led his followers TO the immolatlon OF Jod
,ha Swan Political retribution is sometlm
10y slow, but if President johnson, by hsngi
90 JEFF Davis for treason, can at the same til
tbs gibbet, in the public opinion, the heresIes
nv, the extreme school of partisans of the VIII
Az. ilk to which he belongs, the country may tn
of hope for lasting peace.
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