The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1866-07-18

Nhancellor presiding ere 70 the gentle
men at the Bar sure passport to the
most satisfactory relations in le .al pro-
aadings. Easy without familiarity,
a,l dignified without studied tormali-
y, he wins The esteem of al! ,,l.o ap-
>roach hi:n, and mcouscioNsly COM
lands their respect. lIighly cult
yoted II intc]l4ct, and having we'll
>avoioped onniytical powers Of mind,
md u quick sense of justice and right,
lA is well calculated to sit as Judge
'1d jury in disputed cases between
Han and man. One of his strong
Mcntal applications is undoubtedly
no fondncss for laying proof along
lde of proof; for obtaining every pos.
,ible point in proof upon both sides,
and thcn comparing prpof with proof,
and argument with argument, md then
placing ono against the otlnr in the
scale Of justice, marking With cx%c,-
ness OF whcso side the batmlco Of the
weight should fall. rhoro is one rna-
turo IN which his Honor the Chancellor
leans asi were peculiarly upon the
couusellors at the Bar. 1t i thoil
reference to eases as preC ""uts IL
Law or Equity. Such references are
always gratifying. but he who refers
should DO extremely cautious to offer
one torciblc IN It's bearing upon the
case in point, for his Honor will thor
oughly sift cvcly such reference to sec
how in what way and to what cxtcrt
it serves to support the case to whose
aid it is called.
1t is true cycry one should do this
who occupicsa similar position but il
is not true that every one does. 1t is
only to those who do this that others
look us II guide in their decisions. 1t
is to men Of different minds from this,
that arc due those ssloosc" decisions
which were referred to on Tuesday
last in one Of the counscllor's argu-
ments --.-4-
But we have extended this part OF
our impressions further than we in
tended. We arc giving only impress
sions, and such arc those made en- our
mind, upon seeing tho Chancellor for
tho first time.
Another impression was that The
phrase "gonc up the spout" has been
LOCALIZED. Our ablo legal practi,ion-
crs have adopted it, not however in MI
its parts, but in an abbreviated style
"Gonc up" may now be properly used
to express all final departures of per
sonal and real estate, and especially
all that departed during and with the
war.
But another impression was the Pc
culiar effect produced at the sight of
some momento Of the Confedcracy,
that is somc official representative of
that defunct organism 1t is we'll
known that to recall to an individual
any cherished but defeated scheme in
his past life, is to provoke faint and
sickly smile. And it is Just tho same
with communities and countries.
So on Tuesday last whcu occasion
arose that nine thousand and some
hundred dollars i'll Confederate bonds
should be produced rs mute witnesses
in tho trial, that pitiful bundle Of pa
per excited that same specie of smile.
And SO will sucN DO SO long as the re-
suit Of the ''situation" It represents
remains wildly impressed upon our
minds. There is an instructive desire
to SEQ it out of tho way not because
VIC were ashamed of it then, nor be-
cause VIC arc now ashamed of what it
once represented, but because it re-
minds us Of defeat in cherished plan.
Bus we have said enough, though not
all our own impressions in the Court
ENC
Room.
1t is said of an old Judge some
who're that he preferred to hear but
one side Of case, for when he heard
both he could not decide how to pro-
nounce judgment. While the prac-
tice of the old Judge would be abomi-
nabfe, no ono can deny that his rca-
son for it might very well and frc-
quently prove pcrplexing source Of
But tho beauty Of the
judiciary isl just as much hidden from
the man who takes umbragc at the do,
cision of Courts because it conflicts
with his selfish ends, as it was from
the judge because it tasked his pa
tience.
Law and Equity in theory arc bas-
I'D upon the universal principle--cx-