Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-07-12

vocate for universal freedom, when TO be
such was stumbling block to political
advancement; the upright Judge; the
compeer and equal in judicial ability
and fame of the best judicial minds in
the State and country. BY no effort of
his own, and because his high position,
always unanimously bestowed, and his
known and universally recognized abil-
ity and integrity pointed and singled
him out as the proper person, did Judge
POLAND lay of the robes OF the highest
judicial Office in the State, which had
been worn by him as ably, as uprightly
as by any of his predecessors, unpolluted
and unstained, and assume the robes OF
his compeer upon the Bench and Of his
illustrious predecessor in the Senate.
No man in the State questioned the wis
dom of Gov. DILLINGHAM's choice. tits
well known to many, that the late la
mented colleague of Judge CoLLAMBR,
the Hon. SOLOMON FooT, feeling the i'm
portance of that crisis to which our
country Ind arrived, sensible Of the greas
loss the State had met with in the de-
cease of Judge CoLLAMER, and having
only the honor of his native State and
of his country nearest TO his heart, in
patriotic letter to the Governor, urged
upon him, by all these high considera-
tons, to appoint the ablsSt man to be
found in the State to succeed Judge COL
LAMER, in that Congress now in session,
which would be called upon to pacify
the nation, at the same time that it
should secure its freedom and perpetu-
ity. Acting upon such advice, where
else could Gov. DILLINGHAM; have looked
but to the Chief Justice Who else in
the State, without disparagementto other
eminent citizens, did not look, instructive
ly, in that direction? Having thus obey
ed the voice of the people Of the State,
new place OF trust and labor, placing
the Senatorial question upon the mere
ground of personal claim, as the
friends of Mr.. MORRILL, are striving TO
place it, it would be ungrateful and un-
just now for the people to lay hold of
the shoulders of Judge POLAND and turn
him out of the Senate, where signal
Providence has placed him, and send
him with all his eminent talents and in
huence, in the prime and vigor of man.
hood, into private life, unless upon
some better reason than that another
desires his place, who is better fitted for
the position he now occupies, and who
would not be likely to increase his use
fulness, if he did not lessen it, by going
into the Senate.
Whatever may have been urged in GER
tain quarters, at the time of Judge Pc.
LANDS appointment, as to the qualiflca-
lions Of Mr.. MORRILL, to fill respectfully
the vacancy, and the appropriateness of
such an expression of gratitude which
the people of the State felt toward him,
on account of his eminent public services,
was greatly OVerbOrne by the fact that
in the condition in which the t1nan-
ces of the country were placed at the
close Of the war, it was important and
vital for the State, in order to retain her
ascedency, and her influence, to keep Mr..
MORRILL, in his position as one of the
leaders in that branch Of Congress, where
his peculiar talents and habits of indus
try would be brought into requisition
in modelling the financial policy of the
country upon sound basis and in that
branch where all financial measures
must originate. 1t was almost univer-
sally felt that while Judge POLAND, by
reason Of his familiarity with judicial
subjects was better fitted than Mr.. NOR
RI1L to discharge the duties of Sena-
tor, which are peculiarly judicial, that
on the other hand, Mr.. MORRILL, was the
right man in the right place that there
was happy adaptiveness Of his abili-
ties to the discharge of the duties he
would be called to perform in the House.
Nobody questioned this, not even him
self. Everybody was convinced that
MORRILL, could do the State and Country
far better service in the House, where
tariff and revenue bills are minted. than
he could in the Senate. Everybody was
convinced that Chief Justice POLAND
could do better service, and the State
more honor, in the Senate, his thorough
judicial training and sound practical
sense enabling him to take equal rank in
ability, and in the course of time in in
luence, with such judicial men in that
body as PITT FEssBNDEN of Maine,
Judge TRUMBULL of Illinois, and Judge
HARRIS of New York, whose superior
influence and ability as Senators, is
grounded in their profound judicial
knowledge and requirements, fitting
them for the mastery Of the great judic-
ial questions which the rebellion dropped
as legacy into the lap of the nation.
If, therefore, the citizens of Vermont