The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-04-24
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
'M@ ..sf n. II. ROBINSON,
PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR,
TMe U, n. SuDreme Court.


This may be regarded as ''disloyaL' by
the Republicans, but 1t cannot he truthfnlly
assailed. Says the New York Express:
"The comparatively insignificant position
occupied by Chief-,lustice Chase, on the
Bench of the Supreme Court, Is the subject
of general remark. Marshall almost invar-
iahly carried the Court with him. Taney
generally did So But Chase never, in any
case where the Court Is divided. Thus is
this partisan Judge almost daily humiliated
and rebuked by his own associates So the
''whirligig of time has its reyenges," and
| the finatical sower of dissension and pro-
moter of discord between the different mem
bers of the American family, though raised
| TO the loftiest pinnacle Of the Federal Judi
ciary, finds himself without influence and
without obedience" ...
| So much, as n prelude to the following
dignlhed and pointing article, which we
copy from the Philadelphia Ledger. Says
the Ledger;
There was "A very general feeling ut the
! time of Mr.. Chase's appointment to the
Chief Justceship of the United States that
his legal attachments were not such as to
qualify him for the great Office, and that
| fife spent in feverlsh political struggles had
spoiled him for the dlspassionate and inn
partial investigation of truth. But It was
| nOpcus even Nv JUOsc VINO ltktu anu UTusleu
| him least, that he would endeavor, by pa
tient study, to prepare himself to render
learned judgments, and by rigid renun-
citation of partisan prejudiccs, to give hon
est ones.
II was presumed very naturally, that the
measure OF his ambition would be filled
when he found himself the occupant of the
highest judicial seat In the land the seat In
which Jay. and Rutledge, and Ellsworth,
and Marshall, and Taney had won fame
far more precious than any which can be
conquered in the strife of the hustings or
conferred by the fleeting breath of popular
applause. But Mr.. Chase has disappointed
everybody. Instead Of betaking himself to
study and eschewing politics, he signalzed
tour through the South, in which he was
: not sparing of stump speeches.
On his return from this journey. he de-
livered u harangue Mt Dartmouth College
in which, while he freely admitted the men
tai incapacity of the negroes, and conceded
that their moral defects were more striking
than any positive virtues which he had dis
/. covered among them he yet claimed that
they should have votes-every one ofthem,
and without delay-because they had the
physical power to throw them into the bal
lot-box, where they were needed to per-
petuate power in the hands of the Republi-
cans. The end which he regarded as one of
DuGhlnONul lInpOIItIlCts III MS Judgment
Justified the means, which he acknowledged
were extremely bad. We refer anybody
who doubts the possibility of u Chief jus
ticc of the United States indulging IN such
talk as this to his speech as reported at the
time in all the prominent journals of the
country.
He has not mended his ways since the
meeting of Congress, but has given in
! flnitcly more attention TO the schemes of
the Radicals on its floor than TO the causes
, argued in his court. He Is conspicuous In
their secret councils; he Is notorious as the
chief adviser of those in opposition TO the
President and his comments upon current
. politics have become so cheap that news
: paper letter writers record personal inter-
A., views with him on the latest Radical trick
: and the last scurrillous fling of Mr.. Ste
/. vens at Andrew johnson. He has even
8 sought confldant In Mr.. Tilton, OF the
. New York Independent, whose talent for
retailing the gossip of the Capitol makes
5 him most desirable listener. Meantime,
Z he has positively refused to do his duty.
: and has been guilty of plain denial OF
: Justice, for which he ought TO be i'm
L peached, in declining to hold court In Vir-
!; ginia and give Jefferson Davis the speedy
: aud Impartial trial assured TO him, and all
/ other prisoners In bonds. by the Constitu-
|, tion of their country.
= We observe that Mr.. Chase Ia again on
1 the stump--hence these remarks. His last
!. speech was to u female association In New
York, and was devoted TO the exposition
of the Civil Rights bill, and the necessity
/ of following 1t up with negro suffrage. II
" was the harangue of ademagogue through
s out--an appeal 10 passion and prejudice, IL
!: which argument and reason was ignored
i Fancy any one of Mr.. Chase's great prede.
: cessors throwing of his judicial robe, for
saking his high seat and joining pot h0us'
6 wranglers on equal terms to advocate tho
. devices of a political party. Fancy Mar
i, shall at ward meeting or Taney on Tho
y q crowd. The study and the courtroom
/ engrossed the hours of those pure and use
c ful lives. But Mr.. Chase finds the blaze o
q the torchlights pleasanter than the lickei
Q of midnight oil and the gossip Of living
II dcmagogues more congenial than the re-
corded wisdom of the dead sages of the law