Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-13

PAlRlNU done IN tne onOrItst lOts,Drs
eellaneousIy, buttermilk. whisky, cider,
and ale, till he reached Hagerstown.
The Judge went to his room and revisited
Martin next morning. He found the lat
ter dead drunk, lying across the bed,
with one boot off and his hat on his head.
Horrified. he felt that this important
eieetment he must argue himself, and set
himself to work. As court began, how
ever. in came Martin, clear-hesded as
ever, aud carried the cause through tri-
umphantly.
"What. did Judge Taney think of
Chief Justice Chase, Mr. Tyler
"Better Of him, sir, than most OF the
Chief Justices friends. / have heard
him express himself favorably of Mr..
Chase's address, motives, and legal abili-
ties" .rt
Judge Taney's opinion Of Andrew
Jackson was high, of course y
"The highest. He was the grandest
Ce,ar that ever sat in the executive
chair. Few of Judge Taney's friends
have ever been in the White House since
General jackson left it. never expect
to enter there again. Judge Taney re-
cognized in General jackson the su.
premest will, the strongest devotion, the
clearest intellect that ever adorned the
Chief Magistracy. So far from the Chief
Justice, in his capacity of the mover OF
the deposits being the tool of Andrew
Jackson, he was the suggester of the re-
moval and impressed the same upon the
President. TIE latter was at that time
at the Rip Raps, and possess the letter
which Mr.. Taney wrote, saying to Gen.
eral jackson that to bis knowledge the
United States Bank was sink of cor
ruption, and that patriotism and expe-
diency warranted the President 10 re-
moving the deposits, while Mr.. Taney
had no doubt, from an examination OF
the law, that it gave the President the
right"
'"The Dred Scott decision, sir. Was
the Chief Justice aware that in this stood
the measure of his regard with posterlty
which will exist when slavery and its in
| huence shall be no more2"
Mr.. Tyler said that the Chief Justice
seemed, after rendering that decision, to
be chiefly indignant at the political at
tacks made upon his Judicial integrity by
Seward and others.
:" He was the purest character that
ever wore ermineI said Mr.. Tyler, en-
Enthusiastically. he never suffered his
character to be impugned; he was chaste
as Lucrece +"
"But, sir, was it bis saying-were they
his terms--hat a negro had no rights
which q white man was bound to respecIf
"Oh that was picked out of the dec
sion--a decision agreed to by Judge Grier,
Of Pennsylvania, and Judge Nelson, oi
New York--apd quoted against Mr.. Ia
ney; whereas, he had only cited it from
statute, or compiled it from a series Of
statutes. The decision was a model OF
judicial learning, SO accounted every
where, and, like all Judge Taney's pa
pers. perfectly classical in style"
"You do not know, then, whether
Judge Taney is entirely responsible for
this decision, its phraseology and the
matter of it as it stands =
Entirely, sir. 1t is his composition,
aud he never expressed any fear as to
the verdict of history upon it
"Was Judge Taney a man OF cour-
age2'
Eyes; he could have died in the fire
for a principle. He was feeble, but q
fearless man. Somebody once asked to
introduce John Randolph, of Roanoke.
Il am told said the Chief Justice, that
Mr.. Randolph is in the habit of insulting
people familiarly. | can not know any
such character, sir. :"
Ibid Chief Justice Tsney desire that
slavery should continued"
"Why, sir, he gave the very best
proof of the contrary for, though poor,
he manumitted all his negroes, and left
his family without money or servants.
Some time ago was applied to by no.
bleman, from Europe, for large picture
of Judge Tauey, and l found that the
only copies remaining we're marked as
set apart for his faithful, lifelong slaves,
- and -"
In what pertsined to his Office, Judge
Taney was uncompromising, reserved
and judicial; but he was democratic as q
savage before his God. At Frederick he
used to wait in the rain outside the Cath
Ollie church till the priest was ready to
call him to confession.
The priest said, one day "Jndge Ia
ney, you need nc. wait among these
Irish and negroes. You can 60 into my
Office, or be confessed Immediately"
"No SIR" said the Chief Justice, II
will take my turn"
This man, with such alleged traits de-
fenced by Judah P. Benjamin against
such lions of debate as outroared the ae-
cusers of Warren Hastings, will still have
for the chief epitsph upon his long life /:
"He scrofe The Dred Scott decision. "