The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-14
CHIEF JUsr1oE rAxEx.

"Swede," the Washington correspondent o.
the Cincinnati Commercial, gives this account o.
an interview with the biogrspher of Chief Justice
fancy:
Mr.. Tyler, an author, as l have said, whose
DOCKS have been published by the house OF Lip
Maryland seTsd and Rass
NJ. Carlyle be divided the confidence of Judce
fancy, and, therefore. feel that in relating the
incisiye passages of our conversation, am per-
hsps bringing out some features of Chief Justice
TaDey's life which may be useful to the age.
which is in doubt as to the real motive principles
OF his extraordinary career. OF this career
civilization will judge independently. / repro
duce, merely, the verdict OF friend.
JUDGE TAxEY's CIRCUMSTANCES.
Was Judge fancy rich, Mr.. Tylerlr
NO, sir always poor. He lived in Blagden
how-the row OF stnccoed houses nearly oppo-
site the City Hall. They are four-storie an
iron balcony runs above the first story; two win
dows adjoin the hall door. His daughters, at this
day, live upon copying reports and papers from
the department OF The interior. One OF them.
bel eve, is unmarried; another a widow. They
are ID as nearly state Of Indulgence as l care to
classify ladies so tenderly reared. The Judge
himself said to me. during the war, that he
lamented his narrow means, because he wanted
to take another newspaper, and could not
afford if.v -.
he had not always lived there?',
mo, sir. He resided in Baltimore. after he
Quilted Frederick, down to comparatively re-
cent period. His birthplace was on the Chesa-
peake Bay, below Annapolis, and his grand.
parents were English Catholics, who settled In
this country about 100. You know that his pub.
hc offices were attorney general of Maryland,
secretary of the treasury, and, at last, chief
justice. He has often told me that the frst was
the only Office be ever coveted. His pride of
state was very strong: He loved Maryland, AID
wished to be inferred at Frederick, where he
passed the majority of his private life.r
And be is buried there?r
Yes, sir beside his wife, who was the sister
OF Francis Scott Key. author of the Star Spaugled
balner Inere 1t has been proposed to erect a
members of bis family whom he loved in his life.
time: There, sir, met the chief justice first, one
of bis toRnsmen.n
JUDNE TAsEY's IDIosYNcRAsIEs.
{" What papers did he take, sirg You have
alluded to his love of contemporary readingu
he took the New York papers, the National
lntelligencer, the Globe, the Edinburg, North
Britirh. Quarterly and Westminster Reviews,
and the London Times, regularly down to his
death: BE read every article in them also.n
. Was he much of q rec0ntebr ?"
yes, upon subjects disconnected with himself
but being chief justice be seemed to hold his per.
'onal affairs in jealous regard being fearful that
professional opinions. To me- even, whom he had |
selected to write his life, if found it worthy |
enough, he would seldom talk upon those con. |
,erns which was curious to know
I'm what year was Judge fancy appointed |
hief justice ~
''ln 1885, sir. There never was a country so |
ortunate in its chief justices as the United States
rhe two terms of Marshall and fancy, put to-
Jether, extend over sixty years."
'Taney had not literary abilities like Marshall ~
eyes, he had abilities, but he was thoroughly
devoted lawyer, who refused to express opinions
literary or otherwise. which might seem to obtain
ne sanction OF the name of the chief Justice and
Though be read much, he seemed to make an
mort 70 compress bis mind and utterances into
egal channels merely, and looked upon his court |
Win sn eye single. Efforts were made to drag |
i'm into politics at many periods of his life.
otably during the Douglas Breckenridge cam.
aign.r
what case was that Mr.. Tyler ?,
"Wel, sir One Mr.. Hughes, of Haverstovn.
n intimate TREND Of Judge fancy. wrote to the
ldge In the heat of that political campaign. say.
lg that 1t was affirmed all through the country
lat Judge fancy had decl ared himself in favor
Mr.. Douglas for the presidency. Conse.
uenty, the Irish Catholic voters we're going pell.
ell for Mr.. Douglas. And Mr.. Hughes, who |
eieyed the coItrsry to be the predictions of
ssion to deny that he had expressed him.
III In support OF the Little Giant, as she was
,lled.-
:. What did the chief justice reply!n
" He wrote, in a letter which now possess, to |
us efect-very nearly in these terms:
Sa-l am chief justice Of the United States.
sucn, since the year 1886 / have nerer cast q |
re never permit any retainer or UNDER |
Of mine to converse with me upon
Indicates and their prospects,. never give ad-
&c or render service, voluntarily or involunta-
y, upon any side. And 20 particular am I. air. | /
~ my lame snai never appear, with my con- .