The New York herald., 1869-03-06

from which city he was driven by mob about
TWENTY-FIVE years ago. he at that time holding COM
mission from Massachusetts as an agent 70 oeiend
the rights OF her coored citizens, principally SAIL
ors, who were constantly taken from her ships and
confined in the jais OF that city a. means Of pre-
caution against the spread Of incendiary abolition
doctrines The elder Mr.. Hoar died IN 1855. His
wife and the mother Of the new Attorney General
was Sarah Sherman, Q daughter OF Roger sherman
OF Connecticut.
MIR. Hoar as q Politician.
lockwood Hoar, a. ne Is styled by his intimate
acQuaintances, was graduated ct Harvard College ID
1885, and immediately began the study Of the law.
He was for some time In the once OF Charles Allen,
Of Worcester. and he could have had no better
training than he got at the hand OF that very great
lawyer and judge. He was early In politics. having
been whig member Of the State Senate about 1s4o;
st any rate ct the time of the controversy between
the conscience" and the "cotton" wings, which
eliminated in the free soil bolt OF 1s4s. These
old names are mentioned because the distinction
which they imply took its rise In remark by Mr..
Hoar during . speech In the Senate when he was
member. He was with Sumner and Allen, and 8. O.
Philips and Wilson and Palfrey in the free soil move
ment and especially active In the canvass In Middle
sex between Pafrey and his whig opponents which
began with the opposition OF the former to Mr.. VIM
throp's election TO the SpeakershIp OF the Lower
House Of Congress in 1s4s, when Charles Allen and
Henry wilson originated the free soil bolt BY
denouncing Taylor's nomination in the Phila-
delphia Convention. Mr.. Hoar led or In the
new movement He wrote the circular which
called the State Convention in Massachusetts, and
which resulted In the formation Of party OF $4,000
voters who within three years broke down Mr..
Webster and the wing party, elected Charles Sumner
to the seat he holds and placed Governor Bout
well in the gubernatorial chair. The ground ON
which the opposition was put in this circular was
that General Taylor was not o whig, and that the
whg party had been substantially disbanded by his
nomination. This was not perhaps creditable to the
candor Of Mr.. Hoar and his brethren, but. consid-
ering the overpowering influence Of Mr.. Webster and
the social and political supremacy Of whigism IN
the State it was as far as they saw ft to go.
His Services on the Bench and Legal Attain.
ments.
Soon after this time Mr.. Hoar was appointed q
Judge Of the Court Of Common Pleas, and served in
this capacity several years. with great credit to him.
self and usefulness TO the State. 1t may be well to
speak here Of his legal qualities He is unquestion-
ably very superior lawyer-0ne Of the very first In
State famous for legal acumen and profoundness.
Az an advocate he lacked enthusiasm ana perhaps
was not SO persuasive man as his father.
but as Judge he has no superior here,
II
Of the Common Pleas he gave the only judicial
opinion delivered here against the constitutions
ality Of the Fugitive Slave law. In charging the
grand jury at the beginning Of term before which
trial growing out Of the Sims case was expected TO
come, he expressed himself very strongly to this
erect and the contrast which was thus exhibited
between the radical opinion Of the young free soil
Judge and the cautious and timid policy Of all the
judges, big and little, from Shaw downward, tended
to make him very well known and much admired
by the progressive party After leaving the inferior
court he practced law several years. and in 1859 was
again made judge, and on this occasion OF tho
Supreme Judicial Court, which ONCE he has held
ever since, though at times with great reluc-
tance on account OF the inadequacy Of the
salary. When Judge Blgelow resigned the chief
justiceship, Governor Bullock, who, 1t s said,
has decided repugnance to Judge Hoar-growing
out Of his hostility to the Judges brother, George F.
Hoar, OF Worcester, the member Of Congress from
the Eighth districtrefused to appoint him and nomi
mated Judge Thomas to the vacant place. The friends
or Judge Hoar made strenuous resistance to this
proposed indignity towards him. they considered
it, and they succeeded In obtaining vote Of the
Council against Thomas. Harvard College, where
Mr.. Hoar has many friends, entered warmly into this
contest and the most eminent Of our literary men,
such as Emerson and Lowell and Holmes, iobbied
suit was the nomination and confirmation Of Judge
Chapman to the position Of Chief the Governor, OF
course. refusing to appoint Hoar after contest with
him and his friends in which he came out second
best.
Political Views Of the New Attorney General.
Judge Hoar IL in the prime Of life and In the vigor
Of his faculties. He is spoken OF as q radical, but
this remark win not apply TO him except a. anti
slavery man. His ancestry Is federal and conserve
tive, and his tastes and habits especially Of late
years, have led him into conservative ways Upon
all topics growing out Of the and the extinction
Of slavery he would be likely to be radical for he
inherts hatred Of that specla! form Of arstocracy
which Sumner calls IAN olgarchy OF the skin,D and
has contempt for oil slaveholding pretensions to
superior breeding and chivalry. He would be much
more likely to 60 with Mr.. Dana than General But.
Ter, and II he has anything to do with the dstrbu-
tion Of the oices the peculiar friends OF the Essex
member will not be likely to have more than an even
chance.
His Personal Characteristics.
Personally Judge Hoar Is the most agreeable Of
men. He Is thought to be the man OF most wit and
Of most humor in the circle in which Oliver wenden
Holmes. James Russell Lowell and George T. Davis
move. and Is no less capital ct dinner speech than
his cousin, the late Attorney General, Mr.. Evarts
He ia Of middle age, somewhat STOPPING, wearer Of
spectaclcs smoker or cigars and II 80 far difrerent
from his father that he does not disdain q social
glass Of wine. The people OF Massachusetts, VIII be
satisfied with this appointment, because they win
feel that their State Is wen represented whatever
may be said Of other States.
THE NEW COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL
REVENUE.
Columbus Dclan0, of Ohio.