Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-13
The Reasons for Judge Hoat's Nom
Confirmation,

Springfield Republican under date of
Dec. 10, alludes to what he asserts are the
reasons and influences brought to bear to
defeat the confirmation of Attorney Gen
eral Hoar as one of the Justices of the
Supreme Court. Although the writer is
both facetious and severe on Senator Ed
munds, yet as the public are enquiring
earnestly as to the causes for the rejection
of such an eminent iurist as Mr.. Hoar, we
give an extract from the letter. We
are among the number who think that
the rejection of the Attorney General
was unjust and uncalled for. However,
the reasons may be just, but if SO they
have not been laid before the public -
Judge Hoar is at home, aud, as far as
hear, not greatly disturbed at the prospect
of remaining three and a half years longer
in the cabinet | don't think there is any
risk in saying that he is sustained by the
President, who not only desires him to
remain in his present office, but who will
also give all due heed to his advice in the
matter of judicial aud legal appointments.
The Senate saena to have not yet re-
covered from the notion that it is still
fighting Andrew Johnson,-fghting the
battles of the Republican party against a
Democratic, or at any rate, all unsound
President This il mistake. Gen. Grant
represents the Republican party, as the
Chief Executive officer of the govern
will represent it. His popularity upholds
L. - 60 = 10
feat in 1872. The country cares nothing
about her individual Senators. A large
part of them do not represent anybody !;
neither party nor people. Let US look
over the names of some OF those men who
have joined in insulting Judge Hoar and
rejecting the Presidents nomination. Who
does Rose represent? Does anybody sup
pose 10 Abbott, whilom editor of the
Boston Daily Bee, will maintain himself
after his term is out ? Or Sawyer? Nay,
what is likely to become of Roscoe Conk-
ling2 The question is suggestive. New
York is sweet, pretty State, to be
debating the rejection of man
selected by a Republican President !
Under the manipulations of her rotten
politicians, she has become the leading
Democratic State in the Union. Seward
is the only man who has been reelected
there for years, and he maintained him
self in position partly by corruption and
partly by his great ability and his troops
of personal friends. What are the Fem
tons and Conklings to expect, who have
only the first element to rely upon
There is no hope for the Republican party
there until some man shall arise who will
take its leadership, instill into it some de-
gree of principle, and manage it with
some method except bribery. 1t is almost
useless to say that under such reform,
Fenton and Conkling will be as sure of
ticket to obscurity and private life, as
they will if the Democrats continue in
power. Now continue the list: There is
"Riee of Arkansas" It appears that he
is one of the memLera of the judiciary
committee which, with the honorable ex-
ception of Trumbull, recommended Judge
Hears rejection. In the recent annals of
the bar is there anything more disreput-
able than this? Here is a profession
which boasts itself as specially heightened
on the subject of the independence of the
bench. Doubtless Conkling, and Ed
munds, and Carpenter, the ringleaders in
the dirty conspiracy, have made long ora
lions against the elective Judiciary, and
spouted thunderous verbiage about the
ermine and the robe, and so imposed on
thousands of superstitious hearers. Yet
for personal revenge or personal gain,
they have now reported against a lawyer
who is more than the equal of either of
them in all the qualities which go to the
making of a good judge. Bah what
set of humbugs! Thou wear lions
hide" o Conklingl And thou, o Carpen-
ter, and thou, o Edmunds "Rice of Ar
kansas it seems, is ons Of the heightened |
committee. Probably Judge Hoar and Gen. |
Grant have treated "Rice's" advice with
disrespeot. Who "Rice" is seems not to
be very well known. I confess to large |
degree of ignorance as to the southern |
senatorial delegations. With the excep~ |
ton of Abbott, and Sawyer of South Caro-
lima, who was here during the war, and |
was regarded as somewhat fshy, as to pol |
itics and loyalty, there are no very great
men among them. Whether Rice is an
eminent jurist, or an eminent grizzly bear,
nobody knows. Blu; he is a member of
this great judicial Coz nittee, and thinks
Judge Hoar is not flt for the supreme
court. Next in order as to a share in the .
in order to the great
jurists Rice IL Co., representing the
county courts of Vermont and the snuff
dipring regions of the southwest, come
the western senators. brakes quarrel
with the attorney general is an old story.
Chandler and Howard of Michigan are
to have grievances. If Hoar has
not expressed contempt for Brownlow he
deserves credit for reticence. And Ross
of Kansas is a man between whom and
the attorney general an incompatability
would be sure to exist. And SO of some
others of the hog and hominy interest.
Doubtless Hoar has been imprudent in
dealing with these men. Chandler and
Howard deserve d good degree of consid-
Grafton SO perhaps do Drake and Car
peuter. Nor was it wise to offend Ed
munds. "Peace, gdod Ticklebrain,"
would have been a soothing word for this
oonceited drawer of amepdments. His
grievance-his, and Conknng's--is that
JudgS Hoar recommended, and the Presi-
dent appointed, Mr.. Woodruff to the cir
cult judgesbip in the New York and Yer
mont district. Probably Conkling wanted
to use this judgeship f6f his own pur-
poses. 1t it nothing, suppose, that Hor-
ace Greeley, who is of more Importance
to the Republican party than forty
Nothing that the Republicans had
shown their confidence in Woodruff by (
him for Judge of the court of
appeals. The New York senator having
into his place, there is nothing
gondrous in this remark, for no man gets
INTO Office in New York except by wrig-
fling, thinks he is entitled to use the 8
fices in order to keep there. Gen. Grant
nd Judge Hoar do not think so. Doubt
ess they wSuld be willing to accommo-
late Conkling, provided the public SER j
ice did not suffer by their accommodating I
disposition, but having come to the con- :
fusion that Woodruff was the best man,
nd also perhaps that Horace Greeley's /,
dvice was as worthy of respect as Roscoe
,onkling's they acted accordingly, and a
be senator takes his revenge, where he t
ayss to, on the attorney general, and not =
pom the president. And this brings up
be great point in the whole affair. The :
ytem which theae senator's arc determined