Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-07-15
A DEMOCRATIC TRIBUTE no THE
NEW ATTORNEY GENERAL.
what a Georgian writes TO the world.


what Georgian writes to the World.
[From the New York World. June SO.l
8Ir. sAzer17rstll - native of New
Hampshire, but a nesfder9ce of nearly 20
years IN the South redee4ns him from all
suspicion of being a carpet-bagger He
was originally brought by out Judge James
Mcpherson Berrien as a teacher for his
children, and always stood in high favor
with that eminent gentleman. He
studied law under Judge Berrien, sup
porting himself meanwhile by teaching
About IS years ago he settled in Elber-
ton, Ga, and notwithstanding the preju-
dices against his Northern birth, and the
strong professional competition against
which he had to contend (Toombs,
Stephens, T. w. Thomas, and others of
equal note being then leading lawyers in
the northern circuit he soon won the
respect of bench and bar, and took a
high position in his profession. He is
not a man of Snowy talents, but is one
the most clear-headed, methodical and
thoroughly informed lawyers l have
ever known. His language is remarlla-
bly, terse and perspicuous; he speaks
the purest English / have ever heard
from an American, and his words are so
well chosen, so expressive, that if they
were taken down as they fall from his
lips, they would have the effect on paper
of welI-considered, carefully corrected
manuscript His character and talents
have always been held in high esteem
among the leading lawyers in Georgia,
but his Northern birth and the unpopu-
lar political principles he has always ad-
vocated, prevented his attaining any dis
tinction outside of his profession and
this accounts for the obscurity in which
he has lived up to the present time. He
was an Old Line Wing before the war,
and has always been a staunch Union
man, although, after the passage of the
/ Conscription act in 1862 by the COnfed-
I crate Congress, he volunteered IN the
army in order to avoid being forced to
serve as a conscript. He held position
as Ouarternaster or Commissary, / for
get which, to one of our Georgia regi-
ments. and did not serve on Gen.
/ Toombs' staff, as has been stated by
some of the newspapers. His relations
! with that gentleman and others of like
principles have always been courteous.
/ but never intimate. Although he did
his duty conscientiously while connected
with the Confederate States army, as a
man of honor was bound to do, he was
always bitterly opposed to the war.
was placed in a position during our great
conflict which brought me into curiously
intimate relations with the few Unionists
scattered through the South, and among
them all there was not one man more
! thoroughly devoted to the old flag than
/ Amos 7. Akerman. Vastly as his prin-
ciples differed from my own, l always
respected the conscientious honesty with
which he clung to them at a time when
Foster Blodgett, Joe Brown, and others
high in favor with Congress at the pres
ent day, were rampant Secessionists, dis
i gusting even hotter fre-eaters than youl
Correspondent by their violence. AS tc
his having been at one time co-opera.
tionist, everybody who is familiar with
the political history of the South just be.
fore the war knows that that is but an.
other term for anti-Secessionist. It was
the last resort of Unionists to save the
Union. They thought that by temper,
izing and delaying they might staye of
the inevitable dissolution till some com.
promise or contract would be effected