The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-12-19
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE HUNT.
From the Utica N. Y Herald

From the Utica N. Herald.1 at
The President has nominated Judge Ward Hunt
OF this city, I'll the vacancy the benchof the
Supreme Court of the United States, occasioned
Dy the resignation of Judge Samuel Nelson. The
nomination belonged properly to the State Of New
York, which gave to the Supreme Court the
Judge it has lost. 1t is nomination to the high
est and most honored position now in the gift o,
the President. As Auch, 1t IL a At recognition
tho eminent legal Abilities OF the long service
the highest bench Of the State, and of the person
81 dignity, integrity and worth OF fellow citi'
zsn. 1t is an honor of which al his neighbOrs AM
friends will claim a share-Rn honor VIII oh be
longs to the community in which Judge Hunt was
born. and has passed his lifc-an honor which
both bench and bar, throughout the State Rs well
10 here, will unite with the others who know ana
esteem it's recipient in pronouncing well-sarned
and worthily bestowed. The President, in Thus
IGNORING Judge HGnt, honors also the bench up
On which he has chosen him to serve.
When the Senate shall have confirmed him
Judge Hunt will step into the eat of Jur ct who
has sustained an unwonted reputation throughout
atty years. He will bring to 1t the culture acquir.
ed IN u life of earnest study He will bring to IT
the training Of tong and able practice before the
u
often born willing witness not surpassed in all the
State for the character and caliber ofthe men who
compose il. Ho VII bring to it the prestige disci-
Plne of his ripe experience in the highest Court OF
the state, which none have adorned more than
he. He wil bring to it the urbanlty. cour eSy and
rare personality which have always distinguished
him in private and public life. Thus the loss OF
il dye Nelson will be made good by the gain of
one who will rank as the peer Of his Aew associ
Stes
Judge Hunt has had admirable apprenticeship
for his new duties. HIS education WAS liberal ne
yout ordinary In boyhsod he was cent, with
Horatio Seymour, TO the hest schools in the State
In early manhood he cleaned knowledge from the
then unexcelled Union College. The best law
schools grounded and rounded his education.
Thereafter he entered the law once of Judge
DEMO. 1t was not long before he 10 med partner
ship with that jurist the fame OF whose ability
fingers unfsdingly after mis- death 1t his lot.
and proved his gooi fortune likewise, that he was
Forced to emulate am to compete with such prac
htioners as Besrdsly, KirklaLd, Foster and spen-
ger. Hs practice, in such nobls company, smbrs
ED every branch OF the law.
In 1865, judge Hunt was nominated by the Re
publican party Sis candidate at large for Judge
of tae Court of Appeals. BE was elected ny ma
jory Of 30 100, Thus he was ell vat to ado 10 the
honor it had reached to the seat long occupied by
his Early partner, Judge D4nio, whom he succeed
cd in January, 1865 In 1858 the resignation Of
80 K Porter. OF his position as Judge of the
Court OF Appeals, aud the death of the Chief
Judge. William B. Wright concurrsd 10 give Judge
Hunt the position of ehiefJudge. under the old
judictay-S position which he Glled to ts advan
tags aad his own ADDED fame
Judge Hnl stands third upon the State
Commission Uf Appeals, tn duration IF which
was exterded, by the vote of the recent slectien,
two years.
Judge hunt rose, at ons'leap, t. the highest ia
dicial eminenee in the State. In every way he
Ia justified the confidence which led to that nm
asua distinction, AID which has now backed by
the record OF his judlcirl service clothed him in
the ermine ola bench not Surp,su IT, the charac-
Ter OF its past its present judges by any in the
world.
The appointment OF Judge Huat xratiaes the
pride OF Utica, and justihes its expectations by
one, from among its rich supply OF jursta for po-
aition more honorable than any for which thls city
has EVER before furnished material