New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-10-22

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The south's Claims to the Chief Justice.
ship.
The New York Herald has interviewed
Judge Paschal on the question of the vacant
Chief Justiceship, with the following result:
AmeDg the prominent members of the
bar in Washington is Judge Paschal, of
Texas, and We give his views and prefer
'ences in regard to the Chief Justiceship.
Certainly no one has better right to be
heard. Judge Paschal is a quiet man, who
has retired from all political strife and
given his whole time to the duties of his
profession and editing OF law books, which
have world wide reputation. Journalists
also remember HIM as an editor who
through every phase of his life. never low.
cred the flag of the Union. To the ques-
ton as to whom, as a practitioner in the
Supreme Court, he would prefer for Chief
Justice, he answered frankly:
Il have no chO 'ce which would probably
De respected. l have never before uttered
a syllable about it; but have no sentiments
to conceal. The appointment ought to be
gwen to some Southern man. While OPP
pose the constant recognition Of The old |
geographical fiction which disregarded all |
latitude, and based North and Sonth upon |
the accident OF negro slavery, vet it was |
q fact that no one of the late slave States |
mad any representative upon the Supreme |
bench; and vet there are peculiarities oflaws |
in many OF those States, particularly in |
Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Arkansas and |
Missouri. where many of the elements of |
the civil law, and many rights to lands
founded upon toe Spanish and Mexican sys-
GfrI ,Anl
member of the bench since Mr. Justice
Campbell left it can be at all familiar. 1t is
settled rule of the court to rest it's de.
cisions upon the law Of property upon the
ruilngs OF the local Supreme Court; but it
IL impossible to follow this rule while one
half OF the States of the Union have 40
voice on the bench. At any rate, greater
time Is consumed in the examination of
causes from those States than can well be
spared, since the docket is already crowded
III a manner which almost amounts to de- |
NAL of Justice.
Il admit that all this is true; but. Judge.
the President might not be able to find the
naterial Tor IL Chief Justice in your Sec
ton"
selections of men quite as learned as any {
who have yet been named might be made .
from the Southern States. It should not be !
forgotten that Marshall and fancy received j
their education and legal training in the l
South, and that the great constitutional :
questions which have most distinguished | T
them arose in those States. And if any one u
belisves that these were isolated cases let
allii compare the volumes of Southern re. ! .
ports with those of any other section and ] 8
ne Will sees that very many of the opinions S.
were III no way inferior to the best law p
earning in the United States. In fact. :.
most OF the great causes which have in. | -
'oIved The conflict of laws have been solved
~ Southern iurists" a.
'lhere may have been II deterioration ! u
lmong the Southern bar owing to the | II
vents of late years, and the President Sc
night not be wiling to select IRON among |
nose VINO had mads wav against the gov. ..
TT ment." y
THAT is a mistaken soton. There has t,
cen no deterioration ON account of the war. | 10
he very events have caused deeper study ! W
national Jurisprudence and more en- 50
Irged understanding of Constitutional law. ex
n the field Of adversely is always good ri
,hoof. And as to the political status of tho , "a
,uthefn lawyers, the war should not be | "
,rpetuated. The very position would | =!
axe any one but natural extremist con. =,
rvstve; besides Judge Paschal added. | sf
it'll no little earnestnessi all the legal tai. oh
It in the South did not join the rebellion.
lere were not few who shared more 40,
ngerous devotion to the Union than any pr
,rthern man had to encounter. MANY of ) d
!
cir lives to the Union cause, and it was a w,
proach to the Republican party that no !
. of these had been rewarded" off
I 10,
The Hon. Amasa Walker has written on.
tier upon the resumption of specie pay AM
ant. in which he commends the plan pro- ID:
sed by Senator Sumner in 1871, which 3
IS as follows: l. That the Secretary of the W "
easuTy should be directed to prepare at
npOuud interest notes. payabla in three Gin
IRA, hearing interest like those issued ~
ring the war, at six per cent, of denomi- and
ions suitable for circulation. Five mil mes
I OF these were 10 be dated the first of tur
ii month, and paid out for all dues of eur
government, except those payable in e.
d. =. They were TO be convertible at the cie1
Of t"o years into tenforty five per sale
Q bonds, az the option of the holder, and M
be a legal tender. 3. Greenbatks were for
be Cancelled as they came into the ma sells
hi treasury as fast as the compound in quo
9st notes we're issued. BY this process - W..
pses MT -irculatory notes OF the treas and
would al! be taken in and destroyed, BE
shelr pince be occupied by the new siae
H!
ha So. -, al +
he Jnte market is now attracting atteh- BU
In India, and it appears to be now con- G GoI
ed in Calcutta circles that this fibre, Choi
Ter than cotton. is destined to be the sales L9
nanent staple of India. In the two first
Is between 1870 and 1872 the shipment tgod
ute from Calcutta rose from 10000 to good %1l
1000 bales. At the same time the fibre aSa
beos applied to more DELEGATES purposes, en- a.