The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1875-02-24
The Celebrated Interview Between Chief
Justice PeytOn and Governor
b Ames. e.


EDS CLARIoN-Now that his Excel g
lency has delivered himself of very un- II
healthy responsibility which he took !
upon his soul of ignoring, by get |
ting confirmed by the Senate, an {
other who was to supplant an ap-
pointee claimed to have been regularly
made at his hands, it may not be amiss
to furnish the public with a clearer in
sight, beyond what established date and
facts present, into his reason and mo-
tives.
Time brought on the summer session of
the Courts. One Of the most prominent
before the public view was Chancellor
Peyton, who, having charge of this Dis
trict, had the prospect upon unrolling the
4 docket here, of encountering business of
of magnitude, the case known as
the Radical Injunction case, SO celebra-
ted since, was to come up tor
2 trial. Signs early became manifest of
growing feeling outside, on the part of
i those who favored the State against the
o Railroad. How that trial, so much
pressed upon, began and progressed
and had it's ending is now matter OF pub
lie history. srH
a Whether those citizens who might have
e. suspected the cravings of machinery to
r monopolize the civil law, expected any,
y thing like open, arbitrary interference OF
prevention just yet, they were doomed
to curious disappointment. No. lie
save appearances demanded some sort oil
waiting upon the result of the trial, as the
of Chancellor had taken the case under re-
u spectful consideration, and would render
DE his decision the next day. So, instead o
p a greater stir, there was lulu OF things
IN by the grace of the hour. The evenln
in passed. off without any definite news-cha
of on the breezes then the darkness OF
1as proverty- stricken city had its own way
bile But out into the darkness, there issue
fri from the Executive Mansion an adver
iii turer who stumbled his way across th
streets in the direction of Judge Peyton
residence, gaining which he stepped u
ri. and raped at the door. 1t was strane
"a little rapping, and sounded more Iii
GOV fumbling at the door than rapping, y
~ ~ it succeeded in eliciting a hearing fro
a;s- one of the young men within, who, seve
aro oil times inquiring, gathered the nan
CO from a muffled voice which responded
the PACkEh.
as Immediately the door was opened, a
st is the military man in the darkness told t
5 to pur pose of, his call at so unreasonable
tors hour:
|. all "Gov. Ames wishes to see Judge r
fea- ton at the Mansion"
to Being informed that Judge Peyton v
in his bed, and was not usually arou:
after the hour of retiring, but wouldg
Hem informed in the morning, when he CO..
Il answer the request as well, Gene
Packer turned from the doorway,
stumble his way back to the scene
b;tod brooding, out of (which he had issued.
49, Yet. at this moment, none knew OF
Ono existence of little conclave, called
naI gether for an undisguised purpose. l.
tne still. did Chancellor Peyton, who
'Iuily then slumbering on his honest pill
eN dream Of any arrangement being m
lsneo nv which he was to be forced to decl
u .ne contrary to his convictions OF the
si'ioii and that, too, through his own TAT
And least or all, uIu O1u Jug
Allied suspect that project could be dey
ID we and entertained with view to appro
sue inc him in the interest OF un
rep mining the independence of the Judlc
under his influence. But so it was.
<. those of his advisers whom the Geve
had collected together to discuss the
m. ter in his presence, two were decld
onnosed to the contemplated step,
on our virtue, however, availing nothing ag
ckson. the majority, of whom the attorneys
soisla, the State, frustrated by their own
: man sions. stood conspicuous; and it was
.itv is termined to make the dangerous, eS
IA, a5,oa- ment. Hence General Packers b
reefs, t, and return through the night air.
,s;den- Next morning, on learning at
-, no. breakfast-table OF the Governor ma
= nm sent for him during the night, tn
H. r. WE mark of Judge Peyton was that OF a
mid he who had not kept up with the main
of the day. ;, :.
the Governor found proper to as
d ia'e' advice about anything. Can any
lr insu- imagine what he ts?.
much Even the writer of this, who wa
their dom known to fail to put in Q word
are not called upon, felt nonplussed upol
to pur- occasion. And the young. Chane
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