The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-06
ssIsrrCE BRADLEY.
IN. CfanceIl0r williRmson's opinion Of
the New Arbitrator.
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the new Arbitrator.
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Ex.ChancellOr Williamson. OF New
Jersey, was found ut his home In Eliz
abeth, N. j., last evening. When asked
to tell what he knew about Judge Brad
.sMr. Bradley was from an Eastern
State. He was graduated at Rutger's
College, and always stood high in bic
class. especially In mathematics. lie
was very industrious, seeking knowl.
edge in all directions. He was very
steady reader, and acquired O vast fund
of general Information. After gradu-
ating Ire became law student at New
ark, with Judge Hornblower, late Chief
Justice OF New Jersey. He took prom
Il nent stand nj the New Jersey bar i'm
mediately upon being admitted. He
married q daughter of Chief Justice
Hornblower, and has several children.
He practised in Newark until he was
chosen for one of the Associate Justices
of tho Supreme Court Of the United
States by Gen. Grant. He was engaged
In all tho most intricate and important
suits before the New Jersey bar up
to the time OF his elevation to the
Supreme bench. He showed himself
very able both as u counsellor and as
an advocate before court and jury:
was rather logical than rhetoric--never
making any attempts at display as an
orator. He was brother.in-law OF the
late Judge Woodruff, OF New York,
who also married d daughter OF Chief
Justice Hornblower. Since Bradley's
removal to Washington he has taken q
prominent stand among tho Supreme
Court Justices, and sustained fully his
high character as lawyer. L do not
remember that he has at any time
shown any persistence In opposing the
majority of that court. No one OF my
acquaintance have ever doubted his in
tegrity; his public und private eharae-
ter has been above reproach. He cer-
tainly would not forfeit his high repu-
tation now by becoming q mere parti-
san. T. think that the great question
now to be decided will be as safe In his
hands as IL could be in the hands Of
any other man. Both the political par.
ties may congratulate themselves upon
bis selection"
Williamson" said the writer, ''of the
charges that have been made against
Judge Bradley.2"
Yes, but don't consider them to be
OF any weight"
"You know that it Is said that Cen
eral Grant appointed him to the SUI
preme Court bench when that bench
was to be packed to reverse the decision
declaring the legal-tender act unconsti
tutional, and that he did just what was
expected of him."
He may have helped 10 the reversal
OF that decision but l do not believe
that he went counter to his previous
opinions In so doing
Z" Another criticism of him, Chan
cellor, Ia that he held Supreme Court |
Chambers In the city of Newark, pre-
tending to hold them in Texas, where
his judicial district Is, and that he did
this In the interest OF Fremont and In |
order to accomplish u dishonorable |
transfer OF the Transcontine ntal Rail |
road"
:" understand that he did hold such |
O court in Newark concerning some |
matter In which Fremont was inter- |
ested, but that 1t was accidental. He |
happlned to be called on to consider |
this matter when at the town which had |
been SO long his home. and that Of his |
wife and her relatives and friends.
have never heard before that there was |
any exception taken to his action In this |
matter, and do not believe that there |
was any ground for eriticising his course |
in acting ip his judicial capacity on that
occasion"
att is charged. that previous to his ap-
pointment to the Supreme bench, while |
he was In the employ OF the Camden
and Amboy Railroad as a lawyer, he was
playing into the hands OF the Camden
and Amboy Railroad. -
E" He certainly. replied Mr.. William
son, "counseled the Camden and Amboy
Railroad with great wisdom and ability.
No one In New Jersey, who knew him
thoroughly, ever charged him with any
action or choice in that connection to
which exception could be taken. There
has been, so far as L know, not the least
difference Of opinion among prominent
men of the two parties In New Jersey
as to both the ability and the integrity
he showed in controlling the railroad"
"And now about the statement that
he was the first President OF the New
Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company
that has lately come to grief p
81 think that Is all q mistake. |
never heard he was President or had
any connection with the New Jersey
Mutual Life; but / do know that he was
q director OF the Newark Mutual Life
Insurance Company, which has as high
a reputation as any in the country
Further questions ELECTED these facts
about Judge Bradlcy's tastes and hab-
its: He has written no books, Is u good
conversationalist upon almost any sub
ject and attends to business indefatiga-
bly,. He takes great pleasure in his
library and Is a very agreeable COM
panion.
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