Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-14
EACH MAN HIS POLITICS.


When the law OF Congress creating
the Joint Electoral Commission was
passed, there were not wanting gen
tlemen of guileless and Elusive minds
TO express the opinion that all ques-
lions that would be brought before
the Commission would be decided a.
by the terms of supreme, ethereal
and super passionate manner OF re
rarding things, at once above the AT
mosphere of politics and Superior t"
the designs and methods of partisan"
ship. An ideal OF Purity with large
p robed in ermine and purged Of all
.arthiness and party preferences.
throned in Olympian majesty AND
proof against all human frai'Ilr~, 'hi>
was the lofty conception of these e>
ceIlent and spotIess minds. The i''eai
has vanished. In very truth il was a
preposterous impossibility. Men must
either be passionless. superhuman,
above Tor below all sympathy with
their kind, utterly abstract ard So
cluded from all that which stimulates
mems preferences orex":' heir indi
vidual interest to enact itl> ideal. 1t
should be said that this opinion was
mainly ceniered upon those members
Of the Supreme Bench VIII" were selec-
ted to participate in the iabprs of the
Commission although ono heard not
infrequent expressions OF confidence
in the impartiaiiiy nj Thurman, Ed
munds, Bayar,l and Frelinghuysen.
But the old Adam has made himself
manifest, even M the persons OF the
Justices of the tourt of last resort.
And, indeed. how absurd it was to
suppose that Ntth-,n Clifford, appoin-
ted by Fran. P,rrce 10 the Supreme
Bench from amor. the not first rate
lawyers OF the New England Bar,
would be anything else, ever, or any
where, than a wool-dyed, iron-ciad.
incurabie Loco Foco of the most dis
tinct, pronounced and immovable
sort. Here is man whose religion il
is to be a State Rights Democrat; who
sat on the Bench with fancy and re-
ceived all his inspiration as a Judge |
from that great partisan Jurist; who |
would as soon think of deciding the |
Ocean to be a private aquarium as TO
pronounce judgment in favor of the
pretensions of any Republican who
might be engaged in a political con-
with any Democrat. fondly
to be so smothered in the
of the judicial character as
o be able to decide case against the
White Liners and in favor of bull
lozed fellow citizen of the color and
previous condition of bred Scott of
fame! Nathan Clifford
ION partizan As we'll associate the
memory of Old Hickory with the
amb-like character of a non combat
mt. And why should Miller, Strong
nd Bradley be expected to see the
Nv through Democratic or non-parti
an eyes any sooner than that stephen
Field should forget his Hunkerism
nd fly in the face of Jeremiah Blacks
pinions and his brother Dudley's ar
uments aud sophistical fabrications?
ct us not expect too much of mere
Iorial men. These, judges though |
ley be, and beaecked with the ermine
the high judicial function, as they c
e, are of like passions with the most t
client, the most passionate, the most
renuous and the weakest of us all q
I'd theoriZe and etherealiZe as we b
ay, they have found, nay, they will o
,ntinue to find. the law leaning and C
wing authority to the side where lie Il
e interests of their party; and they l.
i'll 40 so because those interests and I,
ey belong are inseparable if not st
entical. The members of the Su- e.
eme Bench who have been drafted
to this Commission have been forced
take sides or incur either the suspi-
)n of treachery to party or i'm becility
intellect and instability of political q
nvictiOn. 1t was to betray lack OF "
of human nature and III
of the influence of hu al
IN frailties to suppose that this al
would arrive at and eX-
sss any other than either Republi- o'
/ or Democratic decision.
Among the sets of certificates which nc
re- presented when Louisiana was ru
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