West Feliciana sentinel. (St. Francisville, La.) 1876-1877, 1877-02-24
STUFF JUSTICES ARE MADE OF.

T Correspondent Cincinnati Enquirer-1
And who is Justice Bradley Well,
he was an ornament of the lobby, You
have probably heard of the lobby? No!
Is it possible , I thought every one had
heard of this third estate OF the govern
ment, that owing to the dirt accumu-
! lated about it, mi ght well be called real
estate. 1t is the agency established by
Congress to facilitate business between
it and people appearing before it possessed
of claims of all sorts. AS the Representa-
tive represents, and the agent reflects the
tone and character of his employer, the
lobby is quite as bad as Congress, and is
generally composed of mean men and
lewd women. Attorney Bradley was in
this lobby working for the New Jersey
railroad companies. Attorney Strong
was likewise in the lobby laboring for the
Pennsylvania railroad companies. These
two gentlemen had other clients, and
We're mixed in other schemes, but these
were their principal employments and
interests.
While these two workers were hang
ing about the passages and committee
rooms Of Congress, the Supreme Court,
under Chase, Chief Justice, promulgated
| it's celebrated decision in the legal tender
| case. They gravely affected the railroad
| interests SO largely represented Messrs
Bradley and Strong. Tho companies
hurried to Washington in a high state of
alarm. In a few days the Arlington,
| Wizards and Ebbitt were thronged with
bald headed, und-bellied parties of the
highest respectability in appearance-all
were roGues disguised under stocks and
| clean shirts. Their first move was q law
ofCongress increasing the Supreme Bench
two members. They found on count that
with such addition that they could vote
down Justice Chase and his :gold-tender
associates. Poor Chase, he saw what
was coming and fought hard against the
packing, but fought in vain! The iniquity
was consummated.
1t was not consummated until Grant
sent into the Senate two names to fill
the places. OF course places on the Su-
Dreme Bench are not to be had every day,
and the most eminent men in the legal
profession in the country were spoken OF.
| CN1FCS, CuftlS, blttCN aI'A othSho "cAS
| canEassed. BuU Grant said openly, and
among others to my friend, Mr. John A
q. Gray, of New York, that he would
nominate no man to either place who was
not pledged to a reversal of the legal ten
Ger decision. He was good as his word /;
and to the amazement of the world at
large, and to the delight of all the heavy
corporations, he nominated Messrs. Strong
and Bradley. The lobby got drunk on
champagne with delight, and i'll duo
course Of indecent haste the legal tender
decision was reversed.
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LOST.
a certain note drawn by Mrs T. A.
Norwood and Il. S. Norwood, in fovor OF
Mrs. Tercssa L. Connell or order, for the
sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars
(S?5O.OO) payable on January list, 1876,
and credited with Five Hundred and
Thirty Three Dollars and Thirty Eight
cents (S533.3S) on January 5th, 1876.
The above note, having been raid in full
on this, the oath day Of January 1877, all
persons are hereby cautioned not to trade
ior or purchase the same.
JOHN p. CONNELL,
Agent for Mrs. Teresa E. Connell.
Jan. S7--4t.