Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-07-28
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
Death of Justice Clifford.

Judge Nathan Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, died at Cornish, Maine, on
Monday morning last. Justice Clifford was
appointed to the Supreme Bench of the Uni.
ted States, in 1858, by President Buchanan.
He was born in Grafton county, N. H., in
1903, but removed to Maine in 1927. In 1884
he became attorney general of Maine, and in
1889 he entered Congress and served until
1S43. He was attorney. general Of the Uni
ted States during the first year of Folks ad-
ministration, and was afterwards minister to
Mexico. For some time bis mind has been
affected so as to incapacitate him for the du-
ties of his position.
Conkliug's Career.
- The exultation Of the Administration
Republicans over the downfall of Roscoe
Conkling, has served to draw attention to his
public career, which appears to have been
crowded with honors. The Boston Post says ::
"In 1850, before he had reached his twenty
first year, Mr.. Conkling was appointed dis
trict attorney. He was elected Mayor Of
Utica when he was only twenty-nine years
old, in 1858. In the same year he was elect
ed to the Thirty sixth Congress by 5000 ma
ority, and two years later he was reelected
by an increased majority. In the next Con-
gressional campaign hesustained defeat, but
majority of 200. Another reelection to the
Fertieth Congress testified to the continued
confidence of his friends and neighbors in
Oneida county, and on January Is, 1867, he
was chosen to represent the Empire State in
the United States Senate. In 1873 he was
unanimously renominated by his party and
reelected for another term in the Senate of
the United States, and there he remained un.
til his recent resignation"
Who Will Care for Roscoe Now9
- Speaking of Conkling's defeat for Uni
ted States Senator, the Augusta Chronicle
speculates as follows:
"Opinions differ as to the future course of
this marvelously gifted, but perverted ge.
MUS. There are not few who prophecy that
he will bide his time and get even with his
opponents and false friends. Many more
predict that the hour has finally come for
the judgment to fall upon him that Mr..
Stephens foreshadowed when beholding him
for the first time at the counting of the elec-
toral vote At that time, though Mr.. Conk-
ling was in the hey.day of his glory, the
Commoner thought he was "a man who would
90 to wreck We so stated at the time, and
this is no afterthought.
"Whether Mr.. Conkling shall 60 to wreck
or rise DER all the ills of life victorious, is
matter for future disclosure. We should
not be surprised at either event. The prac.
tical idea that gets uppermost in our mind
is that the removal Of such man from the
Senate is positive Democratic gain. He
was one of the very few great Senators, and
his departure leaves an awful gap in the Re-
publican ranks, which may not be, in De-
cember, the constitutional majority
"The moral of Roscoe Conkling's fall is
that, no matter how splendidly gifted NOR
tai may be, the mad pride of intellectual.
ty,' that eliminates humility from supernatu-
raj guidance, always conducts to the judicial
blindness that leads down to disaster and
death. StillinpHeet must have had lust such |