New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-25
r>v-voRK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY FEBRUARY s5 1882

Storm There is no Disgusting the fact that you
are now out in considerable of storm. You strove
You agonzed to reach the haven of the Senate, but
you did not succeed The winds still blow pteous y
upon your head. Why not seek the seclusOn which
udgeship grants And then, besides if NAV re-
fer to such a trivial matter in passing consider how
well a man of Your torso would Look in gown a
long black silk gown.
am not unmindful of the fact that the public,
especially such of them are of the legal profess
sion, may say that this nominations to be regarded
purely political since you have neither the stand
ing at the bar yet the cast Of mind which should
characterize the man selected for the august Office
of Supreme Court Judge. And-this also between
ourselyes-l am inclined to hope that you may
take the same view of the nomination.
For if you do, then am sure you viii be strongly
inclined to accept the place for no other reason than
to show your superb disregard of public opinion.
Unless am strangely at fault in my conception Of
your character rs have acquired II by a dihgcnt
study of your public career you not concerned in
regard to what the masses may think about you,
provided you retain the approval of the select
few" made up of such statesmen and patriots as
Chief Justice Jakey Patterson, the Hon. Barney
Biglln and the Rev. DR.. j. L. Newman, ex-lnspectOr
of cOnsulatcs
Just here recall fact which had not occurred
to me before and which, although tribe enbarrass-
ing at first sight does not at al shake my purpose
TO nominate YOU The fact to which allude is that
in your letter to the Grant dinner gwen at Albany
few weeks since YOU wrote: " | am industriously
at work at my profession, and the neglect Of the past
constrains me to be assidu now" 1t may strike
the people of the United States that a man who,
according to his own admission, has neg
lected the law during the best part of
his life, and who only lately began to be ass,lu-
ous is not the sort of person to be picked out to adj
minister law in our Court of last resort. Such a
consideration however is that need not trouble
you in the least, since it does not prevent me from
sending in your name to the Senate
But if all other reasons fail. then let this last
one, which | am about to urge, procure
your acceptance. You and know that thousands Of
The true and tried members of our party hold that
the envenomed course you pursued toward the adj
mnstration of my immediate predecessors in the
Presidential Office has earned you the execration of
every rlght-ninded Republican, and that If you had
your Just dues you would hencelorth fill 10 higher
public position than the public piliory. Granting,
for the sake of argument, that these persons are
right, what can be moro becoming in me, as
the official head of the party, than to
cover you with the mantle of forgivenessf A
great party ought to be able to rise To the height OF
a great forgiveness If | offer you the office as a
proof that you are forgiven will you not accept it
a. a proof that you are magnanlmOus enough to be
willing to be forgivenl ] write you this on st.
Valentines Day, and do so intentionally. If the
nomination is an error it is error Of the heart and
not of the head. have not consulted my head IN
the matter. Yours, L. A. ARTHUR