Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-04-27


Duke of Saxony, Things are otherwise
ordered in heaven than they arc at Augs
burg"
Notice also how much our friend did for
the honor Of the judiciary. What~momcn-
tous scenes have been witnessed In our
United States supreme court, on the bench
and before the bench, whether far back it
held its sessions in the upper room of tho
exchange at New York or aftcrward for
ten years in the city hall at Philadelphia
or later in the cellar of yonder capitol, the
place where for many years the Congress
sional library was kept, a sepulchcr where
books were buried alive, the hole called by
John Randolph "the Cave of Iropho-
MUS" What mighty men stood before
that bar pleading in immortal eloqucnce
on questions of national import! Ed
mund Randolph and Alexander Hamilton
and Pinkney and Jeremiah Mason and
Caleb Gushing and the weird and ire
sstible Rufus Choate and George Wood
and Charles O'Conor and James II.
Brady and Francis b. Cutting and men
now living Just rs powerful
How suggestive the invitation which
william Writ, the great Virginian, wrote
his friend inviting him to yondcr supreme
court room; Tomorrow week will come
on the great steamboat question from
New York Emmett and Oakley on one
side Webster and myself on the other.
Come down and hear It, Emmctt's whole
soul is in the case, and he will stretch all
his powers Oakley is said to be one of
the finest logicians of the age, rs much q
Ihocion ms Emmett is Thcmistoclcs,
and Webster is as ambitious as Caesar. lie
will not be outdone by any nun if it is
within the compass of his power to avoid
1t. Come to Washington. 1t will he u
combat worth witnessing" The supreme
court has stood so high in England and
the United States that the vices of II few
who have occupied that important place
have not been able to disgrace it, neither
the corruption of Francis Bacon, nor the
cruelty Of Sir George Mackenzie, nor the
Sabbath dissertation Of Lord Castlcrcagh.
Field Was Never Profnne.
To that highest of all tribunals Abra-
ham Lincoln called our friend, but he (v-
ed long enough to honor the supreme court
more than it had over honorcd him. For
moro than "a years he sat in the presence
of this nation and of all nations u model
Judge Fcarlcssncss, integrity, devotion
to principle characterized him. No bride
ever touched his hand No profanc word
ever scaltled his tongue. No blemish Of
wrong ever married his character. Fully
qualified was he to have his name associ-
atcd in the history of this country with
the greatest of the judiciary.
AS at IL O'Clock day by day on yonder
hill the gavel fails in tho supreme court
room, and 1t - announced that the chlef
justice OF the nitcd states ana the assn,
clatc Justices are about 10 enter ana al
counsclors at the bar and all spectators
u q
,,Irds eno,.oz a,.a, nrovni ornn,,,coe
tbat al i wow readv for bcarinr and OK.
oloi,ns GOOD sovo Tho Tni+nd Ctntee ~
Ar,or;c, ;, 90 ,risb ,ro could in iu,,,iro-
ton e.tber toyetbor those who have nccu-
Mod ,b,t bi,b iudicinl n,,cc in tbie and
otber Lands and thov MIGHT nntor and
oftor tho f,l,inc, of some n,i,,btr ,orel Ind
don,ardod attnntion ,Yo could ,oot mon
thn,,. Marsb.ll tho oiont ~ Amoric.n
i,risrr,donco AND Jobn Inv ~ whom
En,,ipi Wahstor snid ~ oon,,,onnorot;or
..Ivha,, 10 ,,,o.,ose or,,,;,o - +ho ;,1ioi.I
roho to,l or fobn Inv IL to,chod notbinn
loss sno.Ioss ,han itsolf ,, ord Rutlodno
and Crshira and E,,swortb and Iosonh
Stnro, nal1ed tho Waitor SCOTT ~ oon,n,nn
low, ond Cir Mnttho,, Hall and Iord III
don and Low, Tontordan ard CIV Io,ros
NoIn+osh and Mansf,oId ord ,bo low, live
of lord ,b,roollors and +ha oroot ;udoor
fron, hoth sidos ,ho soo and sS,or tboy bnd
+.Lor th.ir ,,lncos IN o,,r o,,icLonod ;,,oo.
inotinn tho d;stiro,,isbad cnsos -, contur;os
nh,oh ,ho,. dao,dod ,,,iq,bt .uoin ho cauod
~ ofto, 40 osso,,1,,oJ ,,otions had o;no,,
I.tod ucod sa,,o tho Irni,od CtatSs -,
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tribute 10 Law
All, how the law honors and sanctifes
everything it touches! Natural law. Civil
law. social law. Commercial law Com
mon law. Moral law. Ecclesiastical law.
international law Oh, the dignity, the
impressiveness, the power OF law 1t ii
the only thing before which Jehovah bows,
but he bows before that, although the law
is OF his own making. The law BY il
worlds swing by 1t the fate OF centurie:
Is decided. by 1t all the affairs Of time
and all the cycles of eternity Will be gov
erned. We cannot soar so high, or sink sc
deep, OF reach out so far, or live so long
as 10 escape IT, ~ is tne throne on "hlct
,ybot ,,rotossio,,, WIZ, roernrsi,,;Ii,,
W., .n .xoor.,io,, ,rho, +ho ;,,d,,n hn .
Iord Iofvrors, Tha+ n honod;c,ian a. ~
be n ChoncoI1or Kor,,
In rns.ine, LOT No Gov, that for this obio
trihrnaI of ou. no,,rtrv oornross sbn,,r,
coon rror;do n bottom ,,Iooo -, eo,,o ~
,bo ,,in,,o,,s ,otod tor ,bo ;,,,rn,o,rant ~
rivors witch oro nnthino hnt dr, crool,
ana for h.rhors 10 bich Vii ,,oror ho,o an,
shinnino and for ,nonu,nonts to some Moo